Does anyone have a Chop Wizzard?

[KristineIN]

Has it been worth the investment? https://www.chopwizard.com/

 

Kristine

[Karenciavo]

My father bought this for me, it doesn't work that great, not sharp enough. I just use my mandoline to slice and then chop.

[abbeyej]

Karen,

 

What brand of mandoline do you have? Is it really sharp? Does it cut down on prep time? I slice/chop everything by hand... And you know those trained chefs who use their knife and go whoosh-whoosh and everything is chopped? That's not me. I'm irrationally careful and precise with my chopping and it takes me a long time.

 

I had a Pampered Chef chopper-thing (the upright round thing where you push a knob down and chop), but I never liked it much... I find the mandoline really tempting though...

[Montana Peach]

I have one and it's very sharp....works like a dream. It's sort of a home scaled-down version of what we used in the kitchen of the restaurant I once managed. I can chop onions in no time flat now but it works best if you cut the onion in quarters first. I also suggest washing it immediately as dried stuff in the blade is a pain to get out.

[Karenciavo]

Karen,

 

What brand of mandoline do you have? Is it really sharp? Does it cut down on prep time? I slice/chop everything by hand... And you know those trained chefs who use their knife and go whoosh-whoosh and everything is chopped? That's not me. I'm irrationally careful and precise with my chopping and it takes me a long time.

 

I had a Pampered Chef chopper-thing (the upright round thing where you push a knob down and chop), but I never liked it much... I find the mandoline really tempting though...

 

I didn't want to spend a lot of money ($35?) so I got the Borner V Slicer Plus. It definitely cuts down on time, it's great.

[Claire]

Here's a link to the "nicer dicer" I bought off eBay. (Same guy too.) Mine came with 3 different sizes of chopper plus 3 different sizes of cannisters with tops. The cannisters are nice because they are marked to help you measure things as you are chopping. It's really easy to tell when I have 1/2 cup of onions diced, for example.

 

I really like it for certain jobs. I use the medium grid to dice potatoes for soup, the small grid to dice green peppers and onions. The large grid is the least useful for me, although I could use it for potatoes if I weren't always in such a hurry for them to cook. In order to use this to dice, you have to slice the vegetables to a dicing thickness. I have found onions to be the most difficult to dice (have to press down longer), so I like to slice them thin before I use this thing. There's a professional demo of the nicer dicer on YouTube. Here's a link to a YouTube video of someone at home using it on potatoes (not for dice, though). The only problem I have had with it is that sometimes I am so into the dicing I don't notice that I have twisted the cannister towards me, so the whole thing spills on the counter. I am a natural klutz, though. Eventually I will learn......

 

I don't use this every time I cook, but it's really nice when you need lots of small dice -- such as for my potato soup with peppers, or for making homemade salsa. This particular dicer is made in Germany, so the quality is very good. The grid is removeable, so it's really easy to clean. I usually just pop it into the dishwasher with everything else.

 

I should mention that I used to have one of those Pampered Chef chopper things. It made my hand sore and I hated it. The "nicer dicer" is much better. (I wouldn't want to try to chop a quartered onion in it, though. I prefer slices.)

 

Oh, and here's a YouTube video of the Chop Wizard. Viewing the YouTube videos helped me decide which one to get.