Description of the electric shredder for cutting cabbage and carrots
An electric shredder is a device that allows you to easily and quickly chop the required amount of cabbage, carrots, onions and other vegetables necessary for preparing delicious pickles. The device is good because it produces pieces of the same thickness and size, which allows you to make the workpieces also presentable in appearance and neat. In addition, a certain cutting method allows you to preserve the greatest amount of nutrients and juice in vegetables. You may also be interested in information about how to choose and use vegetables correctly.
An excellent option for quickly preparing a large portion of cabbage
A cabbage cutter is especially useful if you need to prepare a large amount of cabbage—small volumes can be handled manually. The device is cut with a special sharpened circular knife that works on the principle of a grater. This knife is made of durable stainless steel and lasts for a very long time without dulling. You can adjust the thickness of the slice by varying the height of the knife blades.
Using this device, you can avoid such an unpleasant thing as cuts on your hands: many housewives are familiar with this injury when chopping cabbage in the fall. You may also be interested in information about what a manual German one looks like and how effective it is.
Video shows how an electric cabbage shredder works:
How to cut cabbage with a special knife
When cutting cabbage with a special knife, you need to comply with the following rules:
- Take the knife in your hand so that the index finger is on the handle, the thumb is on the side, and all the rest are on the bottom.
- The blade, during the shredding process, should move back and forth without leaving the surface of the cabbage.
- You need to chop the vegetable strictly across the grain to prevent too much oozing.
- For convenience, before starting the process, cabbage forks should be cut into two parts. If it's too big, then by four.
- Each time after finishing slicing the cabbage along a plane, you need to tear the knife off the surface of the head of cabbage, bring it in again and repeat the movements back and forth, “sliding” down.
Watch the video on how to use a special cabbage knife:
Following these recommendations, it is impossible to cut the vegetable into large pieces.
Types: mechanical, manual, electric device
Cabbage shredders can be manual or electric - this is their main division. A small volume of cabbage can be processed using a manual device, exclusively for personal use.
If there is a need for large volumes, you cannot do without an electric unit. And similar devices are also divided into several varieties. First of all, it is necessary to separate household electric shredders from industrial ones. We can purchase the former for home use, and the latter are used in agricultural processing enterprises. Sometimes industrial shredders are so bulky that they would take up all the space in a standard kitchen. Household electric cabbage shredders are a convenient device that takes up little space, is compact and modern . In addition to all this, the unit has good power and is able to quickly cope with a decent volume of products. The body of the product is plastic, but the knives are always made of hardened stainless steel.
As a rule, the device is equipped with a switch with which you can select different shredding modes.
Note that the unit can cut not only cabbage, but also other vegetables and root crops. This property makes it universal, and even to some extent replacing a food processor. You may also be interested in information about how effective a Belvar electric meat grinder can be in the kitchen.
How to choose for a home, conditions, what it should look like
Let's learn all the intricacies of choosing an electric shredder for cabbage.
The power of such a combine
This moment is the most important. The speed of its operation and the quantity of finished products that it can produce depend on the power of the device. If you are not going to salt cabbage on an industrial scale, you can choose a medium-power device, but if you need to prepare a large amount of vegetables, you can purchase a powerful device. The more powerful the unit, the more expensive its cost will be.
Types of slicing devices
Some shredders are equipped with only one cutting method - they can produce slices of a certain thickness. If this is not enough, you can purchase a more advanced model with greater functionality and different cutting modes.
Shredding equipment attachments: chopper, grater
The more attachments a product has, the more functional it is. Typically, devices have from three to seven different attachments.
With their help, you can cut products into slices of various thicknesses, strips or cubes, beat, knead, chop, crush. It is important that the nozzles are made of stainless steel - this will ensure the shredder has a long service life. A mechanical scale with a bowl can also come in handy in the kitchen.
Adjusting blades, disc
If there is an adjustment function, you can change the width of the blades and disk during operation in order to cut products into slices of different thicknesses.
Device manufacturer
When choosing a device, do not be lazy to inquire about its manufacturer. The more well-known and popular the brand, the less likely it is to run into a low-quality product and the greater the guarantee of long-term uninterrupted operation of the unit. Here's how to choose an electric chopper for vegetables and fruits and how to choose such equipment for the kitchen. can be seen here.
How to make a simple and effective cabbage shredder
Good day to all, dear friends!
