Clever Fruit Peeling Machines - A Better Device to Peel Fruit

Now that I am addicted to fruit smoothies I find that peeling and preparing fresh fruit is time consuming and tedious. With this in mind I started using tinned fruit, which is neither as healthy nor as flavoursome. That was until I discovered these very clever fruit peeling machines which take all the effort out of preparing fresh fruit and ensures that I get all the benefits of the fruit I buy straight from the local market.

I am a big fan of the life (especially in the kitchen) is meant to be easy mantra, and that is what all these kitchen fruit peeling machines do. Make my life easy...and oh so delicious!

Pineapples are the bane of the fresh fruit lover. Almost no other fruit is as difficult to prepare fresh. No matter how sharp your knife is or how adept you are at using it, the pineapple with its thick spiky peel, pointed fronds and awkward shape becomes an impenetrable fortress to getting at the fruit.

That was until I discovered the brilliant pineapple corer and slicer. Now all I have to do is cut the top off the pineapple and let the pineapple corer go to work. It even cuts the pineapple into handy circular shapes, just like in the tin, but without any of the added preservatives or unhealthy syrups added. Perfect for my breakfast smoothie and homemade muesli recipes.

Whatever time of the year it is I love to eat apples. They are cheap, delicious and healthy, (one a day keeps the doctor away!) but when you use an apple in a smoothie its peel gives the drink an unpleasant texture. You also need to core the apple, which is another of those tedious tasks associated with fresh fruit. The perfect solution, which dates back over a century, is the apple peeling and coring machine.

From the delightfully retro cast iron ones through to the modern funky plastic versions, the apple peeling machine was the first and best version of a fruit peeling machine. One which I love.

There is a whole world of fruit out there and whilst the above two machines can be adapted for potatoes and pears etc, what do you do when you want to prepare strawberries, mangos and bananas in a hurry? You get a peeling or cutting machine to help you, that's what you do.

Give humanity enough time and an annoying task and someone will invent a machine to do it. That's how we ended up with the motor car. Lets be honest, who really wanted to ride a horse hundreds of miles to get anywhere?? Never mind all the horse poo that filled the streets. They never mention that in those old Western movies do they!!?

So here are a few more peeling and pitting machines that will make your life all the easier.

After spending time in India during mango season I both know how delicious they are and what a pain they can be to prepare. Easy to use with a flexible blade that hugs the pit and removes all the fruit, you will never be afraid to enjoy the pleasures of a mango again.

Those pesky little tops on strawberries require careful removal, especially if you are going to use the berries to top a delicious cheesecake. Whenever I use a knife II find I always lose the top of the berry, which considering how expensive strawberries are is such a waste.

It also makes the berries look not quite right, which can be a problem if you are using them to top a delicious cheesecake.

Quite possibly the most useless fruit slicer in the world thanks to the ease of using a knife to cut a banana, the banana slicer has garnered over 4,000 reviews on amazon, making it one of the most commented upon items and raising its status to a must have kitchen icon.

The hilarity of many of those reviews makes having a look at the banana slicer definitely worth your time, especially if you are a fan of clever irony. And if you do fall for the slicers charm you will have a great dinner party conversation starter... and sliced bananas.