What Is a Vegetable Peeler? Just for the sake of knowledge, a good description of a vegetable peeler will be seen below. In the above image, we see an actual Y-Shaped vegetable peeler in motion. Even though this is not our own brand of vegetable peeler, it does show a great action GIF of a peeler in action. This comes to us from Wikipedia . A peeler (vegetable scraper) is a kitchen tool consisting of a metal blade with a slot with a sharp edge attached to a handle, used to remove the outer layer (the "skin" or "peel") of some vegetables such as potatoes, broccoli stalks, and carrots, and fruits such as apples and pears. The basic peeler is a straight edged instrument that usually requires a fair amount of effort to use. That straight edged tool leaves much to be desired when peeling potatoes, carrots, squash, cucumbers and other veggies. A paring knife may also be used to peel vegetables. The blade of a peeler has a slot with one side sharpened; the other
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