KitchenAid RVSA Slicer/Shredder Attachment for Stand Mixers
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: KitchenAidBrand: KitchenAid
Model: RVSA
Color: White
Product features:
- Includes two shredding cones, fine and coarse
- Includes two slicing cones, thin and thick
- Each works in conjunction with plastic housing and metal shaft
- Works with all KitchenAid household stand mixers
- Instruction book includes uses for cones and recipes
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of KitchenAid RVSA Slicer/Shredder Attachment for Stand Mixers
Customer Review: I'm here to help
Summary: 3 Stars
Twice a week or so, our kitchen is converted into a full fledge pizzeria. We make everything from scratch.
Well... not the cheese, we buy that. We buy that by the block. The extra chemicals put into shredded mozzarella, and, frankly, the enormous price differential of mozz by the block ensures we will never buy a bag of cheese again. If you are considering this purchase, you just might have hand grated a two pound block of mozzarella at some point.
So is this thing worth it? The simple answer is well outlined by the many negative reviews on amazon which state that this product will not help you. This product will not help you.
But unlike the other negative reviewers, when I get burned with a product that is overpriced if it worked, I have a personal need to make it work. I have done just that.
First I had to find some use for this thing. Slicing veggies? nah. Slicing veggies isn't hard to begin with... and this fails against a good knife and some skill. If you aren't skilled with a knife and you are cooking on the kitchenaid level, you shouldn't use it anyway. You will need the practice with the knife... no machine will ever fully replace it. Shredding carrots? Wrong again. We use only baby carrots, and since the blades have somewhere between a 1/8th and 1/4 inch clearance, it barely shreds half of one. Shredding firmer cheeses. Yes. Cheddar is king here. And it is particularly good for grating parmesan and romano, though you will have to shred much more than you could use at once for it to be practical. The ends of the romano (again, somewhere between 1/8th and 1/4 inch) will be lost in the blades, so if you grate only a small piece, as opposed to a whole block, you will waste a much higher percentage of cheese.
Cheddar and romano grating didn't justify the purchase price, so we dug deeper. We tried freezing mozzarella, recommended by others and the owners manual. Freeze it too little, and you are left with the same mash it normally produces. Freeze it too much and you get mozzarella snow. Freeze it just right and... well we never could do that so I don't know what happens then. No matter how much or little you freeze mozz, it ruins the texture, so it never really was a real option. We tried different brands of cheese. The major brands, listed from worst shredability to best: Pollio, Sargento, Calabro. Vegan mozz shreds perfectly, but tastes far from that perfection. Although Calabro is our favorite store bought mozz, it didn't shred well enough. By now... the money having been long spent, and the trials tedious, it looked like the end of the kitchenaid rotoslicer attachment.
But then came the breakthrough. I have the keen eyes of my wife, well trained in art of needle-in-haystack by photohunt bar games and eye spy books, to thank. At a local Goodwill, sitting entirely out in the open, on a shelf I had walked by no less then fourteen times, rested the two shredding blades for a kitchenaid rotoslicer. At the fabulous price of 59 US pennies, we would have bought them solely as backups, should the piece of sh**t that we would have never used again somehow broke. But these weren't the blades I had at home. These weren't chrome plated garbage metal. These were... perhaps nickel plated garbage metal. But they were heftier, sharper, and shinier. The cutting blades were more pronounced extruding perhaps a millimeter or so further from the conical core then the blades I had at home. We rushed home to try them out.
Well the center hole of the blades didn't quite fit on our rotoslicer's auger, so I drilled out the hole the tiniest bit larger. And now... now... Now it is the perfect machine for shredding mozzarella. Absolutely perfect cuts on all brands of mozz, amazing speed... it boggles the mind why the blades that come with this machine aren't like this.
So what are these mystery blades? They are, as I said, more dense and shinier than the blades that come with the rotoslicer, so they don't seem to be simply a modern set that had been sharpened or manufactured better. Your guess might be as good or better than mine. I believe them to be from the older, hobart manufactured slicer/shredder, though there is no way to know for sure. There numbering on the blades is slightly different. Where the blades that came with the attachment are stamped with a number, these are stamped with the same number and the letter 'G'. Presumably the 'G' is for grater (unfortunately the slicer blades weren't at the Goodwill).
So if you are one of the many that have bought and given up on this product, try searching ebay for these blades. If you haven't bought it yet, try searching for the whole hobart era attachment on ebay. I have seen some there that are actually made of metal. Remember that stuff? It was so reliable. Oh yeah, it's what the friggin kitchenaid is made of.
Description of KitchenAid RVSA Slicer/Shredder Attachment for Stand Mixers
Transform your KitchenAid stand mixer into a food processor with this accessory set. Slice or shred fruits, vegetables or cheese.This attachment performs the cutting and shredding duties your food processor might: select the proper cone, slip it into the plastic housing, and attach all to your stand mixer's hub with a metal shaft. You can shred potatoes, onions, nuts, and chocolate, or slice vegetables for cooking or munching. While it adds versatility to your mixer, the unit is cumbersome to disassemble--more so than KitchenAid's other nifty attachments--and its several parts make it difficult to store. Still, it's easier on your arms than manual slicing and shredding, especially for large quantities, and all parts are dishwasher-safe. --Betsy Danheim
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