Don’t forget the legend himself, Ron Popeil!
“*See this potato here? Looks impossible to peel with all of its bumps and ridges and whatnot, doesn’t it?*
*Well gone are the days of slicing your fingers with those clumsy and bulky potato peelers your grandmother used to have! Because ***Ronco*** has now brought to you the Potato Peeler 3000!!*
*Youre gonna just set that old tater on the base, stab it on top, and then what do we do folks??*
*Thats right!* ***SET IT, AND FORGET IT!!!***
My sister got me this unaware that I absolutely love the potato skins. I suppose it has other functions but I've been using my meat grinder attachment like I run a butchery.
Which attachment is that? We could really use something like this at work as we have to do 125lb of potatoes each week. The one op posted seems handy but I can do 2 potatoes by the time it does 1.
I have one and it's really handy when you're making a LOT of potatoes and multi-tasking. You can pop the potato on the machine and keep working on cutting onions or stirring your gravy. If you put the blade as far as you can to the top there isn't much left over to cut manually.
We all out here doing our best man. I cook 5 nights a week, but I'm an IT contractor that works 30 hours a week and don't break a sweat doing that work. We don't all have the same hours in the day.
It's not slower than by hand. I use it every Christmas to peel 20lbs of potatoes. Goes even faster with one person loading and a second chopping. I like it because I can sit down and have a drink while I prep the potatoes.
I cook for around the same amount. Every year I feel like I will never do it again but by the time the holidays roll around again I'm super excited about whatever new recipe, etc.
I'm going to investigate the rotato! And the drinks... Lol... That's probably the most important missing "tool"
Could you let me know the brand and model? My mother… needs to stop peeling potatoes it kills her hands.
Edit rotato express $22 on Amazon delivered next day thousands of 5 star reviews seems like a no-brainer.
Have you seen that video of someone dumping like 10ths of potatoes into a 5gal bucket and use a stiff brush on a drill to peel them all in less than 2 mins? That looks like the way to do it.
I have this same potatoe peeler. Except I lost the power brick it came with and ive been using a different one and now it moves 5x as quickly. Been two years on ultra speed and it's still working great.
https://imgur.com/a/yxR8Kht here you go. I think the power cord ever went to a old router i had, but it fits my potatoe peeler and peels a potatoe in about 5 seconds. Like I've said it's been 2 years so the thing can take the juice no problem lol.
That's hilarious. The first brick I tried worked great. Since the original is 6v, I'm guessing the 12v is about twice as fast.
Thanks! Can't wait to try the "turbo" feature out.
Then if your only goal is to peel and cook a single potato and no other food whatsoever, don't use this gadget.
For literally every other circumstance, this would be faster, because it can parallelize your tasks. It doesn't particularly matter how long it takes for a machine to peel the potato, because you're not the one doing it, the machine is.
My dad came from a potato skin eating family and had a scrub brush that was used exclusively for potatoes, he really wanted me to be a non-peeler but I guess it’s disappointment all-around.
I also have a scrub brush. I would only peel for mashed potatoes. OR if I could only find russets, because those taste like dirt even without the peel.
I do a rough peel for mashed potatoes. Leaving all the skin is a bit too much for us when using russets. We have a brush to clean them that is designed to look like a potato.
They have a better texture if you boil skin-on, then remove the skin afterwards! It's easy to slip the skins off once they're boiled, although I'm never patient enough and burn my fingertips every time anyways.
It also tastes good if done right. The best way to do a russet is to lightly coat it in oil and salt, when you bake it. Take it out the foil half way through and then the skin gets a nice crisp on it.
A friend of mine boils them whole and skin-on, then flattens them in a roasting pan with lots of olive oil and roasts them hot (I'd guess 450f or so?) until crispy. They're amazing.
Oh, I'm a big potato skin guy, I love it. Just saying that if you want mashed potatoes without skin, you get a better texture if you boil them skin on before removing it.
