Spiral Vegetable Slicer
A spiral vegetable slicer cuts fruits and vegetables into ribbons, slices, or spiral strands.

A vegetable slicer comes with variable sized blades with 1/8-inch (3mm) or ¼-inch (6mm) spacing - a straight edge blade (ideal for ribbon cuts), a coarse-toothed blade, and a medium-toothed blade – perfect for different sized foods.

A great tool for a enthusiast home cook or professional chef to prepare different foods, such as potato strings, fine cut carrots, beets, or strings or green peppers. This simple tool creates curly strands in minutes, rather than the hours it could take to painstakingly hand-slice a batch of vegetables.

Some of the popular models of vegetable spiral slicer include -

The Joyce Chen Saladacco Spiral Slicer is perfect to quickly slice, ribbon, and spiral food for garnishes or Asian salads, comes in a solid plastic construction, 2-sizes of slicing variations come pre-package, a catch tray features for ease in clean-up, and retails in the region of $25.

The Benriner Spiral Slicer, with its stainless steel blades, offers a simple to operate kitchen tool with a hand-cranking motion, creates garnishes with ease, very limited wastage, and soon churns out a series of vegetables into a find, string like form - this model retails for $37.

A vast array of cookbooks can be found to offer ideals and inspiration in creating a variety of delightful dishes to complement this useful although not essential kitchen tool.

A vegetable spiralizer is a perfect kitchen tool to create a series of professional quality garnishes in a matter of minutes with a selection of slices, spiral strands, and ribbons. A perfect tool for creating carrot spirals, zucchini pasta, to onion, cucumber or radish dishes.