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Stop Throwing Away Orange Peel!
Make the Fondest Snack (Only 2 Ingredients)
Sep 24, 2023 5:38 PM
BlackNBlue7
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Make the Fondest Snack (Only 2 Ingredients)
FireSolvesProblems
That's more than two ingredients, but I'm now giving those lemons on the counter a second look.
vigojones
"Souped up recipes" on YT. She's great
SaveitforQueenDoppelpoppolus
the two ingredients are sugar and more sugar. like yeah probably most things are kinda edible if you dilute them a hundredfold in sugar
wandergirl
I fill a mason jar with orange peels, then cover with white vinegar. Put the lid on, let sit for 2-3 weeks. Pour resulting liquid into a spray bottle, and it's the best multi-purpose cleaner ever
WaxDragon
That's 90% sugar!
DonkeyGoat
Don't forget to wear a pith helmet
34912475
I won’t eat the peel because:
>Pesticide residue
>Pesticides are frequently used on citrus fruits like oranges to protect against mold and insects (13).
>Though studies have found the inner fruit of oranges to have very low or undetectable pesticide levels, the peels contain significantly higher amounts (14).
Beefkins
Adds enough sugar to kill a 14th century peasant.
rmsrmsrms38
Diabetes....
LewdFrog
Sugar with pesticides, great!
MapleSyrupMafia
Don't worry, it's boiled in water with forever chemicals, so the pesticides are neutralized.
LewdFrog
Yes, that makes sense! Why didn't i think of that before! :P Solid comrade logic^^
whistlepop
so, basically just sugar.
jdaviCakeQueen
I love sugar.
dorenavant
“Only two ingredients.” Proceeds to add vanilla and orange juice.
backsidenasty
Thesaya
May not cost much but takes time and energy
NonFungibleUsername
And 3 metric tonnes of sugar.
an0therthr0waway
think of it as "upcycling" - you're finding value in something that would otherwise have been thrown away.
SnakesInBowties
Apparently none of these folks mentioning 'all' the sugar have heard of 'candy.'
somesomebody
The video is framing it as being wasteful to throw away orange peels because they're also somehow edible. But then the video goes on to just dump a ton of sugar and orange juice all over them to make them palatable. It's a clickbait-and-switch. So, stow the sarcasm and pick up some reading comprehension, please.
SnakesInBowties
What you read into it is of no concern to me.
Thesaya
*three to four ingredients
slotheroll
namelessone
This is very similar to fruit preserve, which is really popular in Greece. Although you keep the syrup and boil the peel a lot more.
DWolf
I use the syrup in sangria later.
TurnsOutEverythingIsAThing
Saucy sauce Souped up recipes https://youtube.com/@SoupedUpRecipes?si=N4uoK6jhgTJhXaeg
usernamethatsstillavailable
yeah no, I'm not making candied orange skins everytime i wanna eat an orange...
ISayShenanigans
The secret is in the sugar.
digitreal
Got ya. Orange flavored sugar.
RetrogradeLlama
Needs more sugar.
taegins
And a bit of citric acid in the ending coat
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
you could try curing it
Flozzin
I was thinking the same. Like how wasteful it is to throw something away, when with 10 cups of sugar and 2 hours of time, can make it palatable. Or ya know, just fucking eat it raw, save the time and the sugar. It's probably healthier, although terrible tasting.
ThatShiftyMonkey
Don't waste just this one scrap when you could waste time, energy, and more resources to make this treat*! *treat=sugar-covered scrap
Rayplays
Aksuuuh
I'd hate to be the one to clean that up. I have kids. I know.
ThomKlanc
Because people without kids have never spilled sugar
jesuisgur
No, just deep half of it in dark chocolate and let it harden. That's the way !
jesuisgur
*dip
GRaffted
SomebodythatIusedtonope
In water
shadowmega
MORE!
