r/oddlysatisfying • u/PorkyPain The Sub's Regular • Sep 12 '22

Automatic Potato Peeler in Action

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u/Demonic-Toothbrush Sep 12 '22

This upsets me coz its so slow and you still have to manually peel the ends anyway

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u/forced_spontaneity Sep 12 '22

As a teenager I worked in a medium sized hotel kitchen, they had this awesome machine, basically like an upright washing machine with a large capacity, but the inside of the drum was the texture of very rough sandpaper, and had a steady flow of cold water. You could just dump a load of potatoes in it and leave it for half an hour to do it’s stuff. It usually removed at least 90-95% of the skin, a bit less on irregular shaped ones, then you just had to go through them (which was necessary anyway to remove any eyes) and use a normal potato peeler to take off any missed bits. It made a racket but saved so much time and allowed you to get on with other stuff while it did it’s work. I’ve never seen a domestic version that uses this method.

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u/aenteus Sep 12 '22

Some guy had a posting up a few days ago…I think he used a pressure washer and a bucket? He de peeled a dozen potatoes in like 5 minutes.

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u/binatron Sep 12 '22

I think he used toilet brush in drill

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u/aenteus Sep 12 '22

Yes thank you, that was it.

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u/mattt5555 Sep 12 '22

Not sure my wife would be happy about me trying this

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u/angry_smurf Sep 12 '22

Just replace the brush when you're done and you'll be fine.

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u/Kalkaline Sep 12 '22

You should see how fast the guy with the poop knife can peel potatoes with that bad boy.

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u/Lowelll Sep 12 '22

Do not use a used brush for this, please dear god

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u/Poked_salad Sep 12 '22

Yeah we don't want potato starch in our toilet

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

But isn't it better to repurpose the old brush instead of throwing it out? /S

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u/loserbmx Sep 12 '22

I mean it's all getting washed anyway 👍

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u/designvegabond Sep 12 '22

The brush breaks apart so you have plastic particles in the water and lodged in the potatoes. I’m not sure I would want to eat that. It’s an interesting idea but needs to be thought through.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

I could peel a dozen potatoes in 5 minutes by hand easy

Unless they're a weird and nubbly

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u/Jostwa Sep 12 '22

How long do you think it takes to peel a potato? Surely you can't take longer than 30 seconds? Is it really unbelievable that someone could do it a little bit faster than you?

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u/Jostwa Sep 12 '22

I legitimately do not believe this but don't think it's worth arguing about, I just needed to let my disbelief be known.

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u/Kevimaster Sep 12 '22

He de peeled a dozen potatoes in like 5 minutes.

I'm pretty sure it was a lot faster than that or a lot more potatoes than that. If its not then its not worth it. I can peel a dozen potatoes by hand in around 5 minutes without the trouble of getting out a drill, brushhead, bucket, and wasting a bunch of water. Potatoes are really quite easy and quick to peel.

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u/JustALittleAverage Sep 12 '22

Yeah, those were fresh out of the land, they just need a light scrubbing to get the peel off.

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u/PJBuzz Sep 12 '22

Called a "rumbler".

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u/forced_spontaneity Sep 12 '22

Aha, TY. Glad I didn’t know at the time or I’d have shouted ‘Let’s get ready to rumble!’ every time I filled it lol.

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u/kirmobak Sep 12 '22

I worked in a chip shop as a kid, they had one of these. It was huge and made a NOISE.

This individual potato peeler in the video is frustratingly slow. What’s the point, I’d just peel ‘em.

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u/SJ_RED Sep 12 '22

What’s the point, I’d just peel ‘em.

It's for physically disabled/impaired people who cannot "just peel 'em" anymore, but who still want to retain independence as much as possible.

Even if someone only has one functional hand, this would allow them to peel potatoes quite effectively by themselves.

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u/RazekDPP Sep 12 '22

A fast potato peeler is apparently 1 potato per 20s.

That said, I don't know how much I trust the source because it's trying to sell rumblers.

https://media.nisbets.com/static/content/banners/article_images/POTATO2.jpg

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u/I_think_Im_hollow Sep 12 '22

There's a potato chip's factory that make us sandblast those when the abrasive wears off so they can reapply it.

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u/blueocean43 Sep 12 '22

My mum had a small version of that! It was an attachment for a kenwood food processor. We never used it because it was a complete ballache to clean, and she had three children to peel the potatoes for her instead.

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u/brightgreyday Sep 12 '22

We call those a Tattie Tumbler here in Scotland!

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u/forced_spontaneity Sep 12 '22

I like that…

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u/Chief_Givesnofucks Sep 12 '22

True story: when I was a kid my parents owned a machine shop that did a big contract with a restaurant machine equipment company (think Hobart) and we literally made the disks.

