Not a lot of people leave comments on my site; in fact, hardly anyone. So I know that I must have hit on a topic of real concern to the public out there when I get more than two comments on the same thing. The only items to have drawn such attention are
a) Where can you buy a rainmate? and
b) How do you scrape a coconut?
As someone has just posted another comment to the coconut thread, I thought it might be a good opportunity to (belatedly) show the latest sighting of a rainmate-like hood. This was in Woolworth’s in Wimbledon, on Boxing Day 2006.
Meanwhile, more sightings of coconut scrapers are needed, so if you’ve seen one, please post details.
Coconut scraper?
How about: a grape peeler?
An apple corer? (haven’t seen one in years)
Pistachio shell remover? (when you’re hungry and just can’t get them down your neck quickly enough!)
If you haven’t seen an apple corer in years, you just haven’t been trying hard enough! Peter Jones have them (of course), as do Smith Brothers in Tooting (where I got mine, and my grapefruit knife, also).
But for kitchen-things-you-haven’t-seen-for-years, one of the best online stores around is Wares of Knutsford . Not only do they have a range of things for apples, including, at £23.95 a machine that will core and peel the apple mechanically, they also sell those pulley-operated ceiling airers for drying clothes that I last saw in a scullery in Bournemouth circa 1970.