Growing up, I was spoiled by my mom’s citrus peeler, a piece of flat, kidney-shaped stainless steel designed by Georg Jensen. It was (and continues to be) an essential part of her kitchen setup, ...

Imagine a 75-cent bit of stamped plastic that cleanly skins a navel orange–and without dribbling sticky juice down your office keyboard. “The citrus peeler?” asked Julie Christopher, spokeswoman for ...

There’s a tool for performing almost any kind of an operation on an orange, except maybe a foolproof way to peel the fruit without making a mess. These little gadgets can help make the task a bit ...

Every so often, a gadget enters your life and leaves you wondering how you managed beforehand. It might sound frivolous, but for me this gadget is an orange peeler from the Italian brand Alessi.

For 40 years, Wilbur Blank’s orange peeler was nothing more than an idea whose time never came, one of the countless inventions that tinkerers like Blank create but can’t market. Then one day it ...