By ‘batter scoops’, do you mean dishers?
Yes, probably so, they’re a perfect half sphere, but with a spring.
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I don’t bother peeling but I do core whole apples and cook them in the crock pot overnight. Then they are silky and ready to can or freeze or eat!
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I’ll definitely keep that in mind & thanks! I’ve got 3 crockpots too, if I get a lot of apples!
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I put in a bid on the apple peeler on the auction site. I’ll look for videos on how to tune it.
Now to find the cherry stoner in good condition, and replacement gaskets 
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Great. The stoners come up a lot.
With the Reading, resist the temptation to crank on it without an apple in place. It can jam and bend/break parts. The 3-prong “fork” you spit the apple on is already bent on many up for resale.
Good luck. The Reading really is a thing of beauty when it’s working.
Yes, looks good and in good shape.
If you get it, just understand that you can’t just keep cranking it. It gets to a point (the point where it kicks the peeled apple off) where the peeling arm will drop into contact with other parts. IIRC, you have to lift the arm to reset for the next apple. It’s hard to know where you are in the cycle without an apple on the fork.
Hi Olunia,
I have a handheld cherry pitter from oxo, maybe similar to yours. It does one cherry at a time. I made cherry jam last summer for the first time. I’d like to do more canning this summer. I like mechanical things and look forward to the Reading apple peeler and getting it to work. I’ll have to find an excuse to peel a bunch of apples, maybe to make several apple pies and gift them to friends. If I can find a dandy cherry seeder I’ll make a cherry pie!
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I just got an oxo and a pampered chef mango pitter. The oxo seems like if accommodates a larger mango, like the green and red variety, while the pampered chef might be better for the golden skinned smaller cultivar. Neither is great as they both sort of require a fruit at just the right ripeness to work well, as over ripe get mushed and underripe don’t taste very sweet or soft.
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I’ve got the Oxo cherry pitter (apparently it also is good for olives, but I haven’t tried that yet). I think it works great, even if it is only one at a time. Certainly better than my previous method of cutting them in half and using my fingers!
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Hi Alarash,
Congratulations on your Reading apple peeler and Corer purchase !
I’m so excited for you to use it for the first time.
My shinny cherry pitter is metal and I absolutely love it (no markings on the metal so I don’t even know where it is from or who manufactured it).
The other non polished one is my olive pitter it is German made. I know that I can use a knife to cut the meat off of the olive pit yet this one is fun for the boys.
It also reminds me to slow down to enjoy be in the moment, so quite therapudic and less messy.
Eta:
The one on the left is the olive pitter which I purchased first and too small for most cherries so I bought the cherry pitter afterwards.
The olive pitter will pit some smaller cherries but very messy as opposed to the cherry pitter which works great.
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This one works well for me. Clafoutis season approaches. Sorry I did not line my response up with a cherry pitter comment.
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Nice!
Reviving this thread (I never replied to it, maybe didn’t know about H.O. then yet?), but I just got a new “gadget,” that I am thrilled with and never knew existed!
I am something of a coffee nut. During the pandemic, while my kitchen was being totally transformed (what a time to pick to do this in NYC, but I didn’t know the pandemic was coming when I moved in to my new apartment), I bought a “real,” if small, espresso machine. I found it cheaper in Milan, and it arrived in a wooden crate that took me a while to open.
Anyway, I love my espresso machine, and it is very low tech. It switches “on” or “off,” that’s it. (BTW, I use two different scales to make my coffee, and I love those gadgets too.) But the subject of this is that it takes about half an hour for my machine to warm up enough to make coffee/steamed milk, and having to go turn it on and then wait for it to warm up is always something I have to schedule into my morning so that I can get my coffee before I start work (for example)!
Anyway, I went looking, and found a solution on Reddit. I got a little outlet device that plugs into a “smart” app on my phone, and this morning, I set it to go on at 8 a.m. When I went into the kitchen this morning about 8:30, I could just make my morning coffee! Wow! I just have to remember to switch it off on my phone when I am done, and not with the switch. The device was a twofer, so I now also have my front hall lamp set to go on at sunset and off after 11 p.m. All for $24. I am ridiculously happy with this purchase.
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Can you link the device?
When I bought a tiny slow cooker many years ago, Internet advice (probably from chowhound) was that the modern ones run too hot but can be corrected with a cheap outlet timer like the one below, so I bought that too. (Iirc the slow cooker cost the same post thanksgiving sales & rebates as the timer 
).
It was such a revelation 
that I bought a few more for other things . Now, of course, there are fancy Bluetooth and wifi ones, but these low tech ones still work just fine for the fixed-time stuff.
Which espresso machine do you have?
There are now all sorts of smart outlets and timers. There have also been “dumb” plug-in mechanical timers for decades that work just fine.
In the gee whiz category, I just learned that my new smart security cameras will recognize the sounds of smoke and CO detectors and issue appropriate alerts. Nice feature.
In order:
Here’s what I bought: https://www.kasasmart.com/us/products/smart-plugs. I bought the mini one that would connect with Apple Home, but am using it through the app they recommended. It was a bit fiddly to set up, but nothing I couldn’t handle late on a Friday evening, so I had coffee going in the morning.
I have a Rocket Appartemento (not the new PID one), and I like it a lot. It is what I would describe as very basic and fits on my counter.
Agree that there are all sorts of outlets and timers on the market, but I never knew about them, so this came as a revelation to me. I’m way behind you @Saregama!
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Well, I didn’t know they existed till someone said so, so zero credit claimed here!
I’ve got a few of the Amazon and google compatible ones when they were practically giving them away, but I haven’t swapped out the manual one that’s attached to a light switch yet (would save me having to fix the setting 2x year for the time change).
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