Customer Reviews

KitchenAid Multi Food Chopper

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

For a person with good or even fair knife skills this is really just one more tool to wash but for the right person this is a very helpful tool.

I bought this for someone with limited use of one of her hands. Chopping was a hard thing, even using a knife was difficult. This is very helpful to her. I can see this also being good for getting when your kids help you in the kitchen.

Dry things like nuts or hard drier vegetables (broccoli, celery, etc) chop faster and more evenly because they dont *stick* to the blades. things with a higher water content (like onions and mushrooms) tend not to drop back down as well, but may stick a bit on to the blade...so you may end up with some large chunks and some teeny bits. Overall this isnt a huge problem and for the person who really benefits from this, this is really not much of an issue at all.

If your not going to wash this right away, at least rinse the little bits off of it so they don't dry on the unit or it will be very hard to clean (personal experience).

This is a great thing for the person who could benefit the most from it

I had high hopes for this product. It's definatly not as good as I expected. I had one of these years ago from some no-name company and it worked great. After years of use and abuse, it finally broke. So I replaced it with this, thinking it would be better because it's KitchenAid. This is difficult to take apart after using-I feel like I'm going to break it. It doesn't hold very much. It's also a pain to clean, almost impossible if you don't clean it IMMEDIATLY after you use it. I used mine to chop garlic about 2 months ago and it smells like it still. In my opinion, it's just easier to use a knife.

Be sure to buy this one over the Zyliss - I couldn't get the Zyliss to do anything but mangle onions just a little. This Kitchenaid chopper is just fantastic. It chops very easily and very quickly, and the cleanup is just a breeze. I usually wash mine on the top rack of the dishwasher and it has always done just fine. It's fabulous for nuts too!

This chopper does a poor job, with a fine line between chopping and pulverizing, and takes way too much effort to chop a reasonable portion of most vegetables.

A complete disappointment for onions and bell peppers. A knife is almost as fast, yet effortless. Of course, the human ability to rationalize any decision they make leaves one wanting to say something good about the product, but this thing really is a piece of junk.

I really love the color. I bought a red one to match my red kitchenaid kitchen and my mom bought the blue one. We both love it. It chops things up fast without having to plug it in. The only bad thing is the cleaning. Its best to clean it right after you use it. Otherwise, the food gets stuck and it is a little harder to clean in the grooves.

I have a small food processor and am not happy with the size of its chopped food, which are always too small. I thought this chopper can turn up bigger chopped food, since I would have manual control. Well, I found that the size of the chopped food are not that different from a food processor, and I really have no control over the size.

A small food processor can also do things a chopper cannot do, such as grinding up meat.

This chopper is smaller and lighter than a regular small food processor and therefore easier to store if storage space is limited.

Again, another KitchenAid product I got hoping for quality (because it's KitchenAid, it SHOULD be QUALITY!) and thouroughly dissapointed. It really is hard to take apart and put together and does a very poor job with the actual chopping, which is what is it's only function. My Mom has the original Pampered Chef chopper and it's a dream! I was hoping this one would be just as good. It's not. Do not buy!

I've gone through a lot of hand powered food choppers, including one made a certain vendor who sells through parties at homes. I've had the KitchenAid chopper over three years, and it is working well.

I had another chopper before this and that was great. Lasted for more than 2 years before the blade wore down. I got this because it looked better but it didnt serve the purpose i needed it for. I hate to chop cilantro and parsley because i like it finely chopped and cant manage it that well with a knife, and this chopper wasnt all that great. It would not evenly chop and would never get to the bottom layer of whatever i was chopping.

This worked fine the first few times I used it. The plastic part that moves around as you chop keeps food from sticking to the side of the clear plastic chopping area nicely. However, after using it only about 5 times, the top ball came off, and it doesn't go back on. So technically it still works OK, but without the ball on top to cushion your hand it's a bit painful to use. An ovenmit will also work, but let's face it ... for KitchenAid, you should be able to expect more.