I ended up having to handle the potatoes a lot as they came off the spiralizer, and then I used a knife to slice them into manageable, oddly shaped sizes. They acted like a defective slinky – no fun at all. When it came to spiralizing and slicing the potatoes, I found that they didn’t hold together in a continuous ring as well as the apples did. With skinny ends the whole potato didn’t really get peeled so I still had to do manual labour. It was a little touch and go simply because my potatoes were oddly shaped. Peeling them was ok, but honestly I don’t mind peeling potatoes by hand – they’re faster and easier to handle than apples are. I then took the same approach with potatoes. I will totally use this every time I make an apple pie or crumble. All you need to do is hold the rings together and slice them in half, then you have perfectly cut apple slices, all the same thickness. Now, because this is a spiralizer, the apple is cut in one continuous ring. Once the spiralizer gets to the end it stops on it’s own, and you simply pull the core off and stick the next apple onto the device. There’s very little waste since the apple gets sliced to the very end. I found no seeds or hard parts in the apple slices. The width of the slices was perfect, and the size of the core was great. In fact, at 4 it worked perfectly well and made the job so much faster!Īfter all the apples were peeled I used the thicker spiralizer attachment because I wanted to slice the apples for apple pie. I adjusted the speed from 1 to 4 and it did’t affect the quality of peel. It sure was way faster than peeling them by hand. But, these apples needed to be used up as they were getting old, sitting in my basement. I had relatively small apples so it wasn’t the best approach. The peeler does take off a pretty thick layer of skin. Not that it was hard, I just didn’t really understand the drawing so well. Like I said earlier, it attaches to the rod differently than the spiralizer attachments so it took some of my super duper brain power to figure it out. On the apples I used the peeler attachment first. A light and simple side that looked pretty too! Then I added the zucchini and cooked it for just a few minutes until it was tender. I sautéed some halved baby tomatoes with garlic, S&P and basil EVOO until they split. I ended up breaking the zucchini into more manageable lengths, just by hand. The skinny spiralizer leaves a skinny core so there wasn’t much waste left over, which was nice. I quite liked the spirals made out of the zucchini, but because it comes out as one giant spiral, it would be really hard to eat unless you’re looking for a Lady and the Tramp kind of moment. The peeling attachment was the hardest to figure out – the instructions for how to attach it to the rod were a little confusing, but I eventually got it. It comes with a peeling attachment and a number of different blades for spiralizing different widths. All that aside, the spiralizer was pretty easy to use. It’s not too bad pulling it out of there, as long as I lift with my knees and brush off all the dog hair. Because I have a relatively small kitchen, the mixer is stored in the bottom of my pantry, behind the dog food and potatoes. I was somewhat concerned that it would take a lot of time and effort to use the spiralizer attachment for the KitchenAid mixer. I made sautéed zucchini and tomatoes, apple and cherry pie and scalloped potatoes. I tried out my new KitchenAid spiralizer attachment on zucchini, apples and potatoes. We got new knives before Christmas for a super good price, but man, are they sharp! At least I had a safety moment to share at work □ Minus 3 cuts and a knuckle grating it was a good weekend! Jay, the welder, says I should have done a new FLRA (Field Level Risk Assessment) because the conditions in my kitchen changed.
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