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If you need one, you can get it here: http://www.kitchenworksinc.com/Flat--Wire-Safety-Grater__914150.aspx
If you search for "safety grater" anywhere instead of "potato grater" you'll find them more easily.

Oh my god, that makes me claustrophobic just looking at it. I'd feel like I was smothering in that loft bed.

I used to work in a kitchen store, and what irritates me the most about this kind of question is that people never consider accessibility issues. You can do all of this with a good knife? Great. Good for you. Consider the people who don't have the hand or arm strength, or have RSI, or arthritis, or just have a limited amount of energy and need small things to make life easier. In the long run, buying a tool to make prep easier is cheaper than always buying the end result already prepared. I got SO tired of people being snotty about the specialty tools and never being wiling to consider a scenario where they were necessary and welcome. (Of course, I was working in retail, so in general I got really tired of people being snotty.)

That being said, I've seen the "watermelon knife" and it's a POS. It's just a cheap stamped serrated knife with a watermelon pattern on it. I would consider it more of a gag gift than a specialty tool.

Well, sure, it's easy to do if you have an enormous kitchen, an oven with three racks, and scads of open work space (including a balcony with a giant table). This would take me a million times longer in my one-butt galley kitchen.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/ . Even in the rare recipe that calls for a "Cream of whatever" she usually uses one she made ahead, and she includes the recipes for those.

Agreed. I'm longing for Fall, being able to turn my oven on, sleeping with the windows open, and a MUCH lower utility bill. Plus, I'm a dog walker -- I'm out in this damn weather enough without choosing to eat in it, too.

I liked it... it reminded me of the old Starbucks frappucinos that are sold in bottles, but without all the questionable crap in them. But yeah, on a daily basis? Not likely. They're nice to have lying around when I run out of beans or oversleep, though.

Kilz. Over everything.