Customer Reviews

Proctor Silex 72500RY 1-1/2-Cup Food Chopper

5 star:		(47)
4 star:		(17)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I needed a food chopper badly, so I'm glad I made this purchase. It does a good job, it's incredibly cheap and the size is indeed very compact. However, I have to say, that even for a one-person household I find it a bit too small.Even an onion has to be chopped in halves, the whole onion would be too much for it. If I was to buy a new one I'd go for a bigger one.

This chopper is great! For most of the stuff I make as a bachelor cooking for 1 person I don't need a monster sized food processor, and this little guy saves a lot of chopping and mincing I used to do with a knife.

You can toss some avacado, red onion, cilantro, salt, and the juice from a lime into it and in like 5 seconds have homemade guacamole to go with some tortilla chips.

Other stuff like pesto or marinara sauce for 1 or 2 people are easy to make with it too.

The only negative part about this little chopper is that is does only chop small quantities, however, it does such a fantastic job, and it's such a great price, that it hardly matters. ANYone who cooks should have this! EASY to use and clean, chops amazingly. I highly recommend it.

It's fast to use. I can chop half an onion (or more if I wanted), which is exactly what I need for one day. I can mix fruits and yogurt for a dessert for me. I used to use it to pure food for my baby.

It's extremely easy to clean. It's like washing a normal glass.

It's a great purchase for its price.

I'm very happy with it.

very good performance for a $10 appliance. Yes, it only chops small quantities, but that's exactly the advantage for a 1-2 person household. It's so small I have left it reside on my 2-foot counter. Also, it is easy to clean and this is a big deal for me because I use it DAILY! the only negative is that the bowl cracked after a few months use, but again, giving $10 every 6 months for such a convenience is worth it.

For an incredibly low price, this is a handy little chopper to keep on your kitchen counter. It doesn't hold much at one time, but that's exactly why it is so handy to keep within easy reach. Easy to take apart, clean, and put back together. Saves having to haul out or wash the full size food processor when you only want to chop one onion or similar small amounts. Really, don't agonize over this, for the price you can't go wrong.

This little chopper has worked great so far for baby food (stage 1-yams, sweet peas, carrots, apples, pears) to freeze and store. Unfortunately, we were hoping to use it to save time in making our favorite chunky salsa recipe but it works a bit too well and the onions and peppers got too mushy really fast. It changed the whole flavor of the salsa so we will likely just take the time to hand-chop next time. Nonetheless, it is easy to rinse off and throw in the dishwasher after using it.

I got this food processor in order to make pesto sauce. I'm sure it will work will salsa and bruschetta, as well. It's the perfect size, dishwasher safe (blade, cup, and lid), and it chops very cleanly. It's so easy to use and store since it's so small. For making just a little bit of pesto, maybe just a quarter cup, it would really be annoying to have to take out and clean a larger food processor. But this food chopper is the perfect size for such a small amount...or anything up to 1 cup, 1 1/2 cups really. I'm really glad I bought this...and it was just the right price. No need to get a larger, clumsy, and more expensive larger food processor that won't get used as often.

My second one. Perfect for that small chopping job. Makes chicken salad, turkey salad, egg salad, ham salad, shrimp salad and tuna salad sandwiches tast better being ground up finer than cutting with a knife.

This little chopper does all (and more) that I would expected it to do. The acid test for any mini chopper (for me) is whether it can make ham salad. It passed this test with flying colors, chopping the ham into a perfect consistent size (no crumbs and chunks.) It also does all those little chopping jobs that are impractical for the full size food processors. The best part is that it's inexpensive, small, quiet and very easy to clean. Please pay no mind to AVJONES who railed against this great little chopper (what kind of a cook chops spinach in a mini-chopper?) Ending, I'm a pretty darn good cook and I say this is a handy little gadget for most of the small chopping jobs that you'll ever do. Stop agonizing, just buy one.

Update: My beloved little chopper died on Sept. 10, 2010. R.I.P. Sniff, Sniff. Note: Actually, the plastic bowl just cracked and crumbled and became unserviceable. The motor still worked, but I had to pronounce it dead, anyway and bury it in the landfill.