This Thing WORKS!
I eat an apple nearly every day per my doctor's recommendation due to a near bout with diverticulitis 3 years ago. I'm supposed to eat them with the skin on, which I like, but I hate gnawing at them to eat them off from the core. So I was quartering them with a knife. My son saw me doing this and asked me if I had considered an apple slicer, which I had never even heard of. So I got on Amazon and looked at a number of slicers. I settled on this one because it was 100% stainless steel - no plastic handles - and it cut the apple into only 12 sections rather than 18 or more, and I reasoned that the fewer cuts one was trying to make at a time, the less effort needed and the less strain on the cutter. I believe I've been vindicated. This slicer cuts the 12 sections with reasonable ease and has yet to bend or break in any way. Cleaning is easy. I just swish it around in the dish water, and then rinse it with the hot rinse water and it comes out 100% clean. I suppose it could also go in a dishwasher, which I don't have. It's also cheaper than several others I saw that I thought would probably not work as well and were potentially more subject to breaking or bending.