Whether you're the Golden Delicious type or prefer the tartness of a fresh green Granny Smith, apples are an affordable way to up your vitamin intake and get your five portions of fruit and veggies a day. Having a useful tool to hand to prepare them for cooking or just snacking is a sure-fire way of making sure you actually eat the apples you grow or buy. We're taking a look at the best apple corers on the market to help you keep the doctor at bay…
With a non-slip handle, OXO's traditional option is perfect to simply and easily remove an apple's core. It has a large handle hole for easy storage so you can hang it up. The head is stainless steel for easy cleaning, and it's dishwasher safe.
Go old school with this cast-iron classic. It cores and slices an apple in a matter of seconds, so ideal for making a good old apple pie. The suction base will stick to your worktop, and it can also peel apples too, making it a great three-in-one gizmo.
Available in black or this rather jaunty shade of red, the Newness Corer is perfect for anyone who needs to core a large quantity of fruit. It has an easy-to-hold ergonomic handle and openable mouth for quick removal of the core.
This larger option is excellent for people who like their apples big as it will work with up to 4-inch foodstuffs. A heavy duty choice, it's made from 18/8 stainless steel that is resistant to corrosion and blade dulling. It will remove the apple's core and give you a set of neatly cut slices.
If you like a lot of different fresh fruit, this set is the best choice for you. It contains four different size hand-held corers, all ideal for getting rid of differently sized cores, pits, and stones. The corer diameters are 0.25 inches, 0.39 inches, 0.5 inches, and 0.72 inches, so you're good from cherries upwards.
Children will appreciate this corer's playful design and want to get involved in the preparation process. You'll appreciate the fact it cores and cuts an apple into 20 small slices, perfect for fruit platters, salads, lunch boxes, and bento boxes.
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There's a lot of choices for apple lovers out there. If you're short on kitchen storage space, you will want to opt for a corer tool that does more than just core apples to justify its space in your cupboards.
People with kids will get more out of a corer that also cuts your apples into child-friendly slices, like the Kitchen Krush products. Our best pick overall though is the classic, traditional design from OXO. Its ergonomic handle and stainless steel head will sort you out for coring apples for years to come.