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Question: will this item chop raw red peppers? if so, would the pepper have to be sliced first and then chopped?
Document: I chop onions all the time and I am one of those people whos eyes burn and tear. I bought this to try to avoid the cry fest that happens while chopping onions.First the good... This product works great. I can quickly chop six onions, cucumbers, green/red peppers etc. I chopped potatoes, onions, peppers at once and the vegetables all collect in the bottom bowl. It took me seconds to get everything ready for home fries. The chopper really does a great job.
I am amazed at the positive reviews - took us around 30 seconds to know for sure that that we did not want to own this.First tried to chop an onion (smallish, half at a time) and I could barely force it through the grid (I am a big guy) and I could hear the plastic starting to crack under the force.Next tried a red bell pepper. It crushed the pepper before cutting it. Again, had to use a lot of force and heard plastic cracking.
It took a lot of muscle to push it down to get things to chop, even for soft items like onions. On the flip side, if the item was too soft (such as strawberries for a salsa I made) they smushed and got kind of gross. Eventually we had to push so hard (While cutting a red onion cut into 8ish pieces first) that the piece of the base holding the lid on broke.Then you had to clean it!
I bought this to chop vegetables. Tried it with both raw onions and raw peppers using the yellow blade for the finest cut. Very difficult to push down on lid to chop onions, peppers were nearly impossible to chop. It feels like the blades are very dull. I've gone back to using my knives to chop veggies, and would make a boat anchor of this thing if it were heavy enough.
I've only had this a week, but its my new best friend. Onions, peppers, carrots, celery, potatoes, kale, strawberries - so far every item I needed chopped was done in just seconds - and done perfectly. I really can't wait to buy some for Christmas presents - this handy device is the best thing I've bought this year. LOVE IT! So much time saved and the veggies are chopped better than I could do with a knife.
I mainly use this once a week to chop up veggies for my morning omlettes and it's perfect. I chop it and leave it in the container for storage until I run out, then I chop some more.Broccolis, green/red peppers, mushrooms, onions are my main ingredients and this chops them all just fine. Chopping onions requires a little more push but it's not a big deal.
I make a lot of soups, so this product really fills the bill for getting all the veggies chopped up. With the handy measurement markings on the side, I no longer have to have measure every item after I have what I think is enough chopped up. Well made, tough enough for carrots and celery. We both 4 of them, the first for ourselves and then for our daughters and daughter-in-law for Christmas. Neat gift, very well made and able to handle home kitchen chopping.
I wasn't sure how well this was going to work but it certainly does the job.I slice everything down to a chunks that are a few inches square, then run it through the machine. It makes chopping common vegetables like peppers and onions really easy. I even chopped ginger root with this and that is a very hard and fibrous root. I just peeled it and cut the root into small slices first and it worked fine.
That requires a lot of chopping...so my husband pulled our chopper back out and gave it a second chance.IT WAS PERFECT!It saved us soooo much time! With a whack whack whack he took care of our apples so quickly! Needless to say when we got a ton of peppers we pulled it out again and sure enough--got them chopped and bagged in no time! We think we just were babying the chopper too much that first time.
The key for hard-to-chop foods is to press the top down util it's touching the food and then "smack" or "pound" the top near the open end. Also, firm foods like carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, etc. chop better if they are quartered and/or sliced first--nowhere do the instructions say you don't have to do some prep work for the tool to work correctly.
Answer: Yes..It needs to be sliced before chopping..