My knife skills are…not as fancy as they could be. Also, I don’t own a good set of knives yet. Using a paring knife to peel a pear? Not gonna happen.
I’ll stick to using the vegetable peeler. It does the job just fine.
[I also found a video clip on the magic internet of someone peeling a prickly pear in a way that looked far too simple. I watched the clip without sound and thought it was a regular pear. This is why we always listen to the sound on instructional video clips!]
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BrownsFan // April 29, 2008 at 9:07 am
Don’t mean to be picky, but the video showed how to peel a prickly pear (which grows on a type of cactus) and your picture shows you peeling a pear that grows on a fruit tree. It’s literally like comparing how to peel apples and oranges.
Or maybe it’s like a Top Chef challenge where they were supposed to use prickly pear and they decided to use bosc pears instead!
Jenny // April 29, 2008 at 9:32 am
Oh wow, thanks for pointing that out. This is what I get for looking at video clips at work with the sound off! Ooooops.
apollocreed // April 29, 2008 at 10:48 am
that is one of the most intense pictures of a pear I’ve ever seen.
But I guess I don’t look at too many pictures of pears.
Still, it was very nice.
Jenny // April 29, 2008 at 11:38 am
Thanks! It was a weird picture to take…I don’t have a tripod or anything, so I put the camera on a 10-second timer and held it in my mouth so I could use my hands to peel the pear. It didn’t taste very good.
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amberance // April 30, 2008 at 7:50 am
Hahahahahaha, so no “Camera ala banana” then I guess.
P.S. BrownsFan is my coworker, she LOVES your blog.
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