Tefal Fresh Express

I love this little machine! – I am surprised by all the negative reviews. I love this little machine! I use it a lot and I have never experienced any of the problems listed in the negative reviews. I particularly like it for egg salad and grating cheese. I can put through 12 boiled eggs in just 2 to 3 minutes. Tonight I grated a 900-gram block of cheese in about 5… Read more

minutes. I divide it into small sandwich bags and freeze it for future use. I have also used it for grating carrots, cabbage, zucchini, onions, etc. The clean up is very easy and I just store it right on my counter top; it’s small enough that it doesn’t get in the way. I did view the video on youtube and I fear that has probably put many people off. It’s too bad someone who didn’t know how to use the product made the video. He did a good job on making it look bad. I had to laugh at his bumbling and fumbling. Common sense would dictate that you shouldn’t try to jam a whole potato or onion into the shute. I think he would have a hard time with scissors!

Don't waste your time or money – I bought this appliance to make my own coleslaw and to chop veggies for my salads. It looked fantastic, loved the funky design and colours. That's where my positivity about this product ends. Please, if you're considering buying the Fresh Express Max, don't. It's the most useless, wasteful product I've ever had the misfortune of using. The… Read more

only thing I grated successfully was a carrot. Everything else was destroyed. It turned an apple to pulp, cheese is half grated and then the remainder gets stuck between the blade and the outer cone, and the same happened to beetroot. It did slice cucumber and apple, but it was uneven and looked horrible and a third got stuck in the blades.

The cutting parts are completely blunt, they don't grate, they mash, and pulverise. You spend most of your time cleaning the the stuck food out of the blades and attachments. You have to push really hard to get it to cut.

I returned this garbage to the store I bought it from the next day.

It's an abomination. Please don't waste your time.

Your milage may vary – We bought a Food Processor some time ago to carry out the food preparation jobs in the kitchen. It sits in the cupboard rarely used. Setting up is a chore in itself; the clean up after is a lengthy and annoying hand job. I spotted the Tefal somewhere for about $69. It was so new I couldn’t find any reviews or detailed information but I bought… Read more

one anyway. After some years use I can tell a little about our experience.

Designed in France (presumably) because it is stamped “Made in France.” It is made from a strong “plastic” type material and all three working pieces can be placed in the dishwasher (top shelf.) Not the base containing the electric motor, of course.

That gets a big tick of approval from me straight away. If something with lots of pieces needs washing by hand I get “turned off.” The dishwasher can do a better job than me any time.

It comes with five cones that contain the cutting blades. These cones fit into the chute assembly and connect with a spindle that provides drive from the base. The chute is provided with a pusher to force the food against the blades. The pieces just fit together and yet hold together during operation.

Disassembly requires a twist of the chute in a clockwise direction and then a twist back in the opposite direction ejects the cutting cone; quite clever.

The cones are colour coded green, red and orange. I have no idea what that all means. If I read the instructions I might find out. Look at the cones and the graters and the cutters are obviously for different jobs.

It’s easy to remember what the orange cone does – it grates the orange carrots. The dark green and light green cones slice in two different thicknesses. The red cone grates more coarsely, carrots and beets. The yellow cone is for cheese.

I can tell this just by looking at them. Who needs instructions books?

We tried the cones one by one when the machine was new. The red cone produces coarsely grated carrot so now we always use the orange cone. The two green (slicer) cones produce thick and thin chips of cucumber or carrot etc. but the chips come out curved not flat. The yellow cone is for cheese but we never grate our cheese. It looks as if the cheese would need to be fairly firm and dry for this one to work properly.

So after an initial trial we have never used the machine for anything other than to grate carrot.

Was it worth $69 to buy a carrot grater? You bettcha! Are there any problems? You bettcha!

My wife cannot make it work. We have both used our allotted four score and ten years (some time ago in fact) and the fingers and hand joints don’t work too well for her. Mine are okay. And it takes a little force to push the carrots down into the grater. But it does a wonderful job. quick to set up; results (on carrots) good; quick clean up and wash up. the power button needs to be pressed continuously to operate the machine; not all the cones are useful (for us)

Carrot cake made easy! – I must admit I have only used this for carrots, sweet potato and cheese as yet. All came out very well and I am pleased with this product. Saves an enormous amount of time (particularly with carrots and sweet potato) as I enjoy making cakes with these veggies. Show details

