I also tried using the Zyliss to peel a stalk of celery with my left hand. It's easy to grip and unlike the Miracle Peeler, my fingers don't have to bend to fit around a small thin metal handle that sometimes presses against my skin in a painful way. The Zyliss peeler handle is more comfortable in my hand than other peelers have been. If I find a bad spot in the vegetable I'm peeling, I use the sharp cutting end of the Zyliss peeler to get it out easily.

On other peelers, I've often had to use a brush. If strings do linger long enough to interfere with peeling, I rinse the strings off the blade easily under the faucet. The blade is very flexible and the celery strings don't catch in it as much as in other peelers I have used. I've even used it to strip brown spots off the back of romaine lettuce ribs to make them look nicer. I have been using it now for about five years and it's the best I've ever used. The Zyliss peeler works very well on celery and on the other veggies I peel with it. Not only that, the new one did not seem to fit my hand as well, and it hurt to use it. If the celery was the least bit limp, it was almost impossible to peel. In any case, it didn't work very well - especially on celery. I picked it up at a grocery store and didn't pay too much attention to the brand name. The replacement I bought looked like the old one but didn't seem to be made as well. Over the years my original Miracle Peeler stopped working as well. Why I Wanted to Replace My Miracle Peeler When we next visited my husband's parents, I brought Paula a Miracle Peeler like mine so I could at least function if she asked me to peel something.Ī Vintage Paring Knife My Mother-in-Law Used to Peel Vegetables When Paula handed this to me to peel something, I didn't know what to do with it. There is a peeling blade on the other side of the depression in the blade. I could not find one like it online, though I did check eBay. My mother-in-law was using an old stainless steel paring knife she brought with her from Europe. It was the best I could find 53 years ago. When I got married and bought my own peeler, I bought the Miracle Peeler. The Miracle Peeler's handle was fairly easy to control, and I could cut bad spots out with the sharp curved attachment at the end.

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