Kenwood AT340 Slicer/Shredder Attachment for Kenwood Chef , Grey

I have never in my 30 years of owning a Kenwood Mixer purchased this or any other additional attachments beside a meat attachment. I got this as part of the promotion Kenwood were running where you buy a kenwood before December and select free attachment.I can say this item is better than the moulinex and nut grinders which I have and are now in storage. I have many handheld alternates which I am so glad I can retire them until the next 30 years (dont want to jinx my Kenwood)Wouldn't buy if I had to pay for them because I already have handheld alternatives.Pros: easier,faster,easier to clean,more time to do other things. Used for onions, carrots, cheese and nuts.Cons: expensive if your buying more than 1 attachment. You can easily spend over £200 If your buying the attachments.Top tip: check the promotions on Kenwood UK Website. See what periods they run good promotions usually round end of year. Check on Amazon too it might allow you to select the promotional item instead of waiting for Kenwood to approve and send within 28 days.Update - 02/02/2017 (broker on first use)The number 2 disk doesn't click in and stays open which causes carrots to fly out from the back however the number 6 disk didnt have any issues. Ive had to arrange a replacement through amazon. Not a good start to be honest.

Fantastic item, saves you hours and hours of hard labour, although these graters are repeated with different fittings from your processor, the only different ones are the chip slicer's and you get a wider slicer for your vegetables which you already have a slicer on the reverse of one supplied with the processor, this works a lot quicker and by putting a big bowl under you can soon fill it, if you want it for making chutney you still need another attachment the dicer, which I feel is a bit of Cheat another £78.00, so I bought a used Dicing kit for my magi mix instead. I have used it a few times already and I do recommend it, but be aware you need storage space it is a large piece of kit. Also has 7 graters. I found mine for a good price in Amazon Warehouse deals so I am very happy with my purchase.

Really good attachment makes tonnes of coleslaw in minutes

This is great, like a good processor but on the kitchen machine so feels a lot tougher.Wouldn't bother getting it out for small portions but if you're doing batch cooking then the speed of prep outweighs the time spent cleaning it. It's no worse to clean out than my old food processor and I don't think it leaves as much unprepped food behind.If I could change one thing it would be to have a thicker slicer as even the thicker one is really quite thin.

Did we need this umpteenth add-on for our Kenwood Major? Probably not. Did it take us forever to actually take it out and use it? Embarrassingly so.Is it awesome at what it does? Oh yes.This tall, jaunty protuberance sits on the back end of your stand mixer. Shove a big bowl under the wide nozzle, select whatever carbon-based organisms you intend to obliterate, fit your blade, and off you go.Other reviewers had mentioned that this was fun, but there's something really childishly satisfying about shoving hard veg into the roomy feed hopper and watching the shreds/slices/chips fly out the other end. It's like a wood chipper in miniature, with all the destructive glory but a smaller footprint. It normally takes me about 40min to shred enough roots (sweet potatoes & onions) for a big batch of latkes but this little monster did the job in less than 3 minutes. I would normally have to do this in several batches in the food processor attachment so that I could empty out the bowl in between, but with this the only limit is the size of my bowl, and no need to stop. It's going to make jobs like coleslaw (and home-made sauerkraut) so much more efficient.As all the parts aside from the motor (the pale grey 'Z' shaped bit at the base) go in the dishwasher, cleanup is a breeze. I do wish the blades were interchangeable with the food processor attachment but, alas, they're not, which means more 'kitchen clutter' to store away.

Fantastic - I love this slicer/shredder attachment for my Kenwood. It's a piece of kit that all owners of a Kenwood Chef should have as it makes life so much easier and more interesting when preparing a wide variety of foods. Children will also love soups and casseroles with stars in which can easily be made by passing baby sweetcorn vertically through using the thick cutting blade. By placing the sweetcorn in bundles and passing it through vertically this gives little star or wheel shaped slices which retain their crispness even when cooked. Its uses are very wide and with the chipper attachment I have also produced standard potato chips, and other vegetable 'chips' to add variety and interest to what we are eating. For people wishing to freeze their own vegetables or make large quantities of things such as sauerkraut, coleslaw, pickles, jams, etc. it is such a time saver. As well as reducing the effort and mess left when hand preparing foods, more of the vegetables/fruits/etc are actually used which means less waste too. Great all round!

