How to Peel Cucumbers

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Ben Hardy with Expert Village. Now we are going to talk about preparing our cucumbers. First, you want to take your knife and cut off both ends of the cucumber. Again as always make sure that you wash your vegetables before any preparation. You want to take a standard vegetable slicer, start at one end of your cucumber and make one long strip. Getting rid of a little bit of the skin. We are going to do this 3 times. We are not going to cut the entire skin off we are just taking portions of it. Now you have your cucumber nice and ready to be chopped. Now with cucumbers the reason you would want to cut off the small ends of the outside skin is one it makes a great ascetic value when serving. Also the human body has a harder time digesting the skin much like the shell of a peanut so you want to eliminate that and make it easy for your body to digest. "