Side by Side Comparison of: OXO vs Bellemain

I know this press from Germany and we use it to make potato balls and mash potatoes.I am glad that I found one here on Amazon, so I can continue making these recipes.Good quality and cleans easy if you rinse it immediately after use.

Love using this for mashed potatoes. So nice to have potatoes that aren't starchy. I used to have one that was bigger, that had holes in the side as well as the bottom. This one could be bigger but I get done with a big pan of potatoes in no time and my family loves them.

AWESOME! Top quality! I have no idea why it took me so long to buy this item. I found it to be very easy to clean with sponge or brush, especially right after use. I have had to soak it a few times but comes out like new every single time.

This ricer is perfect. Because it only rices from the bottom it is easy to control where the potato's go and it's handles are wonderful!! I love this ricer. We used it the day it arrived and it makes a beautiful change for presentation. My dad has Parkinson's and has difficulty chewing... this lets him easily eat without a problem. It makes the potato's light and pretty. This cleans up great and I recommend it over any ricer that doesn't have the grips and especially any ricer that has the holes on the side of the cylinder.

I wanted fluffy soft mashed potatoes and this delivered.Very pleased with this item. Was used right away to make simple mashed potatoes. I just scooped them in and squeezed. So simple. Once they were all extruded through the tool and simple mix with milk and butter and the potatoes were so light and fluffy.Price was better her than in my local cooking stores and with free shipping through prime I couldn't resist.

I have heard for quite some time how wonderful Potato Ricers are. They process the Potato in one squeeze, and prevent over mixing and creating glue when using a stand mixer. I decided to see for myself if I preferred riced potatoes. The first time I used the OXO Ricer, the Potatoes came out creamy and delicious. The texture was different than whipped Potatoes, and the flavor was more "natural". I didn't need to stir in as much butter or cream as I usually would when I used the stand mixer. I now use the Ricer every time I make Mashed Potatoes, and really enjoy this new method. The OXO Ricer is easy to use, easy to clean, and the padded grips prevent hand cramping if you are processing a larger batch. - Highly recommended.

Wife loves it and makes great mashed potatoes, no more "Instant potatoes"

If you have never used a potato ricer your in for a treat! Remember to steam your tots before placing them in the ricer!

love it, perfect for what I needed to rice Cauliflower :)

I finally just used this to make mashed potatoes. For the first time ever, I had no lumps in my mashed potatoes! They were silky and delightful. The ricer is a very high-quality, ergonomic tool and I plan to use it a lot in the future.

I have wanted a ricer for sooooo long and now I finally have my own. I love gnocchi and can not wait to make many different kinds as well as the best mashed potatoes ever. The 2 year warranty was the deciding factor besides being stainless steel in ordering your product. This ricer will get a real work out so I hope it does last AND when it does I will be reining the bells for you for sure. I not only cook from recipes... I also create new dishes so I will being doing a lot of new things with your product. Fruits, veggies and more.....who knows what will strike my fancy.

Honestly the best investment I've ever made. Makes me feel like a put together adult. I can stick a potato in the microwave for like 5 minutes and then smash it with this thing and have the best mashed potatoes of my life in 6 minutes! You don't even have to peel the potato first, this thing just smashes it and leaves nothing but the peel inside. It blows my mind. I'm so in love with it!!

Well, it does the job, sorta. Too much squeezes past the paddle that pushes the potatoes down. This is unriced stuff that you need to run thru again, only still some slips up the sides unriced. I'll be looking for one that does not let so much get by.

I have wanted a potato rice for so long, but I wasn't ready for how decadent my mashed potatoes would be! This ricer truly is a game changer. Whatever I thought I knew and liked about mashed potatoes was wrong. This ricer makes the silkiest, creamiest potatoes. As strange as it is, the mouth-feel is fantastic and I find myself needing less butter and milk/cream.That being said, I do find this potato ricer a bit cumbersome, especially if you are mashing 5 pounds of potatoes. The handle is not as ergonomic (read: comfortable to hold) as I have come to expect from OXO. I do, however, think it provides great leverage so the mashing is simple.Also, after filling the chamber and squeezing the handle, some of the potato manages to make its way around the sides of the hinged masher plate so that potato is sitting on top of it. It does this not matter how much or little potato you add. I think its just eh way it was designed. This means that potato will probably end up on your counters (or bowl) when you pull the masher plate back up and flip it out of the way to add more potatoes to the chamber. It's not the end of the world and I'm not a very neat cook in the kitchen anyway. If making a mess while cooking makes your eye start to twitch, you may want to check out another ricer.

I like this item. It's sturdy and you can rice the potatoes without peeling them. The only thing I think could be improved on is if it had holes along the side as well. When you rice the potatoes it does have a tendency to push mashed potato over the top of the ricer. If it could go out the side as you rice them, it wouldn't do that. And to be perfectly honest, it really didn't make much of a difference in mashing the potatoes. They were pretty much the same as they were when I didn't rice them. So, if you hate peeling potatoes, you can use this prior to mashing and you don't have to peel them. However, because some of the potato gets pushed up over the top during the ricing, you can get a few pieces of peel in your potatoes that way.

