I have a huge bag of oranges on my desk. I intend eating them to boost my levels of vitamin C and fibre against the onslaught of winter. I have two problems though:
Firstly I hardly ever feel like eating an orange. That is easily overcome by forcing myself to eat an orange. It never turns out to be too unpleasant.
Secondly, orange eating is quite a messy business, especially at your desk, so I have been experimenting with different techniques. However, when cutting an orange I always seem to be left with that white core piece running vertically down a few of the slices, so naturally I finally resorted to Googling “how to cut an orange”. Here are two of the videos I found… I find them highly amusing because the subject of cutting oranges is so mundane, yet the passion these orange cutters exude is admirable!
i’m in the middle of an orange-eating escapade myself. a whole bag of ‘em for 10 bucks from fruit’n'veg city and you can’t go wrong. i take to the oranges with a very good knife - small and evenly weighted - score the skin just ’til hit touches the fleshy goodness and then peel back each quadrant by hand. It’s tough to avoid the juice and subsequent sticky fingers and I generally just swallow the slightly bitter pith rather than peel it away. But, yes, in general, oranges are not the easiest fruit to eat. and don’t get me started on kiwis…