Chef'n StemGem Strawberry Huller Tool, Remove Core & Leaf, Great for Baking & Jam Making, Red, 9 x 5 x 3 cm

If you look around Amazon you can find all manner of kitchen gadgets of varying usefulness. Maybe its just me, but I've never found a banana particularly difficult to slice and don't do it often enough to merit a specific tool for the job (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-KCBANSLICE-Banana-Slicer/dp/B003CLFC98/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1439278538&sr=1-1&keywords=banana+slicer). I'm also capable of biting a banana, so often I'll completely forgo the slicing and go straight to eating. That might give you an indication of how recalcitrant I can be. I'm the James Dean of yellow fruit consumption.The same cannot be said for red fruit. Not because its red, but because most red fruit has a green bit attached. Tomatoes, grapes, strawberries, peppers, the list goes on...I don't do green. I wait for the aforementioned bananas to ripen from green to yellow. It's no coincidence that Superman was impervious to everything but the green mineral Kryptonite. And sprouts, obviously, although much less was made of this in the films.But now, a miracle of modern engineering has arrived. Fire, the wheel, the atom. Mere stepping stones on the road to humanity's greatest achievement. Nobel prizes should be awarded. The designer should be given a medal the size of a frying pan. Have my money. Take my first born.This little beauty takes out the green bit from my favourite fruit. It's easy to use. Fast. Effective. It's easy to clean. The good people of the world no longer have to fear the risk of an accidentally ingesting a green bit, and can enjoy their fruit in blissful equanimity.Now if the inventor can come up with a way to remove Facebook from the face of the Earth their elevation to godhood would be assured.

Just what I wanted. Couldn’t find them in the shops. Should have gone to amazon straightaway! Dines the job perfectly!

After seeing YouTube reviews of this, I thought I'd try them myself yo make my smoothie making quicker. I can tell you it certainly does. It is so much quicker, easier and cleaner to use this than other methods or by hand.The two big let downs are; the small green 'pink at the bottom keeps falling out as I use it, which is so difficult to put back in, and you can't provide additional 'clasping' strength if you have a tougher strawberry.Definitely worth buying though.

Having used the tweezer-style hullers with varying success, I thought I'd try this one. It really is a very efficient little tool and quite satisfying to use; a simple press on the plunger, stick the four blades into the fruit around the leaves, release the plunger, twist, and Bob's your uncle. I did read one review which said that this huller wasn't any good for small strawberries but this is wrong- you just don't push the blades in as far and it works just the same. it also helps that it is a nice little gadget.Out of interest I have also bought one of the very cheap copies of the Chef'n StemGem and although it looks very similar it definately has a flimsier, cheaper feel to it, and the blades are looser- it also arrived without a plunger knob- it must have fallen off before being posted as the missing part wasn't in the bag!You pays your money as they say...

Bought this as I was a little fed up with having to fiddle when removing the stalks or losing a large part of the fruit when in a hurry.My first attempt to use this was on berries that were slightly overripe and they just turned into mush when trying to use this., Further attempts were on fresher strawberries and was surprised to see how well it worked.I would assume the blades would need to be sharper for it to work well on berries that are ripe.

My last huller lasted well over 5 years before the spring inside broke, this is the identical product and I have every confidence that this one will last a long time too. It’s a very effective product that is easy to use.After use, rinse by hand (not dishwasher) but don’t submerge and leave to dry standing on its tip to keep water out of the interior mechanism.

changes the way you experience strawberries!!! Normally eating strawberries you wash them and then consciously have to hold back all the leaves at the stem while you make sure your bite takes 90% of the strawberry but carefully not to bite as far as the leafy stem. THIS LITTLE DEVICE CHANGES IT ALL!!! Yes spend a bit of time quick plucking the stem/core/leafy area and you do get proficient at it after a couple goes, deal with this preparation time, be patient! Now you have a basket of fresh,cool, washed, core-less strawberries that you can without care throw into the mouth one after another continuously without throwing down cores with leaves! I get through so many more strawberries than I used to as i get carried away with how easy it is to throw them into the mouth. YUM!!!