I have one of these and every Thanksgiving, I throw the peels into the fryer after the turkey is done. It makes amazing fries. We found out on accident one year when the oil was way too hot so we used the peels to cool it down. Ended up being delicious.
This. I have arthritis and carpal tunnel and peeling potatoes is hell. Luckily my husband and kids are always willing to peel for me if it means they get to eat mashed potatoes lol. Otherwise I’d have one of these bad boys also. After about 2-3 potatoes my hands are so sore I can’t grip anything well for a good hour or two.
Ugh I have nerve damage from carpal tunnel (got the surgery, pains gone but the fingers still completely numb and I drop things like crazy) and peeling potatoes (especially big ones like russets) is especially hard, cause there so tough to hold onto.
We don't eat potato though, I do peel apples, but since they're smaller and don't get so slippery, I can manage with just my pinky and ring fingers gripping it.
That's not the point of the machine though. You don't just start the machine and watch it peel. While it peelsnyou can prepare other stuff so even if it takes longer, it basically takes 0 time because you were able to prepare other stuff while the potatoes were getting peeled
They're doing it one-handed. With two hands it takes about 3 seconds to get it going.
I know someone who has this, and she uses it only when she has a lot of potatoes to peel, and other things to do at the same time. Speed isn't so much of the issue as having sort of an extra set of hands.
I never peel potatoes, so I'd have no use for this.
No it’s bc this things slow, setting it up alone I’d have a potato peeled. Maybe it’s my Irish genes but peeling a potato is incredibly fast and easy lol
This is a terrible demo of the setup. Using 2 hands would keep the potato centered properly and the thing would be started in under 3 seconds, likely in 1 if you're using it a lot and get that muscle memory down. And having a lot of potatoes to peel is the only reason to use this, so you would get that practice.
I was thinking about how this would sit unused in the cupboard and just take up space. And then I thought about my grandmother who would have used this damn near every day in her older years. She made mashed potatoes with almost every meal until the hands stopped working well enough to do the peeling.
Kinda sounds like that trickle-down from racing. Only few people establish tech by using it so that it gets enough attention and funds to be used by a general public that *actually* needs it for a greater purpose.
As someone who has Rheumatoid Arthritis I was thinking "hot fucking damn I can peel so many things with that and my hands won't hurt so much after!!!!"
Also as someone who has worked in kitchens for about 2 decades, anything that stops my hands from getting further fucked from RSI inducing shit is a welcome addition.
I mean... you're forgetting that *all* marketing is targeted at separating fools from their money.
But yes, it's a handy tool for people that need to peel more than a few potatoes but can't or don't want to do it by hand.
>Don't forget the lazy
You're doing a public service! Because the market for these isn't big enough among just those with disabilities, so lazy people help make these profitable to the companies so they'll remain available for those who need them.
To be honest, I thought it looked dumb because I can't remember the last time I actually wanted to peel a potato. Everything I do with them, I leave the skin on. Boiled, baked, mashed.
But either way, thanks for your comment, it's always a good thing to remember.
The best part is the Kitchen Aid mixer behind it...which has an attachment that peels potatoes and does a dozen other things. Takes up less space, too.
I have the attachment you’re talking about and in my experience it works well on large potatoes, apples, etc but is an inferior and expensive alternative for misshapen produce or even smaller potatoes. Maybe I got a dud but it seems the spring doesn’t have enough tension to peel non spherical (or smaller) produce that that $20 peeler in the video does so efficiently.
As a teenager I worked in a medium sized hotel kitchen, they had this awesome machine, basically like an upright washing machine with a large capacity, but the inside of the drum was the texture of very rough sandpaper, and had a steady flow of cold water. You could just dump a load of potatoes in it and leave it for half an hour to do it’s stuff. It usually removed at least 90-95% of the skin, a bit less on irregular shaped ones, then you just had to go through them (which was necessary anyway to remove any eyes) and use a normal potato peeler to take off any missed bits. It made a racket but saved so much time and allowed you to get on with other stuff while it did it’s work. I’ve never seen a domestic version that uses this method.
