The parer that I found at the thrift store was made by White Mountain. In less than a month, he sold 24,000 apple parers. Dissatisfied with the outcome, David Goodell took to the road and became a traveling salesman. He called his first invention “the Lighting apple parer.” At first, a New York firm’s marketing efforts sold only 2,400 over 2 years. That changed with the labor-saving device invented by David Harvey Goodell, who later became the governor of New Hampshire. The tedious task was performed by hand with a knife. And seconds later, you’d have this apple that was completely skinned and perfectly carved into a spiral.īefore 1864, there was no machine that would allow a kitchen worker or farm wife to peel apples quickly. The museum worker, dressed in period attire, would stick an apple onto this sharp three-pronged metal piece and quickly crank a large metal wheel. I remember them having a much larger version of this apple corer and slicer. One of the most memorable activities was one where we’d pick apples and then they’d show us different things that you could do with them– sliced apples, juices, cider, sauces, chips and so on. The first time I had ever seen one was at a local museum that would host these annual events for kids to show them what it was like living in the U.S. It was $5, so I couldn’t resist picking it up and doing a little bit of research about its history. This one seemed old but was in mint condition. Months ago, I found this old-fashioned apple corer and slicer in its original boxed at a local thrift store.
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