Favourite appliance – I have small children and do a LOT of grating to hide veggies in things like fried rice, bolognaise, pesto etc. this appliance is amazing and I use it almost every day. So simple and well made. Easy to put together/take apart and clean. Blades still sharp after very heavy usage over years. I would definitely recommend. Show details

Easy to clean – I bought this product to complement a super blender thingy because that product doesn't grate or slice stuff. I was planning to ditch my food processor. The Fresh Express is perfect for grating things like zucchini, carrots and tasty cheese in volumes you would not want to be managing by hand. It is nowhere near as powerful as a proper food… Read more

processor so it is slower. You do have to cut pieces to fit the chute as well, but you have to do that for most food processors too. However, it is also heaps smaller to store and much easier to clean than a food processor. The chute and blades clean up easily in the sink without any need to scrub small pieces and I let them air-dry. One con for me is that I struggle to get the blade locked in to the machine and it sometimes falls out but once I get it going, this never happens. I kept the food processor just in case I ever felt the need to do super-fast, super-powerful grating or slicing. I have never bothered to get it out since I bought the Fresh Express in 2012 because the clean-up isn't worth the extra power. I guess it depends on what volume you are handling.

Beautiful design - does not work – Slow and food gets stuck between the blades and the clear plastic shoot. Really can only shred carrots badly. Other foods forget it. Do not buy do not buy do not buy  Show details

Very good thingie for the kitchen! I do not regret having it at all! – Hello! My name is Kate. I live in Bulgaria. Here we have a great variety of cheese, organic vegetables and such, but they are not sold pre-sliced, or the price is higher than for the whole piece. And I love eating pasta and salads. :D I got my Tefal Fresh Max MB810 from e-mag and I am quite addicted to it. It grates almost everything I push… Read more ·  2

through with almost no effort and is perfect for making quick sandwiches and salads, pasta, pizza, nuts and chocolate. I am happy that I have it.

Wonderful invention – I hate hand grating which is why I absolutely love this machine. It is so fast and easy to use, no more grated fingers! You really need to do a bit of chopping though so that it doesn't jam, then you don't have any trouble. Be kind to it and it will do a good job.  Show 2 replies

Not worth the hassle – this machine struggles with most foods - grater seems to have got very blunt after just a few uses. chute size also very limiting. overall very disappointed as it initially seemed like a useful appliance.

Not up to par – I bought this machine and only used it a couple of times as it was not good enough. The motor is not powerful enough to grate the cheese properly. It is ok for grating carrots and apple, but I found as soon as the product I was grating got small it would lodge itself between the blade and outer, and get stuck. Not happy with this product, am giving it away.

My favourite kitchen appliance – love the machine. had it for about 2 months so far and not any issues. grates cheese really well, like colby or tasty. haven't tried with hard cheeses yet but can't see why that would be a problem. have also grated carrot, and sliced cucumbers. did a great job with both, no issues. i've read some of the other reviews on here and am a little… Read more

surprised. things like cheese does get in between the chute and the grater but it really isn't a big deal as it doesn't stop the machine from working, just have to use a tiny bit more force when pulling the grater out for cleaning...but it's really not a problem. as for pushing the food item down the shoot, i've never had to use much force. overall a great product. love it and would recommend it.

FANTASTIC LITTLE MACHINE – I love my Tefal Fresh Express so much I bought a second one for my daughter. It is so quick and easy to set up, not much washing up either. Grates veges, cheeses beautifully with little time and effort. I would highly recommend this machine and never regret this purchase as I do some of the more expensive and useless machines that sit unused in my appliance cupboard.

Wrost kitchen appliance.. Don't deserve any star – It is very disappointing that it didn't dice any vegetables properly . All the vegetables stuck in the blades and stopped working.Its just a waste of time and money . i was expecting so much but was let down.

For very limited application – At first It was a nice looking piece of kitchen equipment. Never seen a company offering this type of an electric food grater/shredder. But in the end the machine could not handle the job properly. It can shred some types of vegetables, like carrots and beetroots. At the moment a removable part is in the sink not sure how will I remove a… Read more

shredding piece from it. Apples mashed and stuck inside clinging both tight together.

