Cai Bao veggie slicing tool

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Has anybody ever used one? They're apparently from Vietnam. Looks like it'd be handy for peeling and dicing veggies. Plus it's made from CARBON STEEL!!!
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Here's a video of one in action. Skip ahead to the 30 second mark.

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That is absolutely amazing. It's everything I always wished a veggie peeler was. I bet it would work on cheese too! I may have to get one of these.

Edit: I just looked at the site and ordered one after I saw the price :D
 
I don't know if it's any more useful than a potato peeler but it sure looks a darn sight cooler!
 
Now I'm stuck, I'm right handed and the wife is left handed. Do I need to get both?

I'm gonna show her the video when I get home and let her decide. If I tell her HI makes it she'll go for it, she loves auntie.
 
I'm in the same boat except I'm the left handed one. She peels more often than I do but I'm the one more likely to use a new tool.
 
CARBON STEEL?
That right there makes it an ultimate survival veggie peeler, b/c you can strike sparks off a flint with it & make a fire to cook wilderness veggies. :thumbup:
 
They should market it as a bushcraft peeler. You can use it to peel up your cat tail roots and then strike your flint against it to start a cooking fire.
 
OK, I gotta say this is a veggie peeler with machismo! Heck, I bet if I got one of those hubby would volunteer to chop veggies just to get to use it.
But I bet it takes a lot of practice to use it as smoothly as she does. I am guessing it flays hands and knuckles VERY well in the hands of someone like...ME?!?!
 
Had an HI-like experience ordering mine. Very pleasant, and gave me the feeling of being a person not just dollar signs.



Shavru, I'm hoping it only requires a bit of practice, then I'll be julienning vegges like a 5-star Vietnamese chef! I'm assuming it won't take much practice to thinly slice my fingers, so I think I'll wear my cut-glove at first..
 
My ex GF from Vietnam had one in the kitchen, it was a little different though, as it was a combo shredder/peeler, and chopper. It could be used as an Asian cleaver, and she could shred things like young bamboo shoots to make her cold noodle dish, it was a very irregular cleaver, but it was so useful! Too bad I never took a pic of it, I should've, because I have never seen another one like it. The one in this thread, is the closest I have ever seen to what she had.
 
Good idea on the cut-glove for a bit SingleGrind. But, I imagine a little practice and you will be perfectly comfortable with the tool after that. And I gotta say, Davidf99 has a GREAT idea, for all those kitchen tool lovers on the Christmas list. Maybe a full kitchen set of a good M-43 Khuk for chopping meats and frozen foods, A JKM-1 for cutting most other things, a Cai Bao for peeling and very thin, even slices and that noodler/spoon looking thingy for shredding veggies. hmmm ideas ideas
 
Something like this cul? I have one. Use it all the time. Its carbon steel so you got to wipe it down. Mine has a sharp edge on the outside so you can whack chunks of carrot if you want like inch long pieces or you can peel lightly or change angle and get thick slices. Great tool. They are great for making potato chips.

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Mine is from the Aranyik district of Thailand and is sold as a "Cane Knife". They peel the skin off sugar cane very well and also the outer edge is sharp so you can cut them in sections after you peel them.

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They are even spring tempered just like knives.

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Time for some oil. I use coconut oil.
 
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Cool ndog! I'm wondering if I could just sharpen that outside edge on the Cai Bao. Definitely food for thought (pun intended)

This ain't no Auntie Yangdu shipping, that's for sure, but I'll post pics when mine arrives!
 
SingleGrind said:
Cool ndog! I'm wondering if I could just sharpen that outside edge on the Cai Bao. Definitely food for thought (pun intended)

This ain't no Auntie Yangdu shipping, that's for sure, but I'll post pics when mine arrives!
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I hear ya! They usually want thirty dollars to ship anything and it takes three weeks min to get it to Texas. Worth the wait tho. I may get me one of those Cai Bao just for the heck of it. I bet you could sharpen it and do the same thing. Mine is in two pieces so you can remove one piece and sharpen it.

cul... see if you can find a pic. id love to make one...or two;)
 
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Maybe since your unemployed and supported by your hard working and industrious wife (always pays to stay on the missus good side) you could pound out some more of them pizza cutters along with these food processor dealy hymers?

If you got a position for me I'd like to sign up too, had enough of this whole employment thing. Cept for the money on a regular basis, the rest kind of sucks.
 
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