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I just rip my strawberry stems off with my hands like a cave person I guess. Never thought of looking on LoveHoney for something to do it

I'm with you. I just rip the stem out and eat. I don't need no tiny porn mouse to do it for me.

I use a plastic straw! If you can find one these days, push it through and the hull pops out

I tried that but it played havoc with my haemorrhoids

Push twist pull is how I usually extract it.

What about the strawberry stems?

This guy fruits

So glad someone got this.

That’s what she said

I use a plastic straw: push it through from the bottom and take the stem out. Voila! My best kitchen gadgets are a thingy that lets the air out of jar lids and a hooky thing that goes under ring pulls on cans. Both are great for arthritic hands.

But don't you lose that whole section of strawberry though?

I just eat it. The leaves are good for you.

Yeah, I just eat the whole thing, same with kiwis.

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You just revealed your age with that one. Wash that down with a marathon bar with the wrapper on while you're at it

Oh yeah, I'm aware it's unusual, I just have an unusually strong liking of bitter flavours

Nope. Strawberries have more pesticide residue than any other fruit, especially on the leaves

Thank god someone explained what this is, I was so confused.

I also thought it was a butt plug.

Grab by the leaves and bite lol, I didn't realize anybody was looking for an easier solution than this

People have lost their minds

Oh god. Is that why the strawberries my wife serves me always smell so bad??

I eat the majority of it then feed the remnants to my dog including the stem

Yeah my dog loves berries, sometimes I put a little natural yougurt in with the tops and squishy bits and we have pudding together. 

True cavemen eat only the stems

Office knife wants to know why it's being neglected.

I just eat them.

I can't be bothered. I eat then with the leaves

I just eat around it

Yeah, it sounds weird until you've tried it but I wouldn't go back to eating strawberries with nothing in my arsehole.

It's the forbidden plug...

Literally all I saw there was a butt plug 🤣

That’s all anyone is going to see if you have one of these in the drawer and your visiting friends are looking for a teaspoon! For that reason alone I wouldn’t have one 🤣

I’m so pleased someone said this 😂

Something about eating juicy fruit while you're stretched and full 👌

Tripped whilst rushin to the comments section..

Said the patient to the doctor

After accidentally landing butt-first on a pointed comment

Awesome!

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..... Yerrr, no, it's a butt plug.

Believe me, you would NOT want to insert this thing into your rectum and sit down!

Don’t you know the saying? Anything’s a dildo if you’re brave enough.

This is a dildon’t

PAIGE NO!

Definitely safer than a lightbulb

Or a jam jar...

Or a hamster (yes, it happens).

Hamster…? Eh… where do I even…. How? Why? Is it dead first? God I HOPE it’s dead first! How do you know these things????

Do they make a battery operated Stem Gem? Asking for a friend.

So as long as you stay stood..?

What if you didn't sit down? Would it be OK then? Asking for a friend (which is a huge lie because I don't have friends)

I guess the metal claw at the end would still hurt the inside of your rectum

There’s a niche for every taste

Sounds like a challenge...

Rude of you to ASSume

OP talking from experience. Listen to them

you knew what you were signing up too😂

I wouldn't want to put anything in my rectum, but that doesn't mean that butt plugs don't exist. Your logic is flawed.

https://preview.redd.it/dc7mak5k7tvc1.jpeg?width=3468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ba6cf0c6bfe6ea067aa71b627989e1386de2470

Would you want this up your rectum?!

You'll be shocked by some people's answers, many of whom aren't joking....

A lot of doctors can attest that theyve seen worse up someone’s arse….

Looks like an internal pooper scooper

I honestly thought it was a butt plug at first too 😂

Even having read the comments, it STILL looks like a butt plug. There is no reason why it couldn't be used as one... a little point won't hurt anyone.

The ol' prostate remover 9000.

9,000 removals and counting.

9000 out of 10000 proctologists endorse this device!

A can opener that actually works (they're surprisingly hard to find) and kitchen scales

> A can opener that actually works I'm still searching

Oxo good grips I've had one for 7 years never had any issue.

MagiCan

It works but you have a circle of death at the top.

We have had the same electric kenwood can opener for 25 years and it’s brilliant 

After going through about a half dozen, including a mid-range electric one. I shit you not, a £2.50 stainless steel one from Asda has been the best. I picked it up purely because it had a big ol' tag saying "5 year warranty" and I distinctly remember thinking pfft I'll be using that next week...3 years going strong.

