Potato Rumbler
Potato rumblers are essentially automated potato peelers that are mostly used in large scale commercial kitchens. Manually peeling potatoes by hand can be a very time consuming and labour intensive endeavour. If you work in a large hotel with over 100 rooms, you can imagine how many potatoes would need to be peeled on a daily basis in order to feed all the guests. This is where a potato rumber would be found. It is a machine in which you will put a bag of potatoes in and it will output ready pealed potatoes ready for any use. It works by throwing the potatoes against a gritted inside chamber, peeling the skin from the potato. It usually contains water to keep the potatoes clean whilst pealing them. They also come with a variety of attachments which allow you to peel other things such as vegetables like carrots etc.
Home Use
As said, potato rumblers are mostly found in large scale commercial kitchen that handle a lot of food. They are usually large machines and have a large capacity and can handle a lot of potato peeling per hour. There is however smaller units now being released onto the market that are aimed at the home user. Perhaps you have a relatively large family with maybe 4 kids, or you entertain on a regular basis. You can now pick up a small home potato rumbler for as little as £20 from online retailers such as Amazon. This is not much to pay if you find yourself standing peeling potatoes for 10-15 minutes every night. You could just place the desired amount of potatoes into the mini potato rumbler and switch it on, perhaps go and prepare something else for a few minutes and come back to a fully peeled out set of potatoes. These mini potato rumblers also come from respected manufacturers such as Kenwood so you know that when you purchase them, you are buy quality.
Don't overfill
Obviously the way it works, it can be quite a wasteful machine if you don't use it properly. If you are hand peeling potatoes, you know how much of the potato to remove as you can see the skin being removed as you do it. For a machine, it cannot make the judgement. If you overfill the potato rumbler you can not only increase the time it takes for it to skin the potatoes, you also increase the wastage as the potatoes will rumble around for longer, taking more potato away that is not skin.
A worthwhile investment
Potato rumblers are excellent inventions that have only recently became available for home consumers. As the cheaper ones can cost as little as £20, it is a very small price to pay if it's going to save you an hour each week peeling potatoes. Imagine that, 10 minutes a night, is 1 hour a week roughly, which is 2 days a year peeling potatoes. I would happily pay £200 not to spend 2 days a year not peeling potatoes.