Norpro Spaetzle Maker

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. Amazon.com 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