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I ordered one and am excitedly waiting for it. After I use it awhile, I will probably be ordering more for the 4 weddings (at least) I will be attending in the next few months. I don't know how it dices, but it was great. I was expecting a french fry cut. She is 79, arthritic, has had several broken ribs, 3 compression back fractures, so it is hard for her to do things, but she loves to cook if someone is there and we were making fried potatoes(which I love, but don't make often because I have a family of 7, so it's a lot of peeling and chopping+plus we don't fry foods very often) and she got this gadget out to use. I had never seen this chopper until spending the weekend with my mom last week. We cut the potatoes into halves or quarters depending on the size of the potatoes and I was amazed that it chopped them so small. She's been using hers for a couple of years a few times a week for cooking and fruit salads.
Very satisfied. NO more finger cuts. Fantastic kitchen tool. Makes perfect diced onion instantly. Clean up only take a couple minutes.
This chopper only comes with 1 small blade. I am replacing the one I had but mine had two blades (large and small). I was dissapointed but I still have the large blade to use from my broken old one.
Do it right, and you will LOVE this. The onion must be quartered (even cut into eigths if its a really big one). Read the instructions (no, it's not as instinctive as it looks). If you don't bring it down hard enough or decisively enough, you will just smush the onion, not chop it. I have found this to be an excellent tool that I use every single time I have a need for chopped onions. However, if it is not used properly, it will disappoint. The action of bringing down the top on the onion on the cutting surface must be quick and HARD: if you are short like me, you should stand on a stool to put you in the right position to put your weight into bringing down the top.
The blurb says you can put half an onion in but I find a quarter works much better, as a 220lb man I have no problem generating the force needed for half but the device feels too flimsy for that. I've been using one of these regularly for a couple of years now, it works well as long as you don't try to cut too much at once. Mine didn't have the lid cleaner, or I've lost it, and cleaning the lid is a pain.
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