This Weeks gadget: Skruba Scrubbing Gloves

Sharing kitchen duties is half the fun of cooking. I don't necessarily mean just washing dishes or cleaning up after the cook, but jumping in and providing meaningful help, too, in the preparation and planning of meals. I don't know about you, but meals do not magically appear on the kitchen table in my house. There are many steps involved to get food from the supermarket to the table and it's important, both in the appreciation of the art of cooking as well as the training of youngsters, to get them in there and have them learn the basics of cooking. And while it's not always easy to make disagreeable work fun, it seems that's there's a new product out there that might make prepping vegetables a bit easier to take.

Simple, functional tools can go a long ways towards turning a hard bit of work into a pleasant task. Take Skruba gloves, for instance. You slip them on as you would any other work glove and then go after that sink full of potatoes or carrots or other root vegetables you would otherwise have to peel. As their product information states, most of the nutritive value of these types of vegetables are affectively lost when they are hit hard with a peeler. With these gloves you essentially scrub away dirt, pesticides and bacteria and leave all the nutrients on the vegetable. How grand. No messy peels in the sink, and a fun bit of action for the kids as well.

I know that you can probably do the same thing with any number of other scrubbing products that are available out there, but apparently these wash up beautifully and are built to last. I haven't seen one these gloves in action yet so can't vouch for them personally, but they look like a winning product. Seek them out and let us know what you think!

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