Salad Chopper, Salad Shooter Choices for the Avid Salad Maker
Salad Shooter, Review of the 02970 Professional Presto SaladShooter
The Salad Shooter: If you're tired of getting out the food processor every time you'd like to shred, or hate dealing with shredding and chopping by hand, this is the perfect device for you. It's an excellent gift, as well. The Presto Salad Shooter is inexpensive, and surprisingly useful. Some might think of it as another gadget to sit around the house, but it's not. Just take a look at the reviews and ratings by actual customers included below. Scroll down.
Just point and shoot the Salad Shooter for delicious salads, pizzas, coleslaw, hash browns, tacos and much, much more! Professional size, power, speed and capacity. Bonus! Includes extra accessories for ripple cuts and thick slices, plus a handy funnel guide.
114-watt professional-model electric slicer/shredder
Large food chamber; adjustable food guide adapts to large or small loads
Just point and shoot; funnel guide directs ingredients where needed
Accessories for thick slices and ripple cuts; base wipes clean; dishwasher-safe parts
Measures 11 by 4-1/4 by 8-1/2 inches; 1-year limited warranty
I use this for one thing and one thing only
Review Date: May 31, 2008
Reviewer: K. Daum, Northwest, United States
This thing rocks for shredding cheese! My family doesn't like the pre-shredded stuff, and loves to just grab handfuls of freshly shredded cheddar cheese to munch on. However, normally shredding cheese involved grating your knuckles in the process, and a lot of arm muscle. Enter, the Salad Shooter!
I purchased my Salad Shooter last November. I buy 2 lb bricks of Tillamook cheese, and cut them into 5 pieces so they'll fit into the chute. This is the most time consuming part of shredding cheese for me now, and it doesn't take that long! Then, I shred the cut sections of cheese. Yes, the Salad Shooter is loud, but it only takes me seconds to shred 2 pounds of cheese. So, I don't mind the noise.
Clean up is easy. A quick rinse to get the bigger bits of stuck cheese off (not sure if this is even necessary, but I do it anyway), and then everything goes in the dishwasher, except for the motor bit, and that only rarely needs a quick wipe with a paper towel. I love it.
I've probably shredded about 30 pounds of cheese with my Salad Shooter, and it's still going strong. For every family gathering, I volunteer to bring the shredded cheese.... it's just so much easier for me to do it.
*Update: October 6, 2008* I've probably shredded well over 60 lbs of cheese now with my Salad Shooter, and it still looks brand new. Since I wash everything in the dishwasher, I kept expecting rust spots to show up on the metal grating part, but there's no rust to be found. I'm very pleased!
**2nd update: July 2010** Still going strong.... I don't even want to guess how many pounds of cheese I've shredded with this Salad Shooter! :) Shredding blade cone had a hairline crack in the plastic part of it for several months but I kept using it, and now there's a bigger crack near it. Ordered a replacement cone directly from Presto this month, arrived in 4 days. I have a habit of pushing hard on the cheddar cheese in the chute, so I think that put a lot of stress on the shredding cone. 2 and a half years for that first shredding cone isn't bad, though, seeing what I put it through!
This salad shooter is the best!
Review Date: September 11, 2005
Reviewer: S. Myers,
I used to spend hours and many layers of skin shredding cheese for enchiladas, lasagna, cassaroles, etc. and the salad shooter makes quick, easy and painless work of the whole process! Since we started eating healthier, whipping up a quick salad is an effortless task with this product and clean-up is a snap!
awesome
Review Date: February 25, 2006
Reviewer: Ignacio H. Reyes, El Paso, Tx
when I bougth this product I never thought that it was going to help me much, but now I can tell you that it has changed my life. I use it for all my salads. I reccommend using it with hash browns, cheese, carrots, radishes, cucumber, sliced potatoes, and so on. Since it has different slicers you can choose whichever you like the best. I reccommend it a lot!
Easy as can be!
Review Date: January 23, 2007
Reviewer: M. L. Berberich, NY
I have owned the smaller Salad Shooter for many years (and it still works!) and have always loved the ease of use and easy cleaning (I stick it right in the dishwasher), so I wanted the bigger one to try coleslaw with it. I think I'll stick to my food processor for the cabbage shredding because I had to cut the cabbage up too small, but this will do almost everything else with ease, it's very powerful. I love it to shred cheese, carrots, etc. The extra attachments give you a lot of variety in slice thickness. And the best thing is you can aim it right over the bowl or dish that you're preparing and the food will shoot right in without dirtying another bowl! Great for summer salads! I bought my daughter one too and she loves it.
Perfect name for a perfect shredder/slicer!!!
Review Date: February 18, 2007
Reviewer: Marla, Dallas, TX
Afetr reading the reviews, I was still a little skeptical and thought could shredding cheese really be that easy? Well it's easy, breezy and completely mess free!! The parts you do use are dishwasher safe so you're done with your shredding and cleaning in minutes. The motor is powerful and the slicer works great as well. I cannot imagine being without this neat gadget in my kitchen!
I use this for one thing and one thing only