Maybe I should put it in the bowl of water and wait till apples rot and get slimy... Good idea Bad realization

Most disappointing kitchen appliance I have ever bought – The food constantly gets caught/wound around the blades and clogs up at the bottom of the shute. What should have taken me 5 to 10 minutes to grate carrot, cabbage and onion for coleslaw took more like half an hour, plus the mess to clean up was awful. The shute is tiny, may as well just do the job by hand and the motor didn't seem to cope, it got… Read more

hot and smelled like burning even after short bursts of use. The amount of pressure to push the small amounts of food down the shute was phenomenal, while trying to hold down the power button as well. My carpal tunnel syndrome sure had a major flare up that day!! Wish I could take it back but the packaging got thrown away. Nothing Everything

Not my best friend in the kitchen – The dicer cone?? More like the mangler! Even with soft things like cucumber it didn't dice them it mangled them! As for the grating cones when your using them it builds up inside the cone it struggles with hard things like potato. Also you have to constantly hold the power button down, the only good thing is it's easy to setup. I had high hopes… Read more

for this machine but was let down. easy setup not enough power, doesn't dice, have to hold the button down constantly

Perfect cheese grater – I bought this with the intention to use mainly for cheese and carrot grating. So far Ive been happy with the result. I love the finer cheese grater fitting, even more so than the standard fitting. Washing up is very quick and easy, however I throw mine in the dishwasher. I don't know if I will use all the attachments but it does come with a… Read more

recipe book that I hope to use and get some other idea's from at a later date. Very easy to put together and pull apart. Also the variety of attachments. For the price its pretty good motor can be a bit slow going at times, but I guess that all depends on the pressure and drag the food creates, just dont force the food too much

Happy with it, zucchini & veggie slice done in a flash! – After reading mixed reviews I wasn't sure what to expect but since buying this last September I've been really happy with it. Yes, sometimes when grating veggies (e.g. zucchini) you do get one last piece that doesn't really grate and is more of a ribbon piece that sits at the bottom of the feed shute and can wrap around the grating cone- I just… Read more

remove the cone and the piece of zucchini, put the cone back in and keep grating. I wouldn't bother to get this appliance out of the cupboard for every grating/ slicing job - just the more labour intensive ones because it is a bit more washing up than a hand-held grater. Last piece of feedback is following the grated chocolate I did for the chocolate truffles I made for Christmas... 500 grams of chocolate done in 5 minutes using the orange cone!! I would usually have melted chocolate everywhere and have to keep putting it back in the fridge to firm it up again. Happy customer. :-) p.s. I did try buying the "rip off" model from Aldi but I plugged it in and listened to the motor and felt that it was a bit weak, so took it back and forked out for this one. makes life easier and quicker in the kitchen the dicing option dices the vegetables quite small; grating onion is not a good idea- doesn't really do the job

Don't waste your time – Absolute worst excuse for a kitchen appliance we have ever had the misfortune to pay money for. Do yourself a favour and run straight past the aisle that these slicing abominations inhabit. Does not slice, just mashes and forces you to spend the next 15 minutes cleaning out the appliance. Nothing. What is right with it?

Not bad but some problems probably 2.5 stars – THE GOOD. I have chopped up vegetables to make pasties and they have turned out great. This is normally quite time consuming. As a result I have cooked them for my family more often. Hopefully we work out more to use it for. It cleans reasonably easily. Just pull it apart, remove the bits that get stuck between the drum and the cone. Rinse it… Read more

and in the dishwasher.

THE BAD

The instructions are not comprehensive enough.

There don't seem to be many recipes specifically for the machine.

I have only successfully used two of the blades. The rest seem to be a waste of time and either mush the food or the majority of it gets stuck and doesn't flow through the machine,

I would have returned it if my family and friends didn't like pasties so much. Hopefully I find other recipes that are useful to me.

Don't buy !!! Useless product, a butter knife cuts better! – I purchased this product and will be ringing tefal on Monday for a refund out need to force the food through [censored word removed] blades!!!!! Don't purchase!!!!! It does not cut celery, it does not cut onions, it does not work at all, I am very very disappointed!!! The good guys won't give my money back because i made a poor choice but… Read more

personally this product should not even be on the market, it is that bad! Pretty colours It does not cut veggies

Very poor product – This thing doesn't do anything the brochure claims. Most things either don't go through the grater or get jammed between the blades and the barrel. We've tried everything and intend to return it to the maker. A salesperson at a different store has since told us they are rubbish. Don't buy one of these under any circumstances. The colour. It just doesn't do what it is meant to.

Great little helper – Saves me a lot of time. Used for carrots, potatoes, feijoas, cheese. Easy to clean. I just have it on my bench and use it when I need it. I bough it new for NZ$45 on trademe and this little machine is my favourite these days. We eat loads of veggies so it's a great help in the kitchen for me. Saves time and effort

Disappointed – Grating cheese fine, slicing cucumber fine... anything else I've tried to use this machine for doesn't chop and gets stuck between the barrel and the blades. I saved up my flybuys points to get this little sucker and am now bitterly disappointed. I wish I had chosen something much more useful. Looks nice. Blades are terrible and the make it cheap.

