Evgeniy Sedov
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When preparing vegetables for the winter, pickles occupy a special place. Among them are delicious sauerkraut and pickled cabbage. When processing vegetables at home, you will need a shredder: during the shredding process, it is easy to obtain slices of the same thickness, and you can choose the correct direction for the location of the cut fibers. This will save taste qualities product and contents useful substances.
Cabbage shredding knife
The classic “Housewife” knife and other analogues for cutting vegetables reduce labor intensity and make it possible to quickly process a head of cabbage for subsequent pickling. The device is a steel cleaver with a comfortable handle, on the cutting part of which several blades are installed at a certain angle. A special blade cuts the head of cabbage across the fibers, preserving the juice in the vegetable, and along with it all the useful elements. Using a knife to cut cabbage when chopping vegetables, you can significantly simplify cutting: it happens easily, without additional effort.
Household electric cabbage shredder
In farms, vegetable warehouses or canning shops, a universal electric cabbage shredder is used. It is designed for slicing and chopping root vegetables, vegetables and fruits that have a rigid structure. The cutting is carried out with a special disk knife-grater made of hardened of stainless steel. You can see a photo of the device below. A vegetable cutter for shredding cabbage can cut beets, carrots, apples from 0.5 to 5 mm along the entire length, reducing the amount of processing waste. The height of the blades determines the thickness of the slice.
Manual
Manual shredding is affordable alternative professional cabbage cutter. It has a special grater and chute made of wood or environmentally friendly high-strength plastic, as well as a cutting board. The design is equipped with one or more cutting blades, manually adjustable in tilt and height. The customizable layout allows for grinding to the desired size. A manual cabbage shredder works great with all hard types of vegetables. The vegetable cutter is affordable, easy to sharpen, washable warm water.
With box
The next option is a wooden cabbage shredder with a box:
- The device is a housing in which 3-4 blades made of durable tool steel are fixed.
- The box and board are made of hard rocks wood (beech, oak, ash).
- The position of the blades can be adjusted manually by raising, lowering them and changing the cutting angle.
- The cabbage grater does not slip on work surface, and the blade group ensures good performance.
Mechanical
A mechanical cabbage shredder is used to chop vegetables in small volumes. This is a metal or plastic attachment for a meat grinder with a round grater or slicer. By rotating the handle of the device and turning the grater around its axis, you can cut vegetables without tedious back-and-forth movements. This best option household shredder. Mechanical models are equipped with a set of graters with different diameters and shapes of holes.
How to choose a cabbage shredder
To choose the most suitable chopping machine and quickly, safely chop vegetables in required quantities, there are several things to consider important factors. First of all, you need to decide on the type you need:
- Manual. Making salads, home canning.
- Mechanical. Chopping vegetables on your farm.
- Electric. Commercial production of salads, semi-finished products from chopped vegetables.
When choosing this technique, you need to take into account the quality of the cutting blades and the environmental properties of the working surfaces. They will ensure durability and performance. The ability to adjust the blades allows you to change the cutting width. When choosing, preference should be given to designs with cutting board, they will provide proper comfort during their operation.
Price for a cabbage shredder
When choosing a device for chopping cabbage in stores in Moscow or the regions, first of all, pay attention to the consistency of the price and quality of the product. Prices for a regular grater with shredding capabilities range from 120 to 450 rubles. They depend on the build quality and materials:
- Available household machine for shredding cabbage will cost the buyer from 1,500 rubles. It should be remembered that cheaper plastic models inferior in quality to durable wooden products And food processors with stainless steel knives.
- The cost of electric shredders depends on the power and performance of the equipment. For example, the price can range from 2.5 to 90 thousand rubles.
Buying a shredder for cutting vegetables in an online store is only half the battle. You can see below how to use the device correctly. You will definitely be satisfied after seeing the performance of the shredder. Many people chop cabbage the old-fashioned way with a long, sharp knife, but this method has already become obsolete, because it is time-consuming and often traumatic (even an experienced housewife can cut her hand).
Video
A cabbage knife is required late autumn, after the first frost. And here in the barn, lying idle, was an old two-handed saw “Friendship-2”, as it was called in the old days. This is great steel!
