To peel carrots before cooking

[BlueyIsMyBae]

DH doesn't bother which I think is a bit grim. He thinks I'm wasting time peeling them.

So let's put this most pressing of issues to rest....

YANBU = peel those carrots
YABU = stop wasting precious minutes of your life

Nah no need

Nah - all the good stuff is in the skin!

I peel normal ones but I only wash organic ones prior to cooking. I was told that carrots hold a hell of a lot of pesticide in the skin so YANBU to peel them.

It hardly takes any time to peel them if you a good peeler.

Nah cannae be fagged.

I always peeled because that's what I have seen others do , but I'll just wash from now on.

If they’ve been washed properly there’s no need to peel.

I peel them because I find that the skin tastes bitter

I do as I read some govt dept guidance about carrots really holding pesticides in their skin so the advice was to peel them, unlike other root veg.

www.sustainweb.org/publications/carrot_fashion/ this link discusses the Ministry of Ag. advice to peel them.

I peel mine.

Sometimes the massive ones need a good scrub to thin the skin, I never peel them though.

I peel them unless I am roasting them. No particular logic granted.

If its for cooking no, but eating raw yes!

I don't actually peel them I scrape them with a sharp knife.

I don't know why, carrots and new potatoes get done this way, probably because my mum did them like that?

By the time I be washed them I could've peeled them. It takes seconds to peel a carrot.

I've always peeled but only because my mum does and I have never questioned it!

I always peel after crunching down on a gritty bit of soil once!

I guess they are the same as potatoes and grown in the ground. If I have potatoes unpeeled, I scrub them first with a potato scrubbing brush. I could use it on carrots, but peel instead.

I peel them because our rabbit adores carrot peelings above anything else. We have organic carrots for precisely the reasons PP have mentioned, but I could not deny our buncake her peelings

I don't peel mine.

Neither of you are unreasonable, it's a matter of taste. There's no right or wrong answer, as with any food type question, if you like it, eat it that way. There's no need to conform to whatanyone else does.

Always peel.

I don't like the texture of the skin.