OXO Good Grips Fruit and Vegetable Corer
by OXO
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Our Price: $9.59 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: Kitchen See more product details |
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of OXO Good Grips Fruit and Vegetable Corer
Customer Review: 160 pounds of pears in a week-wouldn't have wanted to do it without this!
Summary: 4 Stars
I canned pears for the first time last year with a friend. She had this awesome little tool for coring the pears. It worked beautifully. Use the little side for the stem parts, and the wide fat end for beautifully taking out the seed filled core. Her tool was like this OXO Good Grips Fruit and Vegetable corer, but with a blue all wooden handle and a much stronger metal for the corer.
I ordered 6 boxes of pears from a local farm and had no desire to do the pears with out the corer I used with my friend. So I ordered this one. It worked great. However, I think the metal on this one is not near as strong as the one with the blue wooden handle. If I order more corers (for more helping hands around the canning jars) I will probably look for the blue wooden handled one.
(I think this item right here, may be the blue wooden handled one my friend had. This looks exactly the same without holding it in my hand...)Pear Corer double bladed.
Customer Review: Many uses...glad I purchased...
Summary: 4 Stars
This little gadget has many uses. I use it for all kinds of fruits and vegetables. You can cut an apple in half and take out the seeds without too much of the fruit. You can "shave" the inside of bell peppers easily. It works too as a garnish tool.
It is pretty durable. I dry it quickly after washing. It is dishwasher safe, but I still do not do this. I find on some things, hand washing will keep original quality longer.
The price is high for what it is. I mean almost 14.00 for a corer? Wow. Still, if you have kids or do a lot of apple/pear/pepper/etc cutting, it is nice to have.
Customer Review: Works well but is too fragile
Summary: 2 Stars
The corer works well on softer fruit but bends easily on harder things like apples, bosc or Asian pears. It also needs to be sharper. That would solve part of the proble, but it needs to be stronger.