In today’s article I would like to show you how to make a homemade product that is quite relevant at the moment. So, now the sunset season is in full swing - this is the season when many of us make preparations for the winter from what we grew in the summer at the dacha. Namely, we will look at how to make a cabbage shredder. Many of us love sauerkraut, and many of us know how difficult it can sometimes be to prepare it. One of the problems with preparing cabbage for the winter is chopping it, of course, when you are going to prepare one or two liter jars, you will not have any particular problems with this. But when we are talking about ten three-liter jars, then shredding cabbage forks will be quite problematic, it will take a long time and not as neatly as it could be with the help of our shredder. This homemade product will have a very simple and primitive design from parts that you will probably find at home, in the country or in the garage. Well, enough of the long prefaces, and let’s start assembling this homemade product. Let's go! So, for this homemade product you will need:
— Sheet of plywood (1m * 1m). - Shovel handle. - Wooden block. — Round wooden stick 2 pcs (for example from a wooden clothes hanger). — Furniture nails. - Self-tapping screws. — Blades for a stationery knife. - A couple of washers.
Tools you will also need:
- Hammer. - Jigsaw. — Hand jigsaw. - Ruler. — Black gel or capillary pen. — Drill and drill bits. - Screwdrivers. - Hot glue. - Stationery knife.
First, let's take a sheet of plywood, on it we should draw a quadrilateral. To do this, we will need a black gel or capillary pen (by using a pen instead of a marker, you will achieve a thinner and more precise outline) and a ruler. The sides of the quadrilateral should be equal to 18 cm and 22 cm. We will need 2 of these quadrilaterals. After we have drawn the drawing using a jigsaw, we cut out our blanks. It should also be noted that on newly made blanks, a hole should be made in the center relative to the top and bottom sides and slightly offset to one of the sides. The diameter of the hole should be equal to the outer diameter of the round stick.
The next step is to take a cutting of medium diameter and cut off a cylinder from it with a height equal to the height of the posts, in our case it is 14 cm. And in the center of this cylinder we make holes whose diameter will be equal to the diameter of the hole made earlier on the plywood quadrangles, that is, the diameter of the round wooden stick you took. Next, install the cylinder in the place indicated in the photo so that the holes of the cylinder and the quadrilateral coincide. We will attach it using hot glue.
Then we should take and modify the second plywood quadrangle made earlier. Near the previously made hole, you should draw a rectangle towards the far side, that is, towards the center relative to the sides (see photo). The width of this rectangle should be about 1 cm, and the length should be slightly less than the length of the stationery knife blades you took.
We cut it out using a hand jigsaw exactly along the drawn contour. And using a utility knife, we bevel one of the sides of just the rectangular hole we made (see photo).
We connect the modified quadrilateral to the previously made workpiece using hot-melt adhesive. Then we knock together the entire structure using furniture nails and twist it with wood screws. This will give us strength and reliability of the structure.
Then we will cut out a circle from plywood, the diameter of which will be equal to 5-6 cm with a hole in the center, and the diameter of the hole in the center should be equal to the diameter of the round stick. This part will act as a large wooden washer. And install it in the place indicated in the photo. To ensure that the plywood washer does not rotate, but sits tightly and motionlessly in its place, we strengthen the connection with a pair of furniture nails.
All is ready! All that remains is to test it, to do this we string a head of cabbage onto the axis of the “handle”, set it in place and rotate the head of cabbage clockwise until it runs out. As a result, we got a very simple and useful design, which will certainly be useful for preparing cabbage for the winter.
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Machine manufacturers and prices of shredders
Let's get acquainted with the electric shredders of the most famous brands today, find out the features of these devices and their price.
ETB-2M machine for cutting, shredding, slicer
This product is produced by the Belarusian company Belvar. The unit is equipped with a variety of cutting modes:
- can be cut large or small;
- chop medium, finely and coarsely;
- grate root vegetables, vegetables;
- cut potatoes for frying in oil (fries).
The device is capable of chopping not very large volumes of cabbage or other vegetables
The device has a double insulating housing, which makes the device safe to use. The cutters are all made of stainless steel and move strictly vertically. The device is also equipped with a special attachment for churning butter. The price of the product is 3500 rubles. It will also be useful for you to learn about what good juicers for hard vegetables and fruits there are, as well as how to make the right choice.
Smile SM2711 home electric shredder and vegetable cutter
This electric shredder is intended primarily for cabbage, however, it is also suitable for chopping other vegetables, fruits, as well as for preparing potato and fruit puree. There is also an attachment for cutting French fries.
