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I bought this because we are eating keto now and my old food processor does a terrible job of grating cauliflower and makes a huge mess. This drum slicer does a great job making cauliflower rice quickly and with hardly any clean up time. We just love that cauliflower rice. It also chops walnuts well. I use the coarse shredder drum for both of these. The blades are very dull, and the slicer blade is pretty useless for me. I prefer my V mandolin for slicing. It just mangled zucchini. It can cut carrots, but the blade is so dull (I can run my finger along the blade without the slightest danger) that you really have to turn the handle hard and it popped apart a couple of times until I got the knack of how to turn it. Nothing like that happens with cauliflower and walnuts with the coarse shredding drum. It should do OK with potatoes, but we are not eating them on the keto diet.
If you want to grate potatoes or cauliflower or nuts, then this will do the job. I am happy with it because it does what I bought it for.
So far so good. I will see how long it lasts. I got this model even though I don't particularly like the color, because it said it was a "second generation" design. It has one large piece in the body vs two as the other models seem to have. It may be more durable as well. It works fine with beets which are very hard so it should be easy for other things as well. When you clamp it down on the counter it really sticks, which is important for stability. Blades are sharp enough as well. Easy to assemble and disassemble for cleaning.
You can use it to grate the cheddar and nuts in a fast way ,I love cauliflowers ,It can transform into rice and to be grated for salads .But its a pain to chop or grate it into finer pieces as the crumbly cauliflower may go all over the chopping board and your hands.By using this tool ,it becomes very easy. A good deal and love it!
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love it!
Reviewed in the United States on 4 August 2017
You can use it to grate the cheddar and nuts in a fast way ,I love cauliflowers ,It can transform into rice and to be grated for salads .But its a pain to chop or grate it into finer pieces as the crumbly cauliflower may go all over the chopping board and your hands.By using this tool ,it becomes very easy. A good deal and love it!
These days the potatoes are in harvest, thanks gad, we are having a good harvest, getting the freshest potatoes, we couldn’t wait to fry some delicious potato slices , by using this round mandolin drum slicer, slicing the potatoes becomes very easy and fast. With 3 interchangeable drums for fine, coarse shredding, and slicing, you just need to use the slice drum to slice the potatoes , in a few minutes , you can finish slicing quite enough potato slices, the potato slices has the just right thickness for frying : neither too thick nor too thin. For the balanced two drums: fine and coarse shredding, you can chop the nuts and grate the cheese, this rotary cheese grater works well as well. A nice product and enjoy it a lot.
This product works great. I love using it. Its easy to clean everything can go in the dishwasher. The only downside is the bottom is smooth. It should have rubber or something so it stays put. But its an easy fix. I still live it and use it often. Was fast and easy to grate carrots for my carrot cake. I would recommend this to anyone who cooks or bakes a lot
The hopper broke the first time we used it. Cheap plastic junk. If you want something that will hold up buy a steel retro unit on the big auction site for the same money. That's what I'm going to do.
I purchased this product to assist me in shredding a large quantity of carrots and cabbage, to make coleslaw for a church dinner. After reading some of the NEGATIVE reviews, I was hesitant about buying it and then after ordering it, I wondered if I’d wasted my money and wind up manually shredding until my fingers bled. Well, I was more than pleasantly surprised when my little yellow grater/shredder performed like a pro with just feeding the chamber and cranking the handle. It got the job done, and I only lost a small slither of one fingernail.😂
All I can say is "Don't waste your money!" I thought this sounded like it would be a really good alternative to dragging out my large food processor when I only wanted to prepare a small amount for one person. Not so! To start with, the slicer is fairly hard to assemble--holding down tightly on a really stiff button while using the other hand to slide the blade mechanism onto the base and all while trying to keep the whole thing upright. There are no good directions with this thing so, apparently, you learn by trial and error. I thought I would start with something fairly easy--chopping cabbage for slaw. This is where the trail and error part really kicks in. You have to cut the cabbage first into almost perfectly uniform small chunks. As you place them in the top of the slicer and press down with the holder, you also turn the handle so the blade assembly will chop your cabbage. Not so! The first little section of cabbage will chop, then the blade just keeps turning round and round until you stop and reposition the part of the cabbage left inside. You must keep doing this constantly. It took me longer to try to chop one small serving of cabbage and then disassemble, wash and store this thing than it would have taken me to do the whole thing with my larger food processor! Oh, well, live and learn!
Ok it's not a food processor. Lots of plastic. The grating barrels are lethal! Very sharp. It's easy to put together and take apart. Easy enough to clean. I've grated Parm and Ramano cheeses with both grating blades. If you cut them up into chunks it does better and doesn't "stall" or jam. I thought I'd just do what I needed for recipes as I went. But it grated that block of cheese so fast I just did the whole thing and put the extra cheese in a container. The suction thing on the bottom. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Probably the type of counter tops I have. Still works. If you man handle this thing it will break. If you have things that are 20 years old you'll be fine. If things just disintegrate in your hands like my husband this is not the grater for you! I found a container that holds all the barrels so they aren't rolling around in the cupboard. I like it. Glad I bought it and heaven help me I think it's kind of cute!
Very easy to set up, breakdown and clean, but didn’t make my task easier made it harder. The suction never gripped to the counter. I struggled to keep the unit in place while I cranked the slicer drum to slice up a few small potatoes. Felt like I was using a kids toy. This is very small if I was not using fingerling potatoes, I would have to chop the potato to fit into the chamber. If I’m chopping, I might as well go ahead and slice them by hand. Not for a larger tasks. Was very excited to put away my mandolin and use this handy unit but disappointed in the end. Love the color.
