Multi-function Vegetable Cutter Hand Drum Rotary Grater with 3 Stainless Steel Interchangeable Blades

I have a Lithuanian back-round and one of my relatives has made Kugala (sp) more than a few times for us for over 50 years. She hasn't in many years and as we are all getting older I asked her to teach my wife how to make it and had many family members over for a mini reunion (they are from out of town). It was a lot of fun but boy was grating the potatoes a lot of work. The recipe she uses is amazing and it was an awesome dinner and time as the dish brought back many found memories of my childhood.BUT it was a lot of work. So we did a little research and came across this unit. If you are thinking about buying it....DO IT. It is amazing, it goes through the potatoes like butter and makes the proper consistency. It is FAST, FAST, FAST.....worth the money as it will save time and knuckles. This is a specialty unit and not for everyone, but if you have the cabinet space and like Lithuanian potato recipes buy it. Hope this helps.

My sisters and I used this machine to make the mass for pasteles. It worked great! The blades are a little temperamental but once you get a hang of it everything goes smoothly. Make sure you don't force the vegetables or roots into the machine just let it grate on it's own. Our pasteles this year were a hit the masa was perfect!

I had a hankering for potato pancakes a few weeks ago and after painfully grating potatoes by hand decided to find a better way. I tried a food processor, but the consistency was all wrong. Finally I came across the Electric Potato Grater and decided to take a chance on it - a decision I'm glad I made. It grates potatoes incredibly fast - I grated about 5 pounds of potatoes in less than a minute - and the consistency was exactly right. It's also exceptionally easy to clean. The only negative is the instruction booklet which is sparse and written in broken English. It's a good thing that using the machine and cleaning it is so intuitive. Although somewhat expensive, this machine is well worth the money. If you need to grate rather than shred, this is the machine to get. I also purchased the optional coarse grating blade, but haven't used it yet.

Bought this machine as a gift for my mother's birthday. My mother was very happy with her gift to make her dough for Puerto Rican pasteles. Unfortunately, the machine never worked.We assembled it as indicated in the guidebook, we tried to use it and began to blow smoke as we began to use it. I stopped using it for a few minutes, and let it rest, but on the second attempt, the machine started again to blow smoke. Therefore, the best decision was to unplug the machine before it caught fire.My thoughts on this product? First, the machine is super heavy and if you're not careful you can hurt yourself. Second, I lost $ 169.99. And finally, I hope you can improve the product.

I bought this grater to make potato latkes, which required grating potatoes and onions together. I don't like using the food processor grating attachment for this purpose because it shreds, rather than grates. In 1968, I purchased a Braun Kitchen preparation machine that had a base that contained the motor, with a blender attachment, a mixer attachment and a slicer/grater attachment that had a variety of different blades. The grater attachment processed the potatoes and onions perfectly with no effort at all. Unfortunately, it gave up the ghost many years ago and I have been struggling with a box grater ever since. This year I couldn't face the prospect of doing all of that grating for our family Chanukah dinner, so I began investigating what was available in a electric machine. Since this machine looked so similar to the Braun attachment, I decided to take a chance and buy it.Luckily, I decided to make a batch of latkes a week before the dinner to see how the machine performed. There is little in the way of instruction in the book, and little of the documentation is written in English. Since there's not much to do to use it, though, that did not prove to be a problem. One thing I discovered immediately is a safety issue. If the machine is plugged in, the grating blades will rotate even if the top is off. There should be a safety switch like that on a food processor which prevents the blades from rotating if the top is not in place.Next, I was surprised to see that there was only one set of grating blades, essentially equivalent to the size of the fine grating side of a box grater. Given that the blades are detachable, I don't see why the company doesn't make grating blades of various sizes, maybe including slicing blades as well. Anyway, the machine breezed through grating the potatoes, although it stalled on a piece of potato that got stuck in the bottom of the chute. Granted, I was using very large russet potatoes and feeding them whole into the chute. Still, I would have thought the motor would have easily powered through it. It happened again on a subsequent use of the machine, so it wasn't an isolated incident. The problem was easily cured by cutting the potatoes lengthwise before feeding them in, so that there was more room in the chute, and making sure to start the machine before feeding the potatoes in.The major problem was that the machine did not grate the onion well. There were chunks of onion interspersed throughout the grated potatoes, forcing me to search through with my hands removing all that I could find. At that point, I was going to send the machine back because it was pretty expensive for something which would just do the potatoes. Instead I decided to grate the onion on the large holes of the box grater and then grate the potatoes with the machine and mix them together. Surprisingly, it didn't take much time or effort to grate the onions on the box grater, so the overall time to make the latkes mixture was still very short and much easier then using the box grater alone.After all of that I decided I would return the machine as it was very expensive for something I use once a year and just does the potatoes. I'm embarrassed to admit that, out of laziness, I ended up keeping it.I did not try grating any other vegetables with this machine. I imagine it would handle hard vegetables like carrots.

Based on another review, I purchased this potato grater with the hopes of grating root vegetables for Puerto Rican pasteles. I'm so happy I did! I was able to grate green bananas, yucca, taro, plantain and pumpkin into the perfect batter within 7-10 minutes. That time frame includes emptying the batter into a larger bowl. I grated approximately 20-30 pounds of root vegetables. Most machines puree the batter making it too soft and once you cook the pastel, it falls apart. This machine truly gives it the texture that's achieved by hand grating. My pasteles were just right, not too soft or too hard.Hands down the BEST grating machine I've ever come across. Cleaning the machine is fairly easy as well. If I could give it more stars I would.