Abstract: A hand tool for peeling elongated vegetables such as, for example, asparagus, carrots, cucumbers, black salsify, etc. including two hand levers pivotable against a spring force about a pivot axis, with the hand levers carrying, on free ends thereof, two mutually opposed paring knives constructed as low-waste peelers. The paring knives are oriented such that longitudinal center axes thereof are disposed parallel to the pivot axis of the hand levers and remain constantly aligned in parallel with each other independently of the pivoting position of the hand levers. The hand levers may be integrally formed in one piece from, for example, spring steel and the pivot axis and the longitudinal axis of the paring knives may be arranged inclined with respect to a longitudinal extension of the hand tool.