This is a wonderful "this you?" moment captured on film

We were straight out of lock down years and were cleaning EVERYTHING in 2022!!! So I totally get it.

My rule of thumb is, if the carrots are served raw and you can identify them like in a salad or sushi, I will peel them. If I'm throwing them into a soup, stew, or other dish in which they are amalgamated into the dish, I don't bother.

I scrub my carrots with a stiff brush, then slice & eat them. Most of the nutrients are right under the skin.

Store carrot skins are super tough, so I peel. Just me.

Some carrots need peeling and some don’t. Best advice is to let the vegetable/fruit talk to you.

Maybe now you have access to better carrots and three years ago, during the early stages of the pandemic, when you were writing the book that was published two years ago you didn't have access to reliably decent carrots.

I usually peel them for salads but not for roasting or soup. I find the peel a little bitter sometimes

No peel gang since 2010

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but the peel is bitter!

Carrots that are from the grocery store seem to taste more like dirt than the ones from the farmers market. I think it's because the carrots from the farmers market are fresher and smaller so less bitter dirt taste when you don't peel them. I do peel most of the time but if I don't have a peeler I will scrub them with a clean scrubby. Gets most of the dirt and peel off. I never think that it's ok to put that flavor in a soup or stew either. If something tastes bad why would you put it in a dish that was going to cook for a long time and get all the flavor from that item into your dish. I don't know I guess I don't like Alison Roman that much. She should be a good cook doing what she does but when I watch her I don't think she knows that much about technique.

I can tell when carrots aren’t peeled in anything and it is gross. It tastes like dirt.

Alison why do you cursed? Doesn’t look pretty at all!! It’s a shame because you have a great show:(