Sweeeet Moment

Sweeeet Moment!

Don’t you love it when you buy something and it out-performs your expectations?  My sister-in-law shared with me the function of the  “tool” in the photograph above for the kitchen.  For a dollar at a swap meet, I decided to try it.  It was an OMG (oh my goodness) experience! 

So what do you do with this device that resembles a crochet hook in the kitchen?  You peel citrus-pure and simple.  The hook end slices the skin of the orange.  You just press it through one end or the other and pull forward down along the orange. 

Repeat a few more times and you have the skin ready to peel off the orange.  The shape of this tool keeps the cut above the flesh of the orange.  The other end has a flat edge for persuading any peel loose that wants to be belligerent.  Slice and dice your orange and it is perfect for breakfast or a snack without any mess in just a couple of minutes.  Any citrus should work the same way with this tool.  In an RV, this is a perfectly sized tool to slip into your silverware drawer too!  

And that will entice me to eat more oranges.  I’m happy, my doctor will be happy (more fiber, less fat in the diet) and Jim will get to eat a lot more oranges now that preparing them is a pleasure rather than a pain.  A big thanks goes out to my sister-in-law for the hint.

And that is helpful hint #2.