Need to peel apples quickly? Try an electric screwdriver

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If you’re planning to make apple pie this fall, consider this peeling shortcut: an electric screwdriver.

After employees at an unnamed restaurant grew tired of “the tedious task of peeling apples,” YouTube user OnlyAMuffin’s dad offered a power-tool solution to their boredom.

Holding the screwdriver in one hand and a peeler in the other, he quickly peels apple after apple, creating long ribbons of peel in the process.

All that’s left to do is core and slice them.

MacGyver would be proud.

Hopefully MacGyver would also advise us to be very careful when using power tools for tasks they’re not necessarily intended for. Try at your own risk.

If you are peeling piles of apples this harvest season, consider using making oven-dried cinnamon-sugar apple peel chips — or these apple-peel twigs — with the leftover peels.

Or turn them into jelly, add them to your oatmeal, toss them in a smoothie, or use them in your kitchen cleanup routine: the acid in the peels can help remove stains and discolouration from aluminum pots and pans.

There are plenty of other uses for power tools in the kitchen.

Make:Projects shares multiple uses for the cordless power drill: as a cord-free mixer, a high-powered pepper grinder, or super-charged pot scrubber. (Just be careful you don’t scrub the Teflon off your pans.)

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And in this Crain’s video, Chicago chefs show off their power-tool expertise: a power-drill/hole-saw combo cleans the ends of corn, a paint trowel helps create elegant chocolate designs, and a travel-size blow dryer maintains a wood-fired grills super-hot temperatures.

Even a paper shredder has a place in one chef’s kitchen.

Watch below. And please only attempt with extreme caution — and have safety measures in place.

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Have you ever used power tools in the kitchen?