And the blade thickness of 1.2 mm is optimal for kitchen knives.
1. First of all, I drew the outline of the future knife with chalk. Overall length – 400 mm, blade width – 55 mm, handle length – 130 mm, handle width – 25 mm. Pressing the saw blade against the workbench with a clamp, I cut the workpiece along the contour using vulcanite from an electric grinder.
2. And then I smoothed out all the lines around the perimeter using sandpaper and pre-sharpened the blade. I cleaned all the edges and surfaces of the knife with coarse and fine sandpaper.
In order to drill holes for the rivets, we had to anneal the drilling points with a flame gas burner. After annealing, I punched and drilled three holes on drilling machine. Let me note right away: for working with Soviet steel, a drill made in the USSR is also better. The diameter of the holes (4.5 mm) was chosen to correspond to the aluminum wire of the rivets (they were made from a thick cable rod).
BLANKS FOR HANDLES I sawed 6 mm thick plates from beech boards. Important stage in making a knife - accurately drill holes for rivets in a pair of wooden plates. To do this, pressing one of the linings with a small clamp to its “rightful” place of the handle on the blade of the knife, drilled two holes according to the template, placed the rivet blanks and, removing the clamp, drilled a third hole.
Having pressed both beech pads together with a clamp, I drilled the same holes in the second through the holes in the first. And then by hand, carefully, using a large drill, I removed light chamfers in all the holes from the outside.
LENGTH OF BILLETS the rivets should be 6 mm greater than the thickness of the two linings and the knife blade folded together. Having inserted them into place, I carefully, without zeal, riveted the rivets. Now all that remains is to bring the knife to perfection: I manually processed the wooden pads to an oval shape with a coarse file, cleaned them with coarse and fine sandpaper and lubricated them with car oil, removing the excess with a rag. The blade was corrected on the touch of ovality.
THE TESTS WERE SUCCESSFUL: 30 liters of sauerkraut were pickled for the winter. I don’t offer drawings, because everyone has their own knife model. By the way, from one two-handed saw you can get at least 8 options, from a scraper to a machete.
A tasty and healthy product is sauerkraut. Practical housewives It is harvested in the fall both in rural areas and in the city. And the most labor-intensive operation here is chopping the heads of cabbage. They use sharp long knives and special shredders for this. But no manual one can compare in convenience and performance with an electric one, which you can make with your own hands by taking some parts and components from the old one. washing machine.
The general structure of the electric shredder is simple: an electric motor and a bearing assembly of a working disk with three knives are mounted on a metal frame welded from steel angles 20X20 mm. Rotation is transmitted to it from the engine by a belt drive. The shredder body, enclosing the working disk, has an inlet with a loading funnel and an outlet window. For ease of operation, the frame is installed on support legs welded from steel angles so that the working disk is 30° deflected from the horizontal. This makes it easier to load the funnel and feed the cabbage under the knife.
The most important part of the shredder is the working disk with three knives. It is cut from dur aluminum sheet 2 mm thick. To increase rigidity, its edge is flanged on the floor at a right angle of 10 mm. Having marked the location for installing the knives, three crescent-shaped windows are cut into the disk, and then the edges of the cut are extruded 6 mm above the plane of the disk, as shown in Figure 2. Crescent-shaped knives are installed on the resulting sites on the rivets. Best material for them - a blade from a mechanical hacksaw or a scythe blade. It is somewhat easier to make a straight knife, but a saber knife is better at work. Three duralumin corners riveted on the side of the disk opposite to the knives will help you remove the cabbage “noodles” from under the disk.
The shredder body consists of two parts: a casing of the working disk and a cover with a loading funnel. Both parts can be made either from a steel sheet 0.75 mm thick, connecting the joints by gas welding, or from the material of the washing machine body with aluminum rivets, or from an aluminum sheet with a rolling connection.
1 - loading funnel, 2 - cover, 3 - coupling bolt, 4 - working disk, 5 - frame, 6 - electric motor, 7 - drive pulley, 8 - belt, 9 - working disk casing, 10 - bearing housing, 11 - working disk shaft, 12 - bearing No. 80202.
