Investing in a vegetable chopper for cooking

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I cook for myself a lot and I hate prepping vegetables. It seems like every recipe takes onions or garlic or both and I don’t like standing there cutting up stuff. So I priced vegetable choppers on Amazon-and got totally frustrated. I looked for the cheapest ones first but “you get what you pay for”, and I didn’t want to throw $10 or 15 down the drain on some cheap junk that will break right away. So I searched by price and for about $20-$25 dollars you get an average-to-above average cutter. I looked at Amazon “Best Sellers”. These cutters are all basically plastic. And what do you do when you read a bunch of reviews of 4-star ratings that say the product is great, but then you read reviews that say the product is a piece of junk? Who do you believe? I read reviews of the best vegetable cutters that say they are the best kitchen aides they ever bought, only to read the bad reviews that say the product is cheap quality and doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.

So I looked at commercial grade cutters. These are built completely different and they’re made of metal. They look heavy duty and range in price from $80-$150. I got excited and I have a little money and thought I would invest in one of these since I cook every week, sometimes a few times a week. Same problem; what do you do if you if someone reviews the same product and one person lists why it’s so great and the other person lists why it’s a piece of crap? I have to think this through before I drop a $100 or more.

Then I finally saw a chopper that was basically a metal version of the cheap $30 plastic choppers. It’s $128 and people were saying how great and perfect and heavy duty and easy to clean it was. And again some bad reviews said some bad things about it. Who’s right?

I thought buying a vegetable chopper would be a simple straightforward thing. But I almost come to the conclusion that there are no good ones, for any price. The best review rating was 78% for 5 stars.

I will probably just resign myself to dragging out the cutting board and a knife and tediously chopping, slicing and dicing by hand.

Any comments welcome although this is a first world problem.

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I have the same issue with some cables i buy off amazon, they can be sneaky and not actually be capable of a 4k signal.

Cant you just order it - and if its crap use their returns policy? Ive often sent stuff back.

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I use a mandolin for thin slicing things and a food processor for more intensive work when I’m lazy.

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I’ve found that food processors are really “you pay for what you get”. I like the Cuisinart brand, they’re built well and last, but are a bit more expensive. Still, I don’t think anything nowadays is comparable to how they used to make things. I paid about $200 for a Cuisinart a few years ago and found it to be a reliable one, with 4 different blades. I don’t know which model it is, tho.

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