{"id":14463,"date":"2020-02-06T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T03:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=14463"},"modified":"2020-02-06T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T03:09:17","slug":"product-review-veggie-chopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=14463","title":{"rendered":"Product Review: Veggie Chopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=14466\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14466\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-closed-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-closed-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-closed-R-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-closed-R-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=14467\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14467\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-open-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-open-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-open-R-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/veggie-chopper-open-R-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you chop onions, carrots, peppers or celery on a regular basis then this little gadget is a true time saver.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing. Best $10 spent.<\/p>\n<p>We are on our 3rd one&#8211;replacing it as it wears out.\u00a0 Seriously, it&#8217;s the best thing ever.\u00a0 You simply roughly cut your veggies down a little and slap it on the device and *WHAM* you have perfectly cut little (or big) squares.\u00a0 I love it!\u00a0 I especially love how fast it is, and how uniform all of my veggies look.\u00a0 It satisfies my particular personality.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>We have had the bottom style chopper (the flat white one&#8211;I think the brand is Progressive) since we started using them.\u00a0 But when our last one broke I decided to try a new style this time.\u00a0 I looked around on Amazon and saw that this one (the one on the top that looks more slanted&#8211;I think the brand is Muller) and thought &#8220;What if there is a better chopper out there that I&#8217;ve never tried!&#8221;\u00a0 So I ordered it.<\/p>\n<p>*Insert slow head shake here*\u00a0 I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the slanted top would give me more torque to really smash those veggies.\u00a0 It turns out I really don&#8217;t need more power.\u00a0 I mean how hard are my carrots anyway?!\u00a0 But what really bummed me out what how easily the blades come loose.\u00a0 And how hard it is to get those blades into the device&#8230; I know that seems like a juxtaposition.\u00a0 But somehow it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>But the straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back, so to speak, was last weekend when Jen went to use it and sliced her finger.\u00a0 We all decided that it was time to let that one go and return to our tried and true (and loved!) model.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So, my conclusion after using two different models is that the one with the blade attached as one straight unit is the better choice.\u00a0 Do not get one that the blades pop in an out.\u00a0 Yes, I know that gives you more variety, but you might suffer in the end (like Jen!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you chop onions, carrots, peppers or celery on a regular basis then this little gadget is a true time saver. It&#8217;s amazing. Best $10 spent. We are on our 3rd one&#8211;replacing it as it wears out.\u00a0 Seriously, it&#8217;s the best thing ever.\u00a0 You simply roughly cut your veggies down a little and slap it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions\/14468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}