You may have heard of “zoodles” before or seen them featured in your favorite cooking magazine. Or, you may have seen packaged spiralized vegetables at your local grocery store. By now, you’re probably curious about spiralizing, but aren’t sure a) what spiralizing is exactly, b) what you can make with a spiralizer and c) which spiralizer to purchase (spoiler alert: it’s this one!).
We are here to tell you that the spiralizer is the best kitchen tool you can buy for a healthier you and for more exciting, inventive cooking! It enables you to turn vegetables and fruits into noodles, which can then be used to make creative and delicious meals, like this Zucchini Noodle Ramen, this Butternut Squash and Sausage Lasagna or even this Spiralized Pizza. Yes, you can even make pizza healthier with a spiralizer!
Join us and ditch the veggie boredom and start making vegetable-packed meals that taste like real deal comfort foods. Here are our top 9 reasons why you NEED a spiralizer:
Spiralizing helps reduce your carbon footprint
Spiralizing lends itself to shopping at farmer’s markets, where vegetables tend to be in abundance and tend to be larger in size. There’s something therapteutic about walking through a vegetable stand and looking for “something to spiralize.” By shopping at farmer’s markets, we support our local community and reduce our carbon footprint. Also, by shopping at farmer’s markets, we’re inherently eating seasonally! Many vegetables (such as zucchini) reduce in size in the off-season, making them more difficult to spiralize. Therefore, we discover new vegetables by season and become more creative in the kitchen, while being eco-friendly and supporting local farmers!
It’s Family Friendly – kids watch veggies magically turn into noodles!
Children love to spiralize – they love watching a vegetable or fruit turn magically into noodles. As long as a parent is supervising the sharp blades of the spiralizer, it’s safe for a child to participate in the spiralizing process! By spiralizing with your children, they’ll learn healthy habits while having fun – what’s better than that? Since spiralizing is a quick way to prepare vegetables in mass, it’s definitely family-friendly. What’s more classic than spaghetti night? Now, instead of waiting for water to boil and having mushy noodles, just spiralize a few vegetables and you have instant, ready-to-cook pasta! This way, you can spend more time with your family and loved ones and less time in the kitchen.
One of our adorable Inspiralized kids making zucchini noodles on Instagram!
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How good is a spiralizer five blade vegetable slicer?
The Spiralizer Five-Blade Vegetable Slicer does a good job at cutting most vegetables, but its blades aren’t as sharp as the OXO’s, so some vegetables break into fragments. The suction feet on the Spiralizer Five-Blade aren’t quite as secure as the OXO’s lever-activated suction.
What is the best electric vegetable spiralizer?
The Hamilton Beach 3-in-1 Electric Vegetable Spiralizer is an easy-to-use electric option. It stands out for its streamlined design, which resembles a juicer with its long chute and pusher tool — only this one is equipped with a metal grip to hold your vegetables in place.
Can you use a spiralizer to make vegetable noodles?
Though you can use a mandoline or a julienne vegetable peeler to create long strands of vegetables, only spiralizers can produce a true spiral shape. We tested spiralizers to see how well the blades could make sturdy vegetable noodles with an even thickness. Photo: Michael Hession
Should you buy a spiralizer?
Whether you’re trying to eat more vegetables, want to move to a plant-based diet or just need to speed up your time spent in the kitchen, spiralizers can be a great gadget to add to your kitchen arsenal.