Odd kitchen gadget

Never mind - I couldn't get the picture to paste

 

I will certainly try that and report back when I can get hold of an orange.

 

Orange peeler, tomato, potato de-eyer.? I can think of several uses, I'll check back because even Lorena Bobbit can do better

 

Af, once you get this gizmo figured out, we expect to see one of these decorative creations! Seems ornamental orange peeling was considered an art at the turn of the century. Some of "them thar folks" must have had a lot of spare time on their hands.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-ornamental-orange-peeling/

--- Susan

 

That is amazing, Susan! Yup, a humongous amount of spare time.

 

Oh, as long as it's orange peeling decorations and NOT :

I'm scared to death of spiders as I was bitten by a Brown Recluse when I was a little kid at my parents cottage - spent many a day in the hospital. I do realize this ain't a Brown Recluse but just some kind of Orange Spider. Could you imagine if this was about a foot long? 12 gauge with 9 pellet buckshot for sure!!

 

And still seems to be -

 

I could imagine Lorena preferring this:

 

I hereby nominate Ladybranch for the "Best-Link-Provided-Thus-Far-in-August-2016 Award."

Ladybranch, I'm prepared to send you your prize (a fairly-fresh orange peel from our lunch today). Just send a PM with your address so that I can fish it out of today's garbage bag before it heads out to the weekly trash container later this evening.

 

Best Laugh Today awarded to yourturn!!

 

Yipes!

 

LOL, ROFL Yay for me. The closest I'll come to a gold medal, Olympic-wise.



--- Susan

 

An orange with a gold medal!

 

Ladybranch, I was being serious about it being the best link (to my way of thinking for the information and examples it provided) for the month of August (and perhaps even longer).

 

I thought so.......that's why offering her your garbage as a prize ....kinda threw me !!

 

Komokwa, oh my goodness, it didn't occur to me that the second paragraph of my post (meant only as "fun" because DH and I had eaten oranges as part of our lunch) could/would be taken in such a way as to override the genuine compliment I was "attempting" to convey to Ladybranch.

 

Thank you! I wish I could say I purposely searched for that link, but in all reality it came up in the myriad of images from a Google search for "orange peeler." I usually won't have click on it, but wanted to see if it might be a catalog page for orange peeler from back when.

--- Susan

 

Bahh, it's all good...you gave the gals a laugh !!!!

 

I have seen orange-peelers that looked similar, and may still have one....the tool makes a slit in the peel, and one then slides the tool along/inside the slits to loosen the peel without damaging the segments....




The advantage over just using a knife is that one ends up with segments that are free of knife-cuts.