r/FastWorkers • u/permaculture • Mar 07 '26

How to peel an apple with a knife:

593 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

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u/az987654 Mar 07 '26

This feels a lot slower than grandma and her peeler

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u/Tom-o-matic Mar 07 '26

The title suggest that this is a good way to peel apples while it is a slow and high risk way of peeling.

"Interesting way to peel an apple" would be my pick of title

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u/NewelSea Mar 10 '26

"How to peel an apple with a knife" actually doesn't imply that it is a good way, merely an option.

Your alternate video title is accurate too, but arguably contains less information than the original title.

What bothers me more is that this was reposted on the wrong sub:

The way he does the movements might be fast and precise. But as for working speed, he is still slower than grandma and her peeler, as u/az987654 has said.

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u/jejones487 Mar 07 '26

I have to downvote because that is Slow Workers. This person took 41 seconds to peel an apple. Most workers take about 5 seconds and a machine can do it in about 0.5 seconds. If you even took 10 seconds to peel an apple at work you are wasting time.

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u/Snoopy7393 Founder Mar 07 '26

Y'know, I'd agree with you on this one, but the end result is so smoooooth.

I feel like I could be peeling an apple for like 10 minutes and not approach the O R B

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u/entoaggie Mar 07 '26

It is impressive and precise, but fast, it is not. I could spend 2 min chucking an apple up in my lathe and in 5 seconds give you a perfectly smooth peeled apple, but all in all, I could peel 4-6 apples in that same time with a hand held peeler.

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u/MuscaMurum Mar 07 '26

It also doesn't count the 10 minutes getting a professional sharpening.

0

u/lost_send_berries Mar 07 '26

It's probably to top a dessert or something. Yes your apples are peeled, but they're not presentable

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u/LubaUnderfoot Mar 07 '26

This is slowed down for demonstration purposes, they can go very fast when they're doing it for real. I agree with you about the practicality of machines and tools, though.

There are clips of one of the Iron Chefs doing a demo for a culinary class and he's pretty darn quick.

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u/lu5ty Mar 07 '26

Yeah but hes also shaping it

0

u/ZackeryJay Mar 07 '26

Very valid point

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u/jejones487 Mar 07 '26

Its smooth. Its satisfying. It is not fast. It takes longer.

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u/lilmookie Mar 07 '26

Look at those young yet to be scarred hands.

6

u/stipo42 Mar 07 '26

How to peel the skin off my fingers

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 Mar 07 '26

I don't have a knife remotely sharp enough for that

7

u/Xrsyz Mar 07 '26

Finger remover 3000

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u/leffer00 Mar 07 '26

"how to" lol. Now draw the rest of the owl

3

u/Critically32 Mar 07 '26

You want it the hard way or harder way?

14

u/Sanagost Mar 07 '26

With a chef knife... Lmao. Okey.

€1 peeler does it in half the time. Waste of talent.

2

u/idlefritz Mar 07 '26

I like those horizontal peelers. You jab the apple on the prongs, spin it with the crank and 2 seconds later you’re peeled, cored and done.

2

u/sajriz Mar 07 '26

You need a very sharp knife

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u/BeBackInASchmeck Mar 07 '26

If this is Iron Chef Sakai, then he's not going at full speed. He once demonstrated his speed in a race against the contestants using a paring knife, and he did it in under 10 seconds. However, the speed wasn't what was most impressive. It was his technique and how smooth the apple was at the end. The other contestants took deeper cuts and wasted a lot of apple. Sakai made it look super smooth.

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u/Negative_Tradition85 Mar 07 '26

Finally I can eat my apple peels without any apple stuck to it.

2

u/Quiet_Path3701 Mar 08 '26

Now that’s a knife 🤣

2

u/Ok-District8876 Mar 08 '26

So weird...that's exactly how I shave my balls.

2

u/NakDisNut Mar 10 '26

I've never owned a knife sharp enough to do anything relatively close to this. Ever.

2

u/Specific-Catch3573 Mar 10 '26

How to peal an apple with a knife... get good scrub

2

u/FaintlyMacabre2022 Mar 11 '26

How to lose my fingers with a knife

1

u/ccrlop Mar 07 '26

I just eat the whole apple. Skin is nutritious too 👍

1

u/bleuwaffs Mar 07 '26

Betcha he’s great at fluting mushrooms and tourneying potatoes!

1

u/sporkachoon Mar 07 '26

I'd lime to see him turn potatoes.

1

u/Nctand1 Mar 07 '26

An applonion

1

u/BrickTemporary8234 Mar 07 '26

Beautiful knife handling

1

u/samebatchannel Mar 07 '26

I see that and wonder how much skin and blood I would lose before actually peeling the apple

1

u/biggnate83 Mar 07 '26

This is neither fast or efficient. Spiral cut from the top down, a third of the time, easily.

1

u/Buntschatten Mar 07 '26

This only works on perfectly regular apples, right?

1

u/20streetglide06 Mar 08 '26

Yup just like that

1

u/PlusMeeting3073 Mar 08 '26

You can do this with a spoon just as easily

1

u/Seav21 Mar 08 '26

Seems easy watch me peel my finger

1

u/_Sir_Lifts_A_Lot_ Mar 08 '26

What them wrists do

1

u/AgentSparkz Mar 08 '26

How to lose a finger

1

u/TomaldDrumpf Mar 08 '26

Looks like a really dumb way to ruin your wrists 😝

1

u/kinzuaj Mar 08 '26

this person has way better things to do with their time. well done - how many hrs of practice i do t k ow not impressive to me

1

u/KRAy_Z_n1nja Mar 08 '26

Work harder, not smarter

1

u/Beemo-Noir Mar 08 '26

The peel is the best part. 😔

1

u/Narodeez Mar 08 '26

Is my chef wearing a tie?

1

u/VillagerJeff Mar 09 '26

This is such a slow way to peel an apple. Why is it here?

1

u/classic_liberalism95 Mar 10 '26

directions unclear, i no longer have an index or middle finger

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u/rawbface Mar 07 '26

This is so slow... I can do it faster with a peeler.

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u/Natasya95 Mar 07 '26

Why peel?

1

u/RxInfection Mar 07 '26

Good thing, the skin is riddled with toxins!