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5.0 out of 5 starsGood value
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2020
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My wife wanted a spiralizer and after looking at the variety of products available, we settled on the Starfrit. She's made numerous zucchini noodles dishes since we've received the unit. Our daughter has even volunteered to help make the zucchini noodles. Cleanup is relatively easy but the feature that my wife likes the most is how compact it is for storage.
This arrived today and I am pretty happy with it. I went for a less expensive model, not sure how much use I would get out of it. It seemed to work okay on spiralizing a test carrot, not really easy to use but with some effort got it to work. Only one problem! The instruction manual does NOT show you how to change the blades. I almost broke the thing attaching the handle and I don't want to mess around with the blades in case I break something. Is there anyone out there who knows how to change the blades? Do they simply slide upwards? Please help!
I was a bit reticent about handling the blades as I've read that it's easy to cut yourself on them, but once you set it up it's easy to take the blades out to clean. They do a good job cutting into zucchini and and creating spirals with a proper shape. Contraption overall is relatively easy to use, and suctions at the bottom are strong enough so you're able to turn the handle with one hand and guiding the base of the handle with the other.
5.0 out of 5 starsgood value for price but kids and clumsy people will probably cut their hands on it sooner or later
Reviewed in Canada on January 5, 2021
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I have used it a few times and made veggie noodles. No problems with it and pretty easy to use. I don't really recommend children or clumsy people to use it because the plastic spikes are pretty sharp and you need a bit of manual power to make sure it runs well. But for the price it works really well and I think it is fairly easy to clean.
One thing I did not like is how careful you have to be to remove the slicers (that you weren't using, but want to use) from the plastic holder. This is because the blades are covered on the sides but there's still a lot of exposure to the blades when you are trying to remove them from the plastic holder.
The mechanism to slide the blade in place is good though.
This spiralizer features more than just your regular spiralizer setting with 3 different blades which was what prompted me to finally buckle and purchase one one of these types of slicers (the "early Black Friday" deal made it appealing as well).
After thoroughly washing the (easy to disassemble - be careful of every blade part) pieces in the dishwasher over night and air dried, I ran a small notched cucumber through it on the slice setting. makes thin slices, although I'll need to play around with pressure during the grip turning to possibly make them even smaller for the ideal size for cucumber salad. It leaves the core behind, so that added extra of no seeds is great, too.
Makes eating my veggies more appealing now, very little work to assemble and take apart for cleaning, we have an island I sued this on that have an uneven surface, but it still kept a nice grip while using it, I had to use a little force to un-suction it. Folds up and compacted nicely for storage on a shelf.
This is a kitchen tool I never knew I really needed until now. Going to do carrots on spiral setting next. Oh and sweet potatoes. Parsnips (I can't stand them, but this thing might change my mind lol). Russet potatoes. Prepping onions, peppers. Cabbage, beets, apples. OMG the possibilities are endless with this thing!