KitchenAid 5-Blade Fruit and Vegetable Spiralizer Attachment, KSM1APC

Why it's worth it

A five-blade attachment that spiralizes, slices, cores, and peels. It clamps the food on a skewer and the motor does the turning, so you're not white-knuckling a hand crank through a butternut squash.

Hand spiralizers are the kitchen tool people abandon fastest, and this fixes the reason why. Cranking a zucchini through a countertop spiralizer takes both arms and a lot of hope. Here the mixer motor turns the food against a fixed blade while you stand there doing nothing. Epicurious notes that the attachment handles hard vegetables like butternut squash alongside softer ones like zucchini without swapping blades for most cuts.

You get five quick-change blades: two spiralizing sizes, two slicing cores, and an optional peeler. The peeling blade is the sleeper. If you make apple pie, applesauce, or a lot of roasted potatoes, peeling and slicing in one pass is a bigger time save than the noodles are. The body is metal, not plastic, and it's built to sit stable while the arm swings.

From our review of 8 stand mixer attachments

What we like

• +Hand spiralizers are the kitchen tool people abandon fastest, and this fixes the reason why
• +You get five quick-change blades: two spiralizing sizes, two slicing cores, and an optional peeler
• +For anyone cutting carbs, this is the attachment that changes what dinner looks like
• +The blades are top-rack dishwasher safe, which almost nothing else in this guide can claim

What to know

• –Food has to be reasonably straight and firm to mount on the skewer
• –There's some waste built in