RetrogradeLlama
Your proposal is acceptable.
sometimesImakeimages
BokchoyIsAWhiteVegetable
This is Mandy and her channel is Souped Up Recipes on Youtube. She makes some really good Chinese dishes that I've made from following her channel. Here's he free printable recipes: soupeduprecipes.com
Trimule
I do a lot of her recipes. Great food! Worth the little extra effort that all the pre-cooking prep requires.
BokchoyIsAWhiteVegetable
100% agree!!
userfriendly19777
That's a lot of complaining about the amount of sugar for a US dominated site.
Gingerwithsomesoul
Way more sugar in English and Mexican candy.
FallingStar7669
I think the joke is "this is what we did with leftover orange peels: don't throw them away! They're tasty! Just destroy them with sugar!"
NotAgainRichard
shes not the size i'd expect for that much sugar
NM156
Diabeetus hits people differently!
phobosorbust
the American way is to hide it by using five different ingredients that are basically all sugar so that sugar isn't the first ingredient on the label, and by not leaving big sugar crystals on the outside where we'd be forced to confront the reality that it's candy. A lot of people are aware of these tricks and suspicious of anything overtly sugared, because if they're willing to cover it in sugar then just how much is in there?
Cucumberclouds
We automatically half the amount of sugar in American recipes for cakes and cookies etc when we make them. It’s just so much sugar.
medimr
heh... It's like people have never seen someone make candy before.
an0therthr0waway
My grandmother used to make this every fall and she could have gone 10 years or more with the amount of sugar shown in the video.
timbazi
basically you could do the same with wood shavings. just add sugar
BrianDWrecker
There’s 3x the vitamin c and a bunch of other micronutrients in the orange peel compared to its flesh, according to google. So while you could make any garbage appetizing by candying it, it’s a good idea to use nutritious garbage I think
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
you could try curing them
TheWorldAccordingToAtlas
Stop throwing away your toenails.
temposaur
During first and second world war people in Finland used wood powder mixed to rye due the shortage.
Klaaism
That's what most "parmesan" sold in the US is... wood shavings. Walmart was even sued over it.
Tumescentpie
Blocks of cheese are always better than grated cheese if you are able bodied. Here's a sauce for anyone who is too lazy to google what you said. https://time.com/4226321/parmesan-wood-pulp/
willpostanything
A platypus imgurian? Parry the Platypus imgurian!
Bebsey
Don't forget to soak it in wood, first.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
this reply is way too low on this thread, come on imgur
bahiniknam74
ThrashAndChemistry
I'm a little late to the party here, but if you see cellulose in the ingredients of a packaged food, it's usually derived from wood chips.
Nathanfake
Yes , the fondest snack from my childhood
goblinart
*chindhood
FaithAlone
Lol I had a similar thought, everything is a yummy treat with the right sugar ratio.
BiggusDickuth
Then add more sugar
SecondSince
... Go on...
Imalwaysready
Just get a spoon and a bag of sugar. Cut out the middle-man, I say.
tchrbrian
and more sugar...
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The8obman
diabetic termites
iaddsan
DrJakeHerb
Good band name.
The8obman
HELLO SEATTLE! WE ARE DIABETIC TERMITES *drums & thrashing guitar riff* *singer starts gnawing on the stage*
DrJakeHerb
MatthewJohnsona
You could eat my foot if you add that much sugar and boil the heck out of it.
timxedge
dedpan
That was a shitload of vanilla extract, too
johnspeck2
Remove the orange from the peel, remove the little slivers left of orange from the peel, remove the flavor from the peel, add orange back add sugar back, snack!! Like wtf.
JustJoe2047
Yeah some odd turns this takes. And way tol much sugar
LariCheltsy
Ah. The McFlurry.
Donk4donk
And the dq blizzard!
Silkyninja1
billyrayvirus
Just add Rice Crispies Treats until people stop noticing the sawdust.
ThatShiftyMonkey
Someone should do a science fair project to study this question...
Tumescentpie
Oh boy are you in luck...
fendeele
don't forget the sugar. yikes, that's a lot of sugar
IJustReallyLikeFrogs
I mean it's a candy right? You don't eat it all in one go.
