Anyone use a spiralizer?

I just got one for Christmas, so I'm interested as well.

Not anymore. Too much work and it tastes the same as cubes... so why bother?

I use mine quite a bit. Especially in the summer when I had lots of zucchini from my garden!

I love my spiralizer! Def get the kind with the crank handle. I had a cheap one that you just twisted the vegetable into it. I broke it in about 3 minutes. I have a Vegetti now. I use it to make butternut squash ribbons and then roast them-so good! Beets, too, but messy and take a long time to cook. I even spiralizer turnips and roasted them. They were great. Zucchini are super easy to do.

I really thought i want one - bought one, hardly used it - find it awkward and difficult to clean. ... will pas it on as soon as someone mentions they want one :-)

I got mine over a year ago and haven't used it - to be fair there was a period of time I didn't have access to it (fire so out of the house for 6 months) but still, I didn't use it before and haven't used it since. I want to but I am honestly lazy (like I think the plastic protection film is still on the blade lazy).

Sweet potatoes are good spiralized & roasted, too. I did plain old potatoes and they were like shoestring fries-but roasted not fried. Apples are a great idea!

I use it mostly with zucchini & yellow squash. I use the noodles in place of pasta or in a salad with chicken and various seasonings.

I have the cheap hand held one from Vegetti, and like it a lot. I really enjoy my spaghetti, so it has been great to use on Zucchini and Summer Squash to make Zoodles and Squoodles to go with my spaghetti sauce (much lower in calories than pasta and much better tasting than most rice pastas). I also found a recipe to make Parmesan Garlic Zoodles, which I do occasionally. I have a hard time getting enough vegetables (not a fan and get tired of salads), so this is a good way for me to get them. Might need to try some other veggies from the recipe site.

With the hand held one, if you use the top of the stem of the vegetable rather than the silly little cap that comes with it, it is much easier to use, IMO. You have to be careful though because as you get near the top, you can scrape up your fingers (so that is the best time to use the cap), but I found the cap was sort of a pain to use on the vegetable before most of it is turned into noodles.

The biggest negative to me is that sometimes the vegetables are too big to fit into the hand held one, so you may need to cut them down. Looks like that's not a problem with the hand crank one. I haven't found it really any harder to clean than a hand grater.

I have a Vegeti but want to get a crank one instead of the hand held model. I do like the spirals, as a texture thing. I like stretching a serving of bean pasta with them. I'd also like to try some other vegetables, like turnips because I think they'd be amazing.

We bought the cheap one. We use it. Definitely more during summer, but we do use it.

I don't use mine a ton, but I like it. I'm diabetic, so I try to avoid pasta, even tho I love it.

I like mine okay when I use it, but I don't have a dishwasher so it's a *kitten* to clean. It's definitely more fun to look at, but the effort isn't necessarily worth the return when I can just chop veggies with a knife. Also, I bought a spiralized veggie cookbook but it just hasn't really inspired me to cook from it because it's just veggie noodles substituted for wheat noodles which I could figure out myself.

@Queenmunchy -- will you please post the recipe for The butternut squash gratin?