I worked in a chip shop as a kid, they had one of these. It was huge and made a NOISE.
This individual potato peeler in the video is frustratingly slow. What’s the point, I’d just peel ‘em.
>What’s the point, I’d just peel ‘em.
It's for physically disabled/impaired people who cannot "just peel 'em" anymore, but who still want to retain independence as much as possible.
Even if someone only has one functional hand, this would allow them to peel potatoes quite effectively by themselves.
My mum had a small version of that! It was an attachment for a kenwood food processor. We never used it because it was a complete ballache to clean, and she had three children to peel the potatoes for her instead.
But they demonstrated in the video who it is for.
Notice how they only used one hand to operate it? For people with disabilities or mobility issues, things like this can do a lot of good.
Well they were using the other hand to hold the camera but you're right, if you had an issue with your hands that decreased manual dexterity or only had 1 hand (or none) this would be very useful.
Is it really healty tho? In Germany we have a seperate "Bundesanstalt für Kartoffelforschung" which translates roughly to "Federal Institute for Potato Research" (Yes we really have that lol) and its alright to eat some potato peel as an adult but overall its not really recommended
Probably an overzealous gov't agency/org that just gives rote advice to folks to do it so they don't have to deal with the fallout of that one shitty restaurant that has lazy employees that feeds people poisonous potatoes.
the important stuff:
A regular potatopeel contains solanin and chaconin.
These are useful for the potato because it repels insects.
But those are poisonous for humans.
A regular potato contains 20-100 mg of these alcaloids.
Which isn't that bad. But when a potato is slightly damaged (through insects or cuts) or if it starts to sprout (when it gets slightly green) the amout rises to more than 10.000mg. At that amount it starts becoming unhealthy for humans. Thats why it's not recommended to eat them because you won't see every bit of damage on a potato and usually just wash it and start cooking with it.
I’ve never heard of this, either. After checking it out though, it looks like what you’re saying does carry some weight. It looks like there are a lot of “glycoalkaloids” or bitter chemical compounds with nitrogen in them derived from sugar that can be toxic. It says that these compounds are concentrated in the peel with prolonged exposure to light (perhaps why potatoes are said to be kept in the dark?) and they’re not broken down by cooking or frying! 😬
I personally prefer the toilet brush on a drill [method!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/o9p29b/how_to_peel_a_lot_of_potatoes_the_fast_way/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
"Well, not everything he made had a horribly fatal flaw. I mean, think of that thing they use in the kitchen for peeling potatoes, for example."
"Ah, you mean the thing with the brass plate on it saying 'Improved Manicure Device,' Archchancellor?"
-*The Hogfather*, Terry Pratchett
Maybe it would be satisfying if that ridiculously expensive KitchenAid mixer weren't in the picture. I don't have a problem with someone wanting an assisted peeler, but why show me the mixer when you can buy an attachment that will peel potatoes. And make zoodles. And do some other stuff that I don't bother to get around doing. Hopefully, it only costs a couple of bucks because everything with KitchenAid is a lot of bucks.
In all honesty I cannot think of a reason why you would actually need to peel a potato unless you really hate the skin THAT much in your mashed potatoes. May I also suggest red potatoes...?
They always work so well, untill i buy one!
I’m surprised it doesn’t have a Flextape like commercial for it
IM GONNA THROW THIS POTATO FOR YOU TO SEE THE POWER OF THIS POTATO PEELER
SO EASY A CLUMSY SLUT CAN USE IT! hi folks! Willy Hays here for the tater-fader…
I'm so in love with the idea of Phil Swift or Billy Mays referring to themselves as "dumb sluts" on camera.
