Last week I was so excited to find the prized HoneyCrisp apples for $1 a pound and Fujis for 50 cents a pound. I bought 40 - 45 pounds of each, figuring the HoneyCrisp could keep the snackers happy, while I could get the chance to fix the Fujis into batches of apple pie filling to freeze. --By the way, in only one week, the HoneyCrisps, which I thought would last us 'awhile,' are all gone!
Anyway, today I wanted to bake apple pies and the girls who usually fight over using this gadget weren't home, and I decided to try it myself. I understand now why there are skirmishes over this thing. It's fun! It's so slick the way it, so easily and quickly, peels, cores, and slices each apple. I thought it would require a lot of fussing around, but it doesn't.
The bottom vacuum-suctions onto the counter, and actually stays put. 
The apple (core area) is centered onto the prongs, and with a turn of the handle, the apple travels over to where a spring loaded (so it adapts to whatever size and shaped apple), u-shaped blade removes the peel, making long strings of it. 
At the same time, the core is being removed and the apple cut into 1/8" slices. After taking it off, I cut the apple into fourths, to make the sections into sizes for pie.