Pathetic – Seriously I bought this today and I have already called the store to get a refund...thank-you Myer!!! Complete rubbish doesn't slice or dice it almost mashes everything!!! It all gets stuck in the cone so you have to pull it apart and scrape it all out! Seriously people dont waste your time. Invest in something that may cost more but at least it… Read more

will do the job required. I have a thermomix so really only needed a slice machine because I am getting into Jamie Oliver's cook books. Small & compact Doesn't slice/dice!! All the food gets stuck

Great, but not perfect – Fantastic for grating carrots and cucumber, and slicing potatoes (one they've been cut into smaller pieces that fit down the chute). Motor is quite weak so when grating things like parmesan it does struggle a bit, but still gets the jobs done quicker than by hand. Grated 1kg of soft cheese in about 2 minutes. saves a lot of time grating… Read more ·  1

(especially when you have a few mouths to feed). Looks great. Easy to use. Easy to clean. Motor is a bit weak/slow. Not dishwasher safe (plastic graters will crack). Tends to make a bit of mess.

Love it – Bought it yesterday and I love it.grated hard cheese, carrots and sliced cucumbers no problem at all. Just love it..easy to use and clean.love the colors and the size.Target had it on special for $49.95. Today went and bought one for my mum. I would recommend this great little machine. Size..easy to use

Very good – I mainly use it for zucchini, carrot, and parmesean and its excellent. It doesnt do onion real well. Its a great little helper and saves me a bunch of time. It isnt as good as my food processer but it also doesnt take me 10 minutes to clean.....It can get the last bit caught at times.....Overal im very happy, it saves me a heap of time. Quick n easy to use and clean Bits some times get caught (2 seconds to fix) not as good as food processor

Great appliance – We've had ours for about a year and have found it to be fantastic. We eat a lot of tacos and it makes tea time so easy. Likewise grating zucchini and cheese is a blast. We haven't had any problems with blunt blades or any other issues. Very easy and quick to clean. Easy use. Easy clean. Easy to store. The blades could be a bit larger.

Disappointing – I can't believe how disappointing this product is. It is so so so bad. It struggles to even grate cheese. Tonight I used it for the first time and I needed my son to hold the on button down as i needed two hands to force pressure downward through the feeding tube. I was swayed by its appearance on the shelves - compact and neat and the… Read more

packaging led me to believe it would do all the work I needed it to do. The blades are so blunt and food gets caught between the grating mechanism and the barrel. This has to be the worse electrical product I've ever bought.

Doesn't slice, , dice or chop. Blunt and generally disappointing. You need abs of steel to force the food down the barrel.

Really wanted something to grate beetroot – It grates carrot like a champion, but really disappointed that it won't grate beetroot, it will only slice. I have purchased a lot of Tefal products in the past and this is the first time I have ever been disappointed. I am now going to have to go and purcahse another product to grate beetroot - if only I wasn't too lazy to do it by hand! Looks great, easy to use and clean. Not powerful enough.

Plastic attachments disintegrate – Tefal Fresh Express was purchased new. The attachments are made of thinish plastic and fall apart, hopefully not into the food that was processed. When Tefal Australia were privately messaged through their Faceook page, no reply to two messages, so Tefal are another company that only responds to social media when you post on their wall, ie publicly embarass them. Looks nice Attachments fall apart, no customer service

Huge timesaver – Looks great, easy to change the grating/slicing cones, and as long as the vegetables are cut to the right size before grating or slicing, the Fresh Express does a fantastic job. It took no time to get through kilos of zucchinis and carrots, and it wasn't too bad slicing through 6 onions. I didn't use it on celery or capsicums as even my big food… Read more

processer makes a mess of these. Every so often I did have to take off the cone to remove food caught between the grater and the chute, but the grater cone clicks out and back in so easily with was a simple operation, and I usually have to take the top off my processor to remove the ungrated bits of vegetable from the top of the grater blade regularly anyway. It took a fraction of the time to grate enough vegetables for 4 pots of soup and the cones and chute were much easier to clean than my big food processor.. convenient, compact, easy to clean

Fast & Easy – This was given as a gift & they love it. Simple & easy to use & clean. I have had mine since they first came out & now have given 3 as gifts.