Progressive International Vegetable/French Fry Cutter

by Progressive International

Product Features

• Easily create dozens of French fries or julienned vegetables with a single push of the lever
• Simply place small or half potatoes into chute and squeeze through for thick or thin fries
• Interchangeable stainless steel blades with 25 holes for large and 49 holes for small fries
• Easy to operate lever action
• Hand wash only

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 9.8 x 4 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• 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: B00004RDFH
• Item model number: GPC-2549
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (229 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #591 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #5 in Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Graters, Peelers & Slicers > Mandolines & Slicers

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

This lightweight cutter divides a potato into its french-fry essence in a jiffy. One blade creates up to 49 3/8-inch fries with a single lever-push. The other creates up to 25 half-inch fries. You'll get those numbers, however, only if you precisely shape a large potato to fit the bed. The bed's size is the cutter's only drawback. Even if you cut a large potato to fit the head, the fry length is at most 3-1/2 inches. That length, however, is ideal for carrot, cucumber, and zucchini batons to assemble a vegetable tray around a bagna cauda, an Italian dipping sauce of olive oil, butter, garlic, and anchovies. And such batons get you halfway to a pretty dice for a vegetable soup. Hand wash. --Fred Brack

Product Description

Progressive International is your source for the widest range of functional, inventive, and fun kitchen tools and great ideas put into practice. Our in-house designers spend hours in the kitchen coming up with ways to improve on a variety of traditional tasks and tools. Established in 1973, our commitment to quality and service allows us to offer a broad selection of quality kitchenware and other household products. Use this Progressive vegetable/french fry cutter for french fries and vegetable sticks. Simply place the vegetables and small or half potatoes into the chute and press through for thick and thin pieces. The stainless steel blades are interchangeable: 25 holds for large and 49 holes for small. It features an easy to operate lever action for all your cutting needs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

154 of 157 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fast and easy French Fry cutter, March 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Progressive International Vegetable/French Fry Cutter (Kitchen)

The product itself get 5 stars for ease and functionality and 4 stars for a cleaning problem and lack of accessories.

In the package are 2 different sized blade grates and push blocks that are easily assembled and removed from the main body by depressing a small lever and turning a latch, respectively. Cutting capacity is less than 4 inches in length. You'll have to "cut" large Russets before "cutting!"

Clean-up is mostly easy, if you have a baby bottle nipple brush to poke through the grate holes and cross brush the push blocks (a toothbrush for the latter works also). However, the main body has slots where the push block slides. This area collects and traps small potato fragments and is difficult to clean.

I would like to see different shaped blade grates, just for the heck of it. You never know what strange moods you will be in!? I would enjoy a larger capacity in the main body, but this would cause more strength to cut the potatoes. Right now, there's a good compromise between capacity and cutting effort.

Don't forget to double fry your potatoes: about 2-3 minutes at 325F, pat dry, then about 5 minutes or golden brown at 375F.
You can check the cooking sites for variations.

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, but should be larger, April 7, 2005

By 

Bromptonboy "Bromptonboy" (Doylestown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Progressive International Vegetable/French Fry Cutter (Kitchen)

This is an excellent cutter, that comes with several different size blade fittings (for thinner or thicker fries). It sets up very easily, and can be easily disassembled and popped into the dishwasher.
The one complaint I have is that the blade base should be a bit bigger so that large spuds can be passed through without having to cut the spud into smaller bits first.
The lever arm is a bit short, so that my wife has asked me to cut the potatos - since some weight has to be put into operating the lever.
It makes uniformly cut fries, that cook evenly. It makes the joy of fresh cut fries accessible to more people - so please skip the frozen fries and give yourself a real treat!

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jumbo is better, November 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Progressive International Vegetable/French Fry Cutter (Kitchen)

I bought this product a while ago, and it is fine, except you have to cut up the potato, etc.

I just received today, a Progressive JUMBO Potato Cutter that I saw in a catalog. Progressive now makes a cutter that is larger, and can cut the whole potato. Perfect.