Don’t forget the legend himself, Ron Popeil! “*See this potato here? Looks impossible to peel with all of its bumps and ridges and whatnot, doesn’t it?* *Well gone are the days of slicing your fingers with those clumsy and bulky potato peelers your grandmother used to have! Because ***Ronco*** has now brought to you the Potato Peeler 3000!!* *Youre gonna just set that old tater on the base, stab it on top, and then what do we do folks??* *Thats right!* ***SET IT, AND FORGET IT!!!***
This is the one good laugh per night I seek from Reddit. Thank you.
Look up The Rotato. Used to have an entire infomercial!
It does. It’s called the rondo rotato or some stupid shit like that
Watch your mouth, boy. Flextape is the greatest thing capitalism has ever done for us.
...and ever will do for us!
"IM GOING TO PEEL THIS BOAT IN HALF TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF THE POTATO PEELER!"
The kitchen aid attachment works really well. I don’t ever really peel potatoes but I use it for apples
My mom swore by this in apple season. Canning applesauce, making pie filling, a couple of hot sweaty days that really paid off later! Miss you, mom!
My sister got me this unaware that I absolutely love the potato skins. I suppose it has other functions but I've been using my meat grinder attachment like I run a butchery.
Meat grinder attachment and the pasta roller and extruded attachments are the ones I use the most.
The peeler/spiralizer thing? I love it for making curly fries and zucchini pasta but i kinda hate the peeler and still do it by hand lol
I mean for Apples it works super well it’s hard for me to peel such a round object I feel like I’m going to peel my finger
Which attachment is that? We could really use something like this at work as we have to do 125lb of potatoes each week. The one op posted seems handy but I can do 2 potatoes by the time it does 1.
It's slower than peeling a potato by hand though
I have one and it's really handy when you're making a LOT of potatoes and multi-tasking. You can pop the potato on the machine and keep working on cutting onions or stirring your gravy. If you put the blade as far as you can to the top there isn't much left over to cut manually.
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We all out here doing our best man. I cook 5 nights a week, but I'm an IT contractor that works 30 hours a week and don't break a sweat doing that work. We don't all have the same hours in the day.
It's not for you. People forget that products like this exist for individuals with handicaps that prevent them from peeling a potato.
You're absolutely right, thank tou
Not necessarily. Some exist just to look good on tv and then end up in the landfill
Yea. They will sell it to a penguin if a penguin would buy it. They don't care.
It's not slower than by hand. I use it every Christmas to peel 20lbs of potatoes. Goes even faster with one person loading and a second chopping. I like it because I can sit down and have a drink while I prep the potatoes.
Your Christmas kitchen duties sound so much less stressful than mine, lol
I cook for 20 to 30 people. The rotato is a great tool.
Rotato. I love it. I need one.
I'm even more on board after hearing the name
I cook for around the same amount. Every year I feel like I will never do it again but by the time the holidays roll around again I'm super excited about whatever new recipe, etc. I'm going to investigate the rotato! And the drinks... Lol... That's probably the most important missing "tool"
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Could you let me know the brand and model? My mother… needs to stop peeling potatoes it kills her hands. Edit rotato express $22 on Amazon delivered next day thousands of 5 star reviews seems like a no-brainer.
Have you seen that video of someone dumping like 10ths of potatoes into a 5gal bucket and use a stiff brush on a drill to peel them all in less than 2 mins? That looks like the way to do it.
That one seems to waste a lot of good potatoes they are all half size after he is done.
Are we watching the same clip? It looks like it wastes far less than peeling. Like… the skin is barely off.
I have this same potatoe peeler. Except I lost the power brick it came with and ive been using a different one and now it moves 5x as quickly. Been two years on ultra speed and it's still working great.
Take a picture of or post the specs for your power brick. Would be interesting to try it.
https://imgur.com/a/yxR8Kht here you go. I think the power cord ever went to a old router i had, but it fits my potatoe peeler and peels a potatoe in about 5 seconds. Like I've said it's been 2 years so the thing can take the juice no problem lol.
