linda fetch

Continuing the theme of the previous post about my favorite ice cream scoop…my favorite fruit is the apple. I eat at least one every day.

I realize that this is my own personal psychological problem, but my only issue with the apple is the apple core. I have two problems with it.

Inconvenience. The apple (including its peel) is a delicious fruit, except for its inedible core. So I’m in bliss eating it, until I have to figure out that I have to stop since only the core is left.

Disposal. Once I’m down to the core, I’m standing around with it in my hand and have to dispose of it. I realize that an apple core is biodegradable but that doesn’t mean I’m going to pitch it on the ground.

The nice thing about an apple is that it’s portable. You can eat it anywhere without utensils or accessories. Then you have the damn core to worry about.

So the obvious solution is the core the apple before packing it in my lunch box. Heck, you could just use a knife if you had to.

First of all, I don’t want to slice the apple. Then I have multiple pieces which means it’s not a one handed operation anymore. So we’re back to coring.

An apple corer is a pretty simple device. However, they don’t all work equally well.

One design that would seemingly be perfect is the hollow metal tube. Unfortunately, even though it does a clean quick coring, the core is left stuck in the tube due to the pressure used, and a plunger is usually supplied with this…

But this ingenious gadget solves the problem:

It might not be so easy to see from the accompanying photo, but what it is is basically a stainless steel tube several inches long and about 1.25 inches in diameter. The tube is split in half lengthwise with a simple thumb operated latch holding it together. So when you core the apple, the core sticks in the tube like with the simple corer, but by releasing the latch the halves of the tube separate slightly and the core can be flicked out.

I know this seems like a ridiculous convenience but strangely it’s a pleasure to use it.

last edited 2019-04-23