Unitasker Wednesday: The french fry cutter
Who doesn’t love french fries? If you don’t, you may be the the only one. So if everyone loves french fries wouldn’t a French Fry Cutter from Willimas-Sonoma make sense? Uh, not really. This thing measures in at 20.5 inches tall.
My wife makes some fantastic fries and she uses a knife to cut the potatoes. Imagine that! Yeah, they aren’t as pretty as the restaurant-style french fries this cutter promises to cut for you, but we also don’t have to store this monstrosity in our kitchen. File this thing under “O” for overkill. Use a knife. But if you are in the market for a french fry cutter, you would probably also be interested in the French Fry Holder with Condiment Server.
I’d love to see the kitchen that has the french fry cutter and the apple peeler-corer. That may be the the mother of all cluttered kitchens, but I’d gladly sample their french fries.
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Posted by Matt on Aug 1, 2007 |
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Posted by Jess - 08/01/2007
OK, you can stop ripping the apple peeler,slicer,corer now. I have one and LOVE it. I freeze apples for pies in the fall and this gets the job done. Also kids love eating an apple thats spiral cut. Mine is 15 yrs old, so not a bad for a real time saver.
Posted by beth - 08/01/2007
I’d like to know who on earth is buying these things.
Posted by Girl from Europe - 08/01/2007
I’ve eaten french fries in french bistros many times, and they never came in a rolled newspaper sheet. This french fry holder is a hoax I suspect.
Posted by missdona - 08/01/2007
I actually got one of these as a gift and I wish I was kidding.
I couldn’t get it out of my house fast enough.
I put it on craigslist and it sold pretty quickly.
Posted by jehb - 08/01/2007
I don’t know, I have a pretty minimalist kitchen and I find we use our French fry cutter several times a month. Granted, ours is about a third that size If you haven’t tried sweet potato French fries, you’re missing out in life.
Posted by mritz03 - 08/01/2007
This thing can be a boon if you have a lot of chopping to do. I watch the guy at my favorite burrito joint chop onions, peppers, lettuce and even tomatos with it. He’ll tear through an entire box of onions in under a minute. So if you entertain often or have a few kids, the time that this little baby saves you in the kitchen may be gold.
Posted by JustBeth - 08/01/2007
When I lived in England, fish and chips came wrapped in newspaper (I dislike fish, so I only had it once, but it was fun!)
My knife skills are sub-par, but I’m pretty sure I could handle making french fries, for the amount of space that this would take in the kitchen.
Posted by fj - 08/01/2007
A nice compromise is a mandoline. It’s not a one trick wonder, but a huge time saver for all kinds of slicing tasks in the kitchen. It’ll do a few different slices (julienne, for example) in addition to the classic french fry. It’s fairly compact as well. Get an expensive one (100-150 $US new)- the cheap ones do NOT work.
Okay- enough picking on Williams Sonoma. I’m sure the Sharper Image has something worthy
Posted by Erin at Unclutterer - 08/01/2007
I agree with fj … the mandolin rocks!! Quite the space-saving alternative to this huge thing.
Posted by Cottser - 08/01/2007
Much smaller unitasker for the same job: http://www.starfrit.net/potato-chipper.html
Posted by Anonymous - 08/01/2007
I’ve been reading this blog for a while now I just wanted to say I really don’t like single use items like this so I love Unitasker Wednesday! Also its good to see encouragement of cutting fries by hand! Its so hard sometimes to experiences of people who do things by hand instead of with odd appliances, especially in the kitchen.
Posted by The Bird Man - 08/01/2007
Thats perhaps the coolest, most impractical thing I’ve ever seen.
Posted by Charles - 08/02/2007
Don’t food processors often have attachments that cut fries? I think that would be a much more justifiable purchase than this unitasker.
Posted by Anonymous - 08/29/2007
Beth, if you can check this again, I’d love to know what you’re using to cut the sweet potato fries. I’ve gone through 3 of the garden variety cutters, and I even cut the sweet pototatos in 8 pieces first.
Posted by Anonymous - 08/29/2007
Actually that was for jehb
Posted by Aisha - 09/27/2007
Well, I wouldn’t want it for my home, but we do still have french fries served in newspaper cones by street vendors in my part of the world…
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