Thumb-Wrestling With Plantains Is Now an Optional Sport. The E-Z Peeler strips the skin from plantains. Good read.

“SIX years ago I received a call from a man named Edwin Rodriguez, an unemployed janitor. He had invented a plantain peeler and wanted to know if I would like to see it. A few days later Mr. Rodriguez’s prototype arrived in the mail. It was carved from wood and painted green and lemon yellow like a child’s toy ”” and was otherwise the most phallic cooking tool I’d ever seen. I quickly tucked it into my desk drawer.

But when I tried it out in the privacy of my home kitchen, it worked ingeniously. There was a blade for trimming off the ends of the fruit and cutting seams into the peel without harming the inner plantain. And at one end was a spade-shaped wood piece designed to mimic a thumbnail ”” the implement that, in the absence of a plantain peeler like Mr. Rodriguez’s, is normally is used to wedge under the peel and lift it in strips. Peeling a green plantain is not like peeling a banana. The skin sticks, and if you’re not careful you can easily split the fruit’s flesh; you need a sharp paring knife and good knife skills….”

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