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[–] 114 points 1 year ago (40 children)

Sounds like you got a deal. Geometrically speaking, you got a way higher ratio of carrot to carrot skin.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    Chef here. Don't bother peeling carrots unless you are making salad. You are just wasting your carrot.

    And use the skins in stocks, soups and sauces.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I think it depends on the carrot. Some of them are impossible to wash well.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You don't need to make it sterile, unless you plan to use the carrot as wound dressing.
    Which is probably not advisable anyway.

    Maybe for a salad, i clean a bit more thoroughly. Humans are not that fragile. (unless you specifically are, in which case, do be careful)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's not about sterility. Dirt/sand in your mouth is a very unpleasant experience.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    In root vegetables, 80% of the vitamins are in the skin, and the flesh is nearly pure carbs. You're throwing away most of the good stuff.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    80% of the vitamins are not in the skin. There are exceptions where the skin of some fruits and vegetables are higher in a particular vitamin(s), like for instance potato skins are highest in iron or something like that, but it is untrue that the majority of nutrition is in the skins of these foods and discarding or peeling them removes “80%” of the nutritional value of the food.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't want to grind earth, sand and/or dung on my teeth though.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I love chewing on sand. It's my favorite. Maybe I should just go stick my face in the lawn and start monching.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Rinse your carrot before eating it you acorn

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    By "ratio of carrot to carrot skin" I mean "volume of carrot / volume of carrot skin". Volume of carrot is ~ length³, while volume of carrot skin is approximately ~ length², assuming a similar shape of carrot, because the skin is a constant thickness (determined by your vegetable peeler). This basically means the bigger the carrot the less money you waste on carrot skin.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The volume is length^3? Is the carrot a 10"x10"x10" cube?

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  • [–] 98 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I bet the bagger had a good laugh while bagging that carrot up.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    you can't always get what you want....

    but if you try, sometimes, you might find, you get what you need

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    They did you a favor. The advantage is, you only have to peel One Carrot. And it's not that hard to cut it up, you could even make carrot sticks and dice half of them for stew, or cut half and shred half for carrot salad. The sticks keep nicely in the fridge with a little cold water.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Because they've been in the ground, and the ground is mostly poop

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I mean, that's reason to wash it, but I don't think there's a medical argument for peeling. Could be wrong though, but I've never heard of this being a problem ever.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Oh boy do I have bad news for you.

    Basically everything in your environment is covered in human poop.

    If you bring a carrot into your home it has way less poop on it than your toothbrush.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Medical argument against it actually, as you remove most of the healthy stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Some, but not most. There's significant nutrition in the phloem (layer under the skin) which is not removed by peeling. And even the center has nutritional value. It is best to peel them just before using rather than let them sit around once peeled, since the peel protects them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    honestly i don't mind a bit of dirt with a touch of poop. if i myself pluck a carrot out of the ground - i'll just wash it a bit and proceed to chomp

    what i do mind is the number of hands and various containers the carrot goes through before it gets bought by me at a store. theoretically, nobody has to touch a carrot for it to appear in the store (harvested mechanically, transported in large quantities, thrown out of a box onto the store display), sure, but i'm not counting on that, nor am i counting on the fact they wash their hands properly

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I peel carrots because to me the peel tastes like dirt. As for that whole poop discussion, I'm pretty sure that guano in the soil is not the worst contaminant on the skin of the carrot. E. coli on vegetables for instance usually comes from the hands of someone who handled it. And many carrots have pesticides on them.

    I grant you that the skin probably also contains lots of vitamins, although there's still plenty in the interior. And giving the carrot a really good scrub would get the skin clean.

    But I've never been able to scrub away the dirt flavor to my satisfaction. So I peel them with a carrot peeler. The existence of which indicates it's a common enough behavior not to merit an interrobang.

    Though I do love an interrobang, so thanks.

    Editing to add: https://www.nutritionletter.tufts.edu/general-nutrition/does-peeling-carrots-remove-nutrients/

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    It's like a baby's arm holding an apple.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That’s an ass carrot if I’ve ever seen one.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Something something flared base

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    to fill out the something somethings for the unaware audience -

    if you get something into your bum fully, it's very hard to get out on your own without hurting yourself, and your ass can suck that thing in in a second - so unless you're an avid fan of going to a doctor to get something out of your butt, the object you're penetrating yourself with has to have a flared base - that is a base at the bottom of the object much wider than what your ass can suck in, which will stop the thing from sliding in

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    that is a base at the bottom of the object much wider than what your ass can suck in

    And don't believe your hiney can't suck. Every ER will tell you some rather large objects that have made it in. Make that base 33% wider than the widest portion of the object, or 7.62cm diameter, whichever is greater.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    vegan dildo

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Average Japanese carrot. And no, that's not a joke. They've got the best carrots.

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    Thumbnail definitely had me expecting something else.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    If that's the size of the carrot, I'd hate to see the stick.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Well yeah, they're made to order. Probably forgot to enter a value in the quantity field and the system just defaulted to one, so instead of "2.5lbs, 10 carrots" ya got "2.5lbs, 1 carrot". You know how much resources if takes to grow a 2.5lb carrot? It's not a small amount. Wasteful, this is.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That carrot might be going places......that many wishes they could.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The possibilities are endless!

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wish my boyfriend was 2.5 lbs

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
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    That there carrot's named Cletus.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Kuroda carrot maybe.

    If it is those are very juicy and fucking delicious. Go to your nearest Asian market. Enjoy better carrots

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When I find big carrots they always end up woody and tough, definitely not as nice as smaller carrots. And you are telling me it’s a difference in type of carrots?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Seems to be.

    Used to eat carrots out of my grandma's farm when I was a wee lad. Have never found ones that taste the same.

    But there is now a Korean grocery store nearest to me and is been great to get different varietals and seeing what ingredients are like from other places just because they grow a different one.

    I've found the greenish part of the stem can go a bit further in some of the carrots which isn't the most pleasant but it's only been like one carrot that was like that, the rest were just a big ole tasty carrot. Surprisingly juicy compared to what I'm used to from the grocery stores I've gone to most of my life.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You're going to need an axe to cut that one

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Communist carrot

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Has that carrot been genetically modified?

    *Inb4 all plants are genetically modified, I mean via gene editing and not selective breeding

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