DeanB wrote:

>
> My mother is looking for a machine or attachment that can be fed
> carrots, and peel them automatically. She does 25 lb every week (as a
> personal fight against breast cancer, if anyone is wondering).
>
> Does anyone know of such a machine or attachment? She's tried the
> potato peeler bowls but they don't work very well for carrots.

25 lbs of carrots is not really a lot to peel, especially not in a
week... choose large carrots... large carrots are readily availble,
ask at your greengrocer. I buy large carrots to feed deer, there are
about 3 carrots to the pound. Naturally I don't peel carrots to feed
deer... but these large ones are actually sweeter than skinny carrots,
the carrots I buy are grown in Canada... I buy them in 5 lb bags, they
cost less too.

Those potato peeler bowls work perfectly for abrading carrots, cut
into large chunks... that's how "baby" carrots were born. Naturally
there's a lot of waste with those kind of veggie peelers, but then
there's waste regardless how carrots are peeled.

Perhaps if you'd disclose how those carrots are to be used you'd
receive more help, otherwise all anyone can offer is wild
speculumation... with some recipes it's not necessary, or desirable,
to peel carrots.

http://www.justvegetablerecipes.com/veg-0193147.html

http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~goodwine/carrotwine.htm