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It is a citrus peeler. It cuts the peel so you can peel the fruit easily. I have a couple of them because I don't have any fingernails to peel the fruit.

It is a citrus peeler. It cuts the peel so you can peel the fruit easily. I have a couple of them because I don't have any fingernails to peel the fruit.

Wow that was fast! And that does sound correct, and is why it was in the kitchen!

Thanks,

Iris

Pam beat me to replying about it being a citrus peeler. I have one or two here in Florida. Barbara

In message , I.E.Z. writes

I have one of those. It was a gift from Betterwear. It is for peeling oranges. You cut down the orange in segments with the flat end, then insert the hook end and ease the peel away. Shirley

I have two of them from Oxmoor. They stay in the sewing room in a mug with assorted other things for turning, pulling, pushing and poking. Mostly I use it when I've backed an appliqué and need to ease the seams out flat so the backside doesn't show. Didn't know it could peel an orange; I'll have to try that. Polly

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Thanks all! I'm debating whether to take it down to the sewing room to use the way Polly suggested, or try it the next time I have some citrus in the house!

Iris

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:42:50 -0500, I.E.Z. wrote (in article ):

Sounds like it might be an orange peeler.

Maureen

That what I do too with mine!

Before reading the answers I thought it might have been one of those letter openers mentioned in another thread. It looks like it might serve as one anyway. Our citrus peeler is much smaller; it's a ring thingy with a small blade sticking out. You put it on your finger like a ring and run it around the orange or whatever. DW swears by it. I have fat fingers, so I swear AT it.

Doc

I had one of those! From a Tupperware party years ago,. do they still make them? amy in CNY

I won one at a Tupperware party too. That was the party where I got lucky at the games and came home with the orange peeler, the egg seperator, the sugar scoop, and the cake server. My mom didn't speak to me for a week, and then when I went to college and they went to Colorado she absconded with all my tupperware! LOL

NightMist

OK Kids, for 10 points and an ata, what recipe requires EXACTLY those items to make? 8^D

Doc

Either a lemon cake or an orange cake. I have a wonderful Lemon Sour Cream Pound Cake recipe, however, that particular recipe doesn't need the eggs separated.

Donna in SW Idaho

OK Kids, for 10 points and an ata, what recipe requires EXACTLY those items to make? 8^D

Doc

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Indeed, a citrus peeler ... if you have the time for such doings. Gifted by the Tupperware hostess at one of those in-home parties. I have several, from back when all my friends & neighbors had the party & I showed up to increase the numbers for their prize. (& if they scrimped on the refreshments we didn't go back, & my best friend wouldn't order anything ) Oxmoor House also gave them away as a Free Gift!! Wouldn't that make you order a half-dozen Exciting books? ! ?!!!!!

Why don't we have in-home quilt stuff parties ala Tupperware? Any excuse to look at fabric & books & tools, and eat. We could bring our laptops and place online orders.

R/Sandy

Howdy!

It's a recipe for keeping kids busy.

EVERY mom knows that if you have those goofy plastic things from the Tupperware party all jangling around in the bottom of a purse or bag, you've got the makings to keep a little kid occupied for at least an hour. Scoops, scrapers (no sharp edges, it's Tupperware!), mini-containers, lids, cups, capsules, funnels, molds, keepers, shakers, and my favorite: the lettuce corer. Oh, yeah, I have one left, after people "stole" some others from my kitchen! Mix some or all together, pour into a totebag, serve immediately.

R/Sandy - w/ a tiny bag of quilting stuff & a huge tote full of plastic gadgets

It's a neat little thingie that is designed to peel citrus fruits, and they really do work! You can use the sharp pointy end to score the peel and then pull it off yourself. Or, use the pointy end to score the peel in a little circle at the stem end, pull off that little bit, and then stick the long curved part inbetween the fruit and the peel to loosen the skin that way. I happen to have two of them (freebies at the State Fair years ago), and one is in the kitchen. The other -- ahem -- is with the sewing doodads and is a good thing to poke out corners (doesn't leave a mark like a pencil does!) and all sorts of other wierd things. Keep it!