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!!

Pineapples! I buy them then they sit in the fruit bowl giving me the evil eye. I know how to peel them but I hate it!

Potatoes for mash: microwave in their skins, then leave in cold water for a few mins. Due to the temperature difference the flesh shrinks away from the skin. So once the spud is drained and halved the skin comes off in one piece if you're lucky. Either way much less of a faff.

"I love potatoes but preparing them for any form is so annoying. "

Baked potato in the microwave is easy.
I don't do any other kind of potato, seeing my parents peel them almost every evening was enough to put me off.

I don't bother with oranges but eat satsumas and clementines.

The people who don't peel or wipe mushrooms, don't they have dirt on them?

They do, but it's "clean" dirt because supermarket mushrooms are grown in controlled conditions. You only need to brush away any chunks of dirt.

Agree with pineapples... and they seem to irritate my mouth

itsthequietones yes to awful carving out of swedes!!

Will add ginger - pain to peel and grate. Though i now freeze first and just grate the peel in - so much easier!

Peeling shallots. I swap for onions now.

Making white sauce. No idea why but I hate the whole adding milk gradually and stirring. I'm fine making my own custard though!

Also trying to chop butternut squash, my knife always gets stuck in it

I buy lazy garlic, ginger and chilli because I've (belatedly) realised that life is too short.

I used to but I've switched to chopped frozen garlic and ginger. Both are much more flavoursome, especially the garlic. I get through about a bag of chopped garlic a week

I love vegetarian shepherds (gardeners?) pie, but my arthritis makes peeling and mashing spuds a real pain. So I was chuffed to find frozen mashed spuds at Sainsbury's that haven't got anything weird in them, just Potato (86%), Cows' Milk (10%), Butter (Cows' Milk) (3%), Salt, Pepper. They come out of the bag in pieces that are perfect for laying in a single layer on top of a savoury goop (culinary term for home made vegetarian shepherds pie innards) and bake in the oven just like home made shepherds pie
I also can't cut through winter squash these days, but I love growing and eating them, so I jab a fork through the skin, bung them into the oven whole, and once they have baked it is dead easy to cut them in half, scoop out the (now roasted) seeds, and scrape off the softened peel.
Can't do swede any longer either, but Aunt Bessie's frozen Carrot & Swede Mash is tasty and though expensive it keeps for ages in the freezer.
Peeling oranges is impossible, so I use a sharp knife to cut them into segments, peel and all, then hold the peel and eat the flesh leaving the peel behind.

I am fed up of buying oranges other than satumas, that are sour, full of pips or just plain chewy.

Agree 're oranges - proper oranges satsumas etc are OK.
Cauliflower is easy - don't see what the problem is - they are one of the easier to prep vegs.
If I've a large amount of cheese or carrot then I'll use the processor to grate it.
Agree with butternut squash. Makes turnip, swede seem a doddle. And mashed potato - such a faff though I'll do it as it tastes scrummy.
Things I hate- deskinning fish, carving chicken, anything that needs breadcrumbing.

I just cut them up and eat them like that, easier than peeling.

Quim, thanks for the tip. Stupid question: do you mean you can buy them chopped and frozen, or do you prep your own?

MereDintofPandiculation for broad beans try using a y-shaped potato peeler to run along the thinner of the two long sides and open to reveal the broad beans. Sometimes, you end up with a bit of the beans being shaved but it’s a small price to pay.

orange cutting hack

You’re welcome

Ok all you haters of butternut squash\squash peeling DON'T DO IT !!!! ( I know an OP has suggested another way )

But the best way is to wash your squash Make small holes in it. Bake in the oven till it's semi soft or completely soft. If it's semi soft you can then, cut it into wedges easily (after removing the seeds of course) and fry them or make soup with them The skin comes off easily if you must or just eat it!!!! yummy.

I also don't peel carrots, celeriac or swedes etc. , just wash them properly with a brush and steam them whole (it is far more nutritious). Don't overdo them esp. if you want to make soup afterwards , the skin comes off easily then. You can use the water as stock too !

what was named first d'you think - the carrot or the orange?

Cooliebrown, did you know carrots weren't originally orange?

for those struggling with ginger quimreeper tortycat peel with a teaspoon.amazing!

Roast potatoes. I love them but all the peeling, chopping, par boiling and an eternity in to oven to get them crispy makes me wonder if it’s worth all the effort

Peeling spuds
Chopping onions
Peeling oranges is horrible.
Mostly I quite like being in the kitchen as it means I get 5 minutes peace!

Marigold's are your friend! I don't eat spuds now, they give me arthritis, but I used to wear my rubber gloves for peeling them and other veg. Sometimes with onions too. If you keep at a bit of a distance, sitting down, from the onions they don't make you cry!