Citrus Zester at Cooking Glossary

What is it? The stainless-steel cutting edge of this kitchen tool has five tiny cutting holes which when the zester is pulled across the surface of a Jamaican lemon or orange create threadlike strips of peel. The zester removes only the colored outer portion of the peel leaving the pale bitter pith.

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