Safe Skins Spiral Slicer Review

When I ordered this, I thought it would be freaking awesome! Totally fantastic. Sadly, I was a bit let down. When I opened this box, I loved the concept. The blades seem well laid out, and it looks like it would work perfectly. This is not the case.

Upon using this. First time was for potatoes. We didn’t have any other vegetables in the house, and after reading the reviews and seeing others do it, I figured it might work well. I mean, who doesn’t love spiral fries??

Unfortunately, I was quickly disappointed. When spinning the potato through the spiral slicer, I found it very difficult to spin. I also noticed that the potatoes coming out the other side, were paper thin. It was like half the thickness of linguine. Unfortunately, I can’t do anything with that. For any vegetable. Cooks too fast and becomes too soggy. I expected the veggies to come out about the thickness of spaghetti. I knew they would be different, but not that thin.

Second thing I noticed is that once you get so far down on the veggie, it starts to go through the center of the spiral slicer, almost like an apple corer would leave the center. This starts to make it difficult to spin the veggie further into the slicer. I had to pull from the slicer and break out the ‘core’ and start again. This is a waste of veggie btw.

The next problem I had was when I got down to the last part of the potato, I tried using the cap that came with it. This cap is supposed to grip the veggie, so that you can spin it more, without getting your fingers close to the blade. However, on a potato, or at least on my potato, it just obliterated the top of the potato, instead of gripping and spinning it.

I then wondered if it just didn’t work well with potatoes (even though some others say it does in its reviews), so I purchase carrots to try with it. This did not work for me very well either. It did work better than a potato does, but you still have waste, and you still cannot get the last few inches of the carrot (I assume all veggies would have this issue), because you can’t risk getting your fingers in the VERY sharp blade.

In the end, my opinion is the following; I believe this is a FANTASTIC concept. With some tweaking, it might just be perfect. We did get some use out of it. I believe it would be great for topping salads with the shavings you get out of it. However, they are just that, SHAVINGS. I was in no way able to get veggie pasta out of this. I would rate this 4 out of 5 stars for that reason. As I said, it is a great concept, just needs some fandangling. Also, we did get some use out if it. Just not quite as described.

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I received this product for free for the purpose of an honest review. The opinions you read here are my own and are not influenced in any way.