/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/66971663/shutterstock_264191039.0.jpg)
Fruit, as a food category, has so many things to recommend it. It’s refreshing. It’s nutritious. It’s cute. But, enjoying fruit takes work. Too often, tough peels and inconvenient pits are an obstacle to juicy meat of a berry, citrus, or drupe. Fruit expects you to endure laborious peeling and sticky fingers before you reach the edible stuff, which as we all know, can end up a disappointment. (This is the reason why cutting fruit is a well-established act of love.)
But, there’s an entire arsenal of kitchen tools designed for the precise task of making slicing and eating fruit much easier. Sure, you could use a knife, but given the clearly impossible nature of fruit, why not consider one of the many unitaskers expressly designed to shave a whole second off fruit prep time? Here, an incomplete list of fruit unitaskers available for purchase on the internet right now.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049043/apple_peeler.jpeg)
Apple peeler
- $20
Prices taken at time of publishing.
For when peels won’t do, and a simple vegetable peeler won’t either.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049022/appleslicer.jpg)
Apple slicer
- $13
Prices taken at time of publishing.
These are best suited for perfectly symmetrical apples.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049055/avocado.jpg)
Avocado slicer
- $10
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Avocado-slicing injuries are real. The OXO avocado slicer promises to make them a thing of the past.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049062/banana.jpg)
Banana slicer
- $7
Prices taken at time of publishing.
It’s not a unitasker if you use it for plantains too. Either way, you’ll still have to do the peeling by hand.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049068/cherrypitter.jpeg)
Cherry pitter
- $13
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Buy a cherry pitter and never let pits be an obstacle again.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049077/grapefruit.jpg)
Grapefruit spoon
- $6
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Grapefruit is such a difficult fruit it also requires a tool for eating.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049092/pineapple.jpeg)
Pineapple corer
- $20
Prices taken at time of publishing.
A must for pineapple, potentially the most difficult fruit of all.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20049130/watermelon.jpg)
Watermelon slicer
- $10
Prices taken at time of publishing.
For perfect slices and no watermelon wasted.
More From Eater
Sign up for the Sign up for Eater's newsletter
The freshest news from the food world every day