The Hamilton Beach 3 cup FreshChop has been a blessing!  It's so easy to use and cuts my prep time down considerably!  I have made fresh salsa, chopped veggies for my meatloaf, chopped veggies for soup....the recipes I avoided due to time restraints, I now do because it's easy peasy!  It operates really easily and cleanup is surprisingly rather simple too. It's a great design and I'm glad to have it!