To think that oranges..

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..are so tedious to peel? Kinda cba with it by the time im done faffing 😂😂

Just a light heartrd post for this miserable Tuesday morning.

What food preperarions do you hate?

I hate peeling oranges, peeling potatoes + grating cheese!!

You SLICE oranges OP. Who peels the bastards?

Pomegranates. The skin makes your fingers yellow, getting the seeds out is soo fiddly. How are you actually meant to eat them??

If you don't peel squash do you still get the delicious sticky brown stuff on the outside? If so, you've changed my life too!

Swede! Need a laser to get it peeled and chopped.

Glad im not the only one with food prep hates!

By oranges i meant satsumas etc.. proper oranges i do just cut into 4/6 and suck the juice out 😂.. my biggest issue is PITH!!!!

Ahh yes, i just eat the pith. Easier. My mum peels her satsumas really closely, gets all the pith off then... Eats it. It's the pith she likes.

A friend once told me you didn't have to peel squash when roasting, but she didn't say the falling off thing... We just ate the skin. It was less than delicious.

I LOVE pomegranetes though! Just cut a third off, or a wedge out, then flake the seeds off with your thumb. It's like discovering jewels when you peel back the membrane and fid more. They now have little pots of the seeds but I think they're wrong - if you haven't fought for the pomegranete, you don't deserve any.

Most food prep doesn't bother me tho. Leeks can be a pain when you wash but there's always some mud left further up - but tbh, i usually just chuck it in, mud and all. It's going to be cooked after all. Ditto mushrooms, although if there's lots of obvious mud I'll rinse them.

Swede and squash. I now just nuke the swede if I’m doing mash - google singing swede! I also nuke the squash for a few mins which makes it SO much easier to remove the skin before chopping!

Browning meat. Especially mince and draining the fat.
Avocados. That bloody stone. That bloody squishy ,green, splodgy stuff that tastes like fart.

if you haven't fought for the pomegranete, you don't deserve any

Brilliant.

I agree with turnip/swede. I have a decent scar from cutting turnip when I was 15 and helping my dad make dinner.. it was solid and rolled from under the knife when I tried to hack at it.. safe to say the bright red bloody turnip no longer made it onto the sunday roast....

I find the Titan Peeler makes peeling squash and shredding veg so much easier, it has a push-pull action so it's quicker too.

Mook you get the lovely sticky brown bit on the cut surfaces but not so where the peel is - still, I feel it's worth the trade off!

Chopping onions. I hate it.

Two years ago I discovered frozen chopped onions and I can't tell you how much better my life is as a result.

You can also buy bags of prepped frozen butternut squash from of course Waitrose.

Una I agree! I'm going to try it!

Love oranges. Peel with a sharp knife, break into segments but don't eat the white bits. Messy i know, but worth it

For the mince person... we now only use venison mince. It's about 4.50 for 500g in our local farm shop. It doesn't release tons of fat or scummy water like normal mince and I like the flavour.

Cutting up a large, tough swede (or turnip to the Scots - huge debate in our Scottish-English House!) is my pet peeve. My slice downwards always turns a bit meaning it's a decent size at the top and wafer thin at the bottom 😡.

And I HATE washing potatoes and only buy pre-washed ones. MIL (who never has a sink teaming with dirty dishes like I do) can't understand it and buys a sack of muddy tatties every few weeks.
It's no wonder she needs a sackful though as half her potatoes end up in the bin as she uses a knife and not a peeler and therefore throws away half her potatoes and carrots. Such a waste.

Toss, even better is to get non-frozen chopped onions, caramelise a huge batch (I use the slow cooker) and then freeze in 100-150g quantities. Then when you want to cook you just add with the other ingredients rather than having to fry them all first.

Chopping garlic, chopping and peeling swede and butternut squash. Pomegranates!

Oh I love Oranges mmmm I cut them in 8 pieces though so I don't have to peel them and also they're smaller sections so the juice is easier to control

I just cut it in half then each into four bits and eat it like that
I cant stand it getting under my nails so that's the best way to avoid it

can i include sweets
them starburst (opal fruits to us old ens) chews as much as in love em trying to get the bastard wrapper is so much hard work and then i end up dropping the bastard