Opinion
Pia’s Picks: take your kitchen to another sphere
by Pia Seidel
Is rock-hard butter playing havoc with your Sunday brunch? Try using a peeler
24-8-2022
Translation: Katherine Martin
There are plenty of curious things on social media. One such curiosity? Videos demonstrating how to slice butter with a potato peeler. I gave it a whirl.
Peel the butter
Instead of cutting a slice of butter from the end of the block, I scrape a layer off the top by using a peeler. It might look like it’d take some getting used to, but it’s also fun, and works pretty well. The slices are so thin that they don’t even really need to be spread over the bread at all. And even if they do, they get softer immediately, making the process easy.
I could, of course, use a knife to scrape small, thin slices off the top of the butter and spread them onto the bread. That works too, but the slices aren’t intact. At the end of the day, that has absolutely no effect on my enjoyment of the bread – it’s just a less interesting way of doing it. Though, it’s probably the more obvious method, seeing as you’d be using a knife on the bread anyway.
My verdict
It’s a nice bit of fun or party trick at brunch with friends. However, I’m fairly certain that this hack isn’t going to become routine for me. When all’s said and done, I still feel daft for breaking out the peeler just to butter a slice of bread.
My life in a nutshell? On a quest to broaden my horizon. I love discovering and learning new skills and I see a chance to experience something new in everything – be it travelling, reading, cooking, movies or DIY.
