Can I use it to peel potatoes?
1667706
It has a serrated edge and that's why it works so well on soft things I think. I suppose you could do cooked potatoes with skins on to peal them. I can say I love it for tomatoes !!! skins are too tough for me so I peel them and love them raw that way. I bought several for gifts and they all seem to like it.
1667707
Yes, you may use it to peel potatoes, too, if the skins are soft. The edges of the blade are serated so on a harder, thicker skinned veggie like a potato, it may give you a small serated looking peel. I use a regular peeler for potatoes so the Zyliss soft skin peeler stays nice and sharp for the soft skin veggies and fruits. I have given this as a gift to every cook I love because it peels tomatoes, peppers and peaches so well.
1667708
doesn't this thing have TWO blades? the photo shows it peeling carrots and only one side of the blade is serrated - so is the other side dull or have a cutting surface too?
1667709
I have not tried. We have a different peeler for hard or firm veggies. We use this one to peel mangos and it is excellent for that.
1667710
Probably, but you are likely to ruin it if you use it for that purpose. It is designed to peel peaches, tomatoes, etc., and works beautifully for the intended purpose.
1667711
I prefer a straight edge peeler for reds and bakers. However this works much better on sweet potato. I love it for butternut squash also! Don't be afraid to use it on the hard stuff, you may wear it out which is why i'm buying another after maybe 3 years of use and abuse. Great for apples too. I can't imagine living without one (or two if you want one for tomato and another for really tough peeling. My 17 year old son did manage to break the potato eye remover off, but he is 6' 2" 190# and not particularly delicate. (I can't blame Zyliss for that one, I love all their tools.)
1667712
Sure. I usually leave this one for things like tomatoes, but can use on all normal foods that you want to peel. They are just really good on the foods that are hard to peel. I hated the steaming tomatoes to then peel the skin off, so difficult not to end up cooking the tomatoe to an extent, lol.
168404
I haven't tried that. I suppose you could if the potatoes were extremely done, maybe overcooked.
472619
You can: Peel separately - and I use it all the time for potatoes. It's not just for apples - big dinner, big parties - ten pounds of potatoes peeled QUICK! You could slice and core without peeling - but you couldn't just slice or just core - that's one mechanism. Or you can do all three. It really is the best priced gadget I have in my kitchen - bought one for my mum. Grand mum and mum-in-law. They all love it.
1910158
I use mine to slice potatoes all the time for augratin. A word of advice put the potato all the way to one side when slicing to prevent the potato from falling sideways into to the blade because you get better slices from top down.
826355
It is "okay." I was a little disappointed with how flimsy it is. I actually bent the metal peice that slices the potatoes. If you cut the potatoes small enough then it should be able to handle it, but that kind of defeats its purpose. I would suggest going with a little more quality peice of equipment.
1641007
I've never tried it with potatoes. Let me give it a try tomorrow and see if I agree with the other person who posted a comment. Thx for asking.
1265041
I never thought of that! So I tried it and it works....to a certain degree... Since tater peels seems to be much harder than apple peels, it takes more pressure to work. And unless your tater is very symmetrical, it will leave bits and pieces of peel on the spud that you may or may not want to remove. Frankly, I don't think this peeler is made to do this, and it may wear out the little peel blade more quickly. To make a long story short...yes it will peel potatoes.
1670177
Eggplant may be a little too large for this. I have peeled large apples, potatoes, and yams with no problem.
341128
Not sure about potatoes but we regularly use it to shred carrots for salads and such and it works great for that.
1722928
I don't know about the gourds you ask about but it will peel potatoes, apples, zucchini, kiwi.
1459923
No but I used it for carrots and potatos but still did not peel real well they got stuck and came out smaller then when I started got rid of it waste of money would not recomend
1325187
Yes...I tried it for zucchini chips and they were so thin and light...but use the guard....I sliced my thumb...NOT fun! Remeber for the potatoes to be crisp the oil has to be really hot.
1707172
I don't include the peels but I would imagine it would not be possible for the peels to come through. I guess it would depend on how thin and soft the peel is. One problem that does arise in general is that the potato does not all squeeze through. It leaves a 1/2 - 1" inch packed layer. What I do is scrape it and fluff the remaining potato, add more if I have it and do the process again. Otherwise, it is impossible to squeeze the packed layer.
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I bought it specifically to make apple sauce and apple butter. It works great for this. You need to cook the apples before running them through the machine to soften them up. It is not necessary to peel or core the apples however you will want to cut them into halves or quarters. Once the apples are cooked they run through the machine very quickly.
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It has a pulse and run speed, a disk blade that slices on one side and grates on the other and a chopper blade. I haven't tried the slicer blade with potatoes but where you feed the food in is rather small and a potato would likely have to be quartered before it could be fed into the food processor. I don't think it would be good for that purpose.
1039214
It wasn't designed for peeling chicken. You never know until you try, so if you try let me know how it works for you. Otherwise I would only use it for apples, pears and maybe potatoes.
85504
Hello Paulina , yes it will peel a sweet potato , but the slices won't be wide enough . Your slices won't be big enough to make chips . I hope I helped you . It's a great peeler .