Sounds like you got a deal. Geometrically speaking, you got a way higher ratio of carrot to carrot skin.
Chef here. Don’t bother peeling carrots unless you are making salad. You are just wasting your carrot.
And use the skins in stocks, soups and sauces.
I think it depends on the carrot. Some of them are impossible to wash well.
You don’t need to make it sterile, unless you plan to use the carrot as wound dressing.
Which is probably not advisable anyway.Maybe for a salad, i clean a bit more thoroughly. Humans are not that fragile. (unless you specifically are, in which case, do be careful)
It’s not about sterility. Dirt/sand in your mouth is a very unpleasant experience.
That’s just like… your opinion man
Anakin?
The rough side of the sponge should be able to get that no problem. Still no need to peel.
I don’t know how a sponge is supposed to do anything when sometimes even the peeler can’t do the job. I have to get into the nooks with a knife.
Unless it’s for salad, I just run them under some water. Same for potatoes.
Time is too short for peeling vegetables.
Potato skins are where the nutrients are at. Also lots of flavor.
Idk if I’d say the same about carrots
Get a stiff bristled scrub brush and only use it for vegies. You can scrub all the dirt off super easy and if you really scrub you basically peel them anyways with the brush.
Yep. I basically never peel carrots when cooking for myself unless they’re past their best
In root vegetables, 80% of the vitamins are in the skin, and the flesh is nearly pure carbs. You’re throwing away most of the good stuff.
While i think peeling is wasteful, this is not true: https://www.nutritionletter.tufts.edu/general-nutrition/does-peeling-carrots-remove-nutrients/
80% of the vitamins are not in the skin. There are exceptions where the skin of some fruits and vegetables are higher in a particular vitamin(s), like for instance potato skins are highest in iron or something like that, but it is untrue that the majority of nutrition is in the skins of these foods and discarding or peeling them removes “80%” of the nutritional value of the food.
I don’t want to grind earth, sand and/or dung on my teeth though.
That’s why you wash and scrub it…
Wash and scrub it?? Yeah, right- sounds like Big Vitamin propaganda trying to make me need a B12 supplement
I love chewing on sand. It’s my favorite. Maybe I should just go stick my face in the lawn and start monching.
Rinse your carrot before eating it you acorn
Man likes to eat sand, what is wrong with that? He isn’t telling YOU how to live your life!
I love this comment
YOU ARE NOT POEM FOR YOUR SPROG
I miss that guy
Tok to your doktor to day
It was a joke, and I’ll never eat that chef’s sand carrots.
Great, now I have to buy carrot skin separately.
It didn’t look like jews or americans got to that carrot… it should have plenty of skin!
explanation, you fools
male genital mutilation.
Don’t you mean lower?
By “ratio of carrot to carrot skin” I mean “volume of carrot / volume of carrot skin”. Volume of carrot is ~ length³, while volume of carrot skin is approximately ~ length², assuming a similar shape of carrot, because the skin is a constant thickness (determined by your vegetable peeler). This basically means the bigger the carrot the less money you waste on carrot skin.
I bet the bagger had a good laugh while bagging that carrot up.
I would’ve tossed in one baby carrot, to make sure it ripped 2.5 on the scale.
Wish my boyfriend was 2.5 lbs
Your boyfriend is now 10 inches tall
10 inches tall, 2.5lbs, all cock
thank you for making us small “weight” fellows feel insecure.
I have a female friend who is of the opinion that dick size doesn’t matter because only the first few inches of the vaginal canal has erotic nerve endings. I’ve told her that dick size is like breast size: some people care more about it than others and it is a factor. She continues to deny it matters at all.
I’m a guy of average size. I don’t have any insecurities about my junk. But I have enough experience and watched enough (realistic) porn that I know it matters, it’s just not a game breaker like some insecure men fear it is. That being said, size queens are a thing too.
Yeah, it was a dumb joke because the carrot is jumbo. Dick size doesn’t matter. Even small dicks are fine. What actually matters is how frequently a guy goes down on a woman.
I have an ex who had her most sensitive spot about an inch in at the top. To her, it literally did not matter as long as one hit that spot.
They did you a favor. The advantage is, you only have to peel One Carrot. And it’s not that hard to cut it up, you could even make carrot sticks and dice half of them for stew, or cut half and shred half for carrot salad. The sticks keep nicely in the fridge with a little cold water.
You peel carrots? Why‽
Because they’ve been in the ground, and the ground is mostly poop
I mean, that’s reason to wash it, but I don’t think there’s a medical argument for peeling. Could be wrong though, but I’ve never heard of this being a problem ever.
Oh boy do I have bad news for you.
Basically everything in your environment is covered in human poop.
If you bring a carrot into your home it has way less poop on it than your toothbrush.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I’ll be sick if I eat the outer layer, I’m just grossed out by the thought.
Medical argument against it actually, as you remove most of the healthy stuff.
Some, but not most. There’s significant nutrition in the phloem (layer under the skin) which is not removed by peeling. And even the center has nutritional value. It is best to peel them just before using rather than let them sit around once peeled, since the peel protects them.
honestly i don’t mind a bit of dirt with a touch of poop. if i myself pluck a carrot out of the ground - i’ll just wash it a bit and proceed to chomp
what i do mind is the number of hands and various containers the carrot goes through before it gets bought by me at a store. theoretically, nobody has to touch a carrot for it to appear in the store (harvested mechanically, transported in large quantities, thrown out of a box onto the store display), sure, but i’m not counting on that, nor am i counting on the fact they wash their hands properly
In root vegetables, 80% of the vitamins are in the skin, and the flesh is nearly pure carbs. You’re throwing away most of the good stuff.
you can’t always get what you want…
but if you try, sometimes, you might find, you get what you need
As a child my mother would sing this to me whenever I wanted something at the store.
vegan dildo
It’s like a baby’s arm holding an apple.
Kuroda carrot maybe.
If it is those are very juicy and fucking delicious. Go to your nearest Asian market. Enjoy better carrots
When I find big carrots they always end up woody and tough, definitely not as nice as smaller carrots. And you are telling me it’s a difference in type of carrots?
Seems to be.
Used to eat carrots out of my grandma’s farm when I was a wee lad. Have never found ones that taste the same.
But there is now a Korean grocery store nearest to me and is been great to get different varietals and seeing what ingredients are like from other places just because they grow a different one.
I’ve found the greenish part of the stem can go a bit further in some of the carrots which isn’t the most pleasant but it’s only been like one carrot that was like that, the rest were just a big ole tasty carrot. Surprisingly juicy compared to what I’m used to from the grocery stores I’ve gone to most of my life.
Has that carrot been genetically modified?
*Inb4 all plants are genetically modified, I mean via gene editing and not selective breeding
If that’s the size of the carrot, I’d hate to see the stick.
The possibilities are endless!
That carrot might be going places…that many wishes they could.
Robin no!
Well yeah, they’re made to order. Probably forgot to enter a value in the quantity field and the system just defaulted to one, so instead of “2.5lbs, 10 carrots” ya got “2.5lbs, 1 carrot”. You know how much resources if takes to grow a 2.5lb carrot? It’s not a small amount. Wasteful, this is.
