12-in-1 Vegetable Chopper, Kitchen Gadgets with 7 Blades, Veggie, Food, Onion Chopper, Cucumber Slicer, Versatile Mandoline, Includes Egg Separator & Finger Guard, Gray

This vegetable chopper does a really great job and is very easy to use. You need to wash & cut your fruits or vegetables to fit within the dimensions of the chopping square, and just quickly and firmly push down the lid and it forces the food through the chopping blades. It can dice, slice and grate, and it comes with a cleaning tool to get the food out of the grooves. I previously owned a Vidalia chopper. It was expensive and I could never get it to chop anything, ever. It went into the trash. I gave this one a try and I was VERY surprised how sharp the cutting blades are.I have used this new chopper for fruits and made a beautiful fruit salad, and I have used it on a variety of vegetables. It will work on tomatoes that are firm, but I would avoid using soft tomatoes because they might get squished instead of chopped. I especially loved using this for onions! OH THE ONIONS! They chopped up so fast! Just peel the onion, cut it in halves or quarters to fit on the blades, and the onions chop up uniformly and quickly. No time for tears! I’m looking forward to using this in a variety of ways in the future!I liked how I could leave the food in large pieces and chop them through safely & uniformly, without any worry of getting any finger cuts!I would like to emphasize that you need to push down the lid quickly and firmly. You need to slam the lid down. If you push down with slow force it doesn’t work very well and just squishes the food.Cleaning it is actually pretty fast and easy once I got the hang of it — it cleans up quickly using the cleaning tool and a quick scrub with a kitchen dish brush.I was reading some of the other reviews that mention that the whole cover/base comes off when you lift the top chopping cover to chop a new piece. I didn’t have that problem at all; in fact, the base portion of the cover grips so tightly to the bottom container that it is a little difficult to remove. I consider this a good thing.Here’s one more thing I’d like to add that I discovered accidentally when chopping. This is for the times when you are chopping up a lot of the same thing and you constantly need to empty the container when it becomes full. There is a rectangle opening in the top of the chopping cover for the slicer and grater attachments. If you’re using the chopper/dicer, don’t put any attachments in that hole, and you can just turn the whole thing upside down and shake most of the contents out through the hole without needing to remove the cover. It is a real time saver.This is definitely worth the price and I would recommend this and I would buy this again if needed.