![]() ![]() Should I be wearing gloves and a keen sense of indignity? (I also tried with heftier King Edwards, and keeping a lid on those felt like drowning puppies.) After two minutes I have a look. I have to hold the top closed, feeling like the man who stands next to the machine that picks the National Lottery balls. As the appliance whirls noisily, new potatoes leap like popping corn. The chamber is the type of sadistic room associated with Saw movies, but specially designed for veg. The walls too have jagged panels, to rasp off their skin. The spinning floor is grated, scratching the feet of the potatoes as they’re thrown around. Some high-end veg boxes now deliver a cubic foot of worm-infested earth, in which you can rootle around for one or two tubers, spotted with authentic blight.) So, how does it peel ( to treat me like you do)? It’s a bit like a blender with no blade, jumbling the potatoes all higgledy-piggledy (note to self: use this phrase more, it’s delightful). (That’s what organic means, isn’t it? Just completely caked in shit. I throw some new potatoes into the basin. It’s huge – the size of a crouching toddler minus the head – and quite ugly. There’s no point straining for classiness when your product literally sloughs the muddy skin off spuds. ![]() Either way it sounds ludicrous when attached to a potato peeler. This isn’t that kinda place Well?įirst of all, that brand name sounds like the self-appointed nickname of a narcissistic dictator, or Spanish beach resort. Under the base is a hinged lid to coil up the lead and plug, the salad spinner sits upsidedown over the blade plate so if on display looks neat and tidy.Potatoes don’t need jackets. If you are looking for an electric potatoe peeler, this is an excellent machine in our opinion and well worth the money. Since using the machine I would advise :- put your hand on the lid while in use, like I said its powerful and does vibrate a bit, don't overfill with water, if using water be prepared for a little bit of water spray from the lid. The bowl will have the peeling scum in it so would advise tip into a strainer to avoid blocking the sink. When lifting the bowl if using with water ( you dont need water with fresh potatoes) be careful to avoid spillage as you need to tilt it very slightly to remove from base. The machine is very easy to clean after use, just a case of rinsing the lid, lifting the blade plate and rinsing then lifting the bowl of the power base and rinsing, do not rinse the power base. The potatoes being potatoes and not being perfectly round, the machine did leave odd bits of peel which you can combat by either putting the lid back on and running it for another minute or take the odd bits off with a knife or hand peeler, the kilo of spuds took less than a minute to take all the bits off. Its a powerful machine and a little noisy but for a couple of minutes, well worth it as it did a brilliant job. We set it up by the sink put in water to the fill line and 1 kilo of potatoes and switched it on. For the price it is well made, sturdy and looks good if it needs to sit permanantly on the work surface, it also comes with a salad spinner. The delivery was very quick and the product was well packaged and nicely presented, so ideal for a gift. We are in our mid 70's so with the usual aches and pains we were looking for an electric potato peeler, after much looking at appliances and the reviews decided on this Jean-Patrique peeler.
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