To spiralize...or not?

This really is a very silly discussion, but the pedant in me has to put the record straight

Apologies for nit picking!

I've always liked a well-hyped item, and actually used them - take a bow, teasmade, sandwich toaster, yoghurt maker, bread maker, soup maker, hostess trolley. The one that only got one airing and ended up at the back of a cupboard was the pasta maker. Life's too short.

Thank you everyone for your contributions to this thread. They are much appreciated. I didn't realise that it would promote so much discussion

Please don't knock the Toastie machine, DGS and I love them, chicken bacon and tomato, gruyere with red onion, prawn pink mayo and spring onion. Lovely. On homemade 5 grain medium sliced bread. Yum

@Tegan - I would have expected a Mouli Juliennes to cut those very thin and whispy strips - Julienne strips in fact... I've done them ny hand with a cleaver, but it's fiddly and slow...

You don't need a machine for delicious toasties. We use (or used to use before we went low carb) toastie bags. You just make the sandwich, put it in the bag - you can buy them in any major supermarket - then pop it in the toaster.

Very good for toasting those Warburton thins.

Easy peasy.

The best thing I've discovered about spiralising is that it's a way of slicing onions without tears.
Spiral a couple of large onions, put them in bags in the freezer and when chopped onion is required, just break the frozen slices, in the bag, into small pieces. No tears, no oniony fingers! Also, broccoli stems spiral well and have lots of flavour.

Can you tell how pleased I am with mine?

I like that idea Lona think I'll give it a try.

What is a spiraliser, from the posts I gather they make spiral shapes out of veg but apart from that Ive never heard of them. Are they a bit like mincing machines

Yes. But the mince is joinded up.

not 'joinded'! joined

And it's usually vegetable. (with no vitamins left)

I am sure the effect is very attractive but I CBA to do that. Just scrape them with a good sharp peeler. The trouble with a lot of kitchen gadgets is that you spend more time cleaning them than using them.��

yes I agree, I hate cleaning kitchen stuff, I tend to put off till next day and then its hardened on and I have to scrape more so \I end up giving the gadget away and then years later I buy a new one and so on.

I think mine is dishwasher friendly - hope so anyway as that's where it goes after use... dishwasher came with the house!

Looks like spaghetti when it comes out the other end though I think you can use different attachments for shredding etc...

That's just laziness ethel

yep Anya, im lazy, I just keep putting off doing dirty horrid jobs when it would be easier to do them first before I get fed up with them.

Of course I'm perfect and always wash up straight away, vacuum throughout before going to bed, get up at 5.00 am to put the washing in so I can hang it out at sunrise, iron socks and towels and bake all my own bread