How a-peeling! The kitchen gadget that looks like a pencil sharpener and peels vegetables in 30 SECONDS The Karoto peeler can remove the skin from root vegetables in 30 seconds It works like a giant pencil sharpener The shavings it creates can also be used to decorate salads It may look like a giant pencil sharpener but the Karoto gadget has been tipped to revolutionise time spent in the kitchen. The quirky contraption is a vegetable peeler that can remove the skin of any root vegetable, including carrots, parsnips, cucumbers and courgettes, in only 30 seconds. Karoto works just like a sharpener too - insert the vegetable and twist it against the blade to shave off the skin. The quirky Karoto kitchen gadget, pictured, from Israel-based design firm Monkey Business looks like a giant pencil sharpener and can peel any root vegetable including carrots and parsnips in just 30 seconds Karoto works just like a pencil sharpener too. The user inserts the vegetable and twists it against the blade to shave off the skin. The shavings of cucumbers and courgettes can also be used to decorate salads Its creators also claim the time-saving invention is safer than slicing the skin off vegetables compared to a standard peeler or knife. Karoto was designed by Avichai Tadmor for Monkey Business design studio in Israel. His team claim the Karoto can completely peel a carrot in less than 30 seconds and say that not only does it save time but the shavings can also be used to decorate salads. The kitchen gadget is 3-inches long and 2-inches wide and can also be used to sharpen carrots, for example, for presentation purposes. Jenni Day, sales manager at London-based Luckies - the gift site that sells the Karoto in the UK - said: 'The Karoto is a really fun, quirky gift that can make preparing dishes a bit more interesting. It makes peeling vegetables easy and can be used with any long root vegetables such as carrots, courgettes, parsnips, and cucumbers. The Karoto not only saves time, its creators claim it is a safer alternative to peeling vegetables using 'dangerous' traditional peelers and knives The Karoto is 3-inches long and 2-inches wide. It comes in orange and black and costs £9.95 'It comes with restrictions for children's use as a lot of items of cutlery and kitchen gadgets do, but it is definitely easier to do than other ways of peeling vegetables. It looks like a pencil sharpener and works in a similar way and I would say it would take about 30 seconds to peel a carrot. Not only does it make peeling a fast process but it also leaves curls which can be used to decorate salads and brighten up other dishes. The Karoto comes in orange and black and costs £9.95 plus postage. Another recent time-saving kitchen device was designed to make it faster and easier to separate egg yolks from whites. Called Yolkr, the gadget works like a pipette by sucking the yolk cleanly into an attached plastic case before being squeezed out in one piece. After the egg has been cracked into a bowl the gadget sucks up the yolk into a wide-mouthed plastic nozzle when the rubber top is squeezed. It then holds the yolk safely until the cook is ready to use it, when with another squeeze of the top it plops it back out in one piece. The Yolkr costs £18.