Review on 🍎 Johnny Apple Peeler, Corer, Slicer, Pie Maker with Stainless Steel Blades in Red Finish - VKP1010 by Andrea Gleason

Perfect peeling, cutting and coring in less than 50%. Apples should be symmetrical, have a certain shape, the core is located right in the middle. If the apple is big, strong, round, asymmetrical, lantern-shaped, too soft, hard in a certain place, the core is not in the physical center, sooner or later the process will become messy. Knives and apples especially like to clash. in the beginning, because none is inferior to the other. If you ignore this warning and move the handle one step further, the side of the apple will give way and separate from the prong, peeling is doomed to failure. If you want to be a peacemaker, you have to move the knife blade back a little to get over the collision point and then release it again. This can happen at any stage of the peel. Sometimes I've found that the apple doesn't sit as stably on the prong, I have to manually twist the apple gently against the blade to get as much skin as possible. The prongs seem to need to be sharper and longer to improve the apple's stabilization throughout the process, but I still doubt that even this change would solve the problem. For a successful peeling you need to free both hands, I put a small piece of metal around the locking lever so the spiral shaft moves back and forth freely while you line up one end of the apple exactly with the hole for the core, and the other end more precisely with the prong, then remove the metal part before turning the knob. Since the core is often eccentric, setting the applique according to the direction of the core makes the apple even more asymmetrical and later interferes with the cutting knife. If you put the apple on the prong according to the apple's physical center and not toward the core, when passing the gliding hole, it will be cut by the hard part of the real core, not the soft part around the core, the peel will be broken. Most apples fall into one of two categories, and that's one of the main downsides to this machine. Sometimes the cleaning gets stuck because part of the hole is interrupted above the hard core. I must remove the cutting hole immediately to salvage what has been done. with all sorts of consequences, including removing the remaining unpeeled part, which is more difficult than with a whole apple. In such a case, the time spent on tuning, leveling and sanitation is much more than manual cleaning. My elbow hurts during a manual peel and I buy a machine to help but it rarely works well and sadly doesn't do a good job. I had an old paring machine with no coring and slicing, the mechanical part broke and wouldn't spin when rotated, but the flat paring blade gives a good cleaning look, like manual paring. Even the shallowest cleaning seems too deep for this machine, it looks like a groove, not a good cleaning. I'm looking at some other products, many of them have a similar shape, they may have similar problems. I was tempted to buy it after reading so many 5 star reviews, now that I've re-read those reviews several 1 star reviewers are wondering how can there be 5 stars, I agree to. My item has no physical defects upon receipt, otherwise it gets 1 star. But after 4 months of use, having sorted different apples, I can truthfully comment on this product. I can't afford to try others, it might be useful for Consumer Reports to compare different designs and brands to make a recommendation. I dream if some kind of beam of light could destroy the skin, and then wash it off, so the contour of the apple wouldn't matter, but there would still be a problem with the core and cutting.