We purchased this ricer to make a Thanksgiving potato recipe, and we are very pleased with the product. It's great not having to peel the potatoes before ricing - they stay behind in the cup while the potato "guts" are pressed through the little holes. Occasionally you will get a bit of peel coming through, but that's easy to pick out, or you can leave it in the finished dish. The ricer is very efficient, doesn't take a lot of force to operate, and cleans easily in the dishwasher.The best part is that riced potatoes are EXCELLENT: soft, pillowy, and smooth as can be. This ricer is a major step up from hand mashing or using a hand-mixer!

Prior to recently I did not have much experience with potato ricers but when reading about different gnocchi techniques they were regularly mentioned as providing smooth and even potatoes and other vegetables of the like. I was a bit hesitant to purchase something that seemingly accomplished one task...mashing, which is something I have been able to do with a masher or a mixer. Regardless I took the plunge and I must say it has been a worthwhile purchase.This ricer produces consistently smooth potatoes. I have also used it with sweet potatoes, acorn squash, squeezing liquid from spinach and grated jalapeno and to juice lemons. It has done all of these effortlessly and consistently.I find myself using it at least once a week while preparing dinner, often times just to make mashed potatoes for one. It allows me to make what was once a relatively involved side dish in under two minutes of active kitchen work.I plan on gifting a few of these in the coming months.

I had a larger version of one of these potato ricers for years and was very satisfied with it - it had interchangeable plates and could even handle a well scrubbed peel without clogging or even unloading the peels in between presses, but with a newly empty nest my cooking habits/needs as a single person have changed and I'm trying some different equipment these days. After using both my old and this new OXO potato ricer over the past Thanksgiving week, this one wins my 'cooking for 1-2 people' approval.Comparing side by side, this basically one piece design does a great job creating smooth mash - the other model had different size plates but if I want it a little more homestyle/chunky I can keep a little of the potatoes in reserve and mash with a fork, adding texture to the smooth batch as desired. There was no struggling with this one to unscrew any parts to clean - just tossed it in the dishwasher. I never realized this was a bit of a chore with my other ricer until struggling to get it apart after it was tossed in a sink at Thanksgiving with other greasy items and pretty much glued itself together until it sat in a little soapy water for a while.The handles are significantly shorter than I'm used to but even with pretty bad arthritis they are easy enough to work and get the job done. The smaller handles mean this is much easier to store in the drawer with my most used tools as opposed to the larger model which had pretty much made an appearance once a year because it lived in a pantry. The OXO version has already been used twice in the past two weeks - I'd almost forgotten how well meatloaf goes with mash - yummmm!

Rec4. Stars due to metal seems to be little thinner than I hoped for,don't get me wrong love the product three disks are great use them all and will probably hold up,it's not flemsey just would not hold up for all day restaurant use,but it will do for me for now maybe forever i hope

This is first ricer I have ever owned, or used! I have been using the old fashioned "masher"! What an eye opener! Effortless, creamy, " mashed" potatoes is my reward for finally taking the leap. I haven't used all 3 disks, but I have some things in mind for them. I'll update if I discover a superb use for them. This ricer looks well built, so I think it will last.

Works very well. Makes the task of mashing potatoes a cinch. Perfectly smooth mashed potatoes, not lumpy.Only down side is that some of the potato does stay stuck to the insides of the cylinder instead of going through the grill holes, but it's not too bad. I'm happy with it so far.

My sister-in-law has one and recommended I get one too. After I got it and used it, she said "its hard to press isn't it?" And, it is, but it does work and the potatoes were delicious and smooth. I have only used the disc with large holes. Next time, I'll ask my husband to press the potatoes!!

Learning to use it. Well made stainless steel. Have not tried all three discs. Used for Hash browned potatoes, extracting the potato liquid.

Just got this for my Thanksgiving mashed potatoes. I used it for the first time that day and it was easy to use and very effective. Not a lump in sight! My grandmother had one and used it to make gnocchi and I have wanted one for years. I finally got this one after reading up on different models. For the price and availability this seemed the best choice. It is sturdy, and performed well. Takes a bit of muscle power depending on how full the cup part is. I like the feature that lets you rest it across the bowl or pot you are using while you fill it. My grandmother had hers of 20+ years, but I don't the manufacturer was. I hope this one lasts me at least as long!

too small

Very good at it's job. Real tough too, I can prop it up in the corner of the sink and bounce up and down on it. The biggest problem is that the inside edges are freakishly sharp so you better be careful.

It holds fewer pieces of potatoes at one time than I expected, and the potatoes that don't make it through the tiny holes come up the interior sides and sometimes on top of the piece pushing down. The overflow potatoes then fall off into the bowl. I was constantly scraping them back in. So if you don't mind a little extra work, the potato texture came out great.

You've got to really hate lumps in your potatoes to want to use this. My son hates lumps, so I got it. Just know it takes time to press through half a potato at a time, remove the skin from the ricer, and go to the next. I got it to save time peeling too, but maybe I'd rather peel? I tried it with cooked squash to, and it worked fine.

