ICO 4-Blade Spiralizer Vegetable Slicer and Curly Fries Maker, Stronger than all Plastic Spiralizers with 3 Interchangeable Blades and 1 Built-In, Black

Savvy shoppers crave real world reviews. We have purchased an ICO 4-Blade Spiralizer, and have enjoyed its use for a number of months. With gratitude for the positive experience, we offer the following words.Our home kitchen, as well as adventures in food production, exceed the norm. We weekly experiment with a minimum of three new dishes, as well as new forms of preparation. In this vein, and with the encouragement of a number of entire cookbooks devoted to a theme, we undertook an adventure in “spiralizing”.Our initial foray was with a hand-held tube, with blades inside, into which one inserted a vegetable, and then pivoted, using two hands, both the food and the device. Spirals of vegetable emerged. With this we discovered non-carbohydrate forms of “pasta”, and dishes that featured raw or sautéed veggies that were a great deal lighter in the aftermath than your standard spaghetti dinner.In a desire to up-grade the quantity of what we could spiralize, we sought a model that would forego the limitations of the size of vegetable that could be processed by the “tube”, as well as the tedious method of rotating hands.With research on Amazon, we determined that the weakness of crank operated spiralizers was the fact that they were made of plastic (the majority of models for sale). To endure the stress of cranking fat carrots or hard butternut squash required a design both massive, and bulky. These two features lead to products which further required large washings and some disassembly.Dissatisfied, we sought a spiralizer fashioned from the more obvious choice of structurally sound materials: metal. Metal that would not rust, or be too clunky.In this pursuit, there were few choices. We settled on the ICO 4-Blade Spiralizer. There were some negative reviews regarding the sharpness of the blades, and we nearly decided to live without any spiralizer in our kitchen.Thank goodness my wife quietly ordered the ICO Spiralizer.It arrived quickly, and undamaged. It was smaller than plastic models (so much better for storage in an already well-supplied kitchen), and it was made of metal that has not corroded in any way in the half year that we have used the device often. The blades have all been sharp enough. One can produce a number of different shapes of vegetable “noodle” (four!), including one that provides sheets of food, much in the shape of an apple peeled in one long piece. Vegetables such as butternut squash can be cut into portions that are accommodated by the tool, such that all of the squash can be rendered into a pile of delightful “noodles”.Best was the support of ICO’s customer service. Our spiralizer had arrived missing one of three blades (the spiralizer has one blade which is permanent; one can operate with just that blade, or add one of the three possible detachable blades — which are held onto the spiralizer in a most clever and easily installed manner!). Customer service was exceedingly responsive, and when a replacement blade was not soon forthcoming, their decision was to send us an entire, new ICO 4-Blade Spiralizer. This, in lieu of a blade which cost likely no more than pennies.Experience the strength and functionality of this wonderful tool. And prepare to have a great deal of new food fun in the process.

Great device! The manual is basically useless but it's not hard to figure out how everything works. It's really fast and easy both to use and clean up (comes with a little brush which aids in cleaning the blade after use). The device has feet that lift it slightly off the surface but not enough that a plate will fit underneath; I have a thin plastic cutting board that I slide under it to collect the noodles, which works great. I've found a lot of sites dedicated to spiralizer recipes which have provided inspiration, since the meager manual has nothing like that.It comes with three blades which create three different thicknesses of curly noodles; see pics. If you remove the blade then it defaults to a built-in blade which makes an even fatter noodle. You can look at the blades and easily tell which will accomplish what; the distance between the blades signifies how fat of a noodle it will make. It spiralizes the veggie down to a little piece about a centimeter in thickness; I either eat this bit or save and toss into my next smoothie batch.I bought this in hopes I would substitute veggie noodles instead of piles of rice and it's definitely having that impact. It's also adding creativity (and healthfulness) to my dishes.Swapping the blades: remove the existing blade by pulling the metal tab toward you. It releases easily. To put in a new blade, slide the blade into the open slot, with the number on the metal tab facing in against the device, at the base, then push the tab back. You will be able to see the number on the tab when it's in position. (It sounds more complicated than it is, it just takes a second and doesn't require any strength.)

The spiralizer works well and is made out of metal, much sturdier than the plastic versions. However, I wish they would thread the shaft that pushes the vegetables, like apple peeler/corer/slicers do. Without the threaded shaft, it is too hard to cut hard vegetables like carrots.

This is by far and away the best vegetable spiralizer I've seen or tried. Do not waste your money on any other brand or model. THIS IS THE ONE! I've bought a few and returned them all for various reasons, until I found this ICO all metal vegetable spiralizer. It has far superior quality in every measurable way. And no, they didn't pay me to write this!It's super sturdy, doesn't slip on my counter, and requires very little effort to cut the veggies - slices through them with ease like cutting butter. (All the other brands I tried were really hard to operate, slipped on the counter, had no good place to hold onto them and required a lot of force to push the veggie through the blades, and left a lot of wasted veggie). This ICO spiralizer comes with 3 different cut patterns. No rickety plastic parts to break or wobble, and it's precision engineered so the cut is near perfect and uniform. Oh - and unlike other brands, there is little to no waste - no big stub or central core left uncut - this model spiralizes right to the very end leaving just a tiny slice maybe 1/3 inch thick that you can snack right up. The compact size of this unit means handling and storage are much more convenient than other models, and you still get "spaghettis" over 5 feet long from just half a zucchini! So don't waste your $ on a longer model as it's completely necessary.No worries here - you won't regret buying this one - just do it! Excellent customer service from ICO as well.Great for any vegetable preparation for meals, salads, soups, snacks and appetizers; also perfect for weight loss, low carb, keto, vegetarian, vegan and raw diets too.Do it!