OXO Good Grips Apple Corer

Wow! What a pleasant surprise this little gadget is! I have weak hands and I really wanted to make baked apples. And my cockatoo, Mango, loves them. Problem was I’d had a little plastic apple corer for years and it was ridiculously hard to use, to the point where I just didn’t any more. Well, I felt guilty not making the apples for Mango so I bought this little gadget thinking Oxo has always made good products. Trusted name. But really, I was doubtful my hands would be strong enough. Well, this gadget cuts through apples like a hot knife through butter! It works better than I imagined possible. It only takes a few seconds to core each apple! It’s just the right size to get a comfortable grip. It washes well in the top rack of the dishwasher or cleans easily in the sink. It’s made very well and feels durable. It’s a great value compared to items that cost more, don’t work as well and take up more storage space. This is a case where basic is better. Can’t go wrong. Highly recommend.

The OXO Good Grips Apple Corer is an absolute game-changer in my kitchen! If you eat apples regularly or use them in recipes, this tool makes the process quick, easy, and mess-free. The sharp stainless steel blade cuts through apples effortlessly, removing the core in one smooth motion. Plus, the non-slip grip is comfortable and makes it easy to use without slipping, even with wet hands. Cleanup is a breeze—just rinse it off or toss it in the dishwasher. It’s also sturdy and well-made, so I can tell it will last for years. I’ve even used it on pears, and it works just as well. If you want to save time and effort when prepping apples, this is a must-have kitchen tool!

Excellent apple corer. One piece that cleanly removes apple core, and core is easily removed!

It seems that apple corers have two dominant designs, one that opens its jaws and one (like this one) with a solid ring that does not open. After studying the reviews for both, I noticed that the corers with jaws that open eventually start jamming and need to be fixed. The problem is that the moving pieces jam, overlap, and form an oval instead a circle. This issue has to be fixed every time you use the corer. This corer is made out of stainless steel solid right; the ring has serrated teeth that are very sharp. The serrated end cuts through the apple like it was butter. The handle is large and comfortable to hold. Cutting through the apple requires little force if you agitate the teeth back and forth. I was interested in coring apples for baked apples rather than apple pies. This means I wanted to remove the apple core but not go all the way through the apple. Unfortunately, that is impossible as there is no mechanism to cut at the bottom without going through the apple. My solution is to remove the entire core and then use the bottom part of the core as a "stopper" by inserting it back into the bottom of the hole. The stopper leaks but provides some way of holding nuts or whatever else you want to stuff the apple with. Before the Oxo corer, I used my grandmother's method of removing the apple core with a spoon, which remotes the pits while leaving a nice clean area for stuffing the apple. But it is much harder to scoop out with a blunt spoon than using an apple corer. Ali Julia review Review of OXO Good Grips Apple Corer

I like eating apple wedges with skin on, and so does my husband. However he doesnt like to fiddle with paring knives and I sometimes skip this healthy snack, just from laziness. It sometimes seems a lot of work performing the usual quartering and then cutting out little pieces of core from the quarter, ending with core bits and seeds and juice dripped around. I decided to try a corer, so I initially purchased another brand of corer, last month , but after one use I repackaged it and took it back - the cut diameter was way too small for the size of apples i like (large Red Delicious). Most of the core was still inside the apple! Then I ordered this OXO one from Amazon, due to the good reviews. I can say yes it really works very well. Actually so well that my husband will now fix himself his own apple snacks with it. This OXO corer is easy to handle, easy to clean, and it takes out a decent sized core, with almost no missed core left behind. It removes a circle of twice the area of the old useless one i returned. The actual inner diameter of the OXO corer is 3/4 inch or 19 mm. The thickness of the actual steel is 1 mm. The length of the steel is just around 4 inches long and the rubber handle is just about 4 inches long. The rubber handle is oval in cross section and there is decent sized hole at the end of the handle for hanging it up . There are nice little rubber "fins" build in to the rubber handle to make pressing down easy on the thumb and fingertips. For the person who was concerned about the browning on the cut surface: yes this happens , it hardly makes the apple piece unpalatable, but to explain what is happening - this is just a bit of pulverized apple flesh that has been deposited on the cut surface, made of juice and broken cells of the apple which browns so fast in air, you see it within seconds. The color is natural oxidation of the fruit juice/pulp, it's not from the corer instrument. When you use the corer, the "cut" surface is a saw cut, so it is microscopically a bit more ragged than when using a knife. If the corer were to have a sharp tapered edge I imagine it would be a lot more expensive to manufacture, and if it were made of very thin steel the tool would be flimsy . Anyway if it's important to have the core be white, just rinse/drop the cored apple in to a anti-browning solution right away until you are ready to do whatever else you are doing to segment up the fruit. But I think unless entering your apple recipe in the county fair, most people would agree they would not bother with this blanching the core procedure. I gave a rating of only 4 stars becuase I can't say how long it will be servicable for, however it does appear to be well made. I would only say that for the price, if it lasts me one year of coring just one apple per day, it will have definitely paid for itself, and should then be rated 5 stars.

