The Best Fruit Prep Gadgets | Gear Heads

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Get the most out of your fresh, seasonal produce with the best tools for fruit prep that save you time and money. Lisa and Hannah have the full rundown on which gadgets are worth purchasing.

Hannah’s Favorites:
– Norpro Tomato Core It:
– Oxo Good Grips Pineapple Slicer:
-Chefn Stem Gem:

Lisa’s Favorites:
– Progressie Prepworks Collapsible Mini Colander:
– Oxo Good Grips 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer:
– Trudeau 3-in-1 Avocado Cutter:
– Oxo Good Grips Apple Divider:
– Norpro Ez Fruit Wedger:
– VKP Brands Johnny Apple Peeler:

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  5. Tomato core presenter should learn to use a paring knife properly. Jacques Pepin has a technique that makes coring tomatoes easy and fast. My mom used a tomato corer growing up so I’d say it’s good unless you know the technique.

  8. Tomatoes also have the legal status of a vegetable in the US because way back when there was a situation where fruit was being taxed at a higher rate than vegetables. The difference was based on the idea that fruit grows on trees, and since tomatoes have to be re-planted annually they also had higher labor costs and were relatively unprofitable to grow.

  9. I usually agree with Lisa but not about the avacado tool. I really love mine. Maybe it's because I'm not confident with a chef's knife. But with my Oxo tool, I can slice up that avacado in like 2 seconds and I don't worry about cutting myself.

  16. I absolutely love the strawberry huller! I bought one on a whim a few years ago and it works like a charm. I like how cleanly it removes the core, and it's so quick. I'm not generally a gadget person, but I'm hooked on this one. On my third, since it keeps getting "borrowed."

  17. Bought a strawberry huller a while ago which looks exactly like that Chef'N stem gem huller, except it's made by OXO and cost $2.99. Best of all, it can be taken apart for cleaning. Maybe OXO stopped making it but I'm very glad I bought such a useful "unicorn product" on a whim and paid so little for it. Thanks ATK.

  20. My friend has a phd in plant biology and said vegetables dont actually exist. Everything we call a vegetable is just a different part of a plant, potatoes are roots, lettuce is leaves, eggplant is the fruit etc.

  21. I use a grapefruit spoon for my strawberries. I love my apple peeler/slicer. Im thinking the collapsible strainer would be great for travel— we often stop by roadside stands, and this would give us a way to clean our treats.

  26. HoLD StiLL!! I can't see the cool little gadget at all. I feel like I'm watching an intense tennis match, or like I'm a cat trying to catch a laser. Most Gadget people are guilty of this, usually only while demonstrating the gadgets that i am interested in. That said, 2 enthusiastic thumbs UP! to every coring tool. When and IF I can remember that i have one AND find it in a reasonable time, they make fruit like tomatoes, strawberries, pineapples, mangos, cherries, melons, fuh-uun! Uh&_hmm!

  29. peppers are fruits too, but no one gets pedantic about that. people complaining that tomatoes are fruits not vegetables is basically the same as complaining that pumpkins are fruits not orange: they can be more than one thing in more than one category. 🙄

  32. My mom's had that red spiral peeler in heavy use for several decades, and only had to change the blade once because she dropped it and got nicked. It even peels the old-fashioned dense, grainy pears for sticky preserves! Just an amazing, sturdy tool.

  34. Thanks for the Information on what's available for "Helping one out in the Kitchen". Food 🥑🥝 preparation can be tiresome but alas these new "Gadgets"will definitely 😁 help me out "immensely.
    Sincerely Yours 🤠 Mr Severance,
    "The Cake 😋 🍰🎂🥳🎉🎈 Man",
    "World 🌎🌍 Cruiser"&"Succulent 🪴 Collector", and "Teacup's & Saucer's Set's and Teapot 🫖 Collector".

  36. And for the next installment, the cherry pitter. If you need to clean alot of cherries 🍒, that is the way to go. I have one that you hit the spring-loaded plunger, it pushes the pit into a cup and the fruit into a bowl. So much better and faster than a hair pin.

  37. Disagree on the Oxo avocado tool! It takes a little practice, but we use a lot of avocados so we got good at it fairly quickly. We find it much easier and less wasteful – I can go through half a dozen avocados in minutes. Key is not to be tentative – hold the avocado half in the palm of your hand so you can get in there and scoop down to the peel. I even take mine when traveling if I anticipate making using avocados. Love this thing!

  39. OXO makes a strawberry huller. I have one of their older models, which is almost identical to the one you demo'ed, but I think they discontinued it. Their current model looks pretty good too.

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