Vacu Vin Pineapple Easy Slicer
by Vacu Vin Inc.
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Vacu Vin Inc.Brand: Vacu Vin
Model: 4880250
Color: White
Product features:
- Peels, cores, and slices fresh pineapple in 30 seconds
- Corkscrew-like tool removes flesh in perfectly shaped rings
- Three blades cover all sizes of pineapples
- Shell remains intact for use as dessert or drink bowl
- Winner of several international design awards
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Vacu Vin Pineapple Easy Slicer
Customer Review: Decent but not as good as manually cutting!
Summary: 4 Stars
We eat a lot of pineapple in my household. Usually 3 per week in the summer months and 2 per week in the winter months. Looking at all of the positive reviews for these I figured I would give it a try. Its important to note that I worked at a first rate deli/restaurant for close to 10 years. One of my jobs was cutting up the fruit salad. It usually consisted of 8-10 Pineapples, 4 Watermelon, 4 Honeydew, 6 Cantaloupes, 40-50 Oranges, and so on and so on. In other words I am pretty damn good at cutting fruit. Even with that being the case if there is a kitchen utensil out there that can make cutting fruit easier then I am all for it which is exactly why I chose to buy one of these.
I chose the plastic version over the Stainless Steel version because there are a lot of negative reviews for the Stainless cutter because, according to the reviewers, it has a smaller diameter than the plastic version which leaves a lot of good pineapple left attached to the skin after cutting. So you either have to accept that your going to get less usable fruit or you have to go back and cut the rest out by hand. Well the whole reason I decided to get one of these was so I wouldn't have to cut them by hand. If I have to go back and cut out the rest of the fruit then whats the point in using it at all. Why not just cut the entire thing by hand to begin with? Anyways the plastic version doesn't have this problem so I decided that this was more important than build quality.
I received my cutter a couple weeks ago and I openly admit I was impressed. It required more effort than I though it was going to but not so much effort to make it difficult. You just have to put some muscle behind it. Overall I cant really think of anything negative to say about it. If you love pineapple and have trouble cutting it or just hate cutting it then you should definitely give one of these a try. With that being said, I myself am going to continue to cut Pineapple by hand. Why? Because I have been cutting fruit for so long that I can do it practically blindfolded. I can cut an entire pineapple in less than a minute so I just don't see any real advantage in using one of these. I though it would be faster and easier but it wasn't. While most people will find it faster and easier, those who are good with knives and know how to cut fruit will probably just continue to cut it by hand.
Overall its a great gadget that many people will find extremely useful. Even so I am sticking with a knife.
4 stars
Description of Vacu Vin Pineapple Easy Slicer
This European device cores a pineapple and removes the meat with as little waste as possible. Depending on the fruit's size, you snap on one of three corers. After slicing off the pineapple's top, you center the plastic corer on the flesh and begin turning it clockwise. When you reach the bottom, simply pull out the corer and, with it, the pineapple's juicy flesh in a neat, ready-to-eat stack. Use the intact shell to hold a fruit salad or tropical sorbet.Fresh pineapple has a tropical, delicious taste . but many folks can't figure out how to get past this fruit's thorny exterior to the sweet inside and resort to buying those perfect little rings in a can. This pineapple slicer peels, cores, and slices a fresh specimen in less than 30 seconds so there is no excuse for ever buying canned pineapple again. To use this ingenious little tool, you must first cut the top off of your fresh pineapple. Next, place the slicer in the middle of the pineapple and push down while turning the handle in a clockwise motion. Pull the slicer straight out of the pineapple and--voila!--your perfect little rings come out with the tool while the rough shell stays behind. Finally, simply slide the handle off the slicer and the pineapple rings slide off with it. The pineapple shell remains intact so you can use it as a dessert bowl or as a glass for pi?a coladas. The slicer comes with three blades to tackle pineapples of any size. This tool has garnered several prestigious design awards from all over the world, including Germany's Award for Good Industrial Design, Holland's ION's Good Industrial Design award, and Japan's MITI Award for Excellent Foreign Product. --Cristina Vaamonde
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