Anything to make food preparation less tedious. I'd buy it.

YES!!! I like this idea, saves time and effort.

This is actually the bane of the fresh fruit and vegetable industry because the largest deterent to people eating frest fruit is the act of peeling. Producers and packagers have tried for years to produce "easy-peel" varieties (e.g., Sunkist with oranges). Unfortunately, skins and peels often serve to protect the fruit from bruises and bacteria in transport. Only in certain cases is a pre-peeled or easy-peel possible. The best example of this is the pre-cut, pre-cleaned, pre-peeled, and cleanly packaged carrot, which has been a godsend for the carrot industry.

The home auto-peeler would allow fruit to be produced and transported to the normal way, but still make it easier to eat, thus increasing demand. Producers would be stoked because then they don't have to coddle some special variety (which would have per unit costs, especially for handling). On the other hand, a market might exist for uniformly shaped fruit which the auto-peeler can handle. That type of fruit could be sold for a premium, and is easy to identify in packing houses through photo recognition systems. (My family is a citrus packer/producer)

Great idea. Plus I don't think it should be too much trouble. Auto fruit peelers could be easily bundled with food processors.

1. eat a mandarin2. drink oj3. get into genetic engineering, and muck about with the orange so that it has no pips and a very thin edible skin.

GO FOR IT!!

cheers:o)

AMEN! Let me know when you find something like that. I'll use it, but I'll save my peels, thank you. I use them (lemon and orange) for zest in recipes and I grind them and dry them and put into capsules for myself and my health conscious(or just CONSCIOUS) clients.

A PS to my last comment on fruit peelers...

There ARE peelers already on the market. They don't work the way you describe, however. You set the fruit into the machine and is rotates while a blade cuts off the peel.