Handy Dandy Food Chopper, My Favorite Pampered Chef Gadget

It is true, I love my Pampered Chef kitchen products, but some I use more than others. My food chopper just happens to be the one kitchen tool I use the most and it's rarely in the cupboard. If someone were to take away all my Pampered Chef items and tell me I could only keep one, the food chopper would be the one I keep.

I use this chopper all year round from chopping onions to peppers to hard candies at Christmas. My kids love using the chopper because it's fun to slam, slam, slam and make noise in the kitchen.

I've seen other kitchen choppers in the store and I've used different brands when visiting friends, but no other compares. Friends have scoffed when I tout the benefits of my Pampered Chef chopper over their inferior chopper and it isn't until we pit the two against each other that they see the difference.

• Onions
• Peppers
• Nuts (walnuts, pecans, peanuts)
• Hard Candies (for toppings on candy, or cupcakes)
• Carrots
• Cooked Hamburger (minced fine for tacos)
• Sweet Peppers
• Jalapeno Peppers
• Chocolate bars
• Chocolate chips
  

Not only does the chopping blade come down when you "slap" on the plunger, but the mechanisms turns at a 25% angle, this then chops your food in a new area, not just in the same spot over and over. Another difference is the blade and plunger is spring action and this makes the handle pop up really fast, that's the fun part.

The blades are honed and very sharp and between the rotating cutter this chopper is not only fast but dices your ingredients without mashing them into oblivion.

It's not that I hate dicing and chopping vegetables with a knife, I had some pretty mean knife skills, but there are days you don't want to handle an onion, or have tears running down your face. Just place the chopper over the chunk of onion and the tear producing juice and fumes stay contained.

My Other Favorite Pampered Chef Products

I have other tools in my kitchen which I also consider essential, one which make cooking easier, faster and just more fun. Quality kitchen equipment feels good in your hands and make fixing meals a joy. With life being busy home cooked meals are a luxury and don't happen often enough, so when you do get to fix your family nutritious meals make it an experience.