I know it's not apple season, but this looks interesting.

[Jenoch]

If anyone is making several apple pies or a lot of applesauce, this is the way to peel a lot of apples in little time.

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[Warpy]

1. Interesting

but it wastes a lot of apple and gums the bit up.

[Jenoch]

2. How is it wasting apple?

The peeler is the same one that would be used by hand. Besides that, time is worth more than a bit of wasted apple, if there actually was any wasted apple.

The bit can be washed.

[Warpy]

3. Watch the video again

He's got the drill rotating too quickly and it's getting away from him. Lots of apple is going off along with the peel.

Maybe if he's not showing off for a camera, it would make more sense.

[Jenoch]

4. The only way this process could 'waste' apple

is if the peeler were run over the apple after the peel was already removed. That being said, I do not believe enough of the apple could be 'wasted' to worry about. How thick is the apple being 'wasted'? It could not be more that about a fifth of a millimeter.

[Warpy]

5. That is exactly what was happening.

[Jenoch]

6. I did look at the video again.

The cook seemed to be running the peeler over the apple twice to make sure all of the peel was removed.

What do you think the amount of apple removed with the second pass weighed? My estimate is one 20th of one ounce. Is that enough to worry about? Did you see how much apple was left after the peeling was done? If you wa t to worry about 'wasted' apple. Go to a bakery tgat makes apple pies and watch how they slice the apple for the pie. They square off the apple and throw away the square core with probably 20% of the apple left on the core. Time is money.