HOW TO PEEL AN ORANGE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 22, 3 June 1893, Page 526

HOW TO PEEL AN ORANGE.

It is easy enough to peel an orange without staining the hands if one knows how to do it. The fibres of plants, including the fibres of oranges, all fork from the bottom upward, and it is the attempt to split anything against the grain which makes splitting difficult. If one wants to peel an orange all that is necessary to be done is to cut with a • knife a very small circle around the stem end, and then mark dividing lines from the stem to the summit —at points on the surface of the orange. The skin can then be drawn off as easily as one may draw a finger from a glove. This suggestion may not only apply to the peeling of an orange, but also to the splitting of a stick. Those who make hoops for barrels split the hoop in order to make them, but they do not begin with the top or slender portion of the pole and split downwards. They could not do this ; but by taking the thicker end and working from the thick to the thin no trouble is found—the pole splits easily.