Efficiency or Laziness?

How many of you own a Rotato? I do, I mean, I did...the blades are no longer good. While googling this I found I can get new blades. This little contraption makes peeling 15 pounds of potatoes go pretty smoothly, not to mention the fact that everyone argues about who gets to do the job. I pull it out on Thanksgiving and Easter. Well on Easter, it did not work so we all pulled out our peelers and had at it. It took forever and our hands were cold and tired. Well, my oldest son saw a great new invention regarding potato peeling and told me I HAD to get it. So I did. Tater Mitts. Come on!!! Ok, so I did buy them. They DO NOT work. I "played" hard with a potato for over a minute and here is what I ended up with.

I thought maybe it would work on apples too, as I made an apple pie today...that is another story! Anyway, here is all it did to the apple. Nothing. So I pulled out the old trusty peeler. By the way, Pampered Chef has the BEST peelers. Their apple slicers are great too. (I do not work for Pampered Chef) OK, I will take a quick detour from the gadgets to tell you about the apple pie episode...I get all the apples peeled and sliced, in a bowl and find I am OUT of Cinnamon and Nutmeg!! HOW in the world can you make an apple pie without those? Thank goodness the neighbor borrowed onions yesterday! She owed me...and she had both of the ingredients. OK, so all the filling is ready and I go to get my pie pan out....no pie pan. Hmmm. I know I had like 5 of those. Nothing. Not one anywhere. My family LOVES to take each others pie pans. Where are mine? Guaranteed no one will fess up! So I throw the bowl of apple filling into the frig and run out to get pie pans. I CAN'T ask the neighbor to borrow a glass pie pan! Alright, back to gadgets. I am thinking the peeler and slicer are fine for making one or two pies, but if I am doing major peeling of apples (like the potato deal on holidays) I want one of these gadgets that Kim showed on her blog the other day. This would make the peeling job much more efficient. I have another gadget that I LOVE...It is called an "eggstrator". How much do you HATE to peel hard boiled eggs? Me too!! And they never peel right. Well I am here to tell you this thing works. One push of the pump and that peel pops right off that egg. You are left with a clean peeled egg and only a little egg shell shrapnel...goggles are recommended. If you ever see one, get it! It is also alot of fun. So you can see I have a lazy streak in the kitchen. I am trying to get better. I actually made my pie from scratch. OK, so the inside of the pie is from scratch! Do you have any nifty kitchen gadgets you can share?...come on we won't laugh!!! I am sure no one thought my tater mitts or eggstractor were ridiculous!