Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Lem-O Saver

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:40:23 +0000

The best way I’ve found to store partially-used avocados is to wrap them in cling wrap, and then use one of those freezer bags with a vacuum pump to extract the extra air. We use a bit of avocado each day and have found that an avocado will stay fresh for up to 4-5 days using this method. No fancy container needed. Plus, since you’re using the cling wrap, it keeps the vacuum bag clean for multiple uses.

By: KatrinaD

KatrinaD — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:29:37 +0000

As the lemon has a seatbelt, I wonder if it’s been tested for safety?

Perhaps there’s a ‘half a lemon crash test dummy’ out there somewhere waiting for another device to test.

By: STL Mom

STL Mom — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:58:48 +0000

Okay, when I lived in New Jersey I actually bought a “pizza saver”, shaped like a huge slice of pizza. And I used it!
Now, however, I live in Chicago, where the deep dish pizza slices are small and thick (won’t fit in the pizza saver) and the thin-crust pizzas are cut into SQUARES (and don’t fit efficiently into the pizza saver).
But for some reason, I still have that pizza saver. I think it’s time to let it go…

By: Brit

Brit — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:47:54 +0000

You know, if you cut a banana in half, right through the peel, the cut end “seals” over, and the banana stays edible for another day or two… don’t even need plastic wrap for that….

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:09:38 +0000

MY BEST FRIEND GOT ME THE AVO-SAVER for my birthday. I was apaulled, but kept it together and thanked her. I’ve been waiting to see it in this section of this blog since!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:10:28 +0000

This is a hilarious find! Keep them coming!

By: Jeanne Thelwell

Jeanne Thelwell — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:06:45 +0000

Ah! I figured out the “seatbelt”: if you look at the apple saver, you’ll see it’s a flat surface, not a depression, so the fruit/veggie would slide off without the strap.

These things are really silly, but the company does seem to make a number of truly useful products.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:24:16 +0000

I do keep one empty hummus tub to hold leftover onion so the onion smell doesn’t seep into my multi-purpose containers. I can’t imagine keeping so many separate containers for each food item. What if your lemon is particularly large or small? The hummus tub is translucent so I can easily see whether I have half a yellow or half a red onion. Yum.

By: Another Deb

Another Deb — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:10:46 +0000

The product looks like a little soap dish for lemons.

Where, oh where are the raisin savers?

By: Sue B

Sue B — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:57:15 +0000

Yes but did you see the photos of the banana savers? Multicolor, five lined up in a row, total food porn (take that ANY way you want.)

By: Kalani

Kalani — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:40:34 +0000

HAHAHA at Caroline’s comment re: “S&M for avocados”…. too funny.

Where’s a Mang-O-Saver? And an O-range-Saver? And a thingy for star fruit? Also how about lychee? I want a lychee saver. And one for loquats. I eat a lot of half loquats.

Ok, now I’m just getting silly.

By: Nana

Nana — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:25:34 +0000

I must admit that I just plunk my half-lemons on a plate, cut side down. And they keep just fine.

About the onion: there are cultures in which raw onion is eaten (I’m thinking of a Lebanese friend, who keeps a whole raw onion on the side of his lunch plate, taking bites as if it were an apple.)

By: FutureCat

FutureCat — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:50:49 +0000

The product description for the onion saver is great: “this clip allows your child to eat half of an onion one day and the other half the next day.”

I must have had a deprived childhood – my mother never packed half an onion in my lunchbox

By: Dawn F

Dawn F — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:20:27 +0000

Half lime + Corona Light = Perfect evening.

I love the comment about the watermelon saver! Hilarious!

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:00:59 +0000

@timgray

Well, obviously…You put da lime in da coconut and drink ‘em both up.