Norpro Mini Food Processor Salsa Maker

by Norpro

Product Features

• Holds 3 cups/24 ounces
• Chops, minces, blends, whips, and mixes
• Recipes included
• Hand washing recommended
• Not for use on nuts, Parmesan cheese, or ginger

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 7.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004UE7E
• Item model number: 582
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,499 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #91 in Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Fruit & Vegetable Tools > Potato Mashers & Ricers

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

This mini food processor has the double title of "salsa maker" for good reason: the tradeoff for its tasty purchase price is a bit of extra time chopping and dicing--best for small batches of sauce or salsas. Foods should be chopped no larger than 1 inch before you put them in the little processor, just over 2-1/2 inches high--and be careful not to overload. That said, the blades mounted on the cylinder are razor-sharp, and the blending attachment does a decent job of whipping and mixing. --Tony Mason

Product Description

It chops, dices and mixes ingredients with no more than several turns of the handle. Each turn of the handle causes the razor sharp blades to turn approximately 4 times. A great addition to your kitchen, you will find you'll use this machine often. The Mini Food Processor has a double title of Salsa Maker for good reason: the time you will save chopping the ingredients for your salsa, leaves you more time to enjoy it.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Make salsa even in a power outtage (Take note, California), April 19, 2001

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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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If you mainly want to chop onions, tomatoes and herbs, this is a very useful and effective tool. As to salsa, it whips it up in a very few minutes. When your tomato crop comes in this summer, you will love it. (Here's an evil little party secret; even canned tomatoes, hot sauce, onion, and your homegrown cilantro taste better than some bottled salsas and cost a LOT less. It's a great way to use up those mini packets of hotsauce from the fast food taco restaurant)

It's also easy to clean this small bowl. Many people buy mini- processors to avoid cleaning the big, cumbersome bowl of a full-sized food processor. As long as you aren't chopping hard, rubbery stuff like nuts and parmesan cheese, this is an inexpensive, good alternative. And since it is hand-powered, you can make salsa even during a power outtage.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's great, April 10, 2002

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This review is from: Norpro Mini Food Processor Salsa Maker (Kitchen)

I like to cook and I have tried many kinds of choppers. I lose their cords. The food gets stuck or doesn't even chop finely. I can take this in my motor home and have fresh salsa plus chop my onions, bell peppers and many other vegetables to my liking. The blades are very sharp and do an excellent job with little effort. It's great!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Still looking for a great salsa maker, June 17, 2004

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S. Smith (Marysville, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norpro Mini Food Processor Salsa Maker (Kitchen)

I had a salsa maker that received much use. First one of the plastic gear teeth broke from not having the tomatoes chopped small enough. I kept using it until the handle pylon failed due to fatigue loads. The handle pylon to top mold area should be designed with a much larger radius to reduce fatigue failures.

This salsa maker is much smaller than my previous one (about half the capability). It also has a hole only about .38" diameter, though the photo indicates it to be much larger. This is next to useless since you must remove the top to put any non-liquid ingredients in (what a pain). I also feel that over time the pylon will succumb to fatigue stresses since the design is the same as my last one. The two speed feature is nice and the blades are very sharp, but the instruction manual says not to chop hard foods, such as nuts. It's a good thing I have an electric food processor since this one will not do it well.

Overall it is a nice salsa maker, but I could design a better one that would perform better and last longer.