Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?

Are they any good?

Christmas is coming after all!

JIP

JIP said...

> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>
> Are they any good?
>
> Christmas is coming after all!
>
> JIP


Visit: http://www.tinyurl.com/ycs7xw

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!!!

Andy

JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>
> Are they any good?
>
> Christmas is coming after all!
>
> JIP
>
>

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.

JIP wrote:
>
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>
> Are they any good?
>
> Christmas is coming after all!

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.

George McGoober wrote:
> JIP wrote:
> > Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
> >
> > Are they any good?
> >
> > Christmas is coming after all!
>
> 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

Dave Smith wrote:
> JIP wrote:
> >
> > Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
> >
> > Are they any good?
> >
> > Christmas is coming after all!
>
> 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.

On 8 Nov 2006 11:29:30 -0800, "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.

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JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>
> Are they any good?
>
> Christmas is coming after all!
>
> JIP

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.

http://cgi.ebay.com/POTATO-EXPRESS-E...cmdZViewI tem

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...

JIP wrote:
> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>
> Are they any good?
>
> Christmas is coming after all!
>
> JIP
>
>


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

Best regards,
Bob

On 2006-11-09, 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?

nb

notbob wrote:
> On 2006-11-09, zxcvbob > wrote:
>
>> It just sounds silly and useless to me. (Whoever heard of an electric
>> potato?)
>
> Hey! ...there were "electrical banana".

Quite Rightly!

Who's to say it couldn't
> happen?
>
> nb

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.

Jill

> notbob wrote:
>
>>On 2006-11-09, zxcvbob > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It just sounds silly and useless to me. (Whoever heard of an electric
>>>potato?)
>>
>>Hey! ...there were "electrical banana".
>


And a Clockwork Orange.

Margaret Suran said...

>
>
>> notbob wrote:
>>
>>>On 2006-11-09, zxcvbob > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It just sounds silly and useless to me. (Whoever heard of an electric
>>>>potato?)
>>>
>>>Hey! ...there were "electrical banana".
>>
>
>
> 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.

Andy

Andy wrote:

>>
>>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.
>
> Andy

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.

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!!!

Andy

On 2006-11-09, jmcquown > 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.

nb

"jmcquown" > 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.

nancy

Sheldon wrote:
> George McGoober wrote:
>> JIP wrote:
>>> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>>>
>>> Are they any good?
>>>
>>> Christmas is coming after all!
>> 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
>

Off the meds again? Seems you have a reading comprehension problem
followed by your high class racial slurs.

In article >,
"JIP" > wrote:

> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>
> Are they any good?
>
> Christmas is coming after all!

A friend of mine has one of those things. It works great, but so does
the cheapo old fashioned peeler that I have.

"JIP" > wrote in news:45521961$0$8719
:

> Greetings - anyone have experience of using these in the home?
>
> Are they any good?
>
> Christmas is coming after all!

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!


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Charles
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at the same level of thinking we were at when we
created them. Albert Einstein