Equipment: Electric potato peelers

Subject: Electric potato peelers
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: JIP (JIP at that.xx124.place.com)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:51:23 -0000
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Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

Are they any good?

Christmas is coming after all!
From: Andy (q)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:13:49 -0600
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Visit: https://www.wtsp.com/ [video link dead, robots.txt blocked from archive.org]

Click on the "video story" link on the right, under the "Try It Before You Buy It" logo.

I have the hand cranked apple peeler contraption. Works great!!!
From: George (george at nospam.invalid)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:35:26 -0500
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My thoughts are unless you are making restaurant type quantities of something it almost never makes sense to get equipment that you have to buy, store and clean. In the case of potatoes we usually use Yukon gold or the purple/red potatoes and never peel them.
From: Sheldon (PENMART01 at aol.com)
Date: 8 Nov 2006 11:26:33 -0800
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George McGoober wrote:
> My thoughts are unless you are making restaurant type quantities of
> something it almost never makes sense to get equipment that you have to
> buy, store and clean. In the case of potatoes we usually use Yukon gold
> or the purple/red potatoes and never peel them.

That's not a reason not to own a *vegetable* peeler... maybe yoose dumb micks only eat potatos...

But an electric hand peeler... the friggin batteries will cost more than the spuds they will peel, let alone they will wear out just sitting in the drawer... why don't yoose check its vibration level, you can always shove it up your dumb butts.... hey, you'll feel good and peel your polyps at the same time! <g>

Ahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

Sheldon D'Cell
From: George (george at nospam.invalid)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:25:21 -0500
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Sheldon wrote:
> That's not a reason not to own a *vegetable* peeler... maybe yoose dumb
> micks only eat potatos...
>
> But an electric hand peeler... the friggin batteries will cost more
> than the spuds they will peel, let alone they will wear out just
> sitting in the drawer... why don't yoose check its vibration level, you
> can always shove it up your dumb butts.... hey, you'll feel good and
> peel your polyps at the same time! <g>
>
> Ahahahahahahahahaha. . . .
>
> Sheldon D'Cell

Off the meds again? Seems you have a reading comprehension problem followed by your high class racial slurs.
From: Dave Smith (adavid.smith at sympatico.ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:25:40 -0500
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JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

My mother has one that someone gave her for Christmas last year. I tried it. I tried it plugged in and turned on and I tried it unplugged. It peels just as quickly with no electricity as it does when it is running. IMO, it is just an expensive and useless gimmick. You can get a good manual peeler for about $5 and do the same job in the same time without having to find an outlet to plug it into and to be tethered with the electrical cord.
From: Sheldon (PENMART01 at aol.com)
Date: 8 Nov 2006 11:29:30 -0800
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Dave Smith wrote:
> My mother has one that someone gave her for Christmas last year.
> I tried it. I tried it plugged in and turned on and I tried it
> unplugged. It peels just as quickly with no electricity as it
> does when it is running. IMO, it is just an expensive and useless
> gimmick. You can get a good manual peeler for about $5 and do the
> same job in the same time without having to find an outlet to
> plug it into and to be tethered with the electrical cord.

An AC cord, that sounds dangerous... I've seen battery operated, not AC, least not for home use.
From: Zilbandy (zil at zilbandyREMOVETHIS.com)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:51:10 -0700
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Sheldon wrote:
>An AC cord, that sounds dangerous... I've seen battery operated, not
>AC, least not for home use.

It might be a bit bulky, but how about a nuclear powered peeler? Cooks and peels at the same time. :)
From: Goomba38 (goomba38 at comcast.net)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:00:09 -0500
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Dave Smith wrote:
> My mother has one that someone gave her for Christmas last year.
> I tried it. I tried it plugged in and turned on and I tried it
> unplugged. It peels just as quickly with no electricity as it
> does when it is running. IMO, it is just an expensive and useless
> gimmick. You can get a good manual peeler for about $5 and do the
> same job in the same time without having to find an outlet to
> plug it into and to be tethered with the electrical cord.

I like my large softer handled OXO kitchen peeler.
I want to grab it, use it and toss it into the dishwasher...not find it, plug it in, wash it carefully...
From: Abe (noone at nowhere.com)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:54:16 -0800
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JIP wrote:
>Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

Total waste of money. A gimmick.
From: pamjd (guppy21014 at aol.com)
Date: 8 Nov 2006 13:49:03 -0800
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JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

I got a couple that are like this one at a rummage sale. They work great for spuds and for apples. I don't use them often but when I need them they come in handy. The cord never is near water, at least with the ones I have. Mine came with salad spinner basket and citrus juicer bowl also. They would be very nice for someone with limited hand strength or mobility.
If you have the room why not? Your friends will borrow it when they find out you have it.