KiteFlyingPianist
I thought the same thing—I'm diabetic.
Acc87
not any different to normal hard candy
patapof
Except if you don’t want to waste the peels, you now gotta eat 12 of these each time you eat an orange :D
rulek
Still less than a soda, cookie, donut or any other candy. This type of candy you typically only have one or two.
SixWhisky
It's candy, yo
KirchoffsVoltageLaw
That's way too much sugar
SpaceBunneh
I mean so many people consume the same amount of sugar and don't care since they don't pay attention. This is better than 90% of the shit we have in America due to it not having any frm of corn syrup. Also as a treat having 6 of those is probably like a soda can or two of sugar. As a treat its fine, just as long as it's not an everyday snack.
Despereauxtilling
I'd be interested to see how much added sugar there is in one of those rinds. It's 40-50g of sugar per can, and I'd guess that's more like 6 rinds to a single can
Kehy
Corn syrup is fine compared to the de-flavored white grape juice that gets used as a sweetener so a protect can be listed as "No Sugar added, No High Fructose Corn Syrup"
RobJenkins
Candied orange and lemon peel was pretty common I thought, decoration on cakes and whatnot
C0baltBlue
Yes, and it's also not very nice. Maybe the extra boiling and sugar here makes.it better than what I've had before, but it's usually gross.
an0therthr0waway
it was once. My grandmother made a few batches every fall/winter. She only used a small fraction of the sugar this OP did tho... sheesh
RobJenkins
Aye. Even if candied peel has fallen out of favour a well equipped kitchen has a zester for fruit sauces, ice creams or sorbet, the peel is widely used
AlmostHappy
The peel is also higly sprayed with toxins unless you have organic fruit money. :/
Trunkmonkay
Once went to a restaurant where they had an entire candied lemon for dessert. The inside was lemon sorbet and the outside was candied like this. Was made with enough sugar to kill a bull elephant.
unluckyandbored
Well yeah, but it's not like you're eating them every day..
Kehy
Never had it here, not popular locally at least
VictusVonGuyver
Yeah. We should do this with orange slices in Portugal. We even had chocolate covered orange slices. I think we went a little nuts, because my grandma would combine sugar and buttered popcorn.
LAZERJESUS
https://www.thespruceeats.com/chocolate-dipped-candied-orange-peel-recipe-1375194 yep it's a thing.
VictusVonGuyver
I swear to you. They were one of the best tasting snacks as a kid before I suffered permanent anosmia.
vegivamp
Orangettes are pretty common over here, yeah 🙂
Mithi
ABSOLUTELY NO! Unless you buy oranges that _explicitly_ state that the rind is edible, assume that they are laced with pesticides.
yoseiwind
Oh, definitely. It’s like with gift roses, people go I’m going to do x,y,z edible craft. Do you know how far those have traveled and how many really nasty chemicals they absorbed? If you don’t know then don’t do it.
Imalwaysready
Meh, what isn't these days? If it isn't pesticides, it's microplastics or heavy metals. We've screwed it all up--top to bottom--so just enjoy the ride until the cancer is detected because if one of them doesn't get you, another one will.
donorkort
In the EU, you cannot label produce as organic unless it fulfills a bunch of criteria, one being that the peel doesn't contain pesticides.
YouWouldLookMeInPurple
"*until* the cancer is detected"? Are you really going to stop eating pesticides once the cancer kicks in? Or are you going to knock it up a notch? Be late-capitalism! Embrace poison!
NotAgainRichard
Sigh. Pesticides and other agrochemicals follow food safety standards (if you're in a decent country) and are required to break down after a specified time or wash off during residue processing after picking. This also means agrochemical companies can sell farmers more agrochemicals. Humans dont have the metabolic pathways that insecticides target because we are different species, in a similar way that dogs and mongoose are immune to some snake venom. Stop hyperventilating over imagined threats.
NotAgainRichard
Das gilt vielleicht nicht für Amerika, wo alles verdammtes Gift ist, aber Europa hat Standards.