Lemon Zester Tool for Kitchen - Citrus Zester Tool with Channel Knife,Orange Zester Grater with Handle,Citrus Peeler for Cocktails

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Other citrus fruits like lemon, grapefruit, tangerine, and clementine can easily replace orange in a dish. Drag the orange along the grater toward the cutting board, maintaining enough pressure to remove the top layer of the rind.

They're specially designed for the job, making them near-perfect at getting all the zest without getting any of the rind. If you plan on using your orange zest to garnish a cocktail or make citrus-infused oils or syrups, simply leave it in strips rather than mincing it. A lot of times when you use the juice from your citrus fruit the flavor gets dull when it is cooking. You want to make sure you run it under cool water rubbing it gently to get off any chemicals or bacteria that might be on the peel from the farm or transport.

In addition, you will have to take more care to avoid digging too deep into the pith with each stroke.

Continue zesting the orange in continuous strokes from top to bottom around the entirety of the fruit until only the pith is left. Similarly, commercial growing operations will spray their fruit with pesticides and other chemicals to produce their product with the least amount of blemishes in the least amount of time to maximize profit. Avoid trying to zest directly into a measuring cup, since the microplane will gather the zest in the long groove under the plane until it falls onto the board. In this case, 95% of readers who voted found the article helpful, earning it our reader-approved status.Zesters can be a pain to clean, especially since zest sticks fast when it dries, so any leftover shreds need a good scrubbing to remove.

To zest an orange with a zester, hold the orange in your non-dominant hand with the orange facing up. To peel your orange with a peeler drag the blade down the orange skin, creating strips of orange peel. A. Traditional zesters are best suited to zesting only, but grater-style zesters are much more versatile. Once you’ve zested the entire orange, turn the microplane over, and use a knife to scrape the zest into a measuring spoon. The grater method is self-explanatory—simply run the orange over the smallest set of slots on the grater to shave off the colorful peel.

Both these tools easily remove the zest while avoiding the bitter white pith, ensuring you get the perfect zest for your recipes. Similar to using a peeler, you will brace your dominant thumb against the bottom of the orange, and using a sharp paring knife, cut into the peel from top to bottom, trying only to slice away the zest of the citrus.