What To Do With Orange Peels will give you some ideas on orange rinds and how not to let them go to unnecessary waste. Citrus peels not only smell amazing, but you can use them for cleaning, beauty products, in gardening, and as an ingredient for recipes.
If you’re looking for more articles on not creating waste, How to Use Leftover Ingredients and How to Dry Orange Slices will help you on your journey.
I use at least one to two oranges a day to make an orangeade or to add to my morning juice or smoothie. Throwing away the orange rind seemed like such a waste. I knew there had to be multiple ideas on what to do with orange peels.
Who knew there were so many unexpected ways to use the skin of this popular fruit?
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Orange peels have the perfect concentration of limonene oil that is great for cutting through grease and conditions wood surfaces. Simply peel one orange for every 1/2 cup of water and let simmer for 15 minutes. Let cool and pour into a spray bottle for a natural way to clean surfaces.
Leftover Orange Peels for Freshening the Garbage Disposal
Cut your orange peels into thin strips and add to your garbage disposal to eliminate bad odors. Turn it on and let the oils from the peels deodorize the garbage disposal. You can also use other citrus fruits like limes and lemons in addition to the orange rinds.
If you’re not ready to clean your garbage disposal, place the citrus peels in an ice cube tray and add water. Freeze the cubes and place them in a freezer bag. Use In the citrus peel cubes at a later date.
Remove Coffee Stains in Mugs
Coffee stains will disappear if you rub the pithy side of an orange peel on the inside of your mug.
A friend of mine loves to make candles out of orange rinds. She starts with a half an orange shell base and pours the wax in the rind with a wick. They look beautiful on her dinner table and she will often gift me with an orange peel candle.
Stove Potpourri
Make stove potpourri with a handful of orange peels, lemon peels, and a cinnamon stick to give you home a fresh scent with a citrus.
Using Orange Peels for Beauty
Invigorate Bath Time
Store your orange peels in a mason jar in the refrigerator. When it’s time for a bath, throw a handful of peels into your tub. The heat of the water will release the citrus scent, making bath time even more special.
As an extra bonus the citric acid in the peels will help slough off dead skin.
Orange Peel Powder
You can dry orange peels and grind them up in a food processor to grind into a fine powder. Store in a glass jar until you use the powder in recipes. It’s a popular ingredient in making beauty products at home for your hair, skin, or teeth. You can find different ways of using orange peel in beauty recipes here.
What to do with Orange Peels in the Kitchen
Make Candied Orange Peel
This is my favorite idea on What to do with orange peels. You can easily make your own Candied Orange Peel recipe at home. Make sure you take off the white pith, it makes the it bitter tasting. Here’s a recipe for how to make it on Epicurious.
Use Orange Peels for Zest in Recipes
There are a lot of recipes that call for orange zest. If you’re not going to use it right away, freeze the zest in a freezer bag for future use. Orange peels are loaded with Vitamin C and add an abundance of flavor.
Fresh Bouquet Garni
What is a bouquet garni you ask? It’s a French term for a bundle of herbs like parsley, thyme, and bay leaves. It’s usually tied together with fresh celery or leek. Adding a twist of orange peel will give even more flavor to your dish.
The French use these bundles to give flavor to soups, stews, roasts, and sauces.
Orange Peels for Tea Blends
If you enjoy herbal teas, you can make your own blends using dried orange peels. Mix it with herbs, florals, and even black teas for a wonderful combination.
Dried citrus peel has anti-inflammatory properties, which makes it a good thing for you body and taste buds.
Lump-Free Brown Sugar
Prevent your brown sugar from getting hard by keeping a 3-inch piece of orange peel in the container.
Orange Rind Bowls
If you want to add a little beauty to your table, use orange rinds as a bowl for ice cream, sherbet, or fruit ice is a simple way to impress your guests. It’s a great way to give visual interest to your dining table.
Orange Peel co*cktail Garnish
Your co*cktails will be elevated to a new level with fresh orange peel garnishes.
Adding orange zest as a garnish to food makes an inviting presentation. Chocolate desserts look especially festive, topped with orange zest. The holidays are a perfect time to use the orange rind creatively.
Infused Water
Add orange peels mixed with other ingredients to create infused water is one of the easiest ideas for what to do with orange peels.
Orange Peel Olive Oil
If you like infused olive oils, you’ll love making your own orange olive oil. They are great to use in salad dressings. It’s easy to make with just two ingredients – oil and orange peel. You can find the recipe here on Epicurious.