I was waiting to buy this for a long while - and Amazon had a great price. So I snatched it up immediately. I wanted it to reduce the limited cooking time I have when I come back from work and chopping is the task that I love the least next only to the washing. It comes with seven plates for : standard chip, fine chip, extra fine shredding, fine slicing, coarse slicing, fine slicing and coarse shredding. I really want to love this but while it does do its job nice and uniform, it is not suitable for our everyday cooking for two as the fitting and washing would be more time consuming than the actual cutting.What I like:If I were to make multiple dishes - say have to chop the veggies for soup, curries, salad in bulk, then this is very easy to use and gets all the veggies chopped in an instant.What I dont like:There seems to be a lot of small parts, so it is a bit cumbersome in that it would take even more time to wash these than the actual choppingCleaning, even immediately can be a bit fiddly as veggies get trapped in corners and crevices. So have to get the knife out to remove those, which is far from ideal.There are many attachements, which is a good thing, but storage is very tricky as I already have run out of space for the original Kenwood Mixer included attachments apart from the extras.The extension chute kept falling down repeated during the operationThe veggies were sprayed over my kitchen top away from the big container. And I had to try and hold the bowl in one hand while dropping down the veggies with the other. Also the food ejection paddle feels a bit flimsy.

I hate grating carrots but they feature in many of the things I cook. With a hand grater I grate my fingers and the kitchen somehow gets covered in grated carrot no matter how careful I am. My beloved Magimix grates quickly but there is always some waste and it is enormously fiddly to wash and dry. But this clever attachment whizzes through a kilo of carrots in seconds, produces just the right consistency and texture depending on which disc I use, leaves no odd waste bits and is simplicity itself to clean, dry and put away. I cannot imagine what took me so long. I haven't tried the slicing or chipping discs yet but I'm so pleased with the grating I would have bought it just for that.

il y aura toujours de gens pour critiquer (haters gonna hate...).pour ma part, je ne vois rien à redire: certes il faut un peu de temps pour comprendre l'assemblage let analyser les différentes pièces + lire attentivement la notice a première fois (au moins 10 minutes, quelle perte dans une journée!!). mais ensuite, c'est très rapide, et tout passe au lave vaisselle, donc je ne vois vraiment pas le problème. Certes, c'est moins rapide que sortir une rappe manuelle. Mais par la suite j'ai de sérieux doutes, sauf si vous ne rappez qu'une carotte à la fois (et encore: ma maman l'autre jour m'a dit: cette rappe ci est dangereuse, celle ci ne donne pas de bon résultats. avec cette rappe kenwood, aucun danger de se couper les doigts et résultat forcément efficace!donc en résumé: par rapport notamment à l'accessoire bol /rappes/hachoir avec lequel j'avais hésité:les plus:- les différentes formes sont très bien. je suis un peu sceptique sur la forme frites mais je n'ai pas encore testé avec des pommes de terres. avec du céleri j'ai eu des copeaux inégaux, à retenter (il faut bien mettre les morceaux en position horizontale)- la facilité de rappe pour une quantité au choix, non limitée.- il y a une rappe de plus que dans l'accessoire cuve.- tout passe au lave vaisselle, encore une fois...- les différentes rappes invitent à la créativité. j'ai réalisé des pépites de chocolat (enfin plutôt des "chuncks" avec la rappe à frites. j'ai testé les autres et ça fait des petits éclats de chocolat. nul doute que la rappe à chocolta soit parfaite pour de la poudre fine mais les autres sont bien aussi. avec la rappa à parmesan j'ai rappé du cantal, texture parfaite!les moins:il n'y a pas de hachoir. mais finalement, entre les rappes à trous et à trancher, je pense qu'on fera bien la même chose. et si c'est juste pour émincer un oignon et une gousse d'ail, je pense investir dans les mini cuves, et je n'ai pas encore trouvé de recette qui nécessite un hachage plus important que quelques condiments. donc l'ensembles de rappes proposées fera l'affaire je pense.

Practical, speeds up work and provides options

Un outil à avoir pour son robot.

Het zijn natuurlijk goede schijven die hun werk goed aankunnen, maar: hoe berg je de set van 7 fatsoenlijk op? Kenwood heeft hiervoor geen oplossing, maar een Bekende Zweedse Firma wèl. Beide artikelen zijn voor totaal nog net geen € 7 te koop.(Overigens kun je het metalen rekje ook uitstekend gebruiken om Spare Ribs te BBQen, maar ik raad u aan er dan 2 aan te schaffen :) )

Estoy muy contenta con mi compra, funciana muy bien!