This picture is for those of you who have been following my apple pie saga. I don't cook; I don't even pretend to cook. Be that as it may, my love affair with apple pie goes back to high school and Home Ec. And haha, no, I did not 'fail home ec'.
I stopped making apple pie probably ten or fifteen years ago when someone told me, "This is the worst apple pie I've ever tasted." It happened to have been a peach pie that I'd made. Still, I was turned off.
Recently, I turned back on when I was introduced to the gadget in the picture. No one could believe that I wanted one. I despise kitchen gadgets and I don't cook. Why would I need a corer peeler? Even when it is not doing anything, I love it. Made from silver metal, on a simple wooden stand, it looks like a cross between Leonardo DaVinci's drawings and a Spanish Inquisition device. If you use very hard apples and position the apple perfectly correctly, the gadget works fine. If you don't, it doesn't.
The first time we tried it, its wooden stand was still on backorder. We used it without the stand and the peels went all over the floor and made the wood kitchen floor all sticky with apple juice. I waited for the handy dandy stand and we tried it again. This time we positioned the entire gadget and its stand on the large pink and white fish dish. The apple peels were still everywhere; you can see them trying to escape off the table. The marble table still got all sticky. All of the peels and cores were fed to the raccoons.
The readytobake apple pie can be seen on the right side of the photo.
