Spiralizer Tips - Spiralizing Attachment

Preparing your food:

Cut the ends off food items to ensure the food will properly fit on the Spiralizer. This creates a flat surface for the best spiralizing, slicing, and coring results.

• Food diameter: should be 1.5 - 3.75 inches (3.81 - 9.5 cm )
• Food length: no longer than 5.5 inches (14 cm). (cut large vegetables to fit)

This step also ensures proper placement onto the fruit and vegetable skewer.

TIP:  Some people find it easier to insert the skewer into the vegetable before attaching the spiralizer.  This is a personal preference.

Attachment is making a hole in the fruit or vegetable:

• Ensure you use only fresh, hard, and firm fruits and vegetables for the best results. 
• Ensure the fruit or vegetable is firmly on the skewer before turning on the mixer.  
• Turning the mixer on first and allowing the blade to engage with a fruit or vegetable that is already turning can cause the food to stop turning and will enable it to "bore" a hole in the food item.

Spiralizer carriage not moving:

• Be sure to keep the bar that says KitchenAid^® and the black piece that slides over it very clean.
• A drop or two of vegetable oil on the bar can also ensure it slides easily. 

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