Bought a $15 veggie spiralizer and it changed my cheap pasta game

So I dropped 15 bucks on a spiralizer at a discount store last month, thinking I'd use it once and toss it. First try, I zucchinied three whole squash into noodles for a stir fry, and it saved me from buying actual pasta for a week. Then last Tuesday I got cocky trying to spiralize a sweet potato, jammed the handle, and shot a chunk of potato across the kitchen. It hit my cat square in the head, and now he hides when I pull the thing out. Has anyone else had a cheap kitchen gadget backfire in a dumb way?

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casey_wood219d ago

Sweet potatoes are way too hard for those cheap spiralizers, you need a different blade or just boil them first. My buddy tried to do a beet and the handle snapped off completely, dude almost lost a finger.

kevin_west19d agoTop Commenter

Yeah but honestly the real trick is just parboiling them for like 3 minutes first. Not enough to cook them all the way through, just enough to soften them up a bit. I've done it with sweet potatoes and beets both, works way better than fighting with a raw one. The spiralizer still gets good noodles and you don't risk breaking anything. Plus they cook up way more even in the pan later. Most people skip that step and wonder why their machine sounds like it's gonna explode.

jana_hart1818d ago

You used to be wrong about this, Kevin, but I tried it last night and it really does work perfectly.