How to use the peelers to create culinary masterpieces
Food / / December 19, 2019
If you think that the peeler is suitable only for potatoes, you are mistaken. With this simple tools can transform many dishes.
culinary aesthetics
Type of food is no less important than its taste. In Instagram posts with the note "Rose avocado»(#Avocadorose) gather thousands of likes. Because it is really beautiful.
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Aesthetics in cooking is of great importance. Beautiful supply increases the value of food. Seeing something beautiful on the plate, we just get a little gourmet and not just start there, and taste. And if you think you cut all the strips and rosettes for too long and tedious in a hurry to please you. Sometimes you can create a culinary masterpiece using simple peelers.
What is the peeler
Peeler - a device for cleaning of vegetables and fruit from the rind. Due to its special structure it removes only the upper thin layer, thereby reducing the amount of waste. Peeler to work faster and much safer than an ordinary knife.
There are several types ovoschechistok. Especially popular are the Y-shaped pattern, where the blade in the razor positioned perpendicular to the handle. It is believed that it has invented a craftsman from Switzerland Nevecherzal Alfred (Alfred Neweczerzal) in 1947. His care that when cleaning the potatoes with a knife in the usual large part of the tuber is thrown, and he made a tool that solves this problem.
But the scope of these ovoschechistok can be much wider. They can not just peel, but also finely chop the vegetables, fruits, cheese and even chocolate to decorate dishes. At least, so goes the editor culinary Epicurious site kind Boone (Rhoda Boone), specializing in food design for photos, television and advertising shootings.
Vegetables
Many cleaning peeler potatoes, carrots and other hard vegetables. But not many people used it as a tool for carving home.
It's simple. First, remove the vegetable peel, and then continue to cut it into strips. Their thickness can be adjusted depending on what result you want. If your goal - effectively apply vegetable salad, click on Peeler stronger so it is more deepened in vegetables and strips were produced thicker. If you want to turn vegetable slices in a roll or make something like a flower, a touch must be light.
With the help of vegetable peelers can be nicely cut raw zucchini, carrots, cucumbers, asparagus and celery.
Fruits
See how easy Rod Boone peeler thin slices of toast with plate avocado and salmon.
Avocado - the perfect fruit to vegetable peelers. Even in mature form, it is firm enough to cut easily on the plate. It is also well suited for this purpose, mango, kiwi and apple. They can be decorated with sweet pastries or add to fruit salad.
In addition, the peeler can be beautifully and carefully remove the zest from the limes, oranges and other citrus fruits to decorate cocktails.
Cheese
Cheese any food gets a little better. His thin slices can be decorated with a variety of dishes. They can be a great (in all senses of the word) in addition to a salad or pasta. In the latter case, long plate will not melt as quickly as grated cheese.
Peelers for best fit and hard Semisolid cheeses: Parmesan, pecorino.
Chocolate
Get a slim and beautiful scrolling chocolate chips difficult. One peelers are not enough. You need to know one more trick. This is the temperature. Too cold chocolate will break into pieces, and too warm - melt in your hands.
Take a large baking chocolate bar and hold at room temperature or send it to a few seconds in the microwave at minimum capacity. It is necessary that chocolate became slightly pliable. Then remove the peeler chips on a plate. Ready curls can be stored in the refrigerator until needed.