Citrus Butter
One of my favorite ways to turn my meals from good to great is to make compound butters. Using fresh orange peel to make a citrus butter is a fun way to elevate pancakes, waffles, toast, English muffins, and even fish.
Homemade Orange Marmalade
Orange Marmalade uses fresh orange peel in thin strips as an ingredient. It’s the perfect idea when you are searching for what to do with orange peels.
What to do with Orange Peels in the Garden
Orange Peel Starter Pots
Use the hallowed-out orange peel halves as starter pots for seedlings. Fill half orange rinds with potting soil, seeds, and then water.
Plant the “pots” directly into the garden once the seedlings are mature enough.
Orange Peel Bird Feeder
Turning your orange rinds into homemade bird feeders is a fun activity for both kids and adults. They look so beautiful and vibrant against a winter backdrop.
Using Orange Peels for a Compost Pile
Adding your orange rinds to your compost pile to help make healthy soil is a perfect solution for what to do with orange peels. It’s good for the environment and will help you create the garden of your dreams.
Repel Insects and Cats
Use small pieces of orange peel as a natural insect repellant in your garden is a great use for your leftover peels. Cats don’t like the scent of oranges as well. If you have a problem with stray cats digging in your garden beds, simply scatter orange peel in the areas they frequent.
Decorate Snow Art
Saving your orange peels for snow art is a fun project to celebrate the holiday season. Look how cute these orange peel lips are!
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Orange zest is often used to enhance other flavors in desserts, gravies, and even some meat dishes. Dried orange peels can also be sprinkled as a garnish.
By boiling the Orange Peels, you are releasing their benefits into you home's air. It helps protect against cold, allergies, & flu by reducing bacteria, fungus, & mold spores. It also increases alertness, relieves fatigue, & helps improve mood. Plus, it's a great way to use something that you would throw away.
Orange peels are a superb skincare ingredient for acne-prone skin. They house key minerals like calcium, potassium and magnesium that promote youthful glow and smooth appearance. The peels can also renew dead cells and moisturize the skin.
In fact, it's peel contains high quantities of vitamin C and has antibacterial and antimicrobial properties that help to enhance skin health. Orange peel offers a wide range of skin benefits, such as treating acne and oily skin.
Boil the water and drop the orange peels into the boiling water.Let the water with the orange peels boil for a few minutes, say for 10 minutes. You can see the peels softening. Now, stop boiling and keep the pan closed for 10 minutes for the essences to settle in water.
What else can you do with Dried orange peel? Add dried orange peels to your soups for a nuance of citrus flavor. When making jams, jellies, and preserves, the peels can be simmered with the fruit to enhance the flavor. Mix dried and ground orange peels into cake batter, your morning smoothy, or protein shake.
How To Dry Orange Slices + Orange Peel. 🍊 For dried orange peel shapes, score the top of a large orange with an x. Use a sharp paring knife to slice down into the peel, and carefully remove the peel in 4 sections. Use cookie cutters to cut shapes out of the peel, and bake at 200F on a cooling rack for 2 hours.
Either, add fresh juice or add the powdered peel to your regular hair oil, and massage it well. Since oranges are rich in antioxidants, and other nutrients, they play a major role in facilitating hair growth. The antioxidants fight off free radicals, preventing hair damage and boosting hair growth.
These nutrients aid in the health of the lungs, heart, eyes, and intestines. It may also benefit skin health due to its high antioxidant and anti-inflammatory content”.
It prevents oxidative stress on your skin cells and keeps signs of ageing at bay. The antioxidants in orange peels help combat toxic free radicals, thus preventing oxidative stress on skill cells. Also, these vital nutrients help fight early signs of ageing like wrinkles, fine lines, dark spots, sagging skin, etc.
Due to their tough texture and high fiber content, orange peels can be difficult to digest. Eating them, especially larger pieces at a time, could cause stomach discomfort, such as cramps or bloating.
Orange peel will draw out all the impurities and toxins from your skin. It will bleach out all the dark pigmentation on face and will give you a flawless glowing skin. Orange peel is considered as the best dark spot remover.
Orange peels are flavorful, aromatic, and loaded with nutrients. Fruit peels and rinds are excellent additions to tea. Steeping your orange peels with other ingredients in warm water will make a tasty tea that provides benefits to your health and wellness.
