OXO Good Grips 3-Blade Hand-Held Spiralizer

Simple to use and works well, I really can't believe the one and two star reviews, some people just shouldn't be allowed to buy gadgets.All I can think is these people are still using plastic scissors with rounded ends just in case they run around with them! It's impossible to cut yourself using this unless you really really try hard.As for the vegies breaking up, well first time I used it I had strips of courgette yards long.And as for using the guard, just apply some common sense and hold the veg till it gets too low to hold then use the guard.I can see (and it states in the instructions) you need fairly chunky bits of veg to have the thing work, but it is the cheapest and lowest tech spiraliser on Amazon. I might go "up market" at some time and get a more chefy version but for now it does the job and does it well.

I've had a spiraliser before but it was ineffective and took up too much room in my cupboards. However, my current diet uses courgetti a lot and it seems to have disappeared off the supermarket shelves near me. So I was looking for a relatively cheap, small, and effective spiraliser to make my own. This takes a little bit of pressure (admittedly I was using a large courgette) so not suitable for children or people with compromised strength in their arms/wrists, but within a few seconds I had grasped the technique (steady pressure and turning the courgette in a clockwise fashion) to produce a very impressive pile of courgetti. In fact the strands were so long we had to cut some of them in half. I would definitely say that home made courgetti is better than the stuff you buy in supermarkets, even my husband who thought it was a stupid idea to substitute spaghetti is a fan.

This year, I tried growing vegetables for the first time and ended up with a mountain of courgettes. There is only so much ratatouille one can offload onto the family so I decided to try making courgetti spaghetti using this inexpensive but sturdy little tool. I am impressed. Like many, I am trying to reduce the amount of pasta I consume - not easy when the children love it above all else - and this means I can substitute pasta easily and quickly. Delicious.

I bought this mainly for courgetti.First thing: the blade is on the diameter of the piece so each twist of the hand, it goes 90 degrees. if I need to do three courgettes, it takes about 10 mnutesSecond thing: no courgetts are straight, so as it turns, it is further and further lop sided until you have to take it out and cut a perpendicular face, and start again. that takes time too.Third thing: it snags. when you load the second piece to start spiraliing, you need to clear the skin caught in the frst round before the blade woud catch on to the new piece, or else it just slides around and nt make the noodles.It is not bad, if you don't mind the time factor, it will eventually get done.I decided to buy this because it is compact and stores easiy in the drawer, but now i hesitate to make courgetti because i feel it is labut intensive and don't want sore wrist afterwards.I think for one person it is fine, but if you cook for 3 or 4, a hand cranker would be more efficient.

So easy to use. Just stick the vegetable in the shallow end and twist. It takes about a minute to spiralise a courgette. This has transformed our eating habits. Spiralised courgettetes are so cheap now. Aldi sell a 3 pack for less than a quid and it does us for maybe 4 meals. Sauces we've made so far - cream cheese/salmon/garlic/pesto, bolognese, pesto/ sundried tomato/garlic, passata/chicken/chilli. Awesome. Paid for itself in a week.