OXO Good Grips Serrated Peeler
by OXO
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of OXO Good Grips Serrated Peeler
Customer Review: When a regular peeler won't work...
Summary: 4 Stars
Peaches and certain other fruits and vegetables just don't peel very easily with a regular peeler. This gets the job done much more easily!Customer Review: Soft skin peeler
Summary: 4 Stars
Makes peeling tomatoes and peaches a breeze. Can be a little awkward.Customer Review: Sharp -- A Little Too Sharp!
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this last week and used it for the first time yesterday. On the plus side, this peeler is comfortable in my arthritic hand, just like the regular OXO peelers with the soft grip that I've had for years. Also, this peeler is really sharp. And that was my problem with it. It is actually too sharp and seems to slip off of the foods you're peeling too easily onto one's fingers. I was peeling rhubarb and it was a little slippery. The serrated peeler took off a very thin layer of the skin very, very easily. It's that sharp. But unlike my older, straight-edge peeler, it seemed to slip every few minutes and collide with my index and third fingers, which I was using to hold onto the stalks, much too easily. This happened a few times and I was left with several nasty abrasive cuts. I tried the peeler again later to make thin strips of a hard cheese. Again, it was difficult to control without slipping. So, as much as I admire the ultra-sharpness of the blade, that very sharpness is a problem. Hence, only 3 stars.Customer Review: Lasted only a year
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased four of these OXO Serrated peelers on the 4 for 3 promotion last Christmas. Initially they worked great and I loved then - that is until this fall. This is when I started having difficulty with them. When I looked carefully at the blade, I could see that some the teeth of that make up the serrated edge were bent and and some had broken off. Once the peeler looses some of its teeth it is no longer effective. The bent teeth catch on the produce. When you press harder to get it going it bounces off the produce and into the hand holding the produce. Ouch! Plus, Where the teeth are broken off, the peel remains on the produce. My Oxo serrated peelers failed one by one and now, not even a year later, all have been thrown away.
I would recommend the Mario Batali serrated peeler instead. I have one of these that I have been using for several years and it is still intact and going strong. Though the Mario Batali doesn't peel the produce quite as well as the Oxo did when it was new...it has stood the test of time, which is very important to me. I will be purchasing more of the Mario Batali peelers to replace the broken peelers. Amazon carries these too -Mario Batali The Italian Kitchen Collection Serrated Peeler
Customer Review: Not Up to OXO standards
Summary: 1 Stars
Avoid this one -- the OXO swivel peeler may be the best one made by anyone ever! This one, however, is either the cheapo 99-cent store version or the Swedish engineers were out to lunch. The blade-holder arc is plastic, rather then cast metal, so the peeler has very poor balance. The blade itself is so flimsy that it is bound to break sooner rather than later, and unless one positions the edge exactly right, it gouges and tears rather than peels.