How do you peal ginger?

Answer 1

The only way I have peeled chestnuts, is I make a cross on one side of each nut with a knife. Then roast them till the skin opens up at the slits. then you can peel the rest of the skin off fairly easy.

Answer 2

You can use a sharp paring knife or an ordinary potato peeler.

However, you will notice that if you grate the ginger that the coarse skin will not grate and will remain on the outside of the grater and only the flesh will pass through. So there's not really a need to peel it at all.

Furthermore, if you only use root ginger occassionally you can keep it unpeeled in the freezer. You can then grate it frozen directly into the dish you are preparing and (as above) the skin will not pass through the grater. Then put the remainder back into the freezer again.