How to Cut an Orange
This summer I’ve been trying to eat more fruit’s and veggies. I’ve been pretty good eating an apple and a banana a day, but I wanted to add oranges to that list.
The problem of course is that oranges are much tougher to open. Unlike apples which you can start eating right away or bananas which have a natural peeling device built-in, oranges require a tool to open (unless you have incredibly long nails). Usually people use a knife, but for a orange eating beginner I found myself butchering the poor fruit and leaving a juicy mess behind.
True more time and experience could solve this problem, but all the barriers to eating this fruit made it less likely I would pick one up. I know this sounds crazy but consider what eating an orange required.
- Dealing with a knife (which I am not good at and cut myself with)
- Dealing with a juicy mess (which I hate even more because I have so many gadgets)
- Taking the time to learn how to peel an orange properly
On top of all that I wasn’t even guaranteed I’d get to eat the fruit!
As always I turned to the internet for a solution and narrowed my finds to four different types of orange peelers.
- The Oxo Good Grips Citrus Peeler
- The Tupperware Citrus Fruit Veggie Peeler
- The Noname Citrus Peeler
- The EziSit-Rus Citrus Peeler
All the peelers work the same, they have a small sharp nub used to easily cut the orange without fear of cutting too deep. But I really wanted the EziSit-Rus Peeler.
As the video shows it is by far the easiest and fastest way to cut and peel and orange without a mess. It even comes in four different colors! Sadly this iPod of the orange peelers was only available in South Africa, and I could not find any to buy online.
I ultimately went with the tupperware one because it was the cheapest at a buck a piece (or at least it was when I bought it a month ago). You can see my first attempt to use it in the first video. I can’t imagine it’s as nice as the EziSit-Rus peeler, but it has accomplished what I wanted from it.
Who knew there was such variety in orange peelers? Also if you really want to up your orange peeling apparatus, get yourself one of these bad boys.