Potato Express is a delicate-looking kitchen gadget that, given a vegetable to embrace, strips it of its skin.
Rotato Express automatically peels potatoes, fruits and other vegetables in seconds. Puts an end to thick peels and waste. Simply skewer potato on bottom spike and lower the top spike. Then, push the button to start peeling – automatically stops when complete. Skin peels off in one continuous piece. Ultra safe design with no need to hold or touch while peeling
It’s cheap, too, at $30. But it’s also sold out. Boing Boing Gadgets is solicitiing suggestions for unusual things to attempt to peel with it.
ROTATO EXPRESS [Taylor Gifts via RGS]
Note that the hand-cranked version of this has been around for many decades. Admittedly that doesn’t look as “delicate”, but it can also be set up to cut as a continuous spiral, automatically coring an apple as it goes. About the same price bracket ($20-30), probably more durable, certainly more eco-friendly. Websearch “crank potato peeler” turns up many versions and vendors.
Personally, I think the main thing the electric version is intended to peel is your wallet.
Ron Popeil
A Blendtec blender
Mr. Potatohead
Wax fruit
Any HD-DVD disc
A banana
Those stupid promo stress/squeeze balls
Reminds me of this.
$15 and lasts for generations.
received white version about 6 yrs ago as gift and it works great every thanksgiving and Christmas i have to make 10 lbs of mashed potatoes and having carpels tunnel in my wrist the rotato express allows me to do this task with ease,im actually on here looking for one for my sister highly recommend getting
I’d like to see a durian peeler.
…I wanna see an iPhone run through one of these. And where’s the steampunk version, guys?
received the white version about 6 yrs ago as a gift. love it works great
How about Rev. Phelps? His skin is pretty thick and hey, there might even be a human being under there somewhere.
This peeler is far to much money for what it is. I would have to agree with techno geek. it peels your wallet mainly, unfortunately its peeling mechanism seems to be set at a certain peel thickness so by the looks of things you loose far more potato during peeling than if you used a good old hand held peeler. The process of making this machine is also a BIG green turn off. The amount of materials processing and treatment needed to make it safe for use in food prep would be larger than a hand held, more expensive and the involvement of more processes = an increase in the toxic wastes produced on the side.
um and hey using your arm to peel a potato is not that much hard work, really…
Looks like a cheap way to make ultra-thin curly fries, if you start it back at the top again a few times. Mmm!
Starfruit or dragon fruit would be fun to watch it try.
LOL . banana was my first thought too ..
But I am wondering at more simple things like a not so evenly shaped potato .. would that still come out in a string ??
Dammit, Jenonymous beat me to hard-boiled eggs.
Try a banana.
Make your own skinless franks!
Most of the hand crank versions suck, because the torque necessary to crank it destabilizes the machine, and the pressure of the peeling blade and its travel down the fruit or veggie is almost never a smooth ride, It simply does not peel fast and easy, at least in the hand cranked versions.
Perhaps an electric version would not be jerked around so, and might do a decent job
Hamsters.
$30 is cheap for a potato peeler? I suppose if you ate an awful lot of potatos, this might not be such a bad deal, but between the price and the cabinet space required, it doesn’t seem like a deal to me.
Okay, #1 beat me to it.
I was also thinking “really close haircut,” “ultrafine grooves on a bowling ball or cue ball to add serious English to a throw/hit,” and “spiral-etched Easter Eggs.”
Note the use of perfect fruit/veg in the pic. Compare to your real examples. Now compare to anything from a bio/eco shop. It won’t work as advertised.
Also, what’s wrong with this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Peeler_01_Pengo.jpg
Is it the time you “save?” Totally offset by having only half peeled fruit and you having to manually redo some patches. And having to get this sucker out from under the sink, plugging it in. And having to answer to your esthetically non-challenged friends for having another plastic monstrosity in your kitchen.
Omnifrog@10: it’s not just the power it draws while being on, it’s also the power/oil it takes for manufacturing another plastic gizmo, delivering it to your door, etc. There’s nothing wrong with a regular peeler. This is not modern life.
@technogeek
It’s unlikely that the electricity used by vegetable peelers, or even kitchen gadgets as a category, contribute significantly to our use of energy. While I admire your thoughtfulness about the environment, it’s better that we focus on the low hanging fruit first (and peel it electrically!)
Edison cylinders!
Strange that they’re only asking $30 and that it doesn’t seem to exist– not in stock, and the image screams “composite” with the unit’s even highlights and lack of color in the reflections.
Who peels tomatoes? Communists?
Here is my vote http://i33.tinypic.com/2prtlxj.jpg
Mangoes. Lychee.
@#20: The peeling arm is spring loaded(well, if it’s anything like the mechanical versions of these things), so it should work on “irregular” fruit ‘n veg too.
But the peels are typically where the good vitamins are (depending on the food).
-a vegetarian
If this doesn’t make ‘em talk, they ain’t gonna talk.
Jam an iPhone in there and just go wild.
Register willitpeel.com and start sending passive-aggressive emails to that blender guy.
Damn, now I’m hungry for an eight-foot-long, quarter-inch-wide strip of potato skin.
A watermelon. It might take a while.
Robo-bris.
I prefer the white version for $18
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A baby. After this old Joke:
What’s red and screams in the corner?
A peeled baby in a bag of salt. Click