I have been wanting a small chopper when I only needed to chop up a little and don't want to run all the pieces to our big food processor through the dishwasher. It chops well, and I love the battery-operated feature. It's great to just pull out quickly. The buttons are somewhat hard to press. I don't know if that was meant to be a safety feature, but with the lid locking mechanism already in place, I would have rather just had easy buttons to push.