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I feel like a new woman today with my apple peeler. I brought it home yesterday afternoon, screwed it to the counter, practiced with three apples and then wondered how many hundreds of hours of my life could have been spent hiking, biking or riding my horse rather than sitting there, chewing away, and peeling and quartering those apples at a rate of about 30 per hour. It takes a lot of apples to make sauce or cobbler. If I counted it all up, it could get downright discouraging–-just like the amount of time I sit here staring at this computer while it takes 20 minutes to get going full speed ahead on some mornings/Marianne Love, Slight Detour. More here.
Question: Which convenience has been the most useful to you in terms of saving time?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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JeanieSpokane on February 03 at 8:56 a.m.
My vegetable peeler! I bought myself a peeler with a soft rubber handle and I absolutely love it - no more cutting into my hand.
Liz on February 03 at 9:49 a.m.
the internet
thawtfulreader on February 03 at 8:57 p.m.
80% of the nutritional elements in an apple are in the skin. I have an apple core-er, which cuts it into nice easy to eat slices sans the core, but leaves all the nutrition in the skin of the apple.
Escapee on February 03 at 10:20 p.m.
Undoubtedly, the Microwave Oven. 10 minutes for a baked potato! Four minutes to heat up the green beans I feed my parrot. Come to think of it, the parrot probably eats healthier than I do…