Spiral cutters are great for making curly fries, zuccini vegatable noodles, and even for just shredding onions. This spiral vegetable cutter is both compact and very efficient, producing very little vegetable waste. It fits snugly over a standard 32oz yogurt container so that you spiralize neatly and directly into a storage container. It uses widely available mini-snap knife blades for the cutters: 6 small sections are snapped off to form the vertical cutters and the remainder of the blade is used for the horizontal slicer.
CAUTION: Be very careful assembling and using this device - the blades are extremely sharp!
Printer Brand:
MakerGear
Printer:
M2
Rafts:
No
Supports:
No
Resolution:
0.2mm
Infill:
15%
Notes:
Print 1 of each part using natural (unpigmented) PLA: cutter, plug, pusher and ring.
Update: Initially, I inadvertently uploaded mirrored version of the cutter and plug. These files have now been corrected.
Assembly
How to use
Cut a flat spot on whatever you want to spiral cut (potato, zucchini, etc.) and then cut another flat spot on the opposite side parallel to the first cut. Place the cutter/ring, blade-side up, over a 32oz yogurt container and gently press your veggie onto center stub of the cutter. Center the pusher over the other side of your veggie and press in place. Now simply press down lightly as you rotate the pusher and, voila, spiral cut strands should descend into your tub.
CAUTION: Never use the spiral cutter without the pusher - pressing your vegetables in by hand is is incredibly dangerous!
Food Safety
PLA is a bioplastic generally considered food safe, but you want to use natural (unpigmented) PLA because who knows what they put in the pigment.
The other big issue with food and 3D printing is cleaning. PLA will melt in your dishwasher, so you have to hand wash your spiral cutter. (Using a brush works best.) Unfortunately, water will often creep into the crevices left by 3D printing and stuff can take a long time to dry out. Also, things (both benign and harmful) can grow in the crevices even after cleaning (just like with a cutting board). As such, only use the spiral cutter with vegetable products (no meat spirals).
If mold does start to grow in your spiral cutter, you can try soaking it in vinegar or hydrogen peroxide, and letting it dry in the sun will always help kill off anything growing.
Category: Kitchen & Dining