"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:12:41 GMT, "I'm back on the laptop"
> > wrote:
>
>> Saw some the other day at the markets, and at $2.99 a bag, decided to
>> pick
>> up 3 to make some candied ginger.
>>
>> Have only just got around to peeling the damn stuff (I keep forgetting
>> about *that* part!!), and started out using a spoon, but have shifted to
>> a
>> bread and butter knife....... sooooooooooooooooo much easier, as I can
>> also
>> use it to cut out any knobbly bit that aren't wanted.
>>
>> Oh well....back into it...... at least my hands smell nice and gingery
>> :-)
>
> I've tried those blunt objects and really, a vegetable peeler works
> best.


I have never used anything but a peeler. Why bother?

Paul