What is the best way to peel an orange?

Question

Everytime I try to, I make an absolute mess. I love oranges....=(

But I hate peeling them and dealing with the mess

Answer 1

i'm great at peeling oranges!
to get the peel to come off more easily, roll the orange around with a little pressure, so it stretches a little in different directions and breaks the connecitons inside the peel a bit.
then i stick my thumb in near the stem end, parallel to the direction the segments run. i like to take the peel off all in one piece, so i run my thumb around the orange underneath the peel, tryinn not to allow any small chunks to break off.
rolling it around a bit first is the key, though.

Answer 2

Cut along the lenght of the orange all around the orange just like you are tracing wedges then pull the peel and each one will come off easily. And your orange will look like a lotus flower when opened.

Answer 3

Forget peeling...cut orange in half, then quarters, even eighths, and eat inside away from the skim. Not at all messy.

Answer 4

There are citrus peeling tools that will make your life SO much easier. Check a cooks supply store or search online (http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkwTDE1dH03cAlwml87UF?p=citrus%20peeler&ei=UTF-8&iscqry=&fr=slv7-msgr&fr2=sfp).

Alternately, cut the orange into wedges (6th's works well) and eat it that way. It's what I used to do before I got a peeler!

Answer 5

cut the end off and slice through the peel the long way and peel...

Answer 6

u know what y not try a aple cuter

u know the ting that has the blades and the circle thing and it cuts aples in to even space leveing a cyercle where the seeds are that should work for a ornge to right ?


ok here is a link to what im talking about im sere u got one at your house somewhere (they are very comon) i hope this helps :)

here is the link :


http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=134140