Potato peeler - a device for peeling potatoes , can also be used to peel vegetables and fruits.
In France, the specialized production of potato peelers began in 1929 under the trademark L'Économe [1] . One of the most famous potato peelers is the Swiss Sparschäler Rex , created in 1947 [2] , which in 2004 was dedicated to one of the Swiss postage stamps [3] [4] . In Zurich, this model is still being produced [5] . In traditional German cuisine, several types of potato peeling knives are used, depending on which potato dish they want to cook [6] .
At public catering enterprises and in small vegetable processing plants, special machines are used to peel potatoes and vegetables. An industrial potato peeler consists of a tank with walls lined with coarse-grained emery stone tiles and an electric motor driven cup of the same material in the lower part of the tank. The tank also has a hole in the upper part for backfilling of unpeeled potatoes (usually with the addition of a certain amount of water) and a lowering tray or shutter for pouring out finished products; the peel is peeled off in the process of rubbing potatoes against emery. A potato peeler can also be part of a universal kitchen machine [7] . For the initial industrial cleaning of potatoes, a jet of hot steam can also be used to soften the peel [8] .
Notes
- ↑ Florence Néel-Farina. 80 ans de corvée de pommes de terre. - Clermont-Volcans: La Montagne (journal). - P. 12.
- ↑ Historique des inventions suisses
- ↑ REX: the king of all vegetable peelers - Switzerland - Information (unavailable link) . Date of treatment July 6, 2014. Archived March 20, 2015.
- ↑ 15 Rappen Briefmarke aus: Die Schweizerische Post.
- ↑ Elogio di un mito svizzero // Libero Gabbiano, 10/15/2009 Archived January 10, 2014 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Food Culture in Germany. Ursula Heinzelmann, 2008. P. 95.
- ↑ Potato peeler - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- ↑ Food Industries Manual. 1997. MD Ranken, C. Baker, RC Kill ISBN 0-7514-0404-7