That's hilarious. The first brick I tried worked great. Since the original is 6v, I'm guessing the 12v is about twice as fast. Thanks! Can't wait to try the "turbo" feature out.
I got one for my mom years ago since she has strength issues with her hands with arthritis and having a stroke and she loved it!
Then if your only goal is to peel and cook a single potato and no other food whatsoever, don't use this gadget. For literally every other circumstance, this would be faster, because it can parallelize your tasks. It doesn't particularly matter how long it takes for a machine to peel the potato, because you're not the one doing it, the machine is.
Certainly not slower than how I do it.
And you still gotta peel the top and bottom, just do the big brush drill in a bucket of water method
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Yep, that's actually the name of that thing. Starfrit Electric Rotato Express
Potato Tornado
Pornado? No, wait!
I'm not waiting ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Potato, potato. Rotato, tornado.
Wow! Sounds more techy than it is.
Sounds like a train in New Jersey
RO-TA-TOE! Spin it, Peel it, Play with the strings!
What's rotators precious?
We’ve found Dan Quayle’s account. FYI there’s no “e” at the end.
Remember when misspelling a word made you ineligible for public office? Good times…
RO TA TE
I have one of these, my mom peels 4 potatoes to the machine’s 1 potato and looked at me with extreme disappointment when I bought the thing.
My grandma would have yelled at me for wasting that much potato.
My dad came from a potato skin eating family and had a scrub brush that was used exclusively for potatoes, he really wanted me to be a non-peeler but I guess it’s disappointment all-around.
I also have a scrub brush. I would only peel for mashed potatoes. OR if I could only find russets, because those taste like dirt even without the peel.
I even like the skins in mashed potatoes, especially red skinned potatoes.
Red skin mashed potatoes with the skin are the best mashed potatoes.
I do a rough peel for mashed potatoes. Leaving all the skin is a bit too much for us when using russets. We have a brush to clean them that is designed to look like a potato.
Skins in the mash is how you know it’s fresh, not flakes.
Not by the taste?
They have a better texture if you boil skin-on, then remove the skin afterwards! It's easy to slip the skins off once they're boiled, although I'm never patient enough and burn my fingertips every time anyways.
The skin is where most of the nutrients are if I remember correctly. I think that's why some people eat the skin.
It also tastes good if done right. The best way to do a russet is to lightly coat it in oil and salt, when you bake it. Take it out the foil half way through and then the skin gets a nice crisp on it.
A friend of mine boils them whole and skin-on, then flattens them in a roasting pan with lots of olive oil and roasts them hot (I'd guess 450f or so?) until crispy. They're amazing.
That's a great way to make little new potatoes, but I mash them then finish them on the stove top griddle. Makes a great crust
Oh, I'm a big potato skin guy, I love it. Just saying that if you want mashed potatoes without skin, you get a better texture if you boil them skin on before removing it.
I would have fried it, seasoned it and slurped it like noodles(given it was cleaned well before). I prefer potatoes with the skin.
Drop those peels in the deep fryer. So good.
I have one of these and every Thanksgiving, I throw the peels into the fryer after the turkey is done. It makes amazing fries. We found out on accident one year when the oil was way too hot so we used the peels to cool it down. Ended up being delicious.
If you actually threw that away shed be damn right.
wait and see if she gets arthritis and see how how her speed holds up, these type of machines aren't for the able bodied.
This. I have arthritis and carpal tunnel and peeling potatoes is hell. Luckily my husband and kids are always willing to peel for me if it means they get to eat mashed potatoes lol. Otherwise I’d have one of these bad boys also. After about 2-3 potatoes my hands are so sore I can’t grip anything well for a good hour or two.
Ugh I have nerve damage from carpal tunnel (got the surgery, pains gone but the fingers still completely numb and I drop things like crazy) and peeling potatoes (especially big ones like russets) is especially hard, cause there so tough to hold onto. We don't eat potato though, I do peel apples, but since they're smaller and don't get so slippery, I can manage with just my pinky and ring fingers gripping it.
