Within a dedicated small-tools drawer in the kitchen are two vegetable peelers and a knife. Two of the OXO Good Grips Swivel Peelers and a 6" Wüsthof chefs knife. Everything needed to clean a carrot.

One of the peelers is dull and the other newer but since they look identical, even after six and twelve years, you cannot tell them apart use. It's always 50/50, although I seem to notice the dull one more often.

Today, in a stroke of genius, I tried using the dull one left-handed. It works like it is brand new.

Who would have known!

You can sharpen them. Just saying.

Or throw the dull one away. Theses aren't high dollar items and don't last forever.

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Theses aren't high dollar items and don't last forever.

that ain't what granny told me

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Originally posted by Fenris:
You can sharpen them. Just saying.

Looking at the sharpened surface, I'm adding another file to the folder. The peeler can indeed be sharpened. At ten bucks each, I'm gonna try. As soon as the left side fails. It'll make a nice retirement project.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
Or throw the dull one away. Theses aren't high dollar items and don't last forever.

Or just give up carrots.

One of my drawers in the garage tool chest is full of screwdrivers. If I need a standard one, the first five or six I pull out are are phillips head and vice versa. It's an acquired skill.

^^Stop putting all your screw drivers in the same drawer. Flat heads in the drawer with the SAE wrenchs, Phillips head in the metric wrench drawer, Reed & Prince in with the SAE sockets and Pozi in with the metric sockets.

Works OK til you get the 5' wide box with the single full width drawer to house all your sockets, ratchets and extensions.

If you peel from the bottom, you don't have to do it left handed.