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You can get shredded carrots at a salad bar, and I buy bags of pre-shredded carrots at the supermarket. I want to make these at home with a machine but haven't found one. When you use a food processor, the attachment is usual a grater, similar to a coarse box grater; this makes carrot shreds that are much thinner than the thicker ones you use on a salad (or maybe for use in Vietnamese pickles, banh mi, etc).

I'm sure they use a machine to do this to make the bags available at the store, but I've only found commercial machines that can do it (example: https://www.chipsfryer.com/single-series/carrot-cutter-machine.html)

Is anyone aware of a machine that can do this for home use?

To be clear, I don't think a typical food processor grating attachment does this, nor does a box grater. I know I can use a mandoline or a knife, but I'm looking for a machine to do it in bulk, or an attachment to a food processor or stand mixer. The best idea of come up with is to try using a spiralizer and then chop up the spirals with a knife.

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I think this might be the closest to what you are looking for... it's a food processor attachment for the KitchenAid Stand Mixers. Of course, you might look for new blades to use with your existing processor (they might offer blades that cut sticks instead of shreds).

elbrant
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If you pick a versatile food processor, you can do it. There's a "fine Julienne disc" for various Kenwood models, for example. This is finer than the chip-making disc I have. I also have coarse and fine grating plus slicing discs. While these "do-everything" machines are not as good at some tasks as dedicated machines, I think this is the best option at home if you want something motorised

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Get a manual french fry cutter than can cut matchstick fries. Most common ones cut down to 1/4 inch, so if that is as small as you need, you will have tons of options.

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