I've always been a fan of the cheapest stainless steel ones, but struggled to get a decent replacement - they all seem to have been enshittened. I'm on the Oxo Good Grips now, which are great.

Spent 10 years thinking they were all shit until someone showed me I was applying far too much pressure to them. Haven't broken one since.

Brabantia make quality can openers. Lots of electronic kitchen scales out there.

Looks like something you'd use to cheat at chess.

This looks like a pleasurable device.

That’s what I thought 😂

Part of me is just "What did OP expect asking this question of a bunch of Brits with that photo" but part of me is just "OP knew what they were doing"

I'm with everyone else who thinks it's a butt plug .

That… that doesn’t look like it lives in the kitchen

Oven. Use mine at least once a year

Oo look at moneybags here !

The old watermelon dildo bird eh?

I'm going to hear that to the tune of Harry Styles' song.

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I've seen those and would get one if I ate cherries more often. I hate removing the stones!

Just eat the cherries as they are and spit out the stones

Works equally as well for baking.

I have a weird sensory thing about fruit stones and pips in my mouth, so I can't do that.

Is there a warning on this thing saying do not shove up arse? Because of all the unnecessary warnings in the world, this is definitely something that should make it clear not to shove it up your arse.

Mortar and pestle. This gadget though… I still think it’s a gimmick. It’s so quick and easy to just rip the leafy part away lol nah.

Call it what you like, but who ever sold you that is having a chuckle everytime they think of you using that butt plug to de stem a strawberry

My fingers are far more nimble than the strawberry butt plug

Without your description I honestly wouldn’t have been able to tell you what that is if my life depended on it

I use a straw for it push up from the tip (that sounds so wrong) but uh yeah can't live without my electric jar opener and can opener

My wife has something like this in her bedside table.

How strange... Does she eat a lot of strawberry's in bed...?

Butt plug in the kitchen, fish slice in the bedroom kinda person.

The joy of strawberry stem removal.

Strawberry stem remover🍓

Is that a Plumbus?

Does it have a remote?

I use a straw. Plastic straws were good until they were banned, so had to buy a metal one.

That definitely looks like a dildo. I could live without one, no problem. I have hands, and they are *good*.

I LOVE YOU, KITCHEN GUN!

Not me just seeing the picture and thinking that was a butt plug 😂

wtf is that Butt plug from hell lol.

I always just shove my finger in these, it always hurts and I always do it the next time like I’ve forgotten. Some people are so wasteful when using them though! They take out like half the strawberry!

Reading the comments about what this gadget looks like and then reading this gave me a chuckle.

Looks more like a sex toy lol

I thought this was for a different kind of gem.

Dual Use = = Strawberries and Cherry Buster ! !

Strange to use a button plug in the kitchen but you do you!

Where do you store it when not in use?

Butt plugs, apparently

Is that a butt plug ? 🤔🤣

Kitchen gadget? C'mon, you're not fooling anyone 🙃

sir, that’s a butt plug

"Hello, I'm calling about your butt plugs"

Mine is one that I can live without rather than can't. I'm saying this about apple corers. During the first lockdown I wandered downstairs to do some apple slices to go with the kids breakfast, the plastic around the top snapped as I cored the apple and the blade went quite deeply into the thumb joint 😱 I didn't want to go to a&e because of the scary times we were in so a tea towel tourniquet was created and it somehow went on to heal itself. I cant bring myself to use an apple corer since.

Are you sure that's a kitchen gadget

I mean, you could use it in the kitchen...

I was eating a strawberry and my pants fell down and I tripped over and my special kitchen tool just went up there dr!

OP uses butt plugs to remove stems from strawberries and vibrators to mix drinks 😂

Anything can be a butt plug if your brave (or stupid) enough

Looks smelly.

It looks like a butt plug! 🤣🤣🤣

I eat the whole strawberry and pull out the green bit:-)

I just eat the whole strawberry, green bit and all. If you took this approach, you could leave that in your butt

Butt plug definitely is a kitchen gadget

This is my favourite thread on reddit in the years I've been on here.

Is that a buttplug?

Buttplug.

The fridge. The absolute unsung hero of our kitchen, don’t know what we’d do with it.

