salad shooter

salad shooter (plural salad shooters)

1. (cooking) An electric kitchen appliance that is used to slice and shred vegetables in order to shoot or drop out the pieces into a salad bowl.
   • 1994, Linda G. Rector-Page, Party Lights: Healthy Party Foods & Earthwise Entertaining, page 154:

     Grate 1 carrot or I zucchini in a salad shooter or blender and turn out into the bowl.

   • 1994 September, Cincinnati Magazine, page 38:

     In every department store you see newlyweds, their honeymoon tans fading, returning sorbet makers and salad shooters, toasters and tea kettles.

   • 2014, Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story:

     There is the salad shooter, and for one second McDonald's tried selling cups—yes, cups—of salad: "It's salad you can eat while driving!"

• salad maker
• food processor
• electric slicer