They work great for peeling apples. Do bushels a year with one. Never tried them for curly fries so just a guess but it should work. Dave

But you can't shave cheese with it. Even DH tried it and it doesn't work. You can't hold it in your left hand and shave with the right hand. You can shave across the top of the cheese but you have to shave from right to left which is awkward and not safe because there's no place to hold the cheese while shaving it. You're shaving toward your hand. Weird.

SIL used to do the demos... and she was GOOD at it, always lots of fun and food involved. After she stopped doing them, she gave me a few things she accumulated. She SWEARS by the chopper... it works just fine, but I find that the small amount of extra time with a knife outweighs the disassembling of the gadget to clean. The "V-slicer" works fine, but already had an inexpensive Mouli mandolin that works FINE even after many years. She used the apple peeler/slicer/corer a LOT when niece was small to prep fruit for snacks. I found another use for it. Was making a BIG batch of real lemon-ade and thought off all that great zest (that I didn't immediately need) just going into trash after juicing. The parts that slice and core can swing out of the way and I ended up with MOUNDS of zest and lemons still intact enough to use reamer on. Air-dried and then ground to make REAL lemon-pepper that didn't have SALT as a main ingredient. Pizza stone is nice, though NOT any different from every other one to justify possible higher cost. She had a few demos in her home for something called "Simply" something. All food items. Tasty but seriously over-priced. I found knock-off recipes for a few things people were RAVING about that were much nicer and a fraction of cost.

From the looks of the photo you posted, that's a LOT of plastic for $19.95. My experience with PC products over the years is that they are way, way over-priced and--at least the stuff I've purchased has been of VERY low quality. Before your sister drops that kind of money on a piece of plastic, she might want to check her local restaurant supply store--I find professional gadgets are of generally far better quality than PC, although pricewise they're often comparable. Or she could check online sources like Williams-Sonoma, or Fante's (In Philadelphia's Italian Market--a VERY good store that sells high end kitchen items) Just looking at the photo, it's hard to imagine that thing would be able to handle something solid like a carrot, or fibrous like asparagus very well, for very long. And there's another question--how do you sharpen the blades? They're not going to keep an edge for very long. Also, looks like it would be a bear to clean, getting in between all those blades and spaces. Me? I prefer to do my slicing and chopping with a good knife and board. That way I control the size, shape, etc. Clean-up is easy and I don't have a lot of extra 'stuff' to find homes for.