I recently purchased one of these (see picture) in anticipation of making a batch of apple dumplings. I had seen them being used, but had never operated one myself.
Once I had it set up and ready to use, I realized that there's no way to operate the machine as just a peeler and corer. The corer is integrated with the slicing blade, so if you're coring, you're slicing. Dumplings require whole apples that have only been peeled and cored.
I can see how a machine that keeps coring separate from slicing would require design modifications, but am wondering if any such contraption exists. It wasn't a big deal to use my coring tool on the apples, but if I could automate that part of the process it would make it a lot more satisfying.
Everything I've seen on line requires slicing along with coring. Am I chasing after a device that doesn't exist?

Once I had it set up and ready to use, I realized that there's no way to operate the machine as just a peeler and corer. The corer is integrated with the slicing blade, so if you're coring, you're slicing. Dumplings require whole apples that have only been peeled and cored.
I can see how a machine that keeps coring separate from slicing would require design modifications, but am wondering if any such contraption exists. It wasn't a big deal to use my coring tool on the apples, but if I could automate that part of the process it would make it a lot more satisfying.
Everything I've seen on line requires slicing along with coring. Am I chasing after a device that doesn't exist?
