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I hate "fileting" oranges or grapefruit. You know, taking the skin off the segments

I end up with juice everywhere and the segments in pieces. Is there an efficient way to do it? I just use unpeeled segments when I can get away with it.

 
I love doing this since i learned an easy method.

Peel the whole orange down to the juicy part. Remove one segment with a small sharp knife. Then slide the knife under & close beside the next membrane until the sharp edge is down to the very center (pole) of the orange. Then sort of flick or slide it along the membrane of the next segment and it comes off cleanly in one piece. Keep doing this until you have done them all. The remainder (all the membranes) looks like a bunch of pages. Give that a squeeze to get all the juices.

I know this is hard to visualize, but give it a shot.

 
Hmm, the "flick or slide" thing sounds like the trick. I've tried cutting

down both sides with the tip of the knife, then trying to pull out the segment, which comes out in shreds. I'll try your way. Thanks Luisa!

 
I just use the flat side of the chef's knife

for lightly smashing the garlic to release the skins.
What really bugs me is that my fingers get sticky and I can't get the garlic skins off my skin!

 
Hate the chopping but, seriously, keep them in the fridge and you wont cry at all if they are cold.

 
The other end of the scale, washing the pots that cant go in the dishwasher and cleaning the stove

top after any sort of frying or saueting!

 
The other end of the scale, washing the pots that cant go in the dishwasher and cleaning the stove

top after any sort of frying or saueting!

 
We (Earl) grew 4 kinds last year and one had...

individual cloves that were all the same size. I think the name was "Music." Two had soft neck (braidable) and the other two had "hard neck." All were great flavor. He is only going to grow 2 kinds this year so I had to choose. (One was Music but the other I forgot!)

 
At our house I cook, hubby washes pots and pans. If you have another adult or big kids.....

give them the job. Any chance of that?

 
I'm with you on the stovetop. DH washes the pots, but now that my house is going on the market,

cleaning the stovetop is my biggest headache. It's a gas stovetop, the white glass kind with individual circles, not the newer kind. I will do better when I move!

 
Steve, do you use a garlic press? I stick the clove, peel and all into it.

The garlic is pressed, and the peel gets stopped at the bottom.

I usually just cut the stem end off, then into the press it goes.

 
Steve, I have a little gadget called e-z-rol garlic peeler, a rubber

thing that looks like a cannoli shell, cost $5 and goes in dishwasher. Garlic clove goes in, you roll with a little downward pressure, peeled clove comes out. Works every time.

 
Thanks Joanie, it's not so much the crying as the not-so-fun chore of chopping. Funny, I don't mind

chopping other veggies at all. Hmmmm, go figure. ;o)

 
I love the hard-neck varieties......

but can only find them at local organic farmstand. I tried growing some a few years back, and nothing happened. I may try again, in a differnt spot.

 
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