| My $20 apple corer is the only thing making apple season doable for me  My two-and-a-half year old has certain seasonal loves. In the winter it's chugging through thigh-deep snow. In the summer it's chasing bumble bees. In the fall he likes to walk between the rows of an apple orchard, snagging fruit off lower branches, taking a bite, and flipping it aside for a newer shinier apple. And he likes to do it again, and again, and again. All that to say, we tend to have a lot of apples in September and October—so many, in fact, that the only way I find it tolerable to deal with them all is by owning an apple corer.
Yes, it is a unitasker. And yes, I outgrew my unitasker phase about four years ago after I noticed a green plastic thing I couldn't remember buying in one of my kitchen drawers. But my skinny little corer from Oxo lets me blaze through prep of half a dozen apples for a pie in a couple minutes. Plunging it into the center of the apple, then twisting and yanking out the seedy core is also one of those viscerally enjoyable kitchen tasks. This isn't the first apple corer I've owned. I had one of those six-slice things with flimsy blades. It mangled lots of fruit and is useless if what you want are apple rings. I actually got rid of it and went back to the dark ages of coring with a knife. But picking up the Oxo has made what could have been an overwhelming apple season into an easy one.
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Friday, October 22, 2021
My $20 apple corer is the only thing making apple season doable for me
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