Does one exist that will chop things like onions, green peppers etc?
One was given to me years ago but it did not chop the vegetables even
at all. My fingers are becoming more stiff as years go by making it
difficult to chop with knife. I thought perhaps they may have
improved. Lee

Lee,
Cuisinart makes a little electric chopper for about $40 that works very
well for amounts of about 1/4 cup to over a cup. I loved mine but I
took it to work (where there's a kitchen - long story) and somebody
swiped it. Sigh.

Zyliss makes a hand powered chopper that requires punching the handle
down about 12 to 15 times to chop half an onion. It doesn't use your
finger dexterity as much as it requires that you be able to bang bang
down on the handle. It comes apart easily and the whole thing can go in
the dishwasher, Parts are replaceable for a few dollars if you break or
lose them. I broke the "ring" (cost me $2.50) and lost the plastic
blade guard (cost $2). The small ones are under $20 and the larger ones
about $30

Lynn from Fargo

Black and Decker also has a "mini chopper" for about $40, often on sale
at cheefscatalog.co m or cooking.com. It's a single two-sided blade
with two speeds, without all the hoo-ha and thousand parts to assemble
in a real food processor. I use mine often.

The base looks like that of a blender, and the container short squat
and round.

Easy to clean the container and blade. I use it often. In fact, even
in relays for larger quantities, as I am resisting buying an
ultgra-expensive 'real' food processor with all the attachments that
take storage space, assembly, cleaning, etc.

Could you try one of those herb/coffee grinders - some are quite
powerful and could do small amounts at one time. They are usually
quite inexpensive and can be cleaned easily.
Cheers

"mjb2005" > wrote in message
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> Could you try one of those herb/coffee grinders - some are quite
> powerful and could do small amounts at one time. They are usually
> quite inexpensive and can be cleaned easily.
> Cheers
>

I bought a GE blenderstick at Walmart for about $19.
It comes with a chopper attachment that is amazing.
I use the attachment more than the blenderstick.
Very easy to use and clean and it does the job beautifully.

Elly
in upstate NY

After my mini-Moulinex (Hamilton Beach) died, I bought in a $10
Toastmaster, which has lasted for at least 5 years so far.

I preferred the Moulinex design because the lower blade is closer to
the bottom, but all of the new mini-choppers I saw at the time had the
same design (including the mini-cuisinart which came with my big one).
I gave away the mini-cuisinart (it was a mini version of the big one)
as a wedding or shower gift, went with the $10 one and haven't looked
back. I see Cusinart has something called a mini-mate chopper that is
very much like the Moulinex design - and the price is pertty good
too... but those blades still don't look like they can handle small
amounts very well.

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:41:35 -0400, Lee Hobeck wrote:

> Does one exist that will chop things like onions, green peppers etc?
> One was given to me years ago but it did not chop the vegetables even
> at all. My fingers are becoming more stiff as years go by making it
> difficult to chop with knife. I thought perhaps they may have
> improved. Lee

"Lynn from Fargo" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Lee,
> Cuisinart makes a little electric chopper for about $40 that works very
> well for amounts of about 1/4 cup to over a cup. I loved mine but I
> took it to work (where there's a kitchen - long story) and somebody
> swiped it. Sigh.
>
> Zyliss makes a hand powered chopper that requires punching the handle
> down about 12 to 15 times to chop half an onion. It doesn't use your
> finger dexterity as much as it requires that you be able to bang bang
> down on the handle. It comes apart easily and the whole thing can go in
> the dishwasher, Parts are replaceable for a few dollars if you break or
> lose them. I broke the "ring" (cost me $2.50) and lost the plastic
> blade guard (cost $2). The small ones are under $20 and the larger ones
> about $30
>
> Lynn from Fargo

Don't want to be a KillJoy, but the Cuisinart electric chopper I had lasted
about 3 months. I don't know that EYE would recommend it myself. Just
wanting to let you know. Maybe you are speaking about the very small one --
don't know if they make it anymore -- a tiny little less-than-one-cup
chopper, I don't know, but they didn't last long in my kitchen.

I did buy a new KitchenAid larger food processor and find it superior to the
Cuisinart larger model, and it has two extra bowls. You can put their
smaller bowl inside the food processor and it does a bang-up job, but it
won't 'slice' into that smaller bowl - I don't think.
Depending on how sore your fingers are is the key to any food processor,
I've found. I've never had arthritis, even though I'm up in years, but the
regular sized-Cuisinart was impossible for me to use because I was not
strong enough to get the bowl removed from the stand.

Good luck,
Dee

"Lynn from Fargo" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Lee,
> Cuisinart makes a little electric chopper for about $40 that works very
> well for amounts of about 1/4 cup to over a cup. I loved mine but I
> took it to work (where there's a kitchen - long story) and somebody
> swiped it. Sigh.
>
> Zyliss makes a hand powered chopper that requires punching the handle
> down about 12 to 15 times to chop half an onion. It doesn't use your
> finger dexterity as much as it requires that you be able to bang bang
> down on the handle. It comes apart easily and the whole thing can go in
> the dishwasher, Parts are replaceable for a few dollars if you break or
> lose them. I broke the "ring" (cost me $2.50) and lost the plastic
> blade guard (cost $2). The small ones are under $20 and the larger ones
> about $30

I saw a thingie advertised in an inflight magazine (American Airlines) that
is supposed to chop half an onion in one stroke. It has a grid that pushes
down over the half onion which is supported on a toothed surface. It was
called something like "alligator chopper". It only works for onions because
of their structure.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:00:13 GMT, "HiTech RedNeck"
> wrote:

>I saw a thingie advertised in an inflight magazine (American Airlines) that
>is supposed to chop half an onion in one stroke. It has a grid that pushes
>down over the half onion which is supported on a toothed surface. It was
>called something like "alligator chopper". It only works for onions because
>of their structure.
>

I have one. It's very well made and I like it very much for large
jobs. If you cut an onion in half at the equator and then use the
Chopper, it produces strips which are great for onion soup; if you cut
the onion from pole to pole, it produces dice about 1/4 inch on a
side. It will also make strips of potatoes for hash browns or soup.
Haven't tried it with anything else, but I imagine it would work with
any firm vegetable or fruit. A tremendous amount of pressure is
applied to the onion (potato, etc), so softer veg would be squashed
rather than cut.