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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Culinary vs. botanical. Tomato is a culinary vegetable but a botanical fruit.
I have never thought of the avocado as a vegetable….
With the avocado 🥑 seed simply push it out…apply a small amount of pressure from just behind it from the outside, and it pops out… no knives necessary
just tell them its melon bowler ;
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.
a strawberry tool? this is why Trump won in 2016
Fruit slinkies? I'll bet those perform as well as a 'real' slinky, going down stairs. Metal slinkies, you got some 'splainin' to do!
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.
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.
I'm getting the pineapple thing straight up but my favourite was the stem gem. How cool is that? Thank you
unitaskers are awful
I have NEVER before seen nor heard of anyone using the knife point to remove an avocado pit.😧🥑
I have a corer that I thought was a strawberry corer. Now you tell me it is for tomatoes! Works great for strawberries.
The only avocado gadget I like is the avo saver. Works well. No plastic wrap waste.
Tomatoes and avocados are fruits. So are squash, cucumbers, and peppers.
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."
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.
For apples I cut them in half and use a melon baller to get the core out and the two ends (the top and the bottom).
Hey, gearheads! I just think of them as tomatoes 🍅! Probably I lean towards vegetable. BTW will you review kitchen composters? Thanx for the great vids!
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.
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.
Knowledge is being aware that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to use them in a fruit salad 😁
you guys are just GREAT. Love these videos
I have no issues if you call a tomato a fruit or a vegetable but I would not argue with a botanist scientist
I've always just twisted the stem off strawberries with my thumb and forefinger. My hands get stained a little but no big deal.
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!
so…a bunch of money spent on things that aren’t that much better than using a knife?
yep, that’s ATK’s gadgets for you!
Looks like she used the wrong side for the avocado scoop/slicer. Seems like the 'blades' are tapered. I could be wrong, just an observation.
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. 🙄
Thank you 😊
haha I bought that thing for strawberries not knowing it's really a tomato corer!
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.
hahaha Did Hannah really say she "wrassles" with her pineapple? Where are you from, girl? 🙂
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.
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Some of the best parts of these videos are the people walking by and looking in the door in the background
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.
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!
Weird video
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.
I got a little scared about the avocado tools but my trust was quickly restored!
Oxo makes a strawberry huller that looks like tweezers. You put the tips into the top of the strawberry, pinch and pull. 🍓
Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are fruits. Wisdom is knowing they don't belong in a fruit salad.