My family doesn’t eat a lot of fruit.  They tend to feel that it is “inconvenient” to have to deal with peels, seeds, slicing the fruit, juice running down your arm and pits.  (Sigh.)  So I try to make eating fruit easier by buying little gadgets that make it easier to deal with these things.  After all, fruit is a healthy snack, right?

So I recently bought several little gadgets that are called “orange peelers.”  They look a lot like a toothbrush, but have a sharp point that you use to score the orange peel to make it easier for the user to slide another part of the peeler under the peel to remove it.  I thought that these were portable enough to tuck into a lunch box with an orange, and simple and safe enough for even older children to use.  (By older I mean at least 12 years old.) 

Well, I had no idea how dangerous those little peelers can be!  In the past week both my husband and my adult son have sliced open their hands when they were using these little gadgets while trying to peel an orange!  So I want to caution people to be really careful when using these things; they are not as “safe” as they seem!  And if you are thinking about buying an orange peeler, please be very aware that they probably are NOT safe for young children, and may not even be safe for husbands!