Browne Cuisipro Stainless-Steel Potato Ricer
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Browne Cuisipro Stainless-Steel Potato Ricer
Customer Review: Skip peeling the potatoes!
Summary: 5 Stars
I too learned about potato ricers from Cook's Illustrated. They're right -when you use a ricer, mashed potatoes are fluffier and taste much better. (It helps to follow their rule of adding melted butter first, then mix, then add hot milk or cream, then mix again). But the best thing about the potato ricer is that you can boil the potatoes in the skins, plop them into the ricer, and voila! Mashed potatoes with no peeling. Even better yet is that potatoes cooked in their skin retain more flavor than peeled potatoes. Of course, a few bits of peel might escape through the holes and end up in the mashed potatoes -but those are easily picked out -or left in unnoticed. I've even done this for fancy dinner parties for 20 people -once you have the hang of it (I use a fork to pick out the peels in one large piece between potatoes), it takes a couple of minutes to rice a pot full of potatoes. It's so easy that I'm willing to make mashed potatoes on a busy weeknight when I would never think of making mashed potatoes if they required peeling. I can't vouch for any other brand of ricer. Mine is the cuisipro and I'm delighted with how well made it is. Clean up is a snap (in the dishwasher or just rinse) and the construction is excellent -heavy duty stainless steel that is quite rigid and still looks brand new after a year of heavy use. I'm about to order a couple of these as christmas presents for friends who are serious cooks who seriously envy my potato ricer :)Customer Review: What a pleasant surprise.........
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are anything like me you have probably bought your share of gadgets around the house that seemed like a 'must have' when you bought it ... then seemed like an 'i'ts Ok' when you firts used it and then into the junk drawer ... never to be ssen again until you move.Well, if you like mashed potatoes then this is a MUST HAVE little and trust me you'lll use it over and over. (Darned if I know why they call it a ricer since it has diddly to do with rice. I mean we alll KNOW that potatoes hate rice anyway)
For us semi professional cooks you know that potatoes when boiled in their skins not only maintain their nutrients, but also, most importantly the flavour! In the past that has meant peeling hot potatoes which was never much fun. With this machine however you just dump the potato into the bowl and squeeze, voila ..... the potato comes out the bottom and the skin stays in the bowl ... I don't know how to explain it but the closest I'll come to is to say it's MAGIC.
You can usually do like 3 potatoes and then just pop open the ricer, scrape away the boiled potato skin and continue ...
no fuss no musss no burned hands no cutting and mashing just perfect fresh flavourfull mashed potatoes to add butter, garlic, cheeese or whatever else turns you on ...
OK potato lovers buy this baby now you will NOT regret it ....
Customer Review: THE ONLY PART OF THE DREAM MACHINE THAT DOESN'T WORK....
Summary: 5 Stars
IS ME!!!! Just received the ricer... and I love, love, LOVE it!!!.... HOWEVER.... I need more help! Tried my hand at gnocchi for the first time w/company f/dinner, and being somewhat of an ego maniac in the kitchen (dare I admit this?), I TOTALLY DISREGARDED the warnings, that this delicate little pasta takes practice. Por moi? OUI!... What an unmitigated disaster; HOWEVER, the ricer was soooooo wonderful and the rest of the meal was thankfully good..WHEW! Back to the ricer, and away f/ my biography...boring! No force needed,.. riced beautifully. I adore the fact that I have not one, but three alternate size attachments from which to choose. Clean-up? .. a snap! Ease of use: a snap...or should I say..a squish? Again, my bossy "YOUNGER" sister raved about ricers and how wonderful they were... so this time I think I topped her!!! Used hers f/Williams/Sonoma...well, not only was it plastic.. the potatoes squished out over the edges of the gadget, making it necessary to scrape frequently and hunt down the lost blobs that dropped in the bowl AND it was much (really MUCH) harder to press the potatoes through her tool. As much as I hate to gloat (me?), this Cuisipro is FAR superior! Hee! hee! It's so much fun to win once in a while and this little gadget made me a winner! THANKS CUISIPRO!!!Customer Review: Not the best, far from the worst
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been using this for a year now. It's stainless steel, goes in the dishwasher without rusting, although a little awkward in there but I manage to open it and it gets clean. You can mash potatos with the skin on, but the skin remains in "the hopper", which is good if you want skinless potatos, not so good if you like to include them. It will also clog it up so you need to keep clearing it out. The handle is sturdy enough to do the job without bending, but it does take some amount of strength to push through so it's not for those lacking in that department. I didn't want to spend the extra money at Williams Sonoma for the big one, but kind of wish I did because it holds a lot more. You pretty much do 1 potato at a time in this, which is not so good for a crowd, better to use your mixer. I believe riceing? potatos makes the lightest fluffiest potatoes you will ever have! If I had a baby, I would use this and make my own baby food....wish I had known about them (and seal-a-meal type devices)at the time. I keep forgetting to try it for other tasks, like homeade soup or tomato/pasta sauce, but it should be great for that too....I will soon since it is also good for those on liquid diets, which I am on due to surgery.Customer Review: works well
Summary: 4 Stars
- The three disks are essential. Don't buy a ricer that has only one disc. Make sure the ingredients are thoroughly dried before ricing. It really makes it much easier.
-Sturdy construction will not bend like inferior models. I only buy products made of 18/10 stainless steel. Do yourself a favor and buy it once and only once.
- I use if for mashed potatoes and ricing squash for gnocchi. As advertised you do not have to peel the potatoes because the skins are caught by the ricer. However, I don't mind quickly peeling potatoes. I would rather hurry up and rice them rather than having to clean it out after every quarter potato. Good for squash, but make sure it's not saturated (i.e. don't salt the squash before roasting).
- Good for making small amounts (2-4 ppl). Anything more and I would use a food mill.
I rated it four stars because sometimes the contents flow over the cap when ricing. However, this has more to do with properly getting the moisture out of the ingredients and knowing which disc is most appropriate.
I recommend this device.