Vidalia Chop Wizard
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Vidalia Chop Wizard
Customer Review: Super gadget - no kitchen should be without one!
Summary: 5 Stars
I find lots of things to chop now that I have this little gizmo around. Various peppers for salads are super. It works great on Roma tomatoes, which are firmer than the fat soft kind. You must slice the tomatoes first. I slice the Romas to 1/4" or 3/8" and I use the FINE chop blades. I do the same for onions. I have no problems at all. This is great for making stuff for tostadas or salsa. I chop up a lot of tomatoes and onions and put them in plastic containers in the fridge. It's fun and very fast. I'm eating a LOT of tostadas lately.
I just tried it on dried apricots with the coarse chop blades. Worked fine. You just have to slow the chop motion down - use a 'heavy push' instead of a fast chop.
I can't understand why some people are breaking their units or say that it won't chop onions! Duh! Maybe I'll have to do a YouTube video to show some of the helpless people how to use this thing without destroying it or bursting a blood vessel from frustration. (Are these the same folks who call for the 'Jaws of Life' to get their bagel out of the toaster?)
Customer Review: I Use This On A Daily Basis!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband bought this for me right after we got married 2 1/2 years ago because I hate chopping onions, it makes me tear up a lot. I use this almost every day now, especially since I have a toddler, it creates the perfect sized finger foods for him. I do not think that it is flimsy at all. And sure, so you have to roughly chop the veggies into slightly smaller pieces (cutting the onion into 4s instead of 2s seems to work a little better), big deal it takes an extra 5 seconds of time. This thing surely is better than chopping the whole onion yourself especially if you are like me and like all the pieces to be about the same size!
The ONLY bad thing I have to say about this is that I don't like cleaning the little pieces that get stuck in the lid but that is my fault for losing the scraper thing that comes with it. And all the pieces usually come out in the dishwasher.
I love this thing and am going to buy another one in case I use my 1st to death. Although 2 1/2 years later with constant use, it is still going strong!
Customer Review: Pretty disappointing..
Summary: 1 Stars
I had high hopes for this thing because chopping onions sends me into a weeping fit so horrible that I generally can't finish what I started. The commercials make this look MUCH easier than it actually is - I'm a 5'7, 140 lb woman and in order to get part of an onion to go through these blades, I literally had to put all of my weight on this thing pushing down (and even then it wasn't easy). That's absolutely ridiculous when in the commercials, people push this thing down with one hand like it ain't no thing. TOTALLY UNREALISTIC. There is no way you can get a whole onion through this thing, not even a half. You have to quarter them at LEAST, and that kind of defeats the purpose of not chopping onions!! If you're as bad as I am, even quartering an onion makes you bawl!!
And eventually, anything you have to muscle this much is going to BREAK, and mine did. One of the hinges broke clean off on the second or third use. I received this as a gift and feel sorry for the girl who gave it to me, it was a HUGE waste of her money. :(
Customer Review: Best salad maker on the planet
Summary: 5 Stars
I use this every 3 or 4 days to make a huge bowl of salad. It's fantastic at chopping onions, carrots, radishes, celery, cucumbers, peppers, and anything else with crunch characteristics. It will even chop nuts in SMALL quantities, enough to add to breakfast cereal if you like nuts chopped.
It can sometimes require more pressure than is comfortable. In that case, reduce the amount per chop. A small child can chop one radish at a time but even her mother would have trouble with 7 on the cutting bed at once. That elementary concept was beyond the grasp of those who gave this bad reviews.
Likewise we need to cut onions to manageable size first. The machine has visible limits to the width and length of the chopping block, but you need a brain to tell you there's a height limit that's less. This will chop things 3" wide and 3" long but it takes a special person to expect this machine to chop something 3" high.
If everything did it's job as well as this, what a fine world this would be.
Customer Review: it saved me time
Summary: 4 Stars
I got one for christmas over a year ago and it's been a life saver in this house. My husband couldn't be in the same room as me if I was chopping onions because it made his eye sting too much. Also, I'm an extremely impatient person and I really hate cutting onions into tiny little pieces, it drives me up the wall. This tool made it so I could have my husband dice up the onions with out it affecting him too badly. All the diced onion pieces are enclosed in the canister. He did manage to shatter it after a year, so you do have to be a little careful how you use it. I always cut the onions and bellpeppers in smaller pieces. If you have to exert a lot of force to get the lid to close, then your pieces are too big. I'm sure plenty of people could dice their own onions much faster than doing it with the tool, but for me, it's worth it to keep my husband in the kitchen while I'm cooking and to save me the hassle of chopping by hand, which I'm terrible at. So, I am purchasing another one to replace the one he broke.