There are many ways to peel an orange. Perhaps the most common for you is to remove the entire peel with a knife and eat the segments one by one. Another method is to cut it into equal parts and eat the fruit directly on the skin. However, if you apply this last formula, it is likely that a good part of the fruit will remain attached to the peel. Luckily, there is an efficient way to peel oranges with which you can make the most of the edible part and correctly discard the peel, as well as the white part if you don’t like it.
The skin of table oranges is usually much harder than that of tangerines, which makes the task of peeling and separating them correctly difficult in comparison. Given the possibility of peeling it completely with a knife or with your hands directly, tiktoker @yucheen, with more than 146,000 followers on this social network, has revealed her particular trick to get the most out of this delicious fruit.
As this user explains in a video, which has accumulated 31,600 likes since its publication, the best way to peel an orange is using a knife. As if it were other citrus fruits such as lemon or lime, the first thing would be to place the stem part upwards and cut the piece of fruit in half. Next, you can remove the ends of the peel and continue cutting the halves into equal and symmetrical parts until you have 8 or 12 pieces. Then, also with the help of the knife, you can remove the white part where the glasses are attached.
To take advantage of all the orange flesh, grab the portions by the thinnest corner and pull the peel until it is completely removed. This way, your orange is now ready to eat! And without wasting a gram of the fruit as if you were eating it directly from the peel. Do this with the rest of the segments and eat an orange like you’ve never done before.
In the comments of the publication, we see a certain diversity of opinions among those who have seen this hack. While one user confirms that “in Spain, generally, we peel the whole thing first,” another criticizes “but who cuts the orange that way?” Others, surprised by the trick, exclaim: “it should be at NASA” or “the discovery of the century.”
