NYCgrrl wrote:
I'm tired of buying potato peelers that rust, lose their sharpness in a nanosecond and have loose rivets. Got a recommendation for a former Woolworth purchaser?:D
They use to make good potato peelers, like the picture above, but then in the last 15 years or so, they just don't make them good any more. I fussed and complained to my wife when she tossed out the only good old-style potato peeler we had and replaced it with a new-fangled one. Oh was I disappointed. After using it, even she didn't like it either. So we attempted to buy a normal old-style peeler that actually worked! ... you know? It took us 10 years to find one, and we tried many, many, and threw many, many away!
Finally, one day at the local grocery store they had one on an end-cap. Not very noticeable, but it caught my attention, and after try three-thousand six hundred, I thought, "Oh well, what's one more!" It had a red rubber coated handle, but still was old style.
Got it home and ... OMG! It worked!
I immediately drove back to the store (right there on the spot), and bought all they had left hanging! I got 4 more! Put 2 in the trailer, put 3 in the house! I even made a tube they fit in with an plastic (long) prescription pill bottle, stuffed with tissue paper, in a sleeve. None of them get washed with the regular dishes. They all get washed by hand and put up immediately in their makeshift sleeve. We do the same in the trailer.
We had these for about 4 years now, still sharp, still working good, no rust, and I treat them like gold and honey! A bit over-protective here? Yep... sure am! But I know I'll never find another one like it again. They just don't make them like this any more. Really sharp and really last, and the blades are angled just right!
Most used in our camper? Yea... it's definitely the potato peeler.
