Apple Machine

Wendy came back from taking Grandma Jean to Arizona all excited about a big "shopping score". She found this contraption in a high end cooking utensil store...........

....it peels apples, like for pies or applesauce or apple crisp............

....Not only does it peel, but it spiral slices.............

....it cuts the usable apple into a continuous slice in the shape of a spiral with the same motion as the peeling motion.......

....in about three seconds of cranking, the work is done..........

....the usable apple in the shape if a spiral slice is being removed from the core, which says on the machine........

....a little hand trimming may be required......

.....the spiral slice is then quickly and easily cut into nice sized pieces for your pie..........

....or, in this case, your apple crisp. Mmmmmmmm can you smell it baking now?. The apple prep time was 10 minutes. It is made by Progressive (http://www.progressiveintl.com/) and they call it the Apple machine (pretty catchy?) The amazing thing to me is that it has no on/off switch and no microchip to do it's thinking. The other amazing thing is how similar it is to the one my mother owns, which she got from her mom, which was probably built around 1930.

Progressive? I think not.........

Uncle Hans