I’m Going Bananas!
Peeling bananas minutely more quickly
The time difference this tip makes is admittedly miniscule if you’re only cutting a banana or two; but, believe me, if you’re preparing bananas foster for a banquet of 500, those milliseconds add up.
Instead of peeling the banana and then cutting it down, cut off each end of the banana and then slice it in half lengthwise before peeling it.
Once you’ve done so, it will easily come free of its peel with none of those annoying strings attached.
Then, you’re ready to make a banana split; or, slice it crosswise and combine it with citrus and kiwi for a tasty fruit salad.
January 6th, 2007 at 7:01 am
That’s exactly the way I was taught to to peel a banana at dinner: strictly speaking the English way is that fruit eaten at table is eaten with a knife and fork.
Watching someone try to peel a tangerine with a knife and fork is an excellent test of whether the diner is ‘people like us’ or not, which, like all those other eating shibboleths we have - like drinking soup away from you and passing the port - is the whole point of the exercise.