Vidalia Chop Wizard
88%Recommended

Vidalia Chop Wizard

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I have seen this product, but have been wondering if it really works. By reading the reviews i my order one to help me save time.

Chops fruits and veggies great, but certain cheese's stick and make it hard to clean. Mine broke from trying to cut regular cheddar cheese, my husband was NOT HAPPY, since I broke his toy. So my advice would be not to use it for cheeses or soft food items.

I really loved this until it broke. Worked great for onions and garlic. It does have to be shut rather hard for it to cut but gives the perfect size pieces for the cooking I do the most.

I found this to be a bit of a pain to use. Having a weak wrist, it was difficult to press down. Sadly, mine cracked while chopping carrots only a week after getting it. Softer produce (like tomatoes) simply turned to mush and created a huge mess, and it didn't seem to go through the celery "strings" very well. It was, also, a hassle to clean the blades if juices happened to dry before washing.

I find it difficult to dice onions with the wizard because I can't press down as hard as necessary apparently. Agree with mother of 2 that you also can't do tomatoes...this product doesn't work well when your vegetable has a skin, it will dice the underneath, not the skin and it all sticks to the skin and doesn't chop all the way through. I will say this - it does make beautifil uniformed chopping, so it's great if you have to do a lot of chopping, espeically good for making veggie pizza as the softer vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower are a breeze with this chopper. For a dinner, its much easier just to chop with a knife and clean the knife, rather than going throught the hassle of this and doing the clean up, i never can get the onion skins out of the grates, even with the little tool it comes with. So I'm mixed about this...just depends on the job... I don't use it much.

A friend of mine made some fresh salsa which she brought to work. She was telling us about this new gadget she used to dice all of the onions and tomatoes with. The next dat she brought me a Chop Wizard as an early Birthday gift, and told me this is the gadget she used for her salsa. I couldn't wait to get home and try it out myself! I bought all of ingredients to make my own version of her salsa. I sliced the onion in half like it shows on the picture and pressed the top down. The onion got stuck! I pressed and pressed, that onion wanst budging! So I took my knife out and sliced across the top of the chopper to get the excess onion out. Then when I pushed the top down it went through. So i guess you are supposed to slice the onions into thinner more manageable peices. But doesnt this defeat the whole purpose? I tried using the dicing blade plate for the tomatoes but they got smooshed and stuck in the squares. By the time I picked all of the peices out of the blades and the amount of time it took me to clean up the mess it made, I culd have chopped them in my mini chopper. Sorry, I just wasn't impressed.

I bought it to dice onions but you need to have strong hands to make it work. I tried tomatoes too .. what a mess. It splashed everywhere. Tried potatoes and I couldn't make it to work. Even my husband asked me to return it.

I found this product really hard for dicing onions and tomatoes -- the primary reason I bought it. You really have to press down hard to get it to works. So I ended up having to slicing the onions and then placing them multiple times into the chopper which was too much effort. The tomatoes ended up becoming mush. Clean up was difficult too as everything got stuck in the top part.

I've gone through two of these and finally given up on it since they keep breaking in the same spot along the hinge. I think the product is great in theory, it makes my veggies uniform in size, and I can throw soup together a lot quicker. My main issue with it is that it can be a pain in the rear to clean, even with the provided tool I still end up with veggies stuck in the lid. If the quality were to improve I would definitely purchase another one.

I've gone through a couple of these b/c I simply love the concept but unfortunately they are made poorly! While they feel heavy duty plastic and the blades do stay in the grate the PLASTIC knobs that hold the cover on and is used for leverage to push the onions through break off. Ugh its so dissapointing too b/c I simply hate chopping onions and this thing was a super time saver. I would tell everyone that until they tweak it and do something about those knobs (make em metal!!) then save your money!

Flimsy. Horrible customer service, I might add. I bought one for a restaurant I used to manage and, even though we only chopped veggies, it broke. I bought another one --- same thing. I emailed customer service and was told that the money back guarantee doesn't apply when used in a commercial setting. I find that to be sad. It's like they know their product will crap out on you. Pathetic.