1 - knife, 2 - disk, 3 - disk hub, 4 - angle, 5 - angle rivets, 6 - knife rivet
1 - working disk, 2 - loading funnel, 3 - adjusting support plate, 4 - knife.
The bearing assembly of the working disk is made up of: a housing, a shaft and two bearings No. 80202. A 20X20 mm angle and a vertical steel plate 3 mm thick are welded horizontally to the housing. Two holes in the bottom flange of the corner are for attaching the unit to the frame, and two in the vertical flange and one in the top plate for connecting protective casing working disk.
The parts of the V-belt reduction transmission from the engine to the working disk are borrowed from a washing machine. The belt tension is regulated by the position of the engine: the grooves of its mounting bolts on the frame allow the center-to-center distance to be changed within small limits.
Adjustment of the working element is reduced to setting a gap of 3-5 mm between the support plate of the feed funnel and the knives, and the thickness of the cut is determined by the design of the working disk: the height of the blades of the knives relative to the disk.
An electric shredder with sharp knives copes with a head of cabbage in a matter of seconds, so to avoid injury, the chopped vegetables should be fed to the rotating disk with a wooden pestle.
V. MALYSHEV, Blagoveshchensk, Amur region.
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Good day to all, dear friends! In today's article I would like to show you how to make a fairly relevant this moment homemade So, now the sunset season is in full swing - this is the season when many of us make preparations for the winter from what we grew in the summer at the dacha. Namely, we will look at how to make a cabbage shredder. Many of us love sauerkraut and many people know how difficult it is sometimes to prepare it. One of the problems with preparing cabbage for the winter is chopping it, of course, when you are going to prepare one or two liter jars, you will not have any particular problems with this. But when we are talking about ten three-liter jars, then shredding cabbage forks will be quite problematic, time-consuming and not as neat as it could be with the help of our shredder. This homemade product will have a very simple and primitive design from parts that you will probably find at home, in the country or in the garage. Well, enough of the long prefaces, and let’s start assembling this homemade product. Let's go!
So, for this homemade product you will need:
- Sheet of plywood (1m * 1m).
- Shovel handle.
- Wooden block.
- Round wooden stick 2 pcs (for example from wooden hanger for clothes).
- Furniture nails.
- Self-tapping screws.
- Blades for a stationery knife.
- A couple of washers.
Tools you will also need:
- Hammer.
- Jigsaw.
- Hand jigsaw.
- Ruler.
- Black gel or capillary pen.
- Drill and drill bits.
- Screwdrivers.
- Hot-melt adhesive.
- Stationery knife.
First, let's take a sheet of plywood, on it we should draw a quadrilateral. To do this, we will need a black gel or capillary pen (by using a pen instead of a marker, you will achieve a thinner and more precise outline) and a ruler. The sides of the quadrilateral should be equal to 18 cm and 22 cm. We will need 2 of these quadrilaterals. After we have drawn the drawing using a jigsaw, we cut out our blanks. It should also be noted that on newly made blanks, a hole should be made in the center relative to the top and bottom sides and slightly offset to one of the sides. The diameter of the hole should be equal to the outer diameter of the round stick.
After the above steps, we should do the following. Namely, four racks in order to connect previously made blanks together. For them we need to take wooden block and using a hacksaw to divide it into four equal parts of 14 cm each. After we have made the racks, we will temporarily secure them with hot glue as shown in the photo below, that is, along the edges of the plywood quadrangle.
The next step is to take a cutting of medium diameter and cut off a cylinder from it with a height equal to the height of the posts, in our case it is 14 cm. And in the center of this cylinder we make holes whose diameter will be equal to the diameter of the hole made earlier on the plywood quadrangles, that is, the diameter of the round one you took wooden stick. Next, install the cylinder in the place indicated in the photo so that the holes of the cylinder and the quadrilateral coincide. We will attach it using hot glue.
Then we should take and modify the second plywood quadrangle made earlier. Near the previously made hole, you should draw a rectangle towards the far side, that is, towards the center relative to the sides (see photo). The width of this rectangle should be about 1 cm, and the length should be slightly less than the length of the stationery knife blades you took.
