The Pampered Chef Cutting Edge Food Chopper

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If you’re going to get a manual chopper that leaves your chopped product directly on a cutting board, it may be a good idea to invest in a bench scraper or PrepTaxi, which will help you scrape up your chopped ingredients and transfer them to a bowl, skillet, sheet pan, or wherever they need to go. Between your food chopper and your bench scraper, you will save a lot of time with ingredient prep, and you won’t have to worry about chopped food scattered all over your kitchen. Electric Great design. My favorite part is the cap on the end to hold in what you are chopping. Handle action is great. Blades are sharp. Makes chopping so easy compared to by hand. Would recommend to anyone. The money is worth it, it is affordable. Soaking the parts in hot soapy water is a great way to remove any remaining residue. If you can, it’s a good idea to get into the nooks and crannies around the blade, inside the food pressers, and around the tube with a bottle brush or toothbrush. In the case of electric food processors, make sure that the device is cooled down and unplugged if you are going to wipe the base with a hot, damp cloth. Never submerge the electronic base in water. Another particularly thoughtful feature of this food chopper is that it has a nonslip base, so as you're pulling the cord, the chopper doesn't move all over the counter. Speaking more to its convenience, the bowl and blade are dishwasher safe when it's time for cleanup. You do have to wash the lid by hand, but that's no biggie compared to all the other benefits.

If you're going to invest in a food chopper, it may be your priority to find something that can do more than just one kind of chop. Enter: the Fullstar Vegetable Chopper. This food chopper has earned lots of praise because of its versatility, which comes from the fact that it has four interchangeable blades: one for small dicing, one for large dicing, a spiral blade, and a ribbon blade. Plus, the way you push down the lid to cut the food over the blades gives you wonderfully uniform pieces.

Manual choppers are simple to use and relatively inexpensive. They’re useful for rough chopping nuts or vegetables, and particularly good for making salsa. Electric choppers are essentially mini food processors. They’re great for rough chopping, just like the manual choppers, but they can also be used for making small amounts of purees. They’re easier to use than manual choppers, since you just press a button to pulse or puree. With all choppers, the results are best if larger foods, like onions, are first cut into pieces. Food choppers have been around for a long time, and for good reason. First, they make chopping less messy, since they usually do their chopping inside a container, and they’re particularly handy when chopping something like nuts that tend to fling themselves around when cut. Second, they’re a good way to let kids help in the kitchen in a safe way. They're also great for people who have poor knife skills or dexterity problems. And last, they’re fun to use. This chopper's sharp, rust-resistant blades are made from stainless steel, so they can handle tougher foods, like potatoes. As you're chopping, the nonskid base holds the device in place and all the food is conveniently collected in the large storage container, keeping things tidy. Depending on how much counter space you have, you may need to move some things out of the way to use this chopper. But when you're cleaning up, all of the components (which include handy cleaning tools) can fit inside the container, so it's just one item to store. It is very durable. Mine has never broken. After many years, the blades may dull some depending on how much chopping you have done and what substances. It's made out of some plastic, with a blade inside, a cover for the end over the blade, and a comfortable handle at the top.

Using the palm of your hand, hit the top of the plunger. With each plunge, the stainless-steel blades rotate and the food is chopped—the more hits, the more finely chopped the food becomes. Repeat the process with the next portion of food. Chopped is used much more, referring to onions usually or other vegetables which are typically used for cooking, and refers to larger pieces of veggies. Diced is much more specific, it means smaller and finer pieces of vegetables. What Is The Best Mini Food Chopper? I got a Pampered Chef Food Chopper about 10+ years ago and still have it. It works by putting food inside the clear cylinder area at the bottom and then patting/pushing the top of the stem down with your palm, which lowers the stainless blades and rotates them with each chop. The size of the chopped product is not uniform, but close. It doesn't matter to me, except when chopping walnuts because by dicing them, there seems to be a lot of walnut "dust" mixed with the end product.

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Pampered Chef Company Facts". Pampered Chef. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016 . Retrieved March 26, 2016. While you can certainly put garlic in any other food chopper, if you're looking for something specifically designed to mince cloves, this mini garlic chopper is the way to go. It fits easily in one hand, it's lightweight, and it can be used to chop three garlic cloves at a time. The coolest part is that rather than the pull cord or pump mechanism of other manual choppers, this one works by rolling, which is both easy and fun to do. You're also able to determine just how fine you want the garlic minced by rolling more or less.Whether you have limited space in your kitchen or are cooking smaller amounts, a mini food chopper might be all you want and need. Electrically powered, this food chopper is like a mini food processor, and despite its small capacity, does great work chopping ingredients. Plus, there's a pulse option, so you have some control over the size and texture of the chop. Most importantly, it takes up just a little space on the countertop or in the cabinet, so it's not a big task to take out and put away. "I have a Proctor Silex that my mom bought 25 years ago. It works perfectly," Allstar Jennifer Levin says. Pampered Chef winding down UK operations". PamperedChef. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015 . Retrieved September 11, 2015.