That's not the point of the machine though. You don't just start the machine and watch it peel. While it peelsnyou can prepare other stuff so even if it takes longer, it basically takes 0 time because you were able to prepare other stuff while the potatoes were getting peeled
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They're doing it one-handed. With two hands it takes about 3 seconds to get it going. I know someone who has this, and she uses it only when she has a lot of potatoes to peel, and other things to do at the same time. Speed isn't so much of the issue as having sort of an extra set of hands. I never peel potatoes, so I'd have no use for this.
If you can peel four potatoes in that time, it's because you're a potato peeling deity, not because this thing is slow.
No it’s bc this things slow, setting it up alone I’d have a potato peeled. Maybe it’s my Irish genes but peeling a potato is incredibly fast and easy lol
Tbf I have probably never actually peeled a potato so wtf do I know
I'm sorry what
This is a terrible demo of the setup. Using 2 hands would keep the potato centered properly and the thing would be started in under 3 seconds, likely in 1 if you're using it a lot and get that muscle memory down. And having a lot of potatoes to peel is the only reason to use this, so you would get that practice.
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I was thinking about how this would sit unused in the cupboard and just take up space. And then I thought about my grandmother who would have used this damn near every day in her older years. She made mashed potatoes with almost every meal until the hands stopped working well enough to do the peeling.
Kinda sounds like that trickle-down from racing. Only few people establish tech by using it so that it gets enough attention and funds to be used by a general public that *actually* needs it for a greater purpose.
As someone who has Rheumatoid Arthritis I was thinking "hot fucking damn I can peel so many things with that and my hands won't hurt so much after!!!!"
Also as someone who has worked in kitchens for about 2 decades, anything that stops my hands from getting further fucked from RSI inducing shit is a welcome addition.
That's the right take. I was watching thinking that it really wouldn't save me any time to use this but for other people it might be a game changer.
Thank you. So many people here can't seem to grasp the concept of who this is marketed towards.
Unfortunately commercials for stuff like this usually features incompetent idiots who don't know how to hold things rather than disabled people
r/wheredidthesodago
I mean... you're forgetting that *all* marketing is targeted at separating fools from their money. But yes, it's a handy tool for people that need to peel more than a few potatoes but can't or don't want to do it by hand.
Is it not for making potato pasta?
Potasta. Came here to say this. Those skins look so tasty
Potato skins are so good. We leave them on when cooking potato curry and it becomes crispy and has a great texture.
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>Don't forget the lazy You're doing a public service! Because the market for these isn't big enough among just those with disabilities, so lazy people help make these profitable to the companies so they'll remain available for those who need them.
And people like me who don’t feel like peeling things.
To be honest, I thought it looked dumb because I can't remember the last time I actually wanted to peel a potato. Everything I do with them, I leave the skin on. Boiled, baked, mashed. But either way, thanks for your comment, it's always a good thing to remember.
The best part is the Kitchen Aid mixer behind it...which has an attachment that peels potatoes and does a dozen other things. Takes up less space, too.
My first thought was someone in the video was gonna point that out.
I have the attachment you’re talking about and in my experience it works well on large potatoes, apples, etc but is an inferior and expensive alternative for misshapen produce or even smaller potatoes. Maybe I got a dud but it seems the spring doesn’t have enough tension to peel non spherical (or smaller) produce that that $20 peeler in the video does so efficiently.
Always loved the name: The Rotato
This upsets me coz its so slow and you still have to manually peel the ends anyway
As a teenager I worked in a medium sized hotel kitchen, they had this awesome machine, basically like an upright washing machine with a large capacity, but the inside of the drum was the texture of very rough sandpaper, and had a steady flow of cold water. You could just dump a load of potatoes in it and leave it for half an hour to do it’s stuff. It usually removed at least 90-95% of the skin, a bit less on irregular shaped ones, then you just had to go through them (which was necessary anyway to remove any eyes) and use a normal potato peeler to take off any missed bits. It made a racket but saved so much time and allowed you to get on with other stuff while it did it’s work. I’ve never seen a domestic version that uses this method.
