Kitchen utensils

Microplane Spiral Cutter 48009 review

CHOICE Expert Rating

41%
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Good points

Good Points

  • Unit is dishwasher safe.
  • No assembly required.
  • Two sized barrel chutes to accommodate foods which are small and large in diameter.
Bad points

Bad Points

  • Poor overall.
  • Poor performance.
  • Only OK for ease of use.
  • No instruction literature supplied.
  • Difficult to grip food, no guard provided.
  • Restricted diameter due to chute size.
  • Hand held unit with no grip, awkward to hold.
  • Limited range or blade thicknesses, only option for one spiral thickness and ribbon.
  • Some pressure required to push food towards blade when turning, making it difficult to maintain continual spiral.
  • Some restriction on length of fruit and veg and it can minimise user control, making it difficult to keep food straight for even feed through narrow chute.
  • Difficult and dangerous to remove core as need to place hand down narrow chute near blade.
  • Cracks and crevices around blade difficult to clean due to narrow chute.
  • A lot of wastage as unable to process whole fruit/veg as there is no guard provided to push food in towards blade.
  • Inconsistent thickness when cutting zucchini, carrot and sweet potato.
  • Could not spiralize apple because of restricted chute diameter.
  • Blades are not removable.

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