I want to love it, but I just can't. 1) It's ridiculously overpriced. I bought this set for $59.99 at a wholesale club. Still overpriced. Especially since you don't get the fine corer and spiralizer with that, and have to buy that for another $30. So, almost $100 for... 2) A device that I have to use a rubber mallet to install in the accessory hub. Now, I don't have other attachments to compare this with, so this may be an issue with my mixer. That said, I cannot get this to insert into the hole of the hub completely without using a rubber mallet to seat it. Without doing that, the attachment won't seat well enough to tighten the retaining screw. That, of course, results in the attachment flying off. Ask me how I know. Just because of this, it's going back, and I likely won't bother trying another one. Again, this could be an issue withy my mixer itself, but does nothing for me in terms of liking the reliability and quality of KitchenAid (both mixer and attachments.) But there are other reasons to not like this attachment: 3) The peeler is a joke. The peeler on my unit will not peel a potato. It just basically drags across the skin of the potato. It will get a little of the peel in the middle (fattest) part of the potato. Most of the time it doesn't even touch the potato. No, I am not using tiny potatoes. The rest is untouched. The peel it does manage to get, winds up in with the rest of the spiralized stuff, which kind of defeats the purpose of peeling in the first place. It's a lot of fun to pick the peel out of the results. Not. You can put your hand under where the peel is supposed to come out and try to catch it, but... 4) It's rather flimsy. I find I have to sort of steer the blade and vegetable/fruit to keep it centered on the blade and from wobbling around. So that means you need a third hand if you would like to catch the peel to avoid picking out of the food afterward. Or, you could peel your fruit/vegetable by hand first, which sort of obviates the need to drop $100 on a spiralizer that claims to peel but basically doesn't. 5) This set should include the fine blades for $79.99. Which leads me to... 6) Overall quality. This is not $100 ($79.99 + $30.00) worth of quality. The plastic used is rather flimsy and has a lot of give to it. The whole things bobs around more than it should. I have a good old fashioned, hand-cranked apple peeler/corer that cost me less than $20 and it doesn't flail around like this thing does. But then again, it isn't made of plastic. Peeler: as mentioned above, is a joke. Plastic at blade attachment does not feel durable, and I would expect these to fall about with moderate use. If they had put as much attention and quality into the product as they did the packaging, it would be a nice contraption. But, alas, they did not. 7) Obviously, the whole thing is big, and unless you have dedicated space on your counter or elsewhere for your mixer, pulling this out and setting it up with enough room to use is not going to be much fun. If your reason for buying this is to conserve space and not buy a standalone spiralizer, you may not gain anything here. The attachment kit takes up space, and ultimately you may not save any space. Just something to consider. I had hoped to throw all the pieces in a drawer and avoid having to store another kitchen appliance somewhere. Wasn't a huge consideration either way for me, but would have been nice. By the time you get the other two blades, which you are highly likely to want, and find room for all the pieces.... Well... Combine that with the poor quality and construction, cheap plastic, and the high price tag... Yeah. Not so much. The good: 1) I found that despite the ridiculously bad peeler, the actual blades did a good job. Fairly consistent width of product, despite the laxity and wiggling of the attachment, and it produces loooooooooong spirals. 2) Cleans up well. This is likely a relative perception. I own a masticating juicer which has a filter screen that is a real hoot to clean. I could probably be a cleaner for The Mob now. So by comparison, this this is hilariously easy to clean. It really does just pretty much wash right up. I haven't had to pry food out of the blades or anything like that. 3) It's fast, and if you can get it to actually attach to the mixer, is easy to use and tear back down and put away. 4) I didn't have to hand crank. But the poor construction, quality, fidgety-ness, useless peeler, high price, etc., far outweighs the need to crank a manual spiralizer. I was wishing I could just crank. That's about all the good things I can say about it. So, while I really wanted to love this, I just don't. It's going back to the store. The additional blades are going back to Amazon. I am buying the OXO Spiralizer for about $70 less. And then I will probably try to figure out if my mixer has a hub issue or not. All in all, this was an expensive fiasco. Summary: save your money and buy something that is actually decently made and actually works. Update: I contacted KitchenAid customer service and they are swapping out the attachment for me. Decided to go that route instead of returning mine to the wholesale club where I bought it. If this turns out to be an issue with the hub on my mixer, we will have a record of having swapped out the attachment to eliminate that as an issue. KitchenAid rep stated that should it be the hub, they can also assist with that. So, will continue to pursue this avenue. My worry here is that it will wind up costing a boatload of money to repair or replace my mixer, so we shall see. In the meantime, I bought a Briefton's 5 blade spiralizer (model BR-5B-02). It's a little more work to clean, and doesn't have a peeler, but overall, it works well, and includes the 2 mm angel hair blade. For $32, it is coming out ahead as the winner here so far.