According to health experts, the peel of an orange is the healthiest part of the entire fruit. It is said that orange peels are rich in flavonoids and many other essential phytochemicals, which offer numerous health benefits. The peel also contains calcium, magnesium, folate, vitamin A and B.
Take one tablespoon of orange peel powder and two tablespoons of yoghurt (also known as Dahi) and combine them. Thoroughly mix them until a paste is formed. Apply this pack on your face for about 15 to 20 minutes and rinse it off. Apply this pack once or twice a week.
Vitamin C-rich oranges can help reduce dark spots and fade them away quickly. Oranges are beneficial for the skin as they make spots disappear and reveal a more even-toned glow.
Prepare a homemade beverage using boiled orange peels. Not only does the Orange Peel Tea taste amazing, but it's also naturally good for you because of the ingredients used to make it, such as honey, fresh-squeezed orange juice, saffron, and more.
Step 1: Grind the orange peel to convert it into powder. Step 2: Combine orange peel powder and neem oil in a bowl. Step 3: Add water to the orange peel and neem oil mixture to make a paste-like texture. Your body scrub is ready!
Add one teaspoon of chopped or ground orange peels to some water over a flame and let it brew for some time. Once the water comes to a boil, turn the flame off, cover the utensil and let the peels steep for about 10 minutes. Filter or strain the water into a cup and your orange peel tea is ready!
Drinking this tea regularly every morning can help to stimulate the digestive system and improve the absorption of nutrients from the food. Additionally, the high nutrient vitamin C content in it can boost your metabolism and immunity.
Throw your orange peels in a microwave-safe bowl with some water and zap it for 60 seconds. The steam will loosen dried-on food for a quick clean up and the peels will freshen any bad odors in your microwave.
The peel can be thinly sliced for delicate shreds.Divide your zest into ½ or single teaspoon portions on a plate and place in the freezer. Once frozen, store in a zipper-seal freezer bag, and return to the freezer for later use, up to three months!
Orange peels and vinegar make a great all-purpose, natural cleaner, but did you know it has lots of other great household uses? Orange vinegar also works as a natural ant killer, as a conditioner for hair and even in salad dressing.
Orange peels make a home smell cozy and clean. You can boil orange peels with mulling spices like cinnamon and cloves to send a fresh autumnal aroma through the air. Boiling orange peels with lemon and grapefruit peels create a fresh, vibrant, and energizing aroma that makes your house smell clean and pristine.
As oranges are peeled, they spray a tangy, citrus scented oil into the air. The main compound in the fragrant mist is limonene, which can be collected from discarded peels and used in flavorings, perfumes and all-purpose cleaners.
Wash and dry some citruses of your choice. (I used 1 pomelo and 2 oranges.) Use a peeler to peel off the colored outer skin. Evenly spread the zest pieces over a plate, microwave on 100% powder for 5 minutes until they turn crispy.
Orange Peel powder is an excellent conditioner for your hair. Not only does it control your dandruff, but it also improves the blood circulation level, leading to more lustrous hair and less hair fall.
Vitamin C content in oranges can boost hair growth and reduce hair loss. Oranges are also a rich source of magnesium, fibre, beta-carotene, flavonoids and antioxidants.
The antioxidants contained in this citrus fruit help cleanse the arteries and lower cholesterol levels, so an orange peel tea with cinnamon is ideal for improving cardiovascular health and combating diseases such as hypertension.
Baking soda: Just as baking soda works to absorb odors in your refrigerator, a bowl placed in a room will also absorb odors. Lemon water: Water absorbs odors and adding slices of fresh lemon will provide a clean citrus scent.
Orange peels make a home smell cozy and clean. You can boil orange peels with mulling spices like cinnamon and cloves to send a fresh autumnal aroma through the air. Boiling orange peels with lemon and grapefruit peels create a fresh, vibrant, and energizing aroma that makes your house smell clean and pristine.
Orange peels contain hesperidin, a flavonoid that helps maintain blood pressure and cholesterol. The polymethoxylated flavones (PMFs) found in orange peels also help lower cholesterol more effectively than drugs.
Additionally, orange peels possess bactericidal, antiseptic, and fungicidal properties which help in removing urinary tract infections or kidney infections.
To prevent spoilage and mold growth during storage, it is best to wash your oranges just before you eat, prepare or juice them or use the rind for cooking.
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