The ricer is OK. The one my mother had 50 years ago had holes in the side also. I like the two handle feature and it's SS so easy clean up. It does the job I had hoped it would do. mashed potatos just taste better, riced and so does Slovak spatzle and cabbage when you use the ricer for the potatos. For the cook who has everything

I'm usually a great fan of OXO gadgets but this one is only so so. It gets the job done but feels a bit flimsy and hard to use. They need to "OXO" it more with bigger handles and a tighter fit for the plunger.

Difficult to push butter and boiled potatoes out the small hole attachment. It may get easier with practice.

This works good but I like the one I got from William Sonoma. It was more expensive but I just like how it works better. The one good thing about this product is it has different inserts.

This works great so far. I am not sure it is going to hold up ricing potatoes for the long term, we shall see. My only gripe is that I spotted some rust after a single hand washing!

a little fussier than I expected. I'm just used to the traditional old fashioned way of mashing up those tators :)

The potato ricer is not very sturdy. Mine is actually starting to bend a bit and i only put potatoes through it. Also the potatos tend to escape through the side of the cylinder, because the ram that pushes it is slightly smaller than the actual cylinder. Maybe ill try a different brand when this one breaks, or i will get a food mill next time

No instructions. Sturdy but hard to use with small hands. Having three discs is a plus for preparing different ingredients. Although between each "basket of ingredients" the perforated disc and the metal pusher must be pried apart because of the "leftover ingredients". The perforated disc then can be placed again at the bottom of the basket. Overall, time consuming but the end result is a smooth and not lumpy.

Way too hard to use. I am not strong enough to push things through this. Definitely wouldn't recommend for anyone who doesn't have a long of hand strength.

I did not notice in the picture that it only has holes on the bottom and not all around making it more difficult to use than the old one I used to have

The principle behind the potato ricer is great. I was really looking forward to it solving the "Gummy Mashed Potato Problem, but I don't have enough hand strength to use it. If a kitchen product doesn't make cooking easier, faster, and the end result tastier, then I guess it's not a product I want to waste my time trying to use.

I found that after a few potatoes going through, chunks would accumulate over the lid and then fall into the bowl. If your making small amounts it would probably be fine but I bought this for big family dinners using 5-10 of potatoes and it was useless.

Bleh. Terrible product. It did not work at all. I tried to use this with over cooked potatoes and cauliflower. Both bent the ricer. I ended up getting rid of this product. I wished it had worked.

I bought this to help me make awesome mashed potatoes and baby food. The results were nice but makes a huge mess! I feel like food gets everywhere. not impressed.

Bummer, I've only used it 10 times over a couple years and the metal plate broke off. I liked the design and features.

Does not work well for making spaetzle.The removable disc sticks to the plunger each time and is a pain to put back in the cup. I also bought the Norpro Spaetzle Maker on Amazon and I prefer it- it works great

We've only used it for potatoes and it does work well but is more work than it's probably worth. Each time you push some potato through the disc sticks to them and the plunger when you lift it back out. So your constantly resetting the discs and dealing with the hot potato. It should have been designed with a ring to screw on the bottom to hold the discs or a slide in system to make the discs unmovable.

It is very flimsy and hard to use.

I bought this to use on cooked cauliflower. Well it absolutely did not work. Probably will work in potatoes just fine.

Based on many positive reviews, I really thought I was going to love this ricer. Unfortunately it is more trouble than it is worth. The removable disk sticks to the plunger every time it is pressed. It does a nice job ricing, but it takes a lot of extra time to pry it off and re-insert it after each addition of vegetable to the cup.

"finely mashed baby food" should be taken out of the description. It does not work.

Love OXO because its products are great for people that need large grip gadgets. Was hoping this would make my potato mashing easier but it is really heavy.

It could just be me, but I found this clumsy to use. It is flimmsey. I prefer a regular potato smasher, much faster.

Practically riced the potato into a liquid. I hated it and sent it back.

The holes were much too small for potatoes! I returned it. I suppose it could be used for juicing soft fruit.

The soft grips are fine but too much potato escapes out the side of the plunger when in use and as the plunger is released the escaping potato is forced out the top of the ricer and falls in on the riced potato

Piece of junk! Do not purchase!

Used it once, the room weld cracked overnight as it sat in the sink. It's now in the garbage.

Ring (brace?) around the barrel developed a crack after only 5 times I cooked mashed potatoes. Judging by large number of positive reviews, I suspect that manufacturer switched to cheaper materials.Update: after going through other reviews (starting from newest) it appears that this is a common problem. Beware.

I ordered the "Bellemain Stainless Steel Potato Ricer", and received a cheaper, version (Intoos) which is very poorly made. Very disappointed!!

I don't understand why everyone raves about this gadget. I tried to make cauliflower rice with it, but it's WAY too hard to press down on the veggies. I used frozen cauliflower (fully thawed) and all I got was the water pressed out and a flattened few pieces of the vegetable. Will be returning this- very disappointed!

This was a waste of money...all the attachments get clogged with the potatoes and they collect between the insert that make different sizes. Do not purchase this, very poor design.