Peeling Carrots - This is how you peel your carrots

Carrots are available in supermarkets all year round. In your own garden, they are usually ripe in the summer months. Very fresh, tender carrots do not have to be peeled. Your skin is very thin and is consumed with it. Older carrots, such as lager carrots, which are kept in a pile for the winter, have a firm and often dry skin that can also taste slightly bitter. Here, the shell should be removed before consumption.

Tips and tricks for properly peeling carrots

When peeling carrots, make sure that the skin is removed in as thin a layer as possible. As with apples and pears, most of the vitamins are under the skin. A vegetable or vegetable peeler is therefore a suitable tool.

When buying carrots, make sure that the goods are fresh or, in the case of stored carrots, that there are no rotten spots on the vegetables.
Wash the carrots under running water. Heavy incrustations of dirt can be removed with a vegetable brush.
Now hold the carrot between your thumb and forefinger in one hand and take the peeler or paring knife in the other.
Pull the peeler at an oblique angle from the thick end of the carrot to the tip. Using a knife, try the same way to cut off a thin layer of skin from the carrot.
If the peeler has two blades, you can also peel in the opposite direction, so always down and then up again.
Turn the carrot and cut off a strip of the peel again. Repeat the process until the beet is peeled.
Now cut off the stem end with a knife. The carrot can now be consumed or processed further.

Special peeling methods

If you don't have a peeler, you can also use a serrated knife or a fresh metal wire scraper.

If you want to use a serrated knife, take the carrot between your thumb and forefinger again. Using the knife, scrape the skin of the carrot from top to bottom. With a little practice, “scraping carrots” is quick and easy. You can remove the skin from the beets just as quickly with the pot scraper. Hold the carrot firmly in your hand and scrape the skin off with the metal scraper.

Both of these methods are great for peeling fresh carrots, as they scrape very little from the skin. Most of the vitamins are therefore retained.