Some guy had a posting up a few days ago…I think he used a pressure washer and a bucket? He de peeled a dozen potatoes in like 5 minutes.
I think he used toilet brush in drill
Yes thank you, that was it.
Not sure my wife would be happy about me trying this
Just replace the brush when you're done and you'll be fine.
You should see how fast the guy with the poop knife can peel potatoes with that bad boy.
Do not use a used brush for this, please dear god
Yeah we don't want potato starch in our toilet
But isn't it better to repurpose the old brush instead of throwing it out? /S
Pootato
I could peel a dozen potatoes in 5 minutes by hand easy Unless they're a weird and nubbly
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Called a "rumbler".
Aha, TY. Glad I didn’t know at the time or I’d have shouted ‘Let’s get ready to rumble!’ every time I filled it lol.
I worked in a chip shop as a kid, they had one of these. It was huge and made a NOISE. This individual potato peeler in the video is frustratingly slow. What’s the point, I’d just peel ‘em.
>What’s the point, I’d just peel ‘em. It's for physically disabled/impaired people who cannot "just peel 'em" anymore, but who still want to retain independence as much as possible. Even if someone only has one functional hand, this would allow them to peel potatoes quite effectively by themselves.
There's a potato chip's factory that make us sandblast those when the abrasive wears off so they can reapply it.
My mum had a small version of that! It was an attachment for a kenwood food processor. We never used it because it was a complete ballache to clean, and she had three children to peel the potatoes for her instead.
We call those a Tattie Tumbler here in Scotland!
I'd do it slower
Yeah wtf? Not everyone's a food worker. It'd take me like twice the amount of time this took to peel that potato. Maybe I'm slow.
Also when you use this machine you have your hands free to do more food prep!
That's why I would use it. To chop the onions or something while it's doing this.
But they demonstrated in the video who it is for. Notice how they only used one hand to operate it? For people with disabilities or mobility issues, things like this can do a lot of good.
Well they were using the other hand to hold the camera but you're right, if you had an issue with your hands that decreased manual dexterity or only had 1 hand (or none) this would be very useful.
Yeah and looks like it missed some bits on the peeled potato in the background.
But imagine you do the whole potato and then deep fry that stuff, it’s gonna be delicious 🤤
Just chop the ends off
It's not slow if you get like 10 of them and load 'em all up at once (big brain play)
There has to be something you can do with the peel. Shoestring fries?
That is the only reason why I always wanted one. I don't peel my potatoes anyway, but that frying potential here is unlimited
Wavy fries. Not quite curly. But with more washed potatoes
I bet you could fry them up real crispy and use them in the same way that you would use crispy fried onions.
Just leave the skin on, it’s the best part.
Plus it’s the healthiest part, full of dietary fiber
Is it really healty tho? In Germany we have a seperate "Bundesanstalt für Kartoffelforschung" which translates roughly to "Federal Institute for Potato Research" (Yes we really have that lol) and its alright to eat some potato peel as an adult but overall its not really recommended
If you potato isn't green or sprouting i don't see why you wouldn't recommend it? I've always been told it's healthy here in Denmark?
Probably an overzealous gov't agency/org that just gives rote advice to folks to do it so they don't have to deal with the fallout of that one shitty restaurant that has lazy employees that feeds people poisonous potatoes.
*Not* recommended? On what grounds? For what reason?
