They don't say and I couldn't get a really good look at it. I wonder if it would work with apples.

You can find them at Lowes and such.

I don't think it will work with fruits or vegetables with thicker skins. The thing on the end looks like a big bottle scrubber.

Thanks for the link.

to me.

Or maybe a car scrubbing brush. Pretty good idea.

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I laughed hysterically! And then I thought - what a ridiculously clever idea! PLEASE forgive what might seem like a sexist remark, because I mean it as a compliment. I turned to my husband (who wanted to know what the noise was, so I showed him) and I said - "a man must have thought of that!" DAMN clever!!! There's creative time management for ya!

The peels hold all the nutrients....same goes for apples, etc.

If you like your potatoes without the skins, then this could be quite appealing.

but it would take an hour to clean up the mess on my kitchen floor.

needed.

Definitely a reason for that.

WARNING LABEL: Do not use this technique in your kitchen. (Especially the garden hose.)

For those so challenged:

to their kitchens.

You know the old Beetle Bailey jokes about privates being assigned to peel potatoes. Forget them. My dad was a medic in a Korean War MASH unit (he reports the TV show was unrealistic in one big respect: only one character was trying to get a Section 8 discharge. It was apparently a popular thing to try, but it almost never worked.) and they had an automatic peeler...just dump in a 50-pound bag of spuds, turn on the water, push the button...voila! Taters ready for boiling in no time at all. Every time dad got KP he was assigned to run the potato peeler...the mess sergeant thought it was fitting, since he was from Idaho and marijuana hadn't yet supplanted potatoes as our state's number one cash crop.

Totally would have beaten Father Rodriguez

19.99-but wait order today and you get two. Shipping and handling extra.

compared to the time it takes to peel a 5 lb bag of potatoes at the sink?

that much setup.

I might just give em about 1/2 skin or little more most of the time. Impressive though, if you're feeding a crowd.

Thanks for the thread, Uncle Joe !!!

of time used in the process.

and you would have mashed potatoes... without even cooking them! Great for the environment too!

Well, except for the water loss and the electricity for the driver. Maybe a hand powered driver! Or a water powered driver with a filtering process that allows for water reuse. Spread the residue on your garden or make potato skin jam. Easy as 1,2,3.... 9934.

your plants or garden.

Of course we are switching over to renewable sources of energy and homes already off the grid (more of them are being added everyday) wouldn't affect negative electricity usage.

I never peel potatoes.

I actually prefer peelings in my mashed potatoes, however some people may not be able to tolerate the skins.

Who wants to come over for potato salad?

already done.

that can do this for restaurants and catering firms. The home version is relatively new, I think, and of course plastic instead of steel, but it can come in handy if you're feeding a fairly big family, though I agree with others when it comes to the waste factor.

All that said, I think the paint stirrer/toilet brush combo is pretty damn brilliant! Plus, what a conversation starter!!!

Talk about po' folks ingenuity!

That's been outsourced to govt contractors like Haliburton.

I love this stuff…

What the hell was that thing, and where can I get one???

years ago while on KP.

It was a lot quicker than the potato peeler and there was less waste.

Signed,

Idaho Potato Fan!

I went to boarding school in the '70s and had a job peeling potatoes. Everyone had some sort of job and that was one of mine, which wasn't all that bad since it was out of the kitchen, in the cool basement, and everyone left us (two girls) alone. A man would come down with a huge sack of potatoes and dump them in a huge stone(?) cauldron filled with water which would spin and remove the outer skins from the potatoes. Then he'd dump them in a large sink filled with water and our job was to remove the eyes and anything else inedible, then move them to a sink filled with clean water. The dinner crew was responsible for the cooking...

This contraption reminds me a lot of that. I have no idea what it was called, though it was obviously very old (my school was started in 1879), but it worked the same and still did the job...