Black & Decker Handy Chopper Plus Food Processor
- Dishwasher Safe: Dishwasher Safe
- Bowl Capacity: 1.5 Cups
- Speeds: 1 Speed
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Let's eat - chop chop
Pros
Handy little gadget, if you get it as a gift.
Cons
long chopping times, many pieces to clean.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Great for gadget freaks out there, but not worth it in my eyes. I'm faster with a knife.
There are a few gadgets in my kitchen that I very seldom use. They are handy little things, but most of the time it's not worth the effort of taking them out of the cupboard and then having to clean them. Most of those were wedding gifts.
The Black and Decker Handy Chopper Plus is one such gadget. Don't get me wrong here, it's not that I don't like it - most of the time I just don't bother to use it, because chopping things up by hand is just as fast and I don't have as much clean-up.
This little gadget packs a lot of punch in such a small package. Only 6 inches tall and 7 inches long, it minces and chops with the best of them.
The handy chopper/mincer consists of a white base with a grey pushbutton and a clear bowl with a lid. One side of the base houses the motor (the pushbutton is on top of that) and the other side serves as a base for the bowl part. The cord for this chopper is not very long, only about a foot or so, but it is coiled and stretches a few inches more.
The bowl attaches with a twist to the base. A grey centerpost connects the blade to the bowl. The blade is permanently attached to this centerpost and there are no other types of blades available for this Chopper/Mincer. Because the blade is permanently attached, it's kind of awkward to sharpen. A regular "steel" like for kitchen knife is awkward to slide back and forth across the blades and a stationary blade sharpener is often not large enough.
The lid for the bowl has to be twisted on and has two small lips that fit into a slot on the motor part. If the lips are not slotted into the motor part correctly, the chopper will not turn on. I like this safety feature, because I've been known to operate things such as food processors without a lid and with this feature I won't end up with a mess on my floor.
The bowl holds about 1? cups of food or liquid. I find that a bit optimistic, because that would fill the bowl up to the brim and probably would not allow my food to be chopped as fine as I want to. I usually do not put more than one cup into the bowl. This is mainly for chopping onions or things like nuts, so very seldom will I have more than one cup of those.
Once the food is in the bowl, it's a matter of twisting the lid on tight and operating the push button. This button does not stay down continuously. It's like a pulse-type operation. As long as I hold the button down it chops or minces, but when I let go it stops. I'm not sure if I like this, but on the other hand I can constantly monitor how fine my food is chopped. It takes about two minutes to chop a whole onion very fine.
Larger items such as onions have to be cut into pieces before they will fit into the bowl. If I have the knife out anyway, why not just chop them with that? So that's what I usually end up doing. If I have a large amount of onions or nuts (usually in the fall during harvest season) I prefer to use my large food processor, because using the chopper for 30lbs of Onions would take forever.
Clean-up is fairly easy, but instead of having to wash one knife, I have to put the bowl, the lid and the blade part into the sink or dishwasher.
There is one area where this chopper comes in extremely handy: chopping herbs. I frequently get large amounts of fresh parsley or dill or Basil. I put them on a cookie sheet and let them freeze for a few hours, then put pieces of it in the chopper and get small enough pieces that I can use in soups, stew or any other food I am cooking. After chopping, I just dump the contents of the bowl into freezer bags. This also would be a great gadget if you prepare small amounts of foods for toddlers or babys.
Overall this chopper offers great performance but takes some time to mince or chop foods very fine. I don't use it often, because taking the thing apart and having to wash all the different pieces is somewhat of a hassle, but for some people it might be worth it.
This chopper retails for about $20.00, I received mine as a gift. I probably would not have spend the money on it, had I seen it in the store.
The Black and Decker Handy Chopper Plus is one such gadget. Don't get me wrong here, it's not that I don't like it - most of the time I just don't bother to use it, because chopping things up by hand is just as fast and I don't have as much clean-up.
This little gadget packs a lot of punch in such a small package. Only 6 inches tall and 7 inches long, it minces and chops with the best of them.
The handy chopper/mincer consists of a white base with a grey pushbutton and a clear bowl with a lid. One side of the base houses the motor (the pushbutton is on top of that) and the other side serves as a base for the bowl part. The cord for this chopper is not very long, only about a foot or so, but it is coiled and stretches a few inches more.
The bowl attaches with a twist to the base. A grey centerpost connects the blade to the bowl. The blade is permanently attached to this centerpost and there are no other types of blades available for this Chopper/Mincer. Because the blade is permanently attached, it's kind of awkward to sharpen. A regular "steel" like for kitchen knife is awkward to slide back and forth across the blades and a stationary blade sharpener is often not large enough.
The lid for the bowl has to be twisted on and has two small lips that fit into a slot on the motor part. If the lips are not slotted into the motor part correctly, the chopper will not turn on. I like this safety feature, because I've been known to operate things such as food processors without a lid and with this feature I won't end up with a mess on my floor.
The bowl holds about 1? cups of food or liquid. I find that a bit optimistic, because that would fill the bowl up to the brim and probably would not allow my food to be chopped as fine as I want to. I usually do not put more than one cup into the bowl. This is mainly for chopping onions or things like nuts, so very seldom will I have more than one cup of those.
Once the food is in the bowl, it's a matter of twisting the lid on tight and operating the push button. This button does not stay down continuously. It's like a pulse-type operation. As long as I hold the button down it chops or minces, but when I let go it stops. I'm not sure if I like this, but on the other hand I can constantly monitor how fine my food is chopped. It takes about two minutes to chop a whole onion very fine.
Larger items such as onions have to be cut into pieces before they will fit into the bowl. If I have the knife out anyway, why not just chop them with that? So that's what I usually end up doing. If I have a large amount of onions or nuts (usually in the fall during harvest season) I prefer to use my large food processor, because using the chopper for 30lbs of Onions would take forever.
Clean-up is fairly easy, but instead of having to wash one knife, I have to put the bowl, the lid and the blade part into the sink or dishwasher.
There is one area where this chopper comes in extremely handy: chopping herbs. I frequently get large amounts of fresh parsley or dill or Basil. I put them on a cookie sheet and let them freeze for a few hours, then put pieces of it in the chopper and get small enough pieces that I can use in soups, stew or any other food I am cooking. After chopping, I just dump the contents of the bowl into freezer bags. This also would be a great gadget if you prepare small amounts of foods for toddlers or babys.
Overall this chopper offers great performance but takes some time to mince or chop foods very fine. I don't use it often, because taking the thing apart and having to wash all the different pieces is somewhat of a hassle, but for some people it might be worth it.
This chopper retails for about $20.00, I received mine as a gift. I probably would not have spend the money on it, had I seen it in the store.
