Make no mistake about it - I absolutely hate this thing. It is a piece of cheap plastic Made-In-China junk and is an admirable test for anyone with only two hands or a medium to high frustration level. You may need to take up yoga after using this thing. Dexterity issues of any kind? Look elsewhere. But, I'm using it and haven't returned it, so I'll grudgingly give it 3 stars.
I grow summer squash, and, like most squash growers, get far more than I can use. Last year, I blanched and froze my excess, but didn't really like the texture when I used it. So, I have a very nice 10 tray Weston dehydrator and thought I'd try dehydrating it instead for the winter months. Much less space, doesn't require refrigeration, etc.
I did a test dehydrator run, using the 'thick' blade and ended up with what appeared to be green sewing thread. Totally confident of an epic fail, I decided to soak some, chop it and use it in my morning beans on toast. Imagine my surprise when it rehydrated to a proper thickness, and, even more shocking, tasted great! The dehydration process seemed to have intensified the 'zucchini-ness' of the squash and it even had an agreeable, chewable texture. So, I'm going to use this thing if it kills me.
The pros - I like the dehydrated/rehydrated squash. It is pretty easy to wash.
Cons - everything else. The rubber suction cup absolutely does not work. To say the suction cup sucks is problematic, but it is truly worthless. This means that you have to hold the gizmo down at the same time you are trying to crank the handle and push it all forward, but not too quickly. It is, as others have said, a job for at least 3 arms if not more. If you have a pet octopus, it's time to train it...
This also works only with squash of a certain thickness. Too thick, and the holder thing just grinds into the middle seed pocket without turning the squash into the blades. Too small, and you lose all of your product to the middle section that results from the front holder part.
One of my intended uses is to do my fresh beets, but I'm not sure that it will be able to do that without someone helping hold the thing down. The blades are sharp, but maybe not sharp enough to do beets without some forward pressure. But, you can't easily apply forward pressure because you are cranking a wobbly rear crank, and trying to hold the thing down on the counter. But, it is only a few days until I can start harvesting some beets, and i'll know soon.
Although the resulting 'spaghetti' is kind of fun, and it tastes good, I'd only recommend this to people with a lot of patience and aliens from other planets with more than 2 arms.
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At one point, I thought I broke it because the bit that has the handle, slid right off the track and I thought "oh great." but no, it's supposed to come off as that is how you can clean it and store it. Also it's much easier to clean than the original veggetti.
The only tips I would give is
1.) Make sure that the food you are using is firm, as if it is starting to get a bit soft, it may not stay put in the holders
2.) The blades are sharper than they look and if you are not careful, you will nip your fingers. This could be fun to do with kids, but definitely adult supervised and they should not handle the blades (unless said adult thinks they can handle it lol). Nipping your fingers is not inevitable though.
Granted, I haven't tried the more expensive versions of spiralizers, but for 20 bucks this is great. It comes with 3 blades so you can make super thin noodles, thicker noodles and then this third blade that makes ribbons (which I haven't used yet but I am sure it will come in handy). and I definitely recommend getting it.
P.S. the photo is the first dish I made with the veggetti pro. It was soooo good. It was 1 yellow squash in a green pea sauce with garlic salt. This is another benefit of having this. This dish literally took me minutes to make, is super healthy for you, and was super delicious. I can't wait to further explore various sauces. It comes with a recipe book to by the way though I haven't looked at that yet.
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The only tips I would give is
1.) Make sure that the food you are using is firm, as if it is starting to get a bit soft, it may not stay put in the holders
2.) The blades are sharper than they look and if you are not careful, you will nip your fingers. This could be fun to do with kids, but definitely adult supervised and they should not handle the blades (unless said adult thinks they can handle it lol). Nipping your fingers is not inevitable though.
Granted, I haven't tried the more expensive versions of spiralizers, but for 20 bucks this is great. It comes with 3 blades so you can make super thin noodles, thicker noodles and then this third blade that makes ribbons (which I haven't used yet but I am sure it will come in handy). and I definitely recommend getting it.
P.S. the photo is the first dish I made with the veggetti pro. It was soooo good. It was 1 yellow squash in a green pea sauce with garlic salt. This is another benefit of having this. This dish literally took me minutes to make, is super healthy for you, and was super delicious. I can't wait to further explore various sauces. It comes with a recipe book to by the way though I haven't looked at that yet.
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