Reddit reviews Presto 02910 Salad Shooter Electric Slicer/Shredder,White

Mandoline, you can get several types. I highly recommend getting cut resistant gloves too. Mandoline is the scariest thing I have in my kitchen even though I use it a lot. You could also try a salad shooter.

https://www.amazon.com/Rarebit-Signature-Mandoline-Slicer-Blade/dp/B07QB12L3Y/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=2H9E21GFTJ6W5&keywords=mandoline+slicer&qid=1566907653&s=gateway&sprefix=mandoline%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExRFFSUkhLTExSQU5EJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTg0MDQyMjBBQktMR1lKTVEzRSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMzA3ODQ4MlYwRk5QWDIxMU9RRCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

https://www.amazon.com/NoCry-Cut-Resistant-Gloves-Performance/dp/B00MXUHHGK/ref=sxin_3_ac_d_pm?ac_md=2-0-VW5kZXIgJDIw-ac_d_pm&crid=NQ7RES9SJL4R&keywords=cut+resistant+gloves&pd_rd_i=B00MXUHHGK&pd_rd_r=d180fce4-c76f-4e4f-b7f3-6be716ae5cf2&pd_rd_w=EgE0r&pd_rd_wg=SPoYq&pf_rd_p=aed08533-d0f3-456a-bfcd-3ec60fc417c9&pf_rd_r=2PRX9MH7CV6H4QHCPRWW&psc=1&qid=1566907763&s=gateway&sprefix=cut+resis%2Caps%2C144

https://www.amazon.com/Presto-02910-Shooter-Electric-Shredder/dp/B00006IV0R/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=salad+shooter&qid=1566907794&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Nope, shooter. I don't get it either.

If you prefer grated cheese, do yourself a favor and grab a salad shooter. Basically automated grating, saves SO MUCH time and is so easy!

https://www.amazon.com/Presto-02910-Shooter-Electric-Shredder/dp/B00006IV0R

Correct Salad Gun

I've been looking into this a lot lately, and here are the notes that I have:

• For the actual filament extrusion, the Filastruder can't be beat. The Filawinder also seems like a pretty worthwhile tool to pair it with.
  
• You can also take a look at the Lyman filament extruder on Thingiverse. Depending on what parts you have laying around, you might be able to build yourself an extruder for cheaper than you can buy the Filastruder kit. I know it's cheaper for me to buy the kit, though.
  
• Even if you only buy the Filastruder and don't shred old prints, you can buy ABS and PLA pellets to extrude into filament at roughly half the cost of pre-extruded filament, which is a pretty big selling point in my mind.
  
• If you go the route of buying a shredder so you can recycle old prints, there's a few options to explore:
  
  • There's a commercial shredder sold by Filamaker. It's pretty spendy and only hand-cranked if I recall correctly, but you could probably find an electric motor to slap on there.
    
  • Filabot also has an "industrial reclaimer", but it's very very expensive, and designed for somebody that's operating a plastic recycling shop or something.
    
  • Precious Plastics has an open source shredder design that might be fairly inexpensive. You'll have to find a metal shop that can produce the parts for you, though, and you'll have to source everything (including a motor) yourself.
    
  • A salad shooter might have enough oomph to granulate smaller failed prints, especially incomplete prints that are pretty flimsy.
    
  • For somewhat larger tasks, you might consider an electric wood chipper/shredder like this, but there will be some legwork in terms of making sure your recycled materials will fit in the hopper. Maybe a band saw would help here?
    
  • Most office shredders can handle credit cards. I wouldn't do this with ABS (mostly because of smell), but maybe you could get a cookie sheet and melt PLA into a really thin sheet, and then just run it through a good office shredder to "granulate" it?
    
    Something else of interest to keep an eye on -- an all in one grinder, extruder, and winder appliance: http://www.redetec.com/
    
    Finally, there's the pipe shredder design, which I've heard works reasonably well: http://hackaday.com/2015/06/14/a-different-kind-of-plastic-shredder-for-3d-filament-making/
    
    Big thread of ideas here: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,352813,378280

I've used a Presto Salad Shooter for years and years; there are two drawbacks (three if you consider having to plug in a small kitchen appliance):

1. The feed tube is about 2" X 3"
   
   
2. The Salad Shooter is really only good at doing one thing: shredding food
   
   Sure, a box shredder is ok for doing an ounce or two at a time, but if you've got a pound of cheese to shred, the Salad Shooter looks pretty nice.

LOL. I live in a relatively inexpensive area of the country. My kitchen is a decent size. Having nice things doesn't a better cook make though. I just really like that I have pretty much every tool that a recipe could call for. I also wanted to buy everything I wanted for the kitchen so that if we have kids and went down to one income, I would already have everything I wanted.

Here's a link to a jelly bag. I guess it's called nut milk bag. It's just a fine mesh bag for straining things. If you ever wanted a salad shooter and you're in the US, they have them all of the time at the thrift stores.

https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Quality-Nut-Milk-Bag/dp/B00KLT6X9W/

https://www.amazon.com/Presto-02910-Shooter-Electric-Shredder/dp/B00006IV0R

I am very much a "Buy It For Life" person, which is why I have literally thousands of dollars of All-Clad stainless steel and LeCreuset cast iron. I very much expect them to last forever. I try to buy things that I think will last for a very long time. I also go by America's Test Kitchen recommendations ("equipment reviews"), and they've only let me down a few times. Sometimes, the things I buy are the most expensive (e.g. the $400 Breville food processor or my $600 stand mixer), but I love my Corelle dishes that are sold at Walmart.