Customer Reviews

Nicer Dicer

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This is great for cutting potatoes. However, I use onions in several meals a week, and after only a few uses, one of the blades started coming loose, bending, and cutting into the plastic cutting board below. I was no longer able to effectively use my Nicer Dicer.

However, the booklet says it has a 5 year warrantee. So I sent it back to the company.

WARNING - if you do not buy the Nicer Dicer directly from the Nicer Dicer company, they will NOT honor the warrantee.

The quality of the product does not match the price! Buyer Beware!

I would never have bought this product if I saw the infomercial, but my mother-in-law did. The ad makes it look kind of cheap. But I got to try it at my MIL's house and I was impressed enough to buy one of my own. I was making a dip that called for diced onions and tomatoes; MIL took the vegetables out of my hand and put them in the Nicer Dicer. I was scared she was going to mash my tomatoes, but they came out in perfect tiny dice (apparently, though, when slicing an end of a tomato, you have to put the skin against the base and the flesh against the blade of the dicer or it will mash).

MIL also used this to dice potatoes for potato salad, and says she used it for eggs (egg salad), apples (Waldorf salad), carrots, cucumbers, and even lettuce with very good results.

Reviews I have read on other sites said the ND was difficult to clean, but I found it very easy to clean--you just push up the bottom of the base and any trapped veggie goo is pushed out and rinses right off.

While this works fine for onions and peppers and some herbs - it is a DISASTER with midwest, garden-fresh, juicy tomatoes. What a mess; and yes, I did the recommended wetting the blade and had the skin the correct orientation. I had some success using the less juicy Roma tomatoes but the clean up after any tomatoes is just too much work....back to my knife for salsa and bruschetta prep.

Good product, easy to use. Cutting blades are not too good. OK with onions but not with tomatoes.

I have found that using this product is really only effective IF you use the freshest ingredients. For example, if you have an onion that has been sitting in your kitchen for a while, you may have challenges using it, due to the tough layers of the onion. I use only fresh fruits and veggies and I have absolutely no problems.

I love how quickly it cleans up, too! I've had mine for more than a year now and I use it all the time. When I need some chopped onions, I use my dicer to dice the whole onion, remove what I need for my recipe and freeze the rest of the chopped onion in a zip-lock baggie. It's perfect for helping with the prep work.

I highly recommend this product!

I have had a nicer dicer for several years and I love it. Many of the problems people mention I have experienced but if you play with it you will figure it out. Everything I put in at first was too big. Cut smaller chunks before trying to dice. If you don't want the long strips, do your initial slices thinner then stack them when putting them on the dicer. I have no problems with tomatoes if I make sure the meat side is up and skin down. They are juicy so I put a dish rag under it and then just rinse it out when finished with juicy items. This weekend we used it for dicing sweet potatoes. Slice thick "chips" and them dice those...worked great. Hope this helps some of you that have one in their cabinet and have given up on using it.

A better name would be NO-DICE!

I made hash browns today to test my Nicer-Dicer, but found it neither diced or chopped my potato! Instead, it produced either thick or thin julienned potato strips, depending on which blade I used. As per the instructions, I peeled & cut my potato in half. I first tried the larger blade, which produced long, medium thick, french fries, taking great ushing force. Because I wanted diced, not julienned potatoes, I read that I had used the wrong blade - I should have used the DICING blade. So I put the second half of my potato on the unit & tried the smaller-holed DICING blade, which seemed too small for my potato half. Using full body weight - and I'm a strong Norwegian gal - I thought the unit would snap in two as it was so difficult to push down, even following the instruction to put one hand on the jar and the other on the end of the unit while pushing. It didn't break. But, it once again julienned the potato, this time into thinner strips. I went back to the instructions, but found nothing there to tell me how to get diced pieces. And that's because it can't do it.

I ended up transferring the strips to a cutting board & hand cutting them into diced cubes. And the clean-up wasn't fun as bits of potato got stuck in the tiniest edge holes which had to be poked out with a toothpick!

Because the box says dices, juliennes and chops, I bought it. Unless I totally missed something, the Nicer Dicer only juliennes - totally misleading/false. Anyone who cooks knows that the result of julienning is totally different from DICING and CHOPPING! One produces strips, and the others produces small cubed pieces. Referring to the smaller blade as a DICING blade is also misleading as it is just another julienne blade.

Conclusion: This is great for julienning, but that's all. So if you are looking for something that dices or cubes, save the $39.00.

I plan on returning it for a refund tomorrow, unless someone who has it can tell me how to make it dice and chop!

I bought the Nicer Dicer a few years ago and have enjoyed using it. But now one of the clamps has broken and I can't find where to contact the company for a replacement part.

While reading this, realize I broke one of my blades and I'm seriously considering buying it again...

I love this product. I mainly use it for french fries and dicing onions. You can't put a whole onion on there, I don't think the blads are strong enough, you do need to cut many things into quarters, but if you SERIOUSLY cry when chopping onions you know cutting into quarters will be fine if you can hurry up and dice the entire thing with 4 easy pushes. I usually slice red-skin potatoes for fries, which tend to be smaller than brown ones, and I don't have to quarter those. You should remember to chop with skin side down, that helps, and also run the blade mechanism under water first before you slice anything for the first time, that also makes it easier. Don't use on a table that wobbles, that makes it more difficult, and you need to apply even pressure on the bowl, don't hesitate with the push. Sounds like a lot but once you get comfortable with the item you'll see it works great. Really super firm produce/veggies shouldn't be used, thats how I broke mine, trying to make sweet potato fries, sweet potatoes are way to firm for this gadget. Does it have flaws, yes. No consumer product is perfect. But I had mine for 2 years before I broke it, and again, I'm planning to purchase it again. It can be little difficult to clean, get something with a brush on the end to scrape onion skin off the blades. Hope this helps.

Hi Everyone, I was so disappointed in the Nicer Dicer, the first thing I wanted to do is write this review to spare you a financial loss.

I was amazed at the commercials to see how fast food items could be chopped. Personally, I hate food prep, so anything to speed it up would be a god send!

First time use, I was cutting up orange bell peppers (capiscums) using the smaller finer blades (tiny squares), and I decided to save some time, so I stacked up 3 of them. I guess there was something wrong with the bell peppers, because not all of them went through. I thought to myself, maybe I can poke them out, but decided to give it 1 more whirl. So I pressed really hard to force it through, then boink... 2 of the blades popped out, and warped out 2 others holding it.

It seems the blades simply rest on each other, and aren't really "joined". I can't imagine being able to do a hard freshly cut potato. Making french fries with the chance of metal bits, um, good bye potato.

I'm going to see if I can get a replacement for the smaller bladed dicer part. But be warned, if the item is not soft, don't do it. If it get's stuck, don't force it through.

Honestly for first time use, I would think 3 bell peppers cut with a knife into small chunks, then stacked on each other in the dicer circle should be able to get diced. Bell peppers are soft and flat, aren't they?

Anyhoo, watch out! I'm going to use the big bladed one as that is all I can use now. So just tomatoes, mushrooms, and cucumbers in that thing, but the pieces are awefully big for my spaghetti sauce. I like them small. OH well... here's hoping for a replacement part.

Overall, *not* recommended. Unless you're just cutting up tomatoes and mushrooms, I think you're good to go. I wish I could have used the smaller blades to cut my tomato's... Geez, I can't imagine what an apple would do to it. [To afraid to try less breaking the other bigger dicer part]