Since making the gradual transition to 100% raw a couple of months ago, I have not bought any new gadgets. I was already a salad aficionado so I had good knives already. And my blender, juicer, and food processor were collected through the years just because I love to prepare food in general.

But recently I succumbed to the temptation to add a spiralizer to my repertoire. I see so many recipes and videos for these beautifully spiralized vegetables! I am not one who misses pasta as I wasn’t eating much of it anyway in recent years, but couldn’t resist this fun-looking little gadget.

Here then are my first attempts at spiralizing a zucchini.

Zucchini "Noodles" with spiralizer

Success! It was a little tricky. All the cautions were true about making sure the zucchini is cut completely straight on both ends and to insert it into the post in the exact center. But it was a lot of fun and tasted yummy. I pureed an easy sauce of tomatoes and onions and warmed it a teensy bit on the stove so it wouldn’t be ice cold. Delish!

The spiral slicer also will do paper thin slices, which come out attached together on a long chain:

I have learned that this is useful for dehydrating “chips”. Looking forward to eventually getting a dehydrator!