Monkey Business Karoto Carrot Peeler and Curler

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Once you’ve cut out wedges around the entire piece of carrot, place it horizontally on the cutting board, and use your knife to slice it into coins that are approximately ¼-inch (½-cm) thick. Make sure that they coins are ¼-inch (½-cm) thick or less, or you may have trouble cutting the flowers. If you’ve had breakfast in a hotel, chances are your toast was accompanied by perfect little squares of butter. After you’ve shaped the carrot shavings into a flower, take a toothpick and push it through the bottom where the ends of the savings overlap.

It’s important to remove all of the skin so that when you run the carrot through the sharpener, you’re only shaving off the flesh and not any of the skin.The toothpick should be able to pierce the shaved carrot flesh on its own, but if it doesn’t go through easily, use a knife to create a small hole that you can push the toothpick through.

When you’ve used the round cookie cutter on all of your carrot coins, use the edge of a diamond-shaped cookie cutter to cut out small “V” shapes around the entire edge of the coins. After you’ve run the zester along the entire length of the carrot, use a sharp knife to slice it into coins. Obviously, as we have said above, there is no physical evidence to suggest that this product was subject to value proposition design during the conceptualisation and product development phase of its creation, but it is interesting to explore the nature of this process in this way. Yes, that egg slicer might have seemed like a fantastic idea at the time, but after a couple of uses, it was abandoned.Using such an item could significantly assist the paralysed in collecting items they may have dropped on the floor! By creating the carrot sharpener, the carrot, and or parsnip could be placed inside the giant orange sharpener, and be wound through, producing shaving-like pieces of veg, with significantly less risk of being cut by a blade during a tremor or losing your grip on the handle.

You can make the coins as thick or thin as you like, and each will have the notches to create the subtle flower shape. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. After peeling the carrot, use a sharp knife to cut it in half, thirds, or quarters, depending on the size of the carrot. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.

For many with arthritis, EDS, or Parkinson’s disease, the use of a knife to cut vegetables such as carrots or parsnips could mean that these vegetables end up being neglected, not due to being disliked, but due to the impracticalities and issues that may arise in preparing them. enterprise, portfolio Agile Coach with over a decade of experience working as an Agile coach in diverse industries such as banking, pharma, retail, auto, oil, gas, consulting and government. However, it’s more difficult to keep the shavings in a continuous strip with one of those tools, so work slowly and carefully.

Take each section of carrot, and use a knife that you feel comfortable making precise slices with to cut long, shallow wedges along the entire length the carrot piece to form the flowers’ petals. Carrot flowers make ideal garnishes for salads and fun additions to crudite platters, but you can also add them to recipes in place of sliced carrots. If you’re comfortable with the finished carrot flowers being slightly irregular, you can skip this step.

Whether you want to use a knife, cookie cutters, a zester, or peeler, you can create attractive carrot flowers in no time. When you’ve shaved enough flesh from the carrot, carefully take the shavings off the sharpener, going slow to avoid tearing them. Because of the way the peeler shaves the vegetables, the carrot flesh will naturally curl in on itself, so follow the natural curve to make shaping the flower easier. Instead of using a knife to cut out notches, drag a citrus zester along the entire length of the carrot. And are they such an inconvenience that you need these rainbow coloured “proppers” to stand them to attention on your plate?