I recently made an apple galette. It's like a rustic apple pie that doesn't require a tin to cook in. It required about 5 apples to be cored, peeled and sliced. The OXO apple corer came to the rescue. It easily and cleanly removed the core from the apples, and a mandolin did the rest. The handle is easy to grip even with apple blood all over your hand (it was gruesome!). Line it up, give a little twist to get it started and it went through the apple like a camera through your colon. Maybe not the best example, but the best I could come up with at the moment.

I've been diagnosed with diabetes for a year now. I hate to cook, that's why I'm diabetic. So a few, weeks ago I opened up my unused bag of artificial brown sugar and after an hour of quartering and removing cores from a bag of apples, added some butter and had the most wonderful baked apples to die for. I'm ruthless on deserts now and it's paying off. Next I had some plums that refused to ripen so I added plums to an hour of coring a bag of apples. Threw in frozen blueberries, raspberries and strawberries and some raisins. Good compote but liked the apples better by themselves. Found this corer, it was delivered today. In less than 3 minutes cored the entire bag of apples. Threw them in a crockpot with butter, artificial brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins. Took less than 15 minutes. I'm in hog heaven! I freeze the apples and the divine caramelized glaze in individual containers. I'm over 60 so it's not fun prepping veggies and fruits, I get exhausted. Just love this thing. Wish I had had one all my life, I would have ate a ton more apples. You got to get one of these. I'm prime, so free shipping. This is so much better than those apple slicers that give you pieces. Why? If you eat apples raw there will be less apple exposed to the air, so the exposed flesh won't turn brown as quickly. This requires so little physical effort compared to a conventional apple slicer. Easy to clean. Love this thing. This corer removes the entire core and leaves room for you to pack with cinnamon, brown sugar and butter to make baked apple deserts.

This apple corer does the job very well. I used it to core green pears. The job of coring a bushel was made much easier with the sharpest cutting end that I have ever seen. It only took 45 minutes to accomplish. It is dishwasher safe and made of heavy grade steel that will last a long time. I highly recommend the OXO corer. It is a great value for what you receive.

the handle is anatomically correct and makes twisting easy

Works well. Cores like a champ. Easy to clean. Apples fear this utensil. Works left or right handed.

Scharf, robust gefertigt, super in der Handhabung, spülmaschinentauglich. Was will man mehr! Wegen dem geriffelten Griff, fiel die Kaufentscheidung hier und es klappt alles genauso, wie vorgestellt. Kein Abrutschen, präziser Schnitt, gute Klinge. Absolute Kaufempfehlung, bin total zufrieden.

He tenido otras muy frágiles, que se doblan y cuesta trabajo trabajar con ellas. Con esta el trabajo se hace sin ningún esfuerzo, rápido y sin problemas. Buen material, sólido y cómodo. Un acierto.

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