Cut it out, cut it out using hand jigsaw exactly along the drawn contour. And using a utility knife, we bevel one of the sides of just the rectangular hole we made (see photo).
We connect the modified quadrilateral to the previously made workpiece using hot-melt adhesive. Then we knock together the entire structure using furniture nails and twist it with wood screws. This will give us strength and reliability of the structure.
Next we need a blade from a stationery knife. The blade should be secured to the place indicated in the photo (see below). In order for the blade to hold securely, it should be secured using self-tapping screws through metal washers.
Next, we will make the next piece, on which the cabbage will rotate. To do this, cut off a 14 cm section from a small block slightly smaller than the size of the posts and drill through holes along the edges as indicated, the diameter of which will be equal to the outer diameter of the round stick. Insert a round stick into one of the holes made.
Then we will cut out a circle from plywood, the diameter of which will be equal to 5-6 cm with a hole in the center, and the diameter of the hole in the center should be equal to the diameter of the round stick. This part will act as a large wooden washer. And install it in the place indicated in the photo. To ensure that the plywood washer does not rotate, but sits tightly and motionlessly in its place, we strengthen the connection with a pair of furniture nails.
And into the second hole we insert a round stick about 14 cm long; it will act as a handle, which we will hold on to and rotate the cabbage around its axis.
All is ready! All that remains is to test it, to do this we string a head of cabbage onto the axis of the “handle”, set it in place and rotate the head of cabbage clockwise until it runs out. As a result, we got a very simple and useful design, which will certainly be useful for preparing cabbage for the winter. DIY cabbage shredder made of wood
Soon it's time to pickle cabbage for the winter. Shredding cabbage by hand is long and difficult. I made my own wooden cabbage shredder. Thanks to such a simple craft, the preparation process becomes quick. Making a shredder from wood is very easy. You need to start by choosing the material. Mine is made of birch. I chose a board without knots and cracks. The board must be dry. Perhaps someone has scraps, because the size of the blanks will not be large.
Blank size
290 x 95 x 22 mm - 1 piece
140 x 95 x 22 mm - 1 piece
300 x 40 x 15 mm -2 pcs
You can make a shredder from wood using other sizes. She doesn't have to be like that. The most important thing is to use the manufacturing principle itself. Birch crafts are always high quality and durable. My shredder is over twenty years old. Everyone should choose material based on their region.
If there are no scraps of the required size, then we prepare everything from scratch and start by jointing one side and the edge of the board. Then we pass it through a thicknesser and get right size by thickness. We make our blanks to size on a saw. Do not forget to look at the angle after each operation on the machines. We cut out the handle with a jigsaw and process it, it should be comfortable. After the jigsaw I'm on my way homemade machine brought the pen to the desired shape. All this can be done manually. 
The other end of the workpiece is slightly rounded grinding machine. It can be made the same as on the second workpiece, where the knife is located. For sawing at forty-five degrees 
The knife on my craft costs from jointer, 95 x 35 x 3 mm. The hardest part was drilling for the screws. I chose soft steel and everything worked out for me. I made a platform under the knife with a cutter and a chisel and secured it with screws. All that remains is to round off the ends of two identical pieces and you can start assembling. 
Assembling the shredder
Before assembly, we mark and drill holes. Two identical strips are screwed to a workpiece with a handle. Three screws on each side. 
Drill before screwing with a thin drill bit and this will prevent cracks. I made a regulating knife on my wooden craft. You can set any thickness and chop not only cabbage and carrots when pickling, but also vegetables for various dishes. 
The knife adjustment is done as follows. On the planks and the workpiece with a knife, I drilled with a 6 mm drill through hole and inserted a long bolt. To change the cutting thickness, you need to loosen the nut and set the size. You can set the lamb with frequent adjustments. 
I have made various crafts from wood; a cabbage shredder is one of my jobs that I have to use often. Making a shredder with your own hands is not so difficult, you can give a shredder as a gift and you will always be remembered kind words. In the house it is indispensable assistant every housewife.
