What is the zest of an orange?

Question

What is the zest of an orange?

Answer 1

It's just the skin of the orange grated on a grater (if that makes any sense...)

Answer 2

If you grate an orange peel with a grater, the orange part is the zest.  Don't grate so deep that you hit the white.  Just the outer skin.

Answer 3

The zest of an orange is the orange part of the peel. You at not cost ever want the white pith part. It is bitter and will make whatever you are making taste terrible. You can use a vegetable peeler to remove the zest or a zester(duh...). A zester is pretty much a microplane used in wood crafting, however someone thought it best  used for food prep.

Answer 4

It is the product which comes of the skin when you finely grate or peel the orange.

You don't want the pith (the white) as that is bitter.

Answer 5

the outer coloured part of the skin

To remove the zest from a fruit for culinary use, a zester, vegetable peeler, paring knife, or even a wood rasp is used to scrape the coloured part of the peel off

Answer 6

The zest of a citrus fruit; orange, lemon or lime is often used in foods to add a touch of citrus flavor, by grating off just the outer layer of the fruit.