Baggs
Has anyone tried using an old-fashioned, hand driven meat mincer as a vegetable spiraller? And if so did it work?
I'm thinking of having a go with mine later today as the sous-chef mandoline that MrB bought at great expense seems to be too big for my hands/strength. Designed for a beefy man chef, I suspect.
I'm afraid I don't think it will. A spirallizer turns the vegetables (usually long ones like cucumber, courgette, carrots or others cut into chunks) which pushes them against a row of very sharp cutters, similar to a grater or a slicer but the movement of the veg means it cuts in a continuous slice or thread. I have one similar to the attached photo. A mincer chops or pulverises the meat, pushes it through holes which cut it of into short lengths. Any vegetables would, unfortunately, be pulverised and not spirallized.