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- #156,651 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
- #45 in Potato Ricers
Product Description
Measures: 12.75" x 4.25" x 2.5" / 32.5cm x 11cm x 6cm
Spaetzle, traditional German dumplings, can be used in either savory or sweet dishes, or as a wonderful substitute for pasta, rice, or potatoes. Enjoy your favorite old world dish with this modern and functional Spaetzle maker. Made of heavy duty stainless steel and food safe plastic, it is designed to be durable and long lasting. Classically designed to create perfect sized, authentic German Spaetzle, it is also easy to use! Simply place the spaetzle maker over a pot and add your dough to the slider basket. Slide your dough over the holes and the dumplings fall into the boiling water. Fast and easy! Includes an authentic recipe and is ideal for any home chef.
Norpro was founded in 1973 with a vision to design, manufacture, and supply the highest caliber kitchenware. Norpro’s offering of innovative, high quality product for cooking, preparing and serving food are produced with superior materials and craftsmanship.
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Whether you call that German-by-way-of-Genoa hybrid of dumpling and pasta spaetzle, spatzle, spatzen, or just "that dough stuff you drop into boiling broth," the folks at Norpro have fashioned a reasonably efficient way to prepare it. With their stainless-steel spaetzle maker--essentially a bottomless mining-car basket that runs along a flat cheese grater with bigger holes--cooks can load their favorite combo of egg/flour/milk (recipes for two spaetzle doughs are included) into the basket. By running the "mining car" along the rails of the stainless-steel grater, the batter is extruded into the waiting pot of boiling water or stock. At least, that's the theory: while the plastic basket is bottomless, it's also topless, meaning that, depending on the consistency of the batter, you may need to push it through the grater by hand--a bit daunting over a boiling pot. The grater base is also attached to a plastic handle via plastic tabs; one wishes for one-piece construction, though no doubt an all-stainless-steel fabrication would involve dropping a different kind of dough. --Tony Mason
Natalie Marx
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2017
I've enjoyed spätzle several times in Leavenworth, WA ~ it's a funky little tourist trap town that is set up to be like a Bavarian village. They've spent a good amount of time working on their authenticity. We live about 50 miles away and have visited there several times over the years and a dish I've become addicted to is spaetzle, specifically, käsespätzle. Kaese spaetzle is spaetzle baked with Emmentaler cheese and caramelized onions. Oh yeah. Basically German mac and cheese. It's SO good. ANYWAY, A few years ago I decided to make spaetzle at home and used the colander method. It took FOREVER and made a huge mess. While it turned out good, it was a pain to make - very messy and labor intensive. I pretty much wrote off the idea of making spaetzle at home after that. Some time later, I was stumbling around the web and my interest in spaetzle was renewed, especially after seeing several food blogs say that THIS was THE TOOL for spaetzle. I questioned my need for such an item, abhorring single-use cooking tools and wondering how many batches of spaetzle I would need to make for it to pay off. Lo and behold, for the low prices of $7 I was able to procure this spaetzle grater from Amazon. And then, sadly, here it sat unused in my cabinet for over a year until tonight when I finally decided to see if it was truly the miracle spaetzle tool I needed. OH. MY. GOSH. I made a delicious batch of perfect spaetzle in no less than 10 minutes with this grater! I was incredulous at first that my dough/batter would go through the holes, but it was absolutely effortless! This will be getting used much more frequently now, and I am kicking myself for waiting this long to try it. Adding Emmentaler cheese to my grocery list - kaese spaetzle will be on a future menu very soon!
CAS MARINO
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012
I bought this because I got a wild bug up my butt to make spaetzle.This was so not essential.Now, it is not only essential, it's religious. It's poetic. It's life-affirming.I had made spaetzle before. Not recently, mind you, because I'm both stubborn and easily swayed to self-directed anger, and having never secured a proper recipe for the fabulous little dumplings I'd tried from sources other than my own kitchen, I never stopped to think "hey, Italian Boy, maybe this isn't a liquidy typical pasta batter, but an eggy concoction you're underthinking."And I'd tried to run it through sieves and off a spoon and out of squirt bottles, and it always came out like fluffy, semi-doughy garbage.I got the right recipe recently. I got this.I got a wake up call.This simple little gadget, coupled with a recipe that I now hallow (comparable to the one printed right on this product's package) made what used to be a stress-filled, arduous, long and unfulfilling process an absolute snap.It took me 3 minutes to measure and mix my first batch. It took me 3 minutes to boil, cool and drain that first batch. It took me 3 SECONDS to decide to instantly make a second batch.And it took my family about 3 minutes to inhale the two different varieties I'd made and presented to them.This thing makes perfect spaetzle. It cleans up instantly and beautifully.And it now resides on a very accessible shelf in the cabinet, because any time I need a starchy side, I'll quickly opt for a fresh batch of spatzle, made from scratch in half the time as boiling boxed dried pasta, and a quarter the time of boiling plain old rice.I'm devoted. And also, admittedly, more than a touch daft. Enjoy.
M.G.
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2011
Anyone who has ever attempted to make spaetzle by "pushing the dough through a collander" or "cutting pieces of dough off" or "passing dough through a cheese grater" or other similar methods knows that all of these methods are difficult and time-consuming. This gadget replaces all those difficult methods, and is super easy to use. For the first time ever, I made spaetzle without my hands getting overheated by the steaming pot of boiling water! The price is very reasonable, and its totally worth finding the storage space in your kitchen for this gadget.This model has a plastic handle and a plastic hopper to hold the dough (unlike other all-metal designs, which could heat up and be on the warm side). It is about the size of a mandolin slicer and resembles one somewhat, but isnt sharp and therefore is fairly safe to use. You just scrape the dough into the hopper, hold the gadget over your pot of boiling water, and slide the hopper up and down until the dough has dropped through the holes and into the water - it just takes a minute or so to do one hopper full of dough. It's super easy and waaaay faster to make up a batch of spaetzle than any other spaetzle-making method. In fact, its so fast, I found I had to stop and wait for my water to return to a boil between batches because I was making spaetzle faster than my stove could reheat the water. If you're considering making spaetzle for a crowd, you need this gadget.The only thing I'd change about this gadget is that it has a small lip on the end of it, designed to catch the rim of your stockpot. The good thing about this is that it makes it easier to get the dough *in* the stockpot instead of all over your stovetop. But, although the lip is a good idea, it happens to be constructed of metal, which would scratch up my nonstick stockpot if I allowed it to touch it. However, I still gave the spaetzle maker five stars, because its so lightweight and simple to use that it isn't difficult to hold the gadget over the pot and still get 99% of the dough where it needs to be.
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