Most often, such a vegetable cutter is purchased for various fruits and vegetables, but it can also be used for cabbage
The knives of this device move horizontally, and there is a lock for turning on in automatic mode. Can cut slices 1.3 mm and 5.5 mm thick. Product power - 45 W. Price - 2460 rubles. But what are the best auger juicers and how to use them, this material will help you understand.
Moulinex Fresh Express Cube S s Stick: a good household product
The product can operate in several modes: cut into cubes and long strips, chop, grate on a coarse and fine grater. Note that the nozzles in their case are universal and are equally suitable for hard and delicate products. The device allows you to carefully cut food directly onto a plate.
Capable of cutting cabbage into even the thinnest strips
The power of the product is 280 W, two speeds and five attachments. Price - 8-9 thousand rubles. The product is manufactured in France. It will also be useful to learn about what an apple press juicer looks like and how it is used.
Bosch kitchen shredder
Household appliances from a well-known German manufacturer have long enjoyed well-deserved popularity all over the world. The prices for the products are quite affordable, there is a guarantee, and the quality is high. The standard model chopper in this case consists of a medium-sized bowl and three types of graters. Typically, the chopper also has a “blender” type attachment, thereby replacing a separate device of the same name.
The discs of such a device are capable of shredding any amount of cabbage. In this case, you can choose any size of chips
Using this device, you can not only chop vegetables and other products, but also beat egg whites, knead dough, and prepare delicious and fluffy mashed potatoes. All attachments are made of high-quality hardened stainless steel, which ensures a long service life for the product. The price is around 4000 rubles. But what conditions and how an electric meat grinder with a juicer is used and which brands are the best and most effective can be seen in this article.
Reviews about the device, electric shredder
Let's find out what our readers say about the advantages and disadvantages of electric cabbage shredders.
- Irina, 45 years old, Penza: “I have my own dacha, where I grow all the vegetables I need for the winter. The whole family loves cabbage, so we don’t do a single winter feast without this pickled or pickled vegetable. Every fall we diligently make preparations - and, to be honest, grating cabbage was my least favorite thing to do. It is very difficult physically, and my hands were often injured. Last year my husband gave me an electric shredder for chopping cabbage, and the problem of rubbing automatically disappeared. Now I chop the cabbage quickly and easily - literally half an hour of shredding - and the next portion is ready for pickling. The rest of the time I use the device for slicing potatoes, carrots, and even make puree with it. I don’t have a combine, but a shredder largely replaces it. I recommend this useful device to all housewives.”
- Ekaterina, 28 years old, Saratov: “I bought an electric shredder several years ago - now it’s my favorite kitchen unit. Thanks to the shredder, I forgot that I had a food processor and a vegetable cutter - because of its bulkiness, I completely removed it from the kitchen. With an electric shredder I can perfectly chop all the necessary products, vegetables, carrots, cabbage. I recommend this wonderful shredding machine to everyone - it will be useful in any kitchen, and it won’t take up much space.”
We learned what an electric shredder (slicer machine or shredder) is for cabbage, and what types of these devices and units can be found on sale. As you can see, the device is very useful - and not only for cutting cabbage, but also for chopping many other products and vegetables. Choose an electric shredder - this device can replace a full-fledged food processor, and moreover, it will not take up extra space in your home kitchen. You may also be interested in information about what reviews there are about a mechanical juicer for citrus and pomegranates.
How to shred cabbage on a grater: which grater to choose?
How to choose a grater for shredding cabbage?
Modern devices for shredding cabbage include dozens, or even hundreds, of different models of graters, so each housewife has the opportunity to choose the most suitable option for herself. The differences between these devices are as follows:
- Operating method - mechanical, electrical or manual
- Device material: wood, metal, plastic
- Availability of a container for collecting the finished product
- Various types of cutting attachments (small, large, embossed)
- Having one or more knives
When choosing a grater for slicing cabbage, the woman’s individual preferences will play a major role.
How to grate cabbage?
Each grater usually comes with instructions for its use. If the grater is manual, then the housewife will have to perform the following steps:
- Wash the cabbage.
- We clear it of the top leaves.
- Cut the cabbage in half or into quarters.
- Prepare a cutting board or other surface (if there is no container for collecting shredded cabbage).
- We take the grater in our left hand.
- Conveniently rest the grater against the surface of the board or simply press it against it.
- We take part of the cabbage in our right hand.
- We begin to carefully grate the cabbage with smooth but firm movements from top to bottom.
