If you follow this blog or my baking blog, Oh My! Sugar High you know I’m in love with my gorgeous green apple KitchenAid Artisan Series Stand Mixer. You’ve probably seen it featured as my partner in crime while I’m in my kitchen, whether I’m baking something sweet or cooking up something savory. This is an appliance that I always wondered if I would use enough to justify the cost and now I never doubt its value. My stand mixer sits on my kitchen counter and I can assure you, it does not just collect dust. I use it multiple times a week and sometimes I can’t help giving it a little squeeze, a little mixer love if you will, as I move it to my island to use. Call me sappy or plain silly but I don’t mind. There are worse things than having a love affair with a mixer.
The only thing that can make this sweet machine just that much sweeter is some of the amazing attachments that are available for your stand mixer. You can make plenty of homemade products from pasta to sausage to ice cream, all with an attachment and your mixer doing the heavy duty work for you. And you thought your stand mixer was only for baking. Ha!
I’ve been playing around with the KitchenAid Rotor Slicer and Shredder attachment. It comes with four different cones, two for slicing and two for shredding with varying thickness.
At first I was a bit nervous working with it, wondering if perhaps I might injure myself in the process. But I quickly learned that by reading the instructions to feel comfortable first and always putting safety first by unplugging the unit before touching the cones, it really is quite simple and safe to use.
Over the course of the summer I used this machine to shred various firm fruits, vegetables and cheeses. Once we got it set up sometimes it is hard to stop. When we shredded cheese it breezed through it so fast that large brick was almost gone before we knew it! This would be fantastic for those of you (like us) who prefer freshly grated cheese from a block versus purchasing pre-shredded. It also is great to feed crowd!
I shredded a lot and I do mean a lot of zucchini with this bad boy. I tried both fine shredding and coarsely grated, both of which worked great for baking. To slice or shred, simply cut the fruit, vegetables or cheese into sections, lift the handles of the food pusher and place food in the hopper. Set the mixer setting to 4 and push down on the food pusher handles.
You may remember my monster zucchini post and I can’t even imagine trying to process this much zucchini by hand!
Removing the cones and cleaning the unit is quite simple once you learn how. After unplugging the mixer, take a cloth to protect your hands for slippage and twist the cone.
Place the end of the cone in the handy square at the top of the attachment and twist.
Viola! The attachment is now apart and ready to be cleaned!
Now that it is getting cooler I am so excited to try this out for Au gratin potatoes! This summer we sliced some red potatoes up to put on the grill.
Yummy! Typically we would chop potatoes for grilling the but slices were such a nice change of pace. Now we can slice them ourselves instead of having to purchase pre-sliced potatoes. Having something to create such even slices quickly is simply awesome.
Check out the Rotor Slicer and Shredder Video Demo to learn more!
The Rotor Slicer and Shredder is only one of many KitchenAid attachments available. There are many others I’m drooling over such as the pasta and ravioli makers. We love pasta in this family and I’m already imagining all the different types of homemade pasta, just begging me to make them. And how could I possibly forget the ice cream maker attachment? My sweet tooth is aching just thinking of homemade ice cream.
Buy it:
The KitchenAid Rotor Slicer and Shredder retails for $64.99. This attachment and more can be purchased directly from KitchenAid, Amazon
AND NOW THE BEST PART…
Now that you’ve had a chance to get a bit more familiar with the selection of KitchenAid attachments, I’d love to know more about what attachment is catching your eye and making you drool. Do you want to slice, shred, grind or strain? Do you want to experience homemade that this truly homemade? Can you imagine these attachments helping you with your holiday cooking, summer grilling or fall harvesting? I want to know and I’ve got a giveaway for you to reward you for sharing!
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KitchenAid would like to make one of my lucky readers VERY happy by giving away their choice of stand mixer attachment!
MAIN ENTRY: Visit KitchenAid (or look at the table above) and tell me what attachment you would choose and why. I want to know how this will make your life easier or allow you to make something you wouldn’t normally.
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Disclosure: I received a sample for the purpose of this review but no other type of compensation was received. This has no bearing on my completely honest review above. The opinions and experiences I’ve shared with these products are my own and yours may differ.
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I would love the fruit & vegetable strainer and grinder attachment to easily make applesauce and baby food!
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I would get the slicer and grater. I have 1 yr old twins and am always cutting up something! This would save time
I would choose their KitchenAid Gourmet Pasta Press because we eat lots and lots of pasta around our house and this would make preparation much easier
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I’d pick the KitchenAid Rotor Slicer & Shredder with 4 Standard Cones. My father has this mixer, but he rarely uses it as he has no attachments. I feel like if I won this, he could make some delicious family meals that he usually has to do by hand. He likes making au gratin potatoes, so this would be perfect.
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I would love the ice cream maker. My kids and I have tried many times to make ice cream and it’s so much work! I’d love homemade ice cream made easily with this attachment!
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I love my KitchenAid Stand Mixer because I have a small cookie business. I can power through double recipes of very dense cookie dough so easily. I’ve made so many things with mine and have never had a problem. I also love that it’s GORGEOUS!
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I would choose the Kitchen Aid Rotor Slicer & Shredder. It would make my life easier by being able to slice and shred all the ingredients i use in my cooking.
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i think I would choose the ice cream maker, but I also like the grain mill.
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