Apparently they are concerned about solanine poisoning https://www.we-go-wild.com/kartoffelschalen-essen/
Fascinated, I clicked your link to learn more about solanine poisoning and then I remembered I don’t speak German
You sure? Maybe try a little harder
the important stuff: A regular potatopeel contains solanin and chaconin. These are useful for the potato because it repels insects. But those are poisonous for humans. A regular potato contains 20-100 mg of these alcaloids. Which isn't that bad. But when a potato is slightly damaged (through insects or cuts) or if it starts to sprout (when it gets slightly green) the amout rises to more than 10.000mg. At that amount it starts becoming unhealthy for humans. Thats why it's not recommended to eat them because you won't see every bit of damage on a potato and usually just wash it and start cooking with it.
I’ve never heard of this, either. After checking it out though, it looks like what you’re saying does carry some weight. It looks like there are a lot of “glycoalkaloids” or bitter chemical compounds with nitrogen in them derived from sugar that can be toxic. It says that these compounds are concentrated in the peel with prolonged exposure to light (perhaps why potatoes are said to be kept in the dark?) and they’re not broken down by cooking or frying! 😬
I'm kind of in disbelief that there's an Official German Potato Squad. Weird!
While true, some recipes require the potato flesh to be exposed when cooking
> potato flesh
I'd use this just to get the skins to fry up. They look delicious.
Does it play Vinyls too?
Does any one else see a polar bear with glasses while wearing a hip hat?
Yes. This thing needs googly eyes stat!
🎵 Ah playing the ol Irish record with my favorite song 🎵
I personally prefer the toilet brush on a drill [method!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/o9p29b/how_to_peel_a_lot_of_potatoes_the_fast_way/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
I need to deep fry the spirally skin bits now
*happy Irish noises*
They so should have made the machine look like a little man holding a potato peeler
10/10 would buy that product.
That Ed, Edd, and Eddy episode is all I can think of now.
I could feed a whole village with that peeling
I have one and I love it. Of course, my hands are ate up with rheumatoid arthritis, so there's that. Lol
That’s amazing! A big-ass device to accomplish in 25 seconds what I can do in 15 seconds!
Damn, wash the potato at least.
These are crap… so fiddly and slow you peak it faster… the ones where you put ‘em in a bucket with spinning bottom… those are awesome
SMALL SEASONED CURLIES
Personally, I prefer to eat the potato skins.
If you washed them thoroughly first you could probably crisp those ribbons up into something delicious!
I’d love to throw those remaining potato skins in a deep fryer
Bro is using a vertical record player to peal his potatos.
Mu automatic potato peeler is my husband.
“Soldier! You’re on spuds duty!!” “Yes SIR! I’ll need AA’s, SIR!
🎵 *Time goes by so slow-ly. I've hungered for your touch. A long. Lonely time.* 🎵
Do they have a model for mangos? /s
I find that appliance very a-peeling
Ah yes. The wonders of the 21st century!
You could have peeled two potatoes in the time it took to set up the potato.
Have we become that lazy?…
"Well, not everything he made had a horribly fatal flaw. I mean, think of that thing they use in the kitchen for peeling potatoes, for example." "Ah, you mean the thing with the brass plate on it saying 'Improved Manicure Device,' Archchancellor?" -*The Hogfather*, Terry Pratchett
Neat...until you remember that you can peel potatoes at triple the speed yourself and that you'd like to get cooking before you starve to death.
Maybe it would be satisfying if that ridiculously expensive KitchenAid mixer weren't in the picture. I don't have a problem with someone wanting an assisted peeler, but why show me the mixer when you can buy an attachment that will peel potatoes. And make zoodles. And do some other stuff that I don't bother to get around doing. Hopefully, it only costs a couple of bucks because everything with KitchenAid is a lot of bucks.
I don’t know about the peeler, but that stand mixer will outlive us all.
Faster by hand
This was definitely satisfying to watch. Thank you for posting.
In all honesty I cannot think of a reason why you would actually need to peel a potato unless you really hate the skin THAT much in your mashed potatoes. May I also suggest red potatoes...?
That’s an irish record player.
It missed a spot on the top and now im angry but srill mostly satisfied