The Kitchen Plus 3000 bills itself as the “all-in-one kitchen miracle.” It’s a medium-sized clear plastic bowl/container on top of which you attach different devices (all included) depending on how you’d like to use it. At its most basic, you attach three blades inside, which are connected to the handle cover and it works like a hand-cranked mixer/blender.
It claims to be the “super salsa maker,” with the commercials showing a very chef-looking chef (he’s even got a chef hat!) tossing in onions, tomatoes, peppers and cilantro, then spinning the crank and emerging with salsa in just seconds. However, not only do I not own a chef-looking chef hat, but I have no idea how to cook or mix or use anything that’s not a sandwich. Maybe a toaster. Seems like if I can figure it out, then it’s a worthy infomercial product.
Who Is It For?
The Kitchen Plus 3000 is ideal if you do a lot of mixing, slicing and dicing for your family, or if you hate doing a massive amount of cleanup. The seems sort of obvious, but we noticed that this was much easier to clean that a giant blender or having to load the sink with a bunch of different utencils and kitchenware.
It’s probably not a great piece of equipment if you are doing heavy-duty cooking for a large number of people (let’s say more than a family of four or five). If you want to make some delicious salsa or guacamole and save on effort and cleanup time, it does the trick. If you want to do some mixing, make some cookie batter, separate egg white, yes it lives up to the billing. If you’re looking to make your catering operation easier, or you rarely find yourself doing a lot of baking, Kitchen Plus 3000 might not be what you need.
What You Get For How Much
Kitchen Plus 3000 comes in a large rectangular box that contains the bowl/container itself along with almost a dozen different attachments that twist and lock into place. These include:
-Cheese grater
-Slicer
-Juicer
-Julienne
-Safety handle (stick prongs into food to slice)
-Beater/whipper/paddle
-Chopper blades
-Egg white separator
It did comprise of a full package of kitchen devices, certainly combining the juicer, shredder, grater, slicer and mixer into one device. The price at BuyKitchenPlus is $19.99, plus another $8.99 for shipping, which comes out to just under $30 total. Certainly much cheaper than buying all those devices separately. The thirty-day money-back guarantee lets you try it out risk-free so you can see if it’s a good fit for your household. If you find that it takes care of a lot of your kitchen needs, then it more than pays for itself. Worth giving it a shot because if you find that you’re never using it, or it doesn’t fit the bill for you, you can return it.
How Did It Hold Up?
And the final verdict is… pretty good. Not amazing, not perfect, but not bad either. All in all, it’s what you would expect for this price compared to other infomercial products we have tested. We filmed a video review to give you an idea of how it performed:
As you can see, Kitchen Plus 3000 performed much better when we gave it a manageable amount of food and got the feel for the handle and device. Once we figured out the correct way to latch on the handle and got a better grip, it turned out some pretty good salsa and guacamole. Much easier and cheaper than a blender, but not as effective as top-of-the-line isolated products.
Positives
When it came down to the test, after we got the feel for it, it was effective at making salsa and guacamole. Plus the safety handle was convenient and the grater and shredder lived up to their billing.
-Affordable compared to buying individual kitchenware.
- Withstood heavy cranking on blade and high pressure.
- Mixed salsa and guacamole effectively.
- Sliced carrots and shredded cheese well.
- Easy to clean.
- 30-day money-back guarantee to try it out.
- The food we mixed tasted good (but I’ll take the credit on that).
Negatives
We tested the limits of Kitchen Plus 3000 and found that it definitely had some limitations, so be aware of your cooking and baking needs before you purchase.
- When we loaded it to the top, we needed a lot of force to crank the handle.
- Took a while to get the feel for the handle and cover before it was effective.
- Felt flimsy due to lightweight plastic (although it did not break).
- Not as effective as more expensive individual devices, like a professional blender, knife and grater.
Final Verdict
All-in-all Kitchen Plus 3000 comes down to the question of if this is the amount of food and cooking that you perform and need, then it is a great product. If you spend a tremendous amount of time in the kitchen, you might like having individual devices, but for casual chefs and eat-at-home-on-occasion families, this is a simple and convenient gadget that gets the job done. You can try it out and return it if it’s not for you, but we’d say it’s worth a look.
How to Buy
Kitchen Plus 3000 is available at BuyKitchenPlus.com. It costs $19.99 plus $8.99 shipping and handling and comes with a thirty-day money-back guarantee.
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