Presto02970 Professional SaladShooter Electric Slicer/Shredder, Black,1 count

This is great to have especially if you have arthritis in your hands

It's a great Product and meets all our needs and makes preparing dishes a breeze . We have had the original salad shooter for years and it's still going. This handles larger peaces of food we highly recommend it .

cutting and shredding smooth

My in-laws gave me their old Salad Shooter 18 years ago—and it was already well-used when I got it. The fact that it kept chugging along this long is honestly amazing. It’s only now starting to struggle a bit, so I finally decided to upgrade.I used this new one for the first time tonight to shred carrots and slice cucumbers. It worked great—fast, smooth, and much larger than the old one (you can see the size difference in my photo). Definitely feels like an upgrade.The only downside: the carrot blade stained orange on the first use. I rinsed and washed it right away, but there’s still some discoloration around the base. Not a dealbreaker, just a little disappointing.Overall though, if this one lasts anywhere near as long as the first, I’ll be thrilled. Off to a strong start.

Living in a small apartment, I try to be selective about the gadgets that inhabit my kitchen. They have to be things that I use regularly and genuinely make my work in the kitchen easier. To that end, my "major" appliance-type purchases are a Vitaminx blender, and a stand mixer. The Vitamix let's me do a lot of prep-type work in it, I can do course chopping and such if I don't care if the pieces are uniform. Everything else, including shredding cheese, I'd been doing by hand. I cook a lot and we LOVE cheese (and don't like the wood pulp that they coat pre-shredded cheese in), and it was very time consuming. I'd been considering a food processor, but I didn't want the extra bowl to wash, and in part that would overlap with what my Vitamix does for me, so I didn't think that was necessary. After some research, I settled on a SaladShooter, and I couldn't be happier.Use:This thing shreds cheese like nobody's business. I take out a block of cheese, cut it into a few chunks and feed it through... and boom. a big pile of cheese. The shredder that comes with it is a larger shredder, I'm considering picking up another one for more fine shredding. This one is about the same size as the big bags of mozzarella that you can get at Walmart, the big thick shreds. Which is a great size for hashbrowns, too. I've shredded everything from hard Parmesan to cheddar to room temperature mozzarella with no problems (which is almost impossible by hand), though I'd really recommend against using warm mozz - it does a much better job when it's cold, of course. It does get thin slices of unshredded cheese stuck around the shredding cone, but this happens when you shred it by hand, too, and I think it gets more of the cheese shredded than doing it by hand does anyway.We use a lot of shredded cheese, so after I go grocery shopping I just get this thing out, shred a few blocks, divide it up into 1 cup sections in a freezer sandwich bag, label, and stick in the freezer. Usually use some right there to make mac and cheese sauce to freeze, and that cuts down meal prep and dishes for later.The other cones are great for slicing sweet or regular potatoes or zucchini for roasted or fried potatoes, slice cucumbers for salads or sandwiches, slicing fruit or veggies to dehydrate (Homemade apple chips? Amazing!), shredding broccoli stems and cabbage for slaw, etc.Clean up:There are inevitably some unshredded/unsliced bits that get stuck in and around the cone and in the little plastic divots and locking ring. I just take the ring off, slide the cone out, wipe all the leftover bits with a damp paper towel. then the cone and locking ring goes into the dishwasher, and I clean the body with a soapy cloth. Fast and very simple.Misc. comments:I do wish that it had some sort of storage case to keep all the cones and parts together. The cones keep getting separated as I move things about in my cabinets. I probably need to just start keeping it all in a big tupperware container or something.Always always always unplug the unit before taking the cone out. The on/off button sticks out a bit from handle, and is on the opposite side from the cone and I once got to talking and got careless while I was starting to change it and bumped the button against a nearby bowl on my counter, turning the unit on. Luckily I hadn't removed the ring yet, but it was a good reminder on kitchen safety.It's a bit on the loud side, but worth the noise, in my opinion.The thin slice cone is grey, making it easy to tell apart from the thick slice one, which is nice.The shape (long and relatively thin) allows me to choose whether to store it sideways in a drawer or upright in a cabinet - great for small kitchens.Purely cosmetic, I know, but I wish it came in black, every other appliance in my kitchen is black and this stands out like a sore thumb.Overall, I couldn't be happier with this purchase. It fills the exact need that I'd been missing, saves me SO much time in the kitchen, is effective and easy to clean.

My last salad shooter was chipping a little bit around the plastic edges of the grater cone, and rather than wait until it broke completely, I ordered another one. I love this gadget so much that I don't want to be without it. By far the best thing I like is the cheese grater. The pre-grated cheese in grocery stores is gross, I don't know what they put on it, but it never melts right and just isn't tasty. With a salad shooter, I get a block of cheese, cut it up and grate it right into a container. It doesn't get any easier. For those of us who have arthritis and have a hard time with heavy kitchen appliances and cookware, the salad shooter is perfect. There is no strain on your hands or wrists. I use it for veggies too and it has never failed me. I tell all my friends who cook that if they want to up their game, their go-to gadget should be a salad shooter.