The pick · Best Vegetable Peeler
Kuhn Rikon Original Swiss Peeler
Three dollars. A blade so sharp it has a cult. The only peeler any home cook actually needs.
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Kuhn Rikon
Original Swiss Peeler
The verdict
Why Kuhn Rikon wins this category
Restaurant kitchens — the kind with copper pans and reservation lists — almost universally stock the Kuhn Rikon Original. It costs about the price of a coffee, comes in cheerful colors, and skins a potato or carrot in a single confident pull.
The carbon-steel blade is sharp enough that you'll re-learn how to peel without bearing down. The little plastic body weighs nothing. Buy three: one for the drawer, one for the cabin, one to give away.
Y-peelers are right and straight peelers are wrong. This is the Y-peeler.
The pick
Kuhn Rikon Original Swiss Peeler
$5
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