Chef'n StemGem™ Strawberry Huller, Red, 9 x 5 x 3 cm

If you look around Amazon you can find all manner of kitchen gadgets of varying usefulness. Maybe its just me, but I've never found a banana particularly difficult to slice and don't do it often enough to merit a specific tool for the job (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-KCBANSLICE-Banana-Slicer/dp/B003CLFC98/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1439278538&sr=1-1&keywords=banana+slicer). I'm also capable of biting a banana, so often I'll completely forgo the slicing and go straight to eating. That might give you an indication of how recalcitrant I can be. I'm the James Dean of yellow fruit consumption. The same cannot be said for red fruit. Not because its red, but because most red fruit has a green bit attached. Tomatoes, grapes, strawberries, peppers, the list goes on... I don't do green. I wait for the aforementioned bananas to ripen from green to yellow. It's no coincidence that Superman was impervious to everything but the green mineral Kryptonite. And sprouts, obviously, although much less was made of this in the films. But now, a miracle of modern engineering has arrived. Fire, the wheel, the atom. Mere stepping stones on the road to humanity's greatest achievement. Nobel prizes should be awarded. The designer should be given a medal the size of a frying pan. Have my money. Take my first born. This little beauty takes out the green bit from my favourite fruit. It's easy to use. Fast. Effective. It's easy to clean. The good people of the world no longer have to fear the risk of an accidentally ingesting a green bit, and can enjoy their fruit in blissful equanimity. Now if the inventor can come up with a way to remove Facebook from the face of the Earth their elevation to godhood would be assured.

I Love this!! My eight year old would eat two punnets of strawberries a day if I let him, but he's not so keen on the 'green bits' and since Mum here was born with only one hand, prizing them out the usual way was just too fiddly for me. So I got the fun job of slicing the whole top off the strawberry, which was rather messy as the poor strawberries bled everywhere. Now I just steady the strawberry with my stump, press the button, plunge, release, twist ...and voila! 'Green bits' removed with almost surgical precision, and with a lot less blood loss! It is strangely satisfying too... the plunge of the sharp, shiny metal, the gentle resistance and then the yielding, of the firm, pink-tinged flesh... but, perhaps that's just my inner psychopath coming out. Ahem.. I can happily go through a punnet in less time and with less mess than the open-surgery method, and even the eight-year-old likes to have a go, so smiles all round. I can even take the 'funny bit' off the top of grapes (to normal, non-eight year old people, this is just the hole where the stalk has been) IF i'm feeling particularly affectionate towards my rather strange and overly picky offspring. Go one, get one. Its useful...and fun!

Looks great and good reviews but bought for a strawberry loving relations birthday so unable to comment further atm but will definitely be a present with a difference!

excellent product.works too

Having used the tweezer-style hullers with varying success, I thought I'd try this one. It really is a very efficient little tool and quite satisfying to use; a simple press on the plunger, stick the four blades into the fruit around the leaves, release the plunger, twist, and Bob's your uncle. I did read one review which said that this huller wasn't any good for small strawberries but this is wrong- you just don't push the blades in as far and it works just the same. it also helps that it is a nice little gadget. Out of interest I have also bought one of the very cheap copies of the Chef'n StemGem and although it looks very similar it definately has a flimsier, cheaper feel to it, and the blades are looser- it also arrived without a plunger knob- it must have fallen off before being posted as the missing part wasn't in the bag! You pays your money as they say...

We eat a lot of strawberries and cleaning them is always a chore. I found that once I had got used to using them that it did make it much quicker and easier to prepare my strawberries. Not an essential as you can do the same thing with a knife, but I am pleased I bought it and as it does work I think it is worth buying

changes the way you experience strawberries!!! Normally eating strawberries you wash them and then consciously have to hold back all the leaves at the stem while you make sure your bite takes 90% of the strawberry but carefully not to bite as far as the leafy stem. THIS LITTLE DEVICE CHANGES IT ALL!!! Yes spend a bit of time quick plucking the stem/core/leafy area and you do get proficient at it after a couple goes, deal with this preparation time, be patient! Now you have a basket of fresh,cool, washed, core-less strawberries that you can without care throw into the mouth one after another continuously without throwing down cores with leaves! I get through so many more strawberries than I used to as i get carried away with how easy it is to throw them into the mouth. YUM!!!

Just what I wanted. Couldn’t find them in the shops. Should have gone to amazon straightaway! Dines the job perfectly!

Durante los últimos meses, he estado influenciado por la moda de los smoothies de frutas, semillas, etc. muy natural pues; y este pequeño artefacto hace un excelente trabajo removiendo la parte que hay que limpiar de las fresas, o sea la parte del lado verde que es donde más suciedad pueden acumular estos deliciosísimos frutos. Al principio me costó un poco (tal vez unas 5 o 6 fresas) entender la mecánica y lógica de éste producto, y esque hay que tomar en cuenta los siguientes factores: 1- Empujar el botón verde para abrir la pinza, tanto como sea necesario; esto dependiendo del tamaño de la fresa (o qué tanto quieras remover de la fresa). 2.- Colocar la pinza abierta justo en el centro del area a remover. 3.- Hacer un poco de presión entre la pinza y la fresa Y AL MISMO TIEMPO girar la pinza en un solo sentido para que asi corte el trozo no deseado sin excederse. Estos pasos hay que repetirlos con cada fresa; tengan paciencia, despues de unos cuantos intentos seguro les va a gustar este producto tanto como a mi.

Sembra una cosa inutile e invece è un utensile utilissimo. Pulisce le fragole senza fatica e in maniera regolare. Consigliato!

Très pratique pour la pâtisserie

Petit ustensile de cuisine très pratique sans compter son aspect sympathique

Não promete o que disse, infelizmente não foi uma boa aquisição