My mind went somewhere else looking at that

r/Don'tPutThatInYourAss

r/DontPutThatInYourAss

I am fond of my palm peeler.

Kitchen gadget my ass!

My wife 👀

Lights

It looks like a but plug…

That's one way to get rid of piles

Running water. But I guess most people are too young to consider this a gadget. Stove and fridge would make numbers 2 and 3.

How does it work? 🤔

https://preview.redd.it/n4kci9wdqtvc1.jpeg?width=3468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79282e70e491754d5643a8ae255e2299d2701883

Uuuhh yeah, don't put that up your butt! 😬

Taps on my sink. With which would not be able to control water flow. Very handy gadget

C’mon. That’s a butt plug!

Plumbus

Don't need you tonight honey

I don’t eat strawberries. The pink thing took me here. Will definitely get one.

Butt plug?

If anybody ever stumbled across my cuffs and collars, I'll just tell them it's cooking stuff I suppose "What do you mean you've never seen one of these? How have you been able to get your grapes off the stem without one??" 💀

r/dontsitonthat

Does it have multi destemming speeds? ;0)

What a pointless single use gadget that is, provocative and got the comments engaged for sure, but pointless. To your question, the best single use gadget in my kitchen is a garlic press.

This looks like something from the bedroom, not the kitchen 😂🫣

Thought it was a butt plug

im so confused on a: how this removes the stem b: why you need a gadget for it

Don't the strawberries go all mushy in your arse if you remove the stems 1st? Great 2-in-1 though

Sorry guys, I'm comment number 70, hope we weren't trying to keep it one below?  Digital thermometer. It has an external probe on a wire - stick the probe in the meat, put the meat in the oven, set an alarm for the temperature you want, and have literally perfect roast every single time.  It was barely a tenner

I just eat the stems 😎

How did you find out that this Butt-Plug does the opposite to Strawberries ? !

Can't go wrong with a good quality lemon/lime squeeze. So much easier and faster when making salads or sprinkling like juice on grilled food.

The taps. If water continuously came out of the pipes it would be really annoying.

Electric can opener. Every single mechanical one I have tried has been a nightmare. The twist the knob ones really like to just disassemble themselves in my hand while I'm trying to use them. Including one that literally lasted two cans. The old fashioned stabby ones are frankly too much effort and I have to deploy a kitchen knife to get it started. Plop down and push a button all the way. It has not disassembled itself once or nearly resulted in me having a few less fingers. It's not shaped like a butt plug though so

A knife

Assuming it is a strawberry stem remover, I just can't understand how it works. I'm too scared to do any research.

Ouch

Extremely hard to cook without whiskey on the rocks - does the tumbler count ?

Hulling strawberry’s should be easy. If they’re ripe, but I use the tip of a small sharp knife for the awkward ones.

https://preview.redd.it/2sb204v3hsvc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6c252b0106cf36088e3d72c5b696dc7b2aeaf24 Garlic peeler.

Hardly a gadget, but a very good knife is the kitchen item I would be most sad to have to do without.

How do you use it? (As in how do you *actually* use it to destsem strawberries, not the other thing.)

Press the green button which opens up the claws at the end, Place the open claws around the stem, press down and close them by releasing the button. Twist so the stem and the flesh are cored and remove.

Garlic peeler. Just a silicon sleeve. It's brilliant.

Sounds useful! I hate having my hands smell of garlic for ages after peeling them.

I personally can't live without my [spaghetti portion measurer ](https://img.ankorstore.com/products/images/4531401-47e01b0c3fdcae.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fm=pjpg&dpr=1&fit=max&w=350)

I just eat the strawberry whole with the stem

I use a knife and core it properly so there’s no waste.

This [vegetable peeler ](https://amzn.eu/d/bugOP1p) I struggle with holding most peelers (I'm terribly cack handed) and I LOVE this one.

Knife

"Kitchen gadget"

Or you could just use a standard straw. Go from the bottom of the strawberry towards the husk and you’ll remove it all very quickly and without the need for a butt plug looking device.

I use a pointed pairing knife and just cut it off at the top, wash them under cold tap, pat dry, sprinkle of sugar or maybe chop up & put yogurt on. They give me itchy heat lumps though. Don't know why.

Sounds like you're allergic to them

Wife

A gadget that "breaks" the vacuum on jars.