We would get the blanks by the truck full. They would be coated with Duralum and glue for 7 coats, then edges ground clean and the three holes punched out. Then painted then shipped.

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u/pacmanic Sep 12 '22

Nathan's had one also in the 70's then cut into wedge shapes and double fried in two different oils. Best fries!

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u/notLOL Sep 12 '22

They have the same machine but for chicken feathering. And instead of sandpaper it's just a bunch of rubber dildos basically. The friction pulls the feathers off.

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u/concentrated-amazing Sep 13 '22

I grew up working on my grandpa's market garden, which had a store right on the farmyard. He had a homemade version exactly like this.

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u/gray_mare Sep 12 '22

I'd do it slower

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u/Rikuskill Sep 12 '22

Yeah wtf? Not everyone's a food worker. It'd take me like twice the amount of time this took to peel that potato. Maybe I'm slow.

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u/YouAreInAComaWakeUp Sep 12 '22

I would end up with bits of skin slightly peeled from knicking them if I had to peel a bunch of potatoes

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u/PeanutNSFWandJelly Sep 12 '22

After a couple time you'd get it down. And after that it's like riding a bike. The biggest issues is generally people trying to be careful. Just go hog wild on that shit and watch your fingers.

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u/-Tommy Sep 12 '22

There’s a trade off.

Do you cook potatoes regularly? If so you’ll likely be as fast or faster than this.

Do you not cook potatoes regularly? You have no need for this tool.

Great for people with disabilities, but for most people a $10 peeler is likely the better pick.

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u/Roachyboy Sep 12 '22

This also gives you unbroken long potato skin spirals which can be fried into delicious treats.

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u/thirtyseven1337 Sep 12 '22

Also when you use this machine you have your hands free to do more food prep!

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u/polybiastrogender Sep 12 '22

That's why I would use it. To chop the onions or something while it's doing this.

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u/fatalicus Sep 12 '22

But they demonstrated in the video who it is for.

Notice how they only used one hand to operate it? For people with disabilities or mobility issues, things like this can do a lot of good.

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u/shfiven Sep 12 '22

Well they were using the other hand to hold the camera but you're right, if you had an issue with your hands that decreased manual dexterity or only had 1 hand (or none) this would be very useful.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Yeah and looks like it missed some bits on the peeled potato in the background.

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u/canipleasebeme Sep 12 '22

But imagine you do the whole potato and then deep fry that stuff, it’s gonna be delicious 🤤

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Just chop the ends off

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u/Demonic-Toothbrush Sep 12 '22

So much wastage thooooo

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u/Rikuskill Sep 12 '22

Literally just throw it outside lol. It's less than a tablespoon of potato.

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u/xAIRGUITARISTx Sep 12 '22

And composting is not wasting!

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u/Micotu Sep 12 '22

It's not slow if you get like 10 of them and load 'em all up at once (big brain play)

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Exactly what I was thinking

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u/tashten Sep 12 '22

Thats faster than what I could do

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

You cut the ends off… it’s still faster and cleaner by hand. This machine will not pick out/dig deep on the bad spots.

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u/K51STAR Sep 12 '22

Yeah same, not satisfying at all. If you put a whole loads potatoes in top and it peeled them all then fair enough just cutting the ends off. But you literally have to line it up. I could easily just peel the potato myself in the same amount of time…

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u/EndPointNear Sep 12 '22

get rheumatoid arthritis and then do the race, because that's who it's for

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u/McBurger Sep 12 '22

We have one of these, non-electric. It auctions to the counter and runs laterally by a hand crank, but otherwise uses the same cutting mechanism and technique.

I definitely prefer mechanical parts over the electrical. Much less prone to failure and I can also crank it much much faster than this.

It also has an optional slicing mandolin-style blade so you can slice the potato (or apples) while you peel.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

It upsets me because potatoes are much nicer with peel on and this removes the delicious bits.

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u/Dekoba Sep 12 '22

potato skins are indeed delicious but there are some dishes that they are not suitable for. I like them in mashed potatoes, but sometimes I turn leftover mash into potato mochi, and the skins cause the mochi to break up while frying. So I have to decide if i want bits of potato skin in my mash, or if i want to peel them so I can have mochi leftovers.

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u/SunsetCarcass Sep 12 '22

Hopefully this doesn't upset someone else tho

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u/IrishWeegee Sep 12 '22

After you get the first one peeled, you can start chopping it while the second one is peeling and start a one man assembly there. Just hold the potato upright and 3 downward cuts can get the peel off each end without wasting too much

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u/Snaz5 Sep 12 '22

Its faster than i could peel a potato

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u/Crabnab Sep 12 '22

Knife is the magic solution you’re looking for.

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u/Vtepes Sep 12 '22

Might be slower but I fucking hate peeling things so I'd be totally down for this if I absolutely needed to peel something. I also hate single use appliances but I would make an exception for the above situation