To be underwhelmed and not a little angry about misleading banana peeling advice?

[Proudnscary]

Ok so I read on a MN Classics thread that I've been peeling bananas the wrong way for 40 odd years (how stupid did I feel?) and that there was an incredible, life-changing way to open said fruit. It's a secret monkeys have known for thousands of years.

The MNetters on this thread were astonished and thrilled by this discovery.

I gathered my children, told them 'Hurry, get a banana, I have something amazing to show you!'.

Went on to Youtube to view a video that has had THREE AND A HALF MILLION hits of a guy showing you how to peel a banana the correct way. In his preamble he tells us this demo will change our lives.

He pinches the banana at non-stalk end and peels it. And, err, that's it. It didn't peel itself. The skin didn't pop off. He just didn't have to wrestle with the stalk. My son says 'That was crap'.

WTF?

I cut my finger on the viscious pampered chef apple corer so it now lives in exile at the back of the least used kitchen drawer.

Yes because the stringy bits start from the bottom so they get peeled off with the skin rather than being left stuck to the banana, if that makes sense.

Ok well that does put a different spin on the whole matter, I admit.

I don't peel bananas because they are vile.
Dh was quite excited using the olive de-stoner the other day :)

Picture?!? Olives are literally my favourite food stuffs of all time.

I have two of those apple peeler corer slicers! I shall be taking one into work tomorrow now to amaze the masses.

a pineapple slicer and corer i have one and its bludy great, i only ever bought ready prepared pineapple as im a lazy cow and cant be arsed with chopping and peeling. i saw some bloke on come dine with me use one so i thought get one. amazing a whole pineapple peeled and cut into rings in 2 minutes flat easy peesy. ebay do them cheap :)
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1311&_nkw=pineapple+corer&_sacat=0

I can't believe how interesting I find the debate about which end of the banana to peel at! It should be the next discussion topic on The Wright Stuff, with heated callers insisting that everyone is wrong.

Personally, I think if they are under ripe, you get a nice satisfying crispy break when you peel at stalk end. It's only occasionally when you find that the stalk is rubbery and simply bends rather than snaps.

:)