Best Fruit & Vegetable Corers
The oxo good grips stainless steel pineapple slicer cores and slices awhole pineapple quickly and easily.simply slice off the top of a fresh pineapple and twist the slicer ontothe exposed fruit to create perfect pineapple rings. Knob and shaft separate with the press of a button for easy cleaning and are dish washer safe.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Pineapple... one of those fruits I never buy because when whole it is the biggest pain in the world to peel and cut and I never buy pre-cut because it is usually $7 for a container of a half pineapple when a whole pineapple costs $2.99 in the same store. Just perfect pineapple and an empty pineapple shell with almost no meat left inside."
"It literally took a push of the hand and the whole pineapple was spiraled into thin rings."
"UPDATE: I discovered that the pineapple core does not become lodged in the cylinder if one doesn't drill all the way down to the bottom of the pineapple."
"It was fairly easy to use but I had trouble getting started until my daughter held the pineapple and kept it from turning with the cutter."
"I love pineapple but I feel really bad about wasting so much of the fruit and the juice when I cut it with a knife."
"It makes clean slices around the inner edge of the pineapple and, with a bit of pressure applied (just leaning a little into it), cuts/slices through the pineapple with ease. This product makes cutting up a pineapple an extremely easy process with minimal effort (much easier than just using a blade to cut all the edges off and then cut it up by hand)."
"I purchase alot of pineapple to freeze and I was hoping this would make cutting them easier."
"Sharp and works well, but its hard to store in a drawer."
Simply insert the stainless steel claw, push gently, and twist out the stem of strawberries to leave the sweet flesh intact for filling and more. Bold colors and a fun design make this strawberry tool easy to find in a drawer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"After seeing this holler on Americas Test Kitchen I was interested in weather or not it really worked as well as it seemed on the show. I hate the waste that comes from cutting off the tops of strawberries and I've tried the push a straw through the bottom of the strawberry to push off the stem but that was just annoying."
"It easy clean up.Easy to use push the button twist and the Core is out."
"However, I did notice that on slightly softer strawberries, it's tougher to get the tips of the huller into the flesh of the berry and it will often mash the top of the fruit when I spin it around."
"I can only compare it to using a knife to hull strawberries which takes me 4x as long to go through 4 lbs."
"Now, thrust the blade into the strawberry holding down the green knob at the initial position. Pull out the stem doing a twist motion and releasing the green knob at the same time. I've removed around 500+ stems from strawberries since I got this a few months ago and it's been a great time saver."
"This was a gift for my daughter because she buys strawberries year-round (her 2.5 yr old son loves them)."
"Kitchen gadgets do not generally appeal to me and this one sat in a drawer for a couple weeks before I cared to use it, but I instantly fell in love."
The Calphalon apple corer and apple slicer divides apples in one quick, comfortable step. Apple slicer has oversized handles for comfort and control.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"But it does cut ALL the way through the apple which is nice for baking."
"I'll be honest, I'm not that good at cutting up apples with a knife so I much prefer apple slicers."
"The only flaw I've found is that it misses the last little bit of skin at the base of the table when you are zipping along doing a lot of apples - so you have to pull the slices apart from time to time."
"Sharp, slices and cores apples and pears really well and easy to clean."
"On the other hand, the bases of apples can be less than uniform and the core of the slicer doesn't always match the core of the apple."
"You should try to align it with the core of the apple as best as possible for the most precise cut."
"Field scrapped."
"bought this as a gift, they reported back to difficult to use they gave it to goodwill Ind."
Best Fruit & Vegetable Pitters
Splatter shield protects work area from juices and removes for cleaning.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 because it does tend to occasionally lock itself when you close it on a cherry, but once you figure out that's what's happening it's only a minor annoyance."
"One minor flaw, which I don't think are the fault of this brand but just the general design: sometimes the core piece disturbes the pit but does not completely dislodge it, and instead it spits out a tiny piece of cherry."
"Interestingly, I gave my 9 year old a shot at doing it and he stuck the splash guard right down against the bowl and it helped tremendously!"
"This is way better than this style: Gonicc Zinc Alloy Cherry & Olive Pitter(CP-1001), Dishwasher Safe, Remove Cherry pit quick&easy or Cherry Pitter Olive and Cherry Pitting Tool."
"Great for pitting cherries, ok for pitting kalamata olives."
"Easy to use pitter but one still needs to be cautious to make sure the pit was extracted from cherries."
"The genius thing about this is the cup no more spattered cherry juice."
"I would still wear an apron or hold the bottom of the pitter in the sink so the juice doesn't stain your clothes."