The Best Vegetable Spiralizers for Fun Healthy Food

Even if you’re not trying to cut back on your carbs, vegetable “noodles” are still a fun and tasty way to eat healthily, maximize your intake of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals, and fight against chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. Turning your produce into faux noodles is simple with a good spiral vegetable slicer. These spiralizers will help you add some pizzazz to your veggie dishes with ease!

Essential Questions When Choosing a Spiralizer

Here are some things to ask yourself before buying:

• What type of vegetables and fruits do you want to spiralize? The design of the spiralizer has to accommodate the shape and size of the produce you want to cut. Also, not all designs can handle tougher, more fibrous vegetables.
• How easy is it to use? Handheld spiralizers are generally ready to go and simple to use. If the spiralizer requires assembly, make sure putting it together is not a chore. The design of any spiralizer should hold vegetables firmly and remain stable during cutting.
• How easy is it to store? Handheld spiralizers are generally the easiest to store. If you have the counter or cabinet space, spiralizers with hand-turned cranks and automatic spiralizers are good options.
• What are the cleaning options? Make sure the cutting parts of the spiralizer are dishwasher safe. Brushes are useful for clearing food stuck in blades.

Best Handheld: Original SpiraLife Spiralizer

For easy setup, you just can’t beat this handheld spiralizer from SpiraLife. Insert your produce into one of the two blade funnels at each end, and turn it like you’re sharpening a pencil for instant noodles or ribbons! Made with BPA-free plastic and stainless steel blades, this spiralizer comes with a vegetable peeler, cleaning brush, storage bag, and an ebook full of delicious spiralizer recipes. It’s easy to clean and dishwasher safe.

Best Heavy-Duty: Spiralizer 7-Blade Vegetable Slicer

This BPA-free spiralizer secures firmly to your countertop with a lever-controlled suction cup. Seven blades give you a wide selection of cuts: use the angel hair blade to make 2-millimeter angel hair noodles, the fine shredding blade to make 3-millimeter spaghetti strands, the coarse shredding blade to make 5-millimeter fettuccine strands, the curly fry blade to make 5.5-millimeter curly-fries, the flat blade to make wide ribbons, the fine wavy blade to make unique fine ridged pasta, and the coarse wavy blade to make a hearty ridged noodle. Blades store in the body of the spiralizer to keep things organized and minimize space.

Best Electric: Hamilton Beach 3-in-1 Spiralizer

Let the easy-to-assemble Hamilton Beach electric spiralizer do the work for you as you make spirals and ribbons for favorite your salad and pasta recipes! The spiralizer has a large 2.5-inch chute and comes with three blade cones to make vegetables into spaghetti, linguine, and ribbons; a 6-cup bowl catches your cut vegetables. All removable parts are dishwasher safe.

Budget-Friendly: Adoric Handheld Spiralizer

Sometimes simple is best. Adoric’s open design, with a built-in stainless steel blade, makes quick spaghetti, fettucini, and ribbon noodles; just select your setting with the push of a button and twist! It handles all kinds of vegetables, from onions and carrots to zucchini, cucumber, beets, and potatoes. The BPA-free body is light and fits easily in your hand; dimensions are 3.9 inches by 3.58 inches by 3.54 inches.

Also Great: Paderno 4-Blade Folding Spiralizer

The compact Paderno spiralizer makes vegetable spaghetti, cucumber ribbons, curly fries, or long, spiral apple strands in seconds! The slicer secures to your countertop with a suction cup for stability and includes one blade for ribbon and accordion cuts and three sizes of julienne blades (1/8 inch, 1/4 inch, and 3/32 inch). The folding design means that the spiralizer takes up little space on your countertop or in your cabinet. It’s dishwasher safe on the top shelf. It comes in red, white, and black.