Your Favorite Apple Peeler?

[Woodrow F Call]

I'm also a slicer, and I'll use whichever knife is in my pocket :thumbup:

Sure, but if all of you knives were in your right front pocket.... which might be best for the job?

 

[Bigfattyt]

Another slicer here.

GEC Sunfish slices very well.


S&M grandad barlow has a great blade length for the task.

Some one mentioned Opinel, and they are great for the task!


For some reason, I don't have too many pics of apple slicing.



My go to recently has been this Tideoute in ebony. A #23


The spey is nice and long, and not too pointy!

 

[Old Hunter]

I eat the peels too, so this is an apple slicer - I also use the Old Hickory paring knives that are in the kitchen. OH

 

[Catherine_Montana]

The food in this thread makes me hungry!

Sweet knives too!

I use a couple of old paring knives or, gasp, STEAK knives to CUT up an apple in half or into quarters. Grin.

My husband cuts them up or peels the skin off depending on where the apple comes from even if he washes/rinses the apple well. He uses our kitchen knives most of the time but he uses his personal knives a lot too.

I pack his lunch and he always takes some type of vegetable or fruit with him. He has a specific diet due to a medical condition. He eats at his desk. He and a few others have NO formal 'lunch or break time' because they are always on call with a high stress 24/7 job. He uses his knife at work ALL of the time for peeling or cutting up his vegetable or fruit of the day. He does the same thing when we travel, picnic, hike, camp, observe wildlife, fish and go to our range when we take a break from our shooting and have a snack and coffee.

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Cate

 

[ISKski]

These two knives by Nick Wheeler see nearly all the fruit I eat.. Top one goes in the pocket, bottom in the kitchen block..

 

[leghog]

Best blade I've found for the task.

Easy to take of nothing more than peel and do it quickly. Cost about a buck.

 

[quattromori]

Fausto

 

[Peregrin]

I'm normally not a peeler. I just bite away at em until they're gone. If I'm sharing one and there's no kitchen knife available, I use whatever is in my pocket.

 

[nugun55]

I'm normally not a peeler. I just bite away at em until they're gone. If I'm sharing one and there's no kitchen knife available, I use whatever is in my pocket.

Haven't had any expensive dental work, huh?

 

[Will Power]

I don't peel apples - the skin has a lot of the nutrients. I do have a favorite apple SLICER, however. Case Slimline Trapper in stainless steel. You guys like your patinas, I like a knife that I can just rinse off in hot soapy water after the fruit cutting and not have to worry about oiling it.



I did use a Case Small Texas Jack for apple slicing quite a bit, but that was when I was working on developing a patina for it by regular use. I was successful in that experiment, and once my curiosity was satisfied, I went back to the Slimline trapper for normal usage.

When I am at home, I have kitchen knives that are much better suited to the task. In fact, since I still have most of my teeth, I usually just bite into an apple and eat it without benefit of cutlery.

I favour the Slimline Trapper (stainless) for apples as well. I'm a big fan of pears and if you like patina production, pears really get a move on on carbon. However, I don't like the metallic taste carbon imparts so I tend to use stainless knives for fruit/raw veg. The Opinel in stainless is a really top fruit knife, handles bigger stuff like melon with ease or citrus fruits too, nice round handle, thin blade, simple lock- impeccable!

This CASE Slimline is in their G-10

 

[knarfeng]

I use what leghog uses.

 

[5K Qs]

I'm also a slicer, not a peeler. I cut an apple in half each morning in the kitchen. One half gets diced to go into my oatmeal, and the other half goes into a plastic container with 16 grapes for my lunch. My pocketknives are much better than our kitchen knives, so the daily duty gets done by either a Sodbuster Jr. (Case or JJ Martinez), a Taramundi, or an Opinel 7, three of which currently live on the kitchen counter (the Case Sodbuster Jr typically comes from my pocket if I use it for the apple). IMHO, the Opinel does it best, but I'm not an elitist; everybody gets their turn!

- GT

 

[RexRazorX]

Yeehaw I like that Mudbug! That's a sweet knife. Mine has split a few apples,but mostly seen landscaping chores.

My fav for cutting fruit are the douk douk and my #48 clip point. Honestly few beat the douk douk for that specific task.

I don't peel my apples. I quarter & core. This has become my go to for that.

 

[jlhoffman74]

I have used this one everyday at lunchtime since I got, a modified EO#15 ebony, its a small knife but sits very well in my hand and my pinky finger fits right in the EO notch.
Excuse the lousy cell phone snapshot, keep posting more pics.

 

[jacktrades_nbk]

No peel, just slice. My favorite, the mighty peanut.

 

[A.L.]

I don't slice my apples, I just munch them straight. Couple of reasons for that: 1) You get apple skin between your teeth more easily if you slice and 2) You get the junk and gunk in the knife.

 

[jacktrades_nbk]

I don't slice my apples, I just munch them straight. Couple of reasons for that: 1) You get apple skin between your teeth more easily if you slice and 2) You get the junk and gunk in the knife.

I agree with the second, but not with the first. In my case, it's easier to get that apple skin stuck if i don't slice it. Must be my munching technique

 

[bRCwZJ]

I don't peel my apples. I quarter & core. This has become my go to for that.

I'm new here. What knife is that?

 

[A.L.]

I agree with the second, but not with the first. In my case, it's easier to get that apple skin stuck if i don't slice it. Must be my munching technique

Must be

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Best blade I've found for the task.

Easy to take of nothing more than peel and do it quickly. Cost about a buck.

I have the same Ekco potato peeler and you are correct that it can be used for fruit and vegetables!

Cate