[posted eBay link is dead]
From: zxcvbob (zxcvbob at charter.net)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:04:56 -0600
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JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

It just sounds silly and useless to me. (Whoever heard of an electric potato?)

Best regards,
Bob
From: notbob (notbob at nothome.com)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:27:38 -0600
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zxcvbob wrote:
> It just sounds silly and useless to me. (Whoever heard of an electric
> potato?)

Hey! ...there were "electrical banana". Who's to say it couldn't happen? ;)
From: Jill McQuown
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 04:33:11 -0600
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notbob wrote:

> Hey! ...there were "electrical banana".

Quite Rightly!

> Who's to say it couldn't
> happen? ;)

LOL I think this sounds like a silly gadget. If someone gave one to me I'd be selling it at the next yard sale.
From: Margaret Suran (margaret at no.spam.for.me.invalid)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:49:32 GMT
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notbob wrote:
>Hey! ...there were "electrical banana".

And a Clockwork Orange.
From: Andy (q)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:29:12 -0600
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Margaret Suran said...
> And a Clockwork Orange.

That was the first X-rated movie I ever saw (in it's debut). I read the book first. It had the glossary of terms in the back of the book. I loved both the book and the film equally. I have the soundtrack on vinyl LP and the DVD.

I was probably 15 years old. I remember walking out of the theater, worrying if the future would really turn out like that.
From: Margaret Suran (margaret at no.spam.for.me.invalid)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:11:22 GMT
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Andy wrote:
> That was the first X-rated movie I ever saw (in it's debut). I read the
> book first. It had the glossary of terms in the back of the book. I loved
> both the book and the film equally. I have the soundtrack on vinyl LP and
> the DVD.

I read it when my daughter read it in school and passed it on to me. She must have been just about the age that you were. I was surprised that her English teacher had chosen the book, but I was glad that she was able to discuss everything in school. I never saw the film.

The same teacher also assigned "A Separate Peace", "Catcher In The Rye", "Lord Of The Flies" and "Flowers For Algernon", the last made into the film "Charlie". I read them all and others that I no longer remember, but I was never a big fan of movies, so I don't think I saw any of them.

Talking of Oranges, I want to use up some overripe bananas and make Banana Bread. I like to grate some fresh Orange Peel into the the batter and I have to go and buy one.
From: Andy (q)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:36:35 -0600
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Margaret Suran said...
> Talking of Oranges, I want to use up some overripe bananas and make
> Banana Bread. I like to grate some fresh Orange Peel into the the
> batter and I have to go and buy one.

Banana bread and ice cream!!!
From: notbob (notbob at nothome.com)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:56:18 -0600
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Jill wrote:
> LOL I think this sounds like a silly gadget. If someone gave one to me I'd
> be selling it at the next yard sale.

Been there, done that. This back in the early 80s, an electric peeler with changeable attachments like a paring knife blade and other silliness I don't recall. Basically, the blades just vibrated and it did nothing well except waste electrons. I don't remember how we came by it or how it left us, but its stay was extremely short.
From: Nancy Young (rjynly at comcast.net)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:00:07 -0500
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Jill McQuown wrote
> LOL I think this sounds like a silly gadget. If someone gave one to me I'd
> be selling it at the next yard sale.

I'm not really sure what is meant by an electric potato peeler and I haven't looked, but it seems to me you have to rub something all over the potato skin, why not just make it a potato peeler? I love my OXO y-peeler, it makes peeling effortless. Having said that, I don't have arthritis in my hands, at least, not too much.
From: Stan Horwitz (stan at temple.edu)
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:25:46 -0500
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JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

A friend of mine has one of those things. It works great, but so does the cheapo old fashioned peeler that I have.
From: Charles Quinn (cmquinn at NEVERmindspring.com)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:40:54 GMT
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JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

I had one of those copper pot scrubber things staring at me while I was peeling some potatoes. Hmmm, the potatoes are very dirty, hmmm, that scrubber may work on the tough dirt, WOW it also peels them as you go, it gets the very outside skin off and is super simple.

Even and irishman can learn something new about potatoes!