Kitchen tool for cutting veggies

I bought what I thought would be a useful tool the other day, called the Vidalia Chop Wizard, avalilable from Amazon for under $20. (I actually bought it from the local CVS store.) It saved a lot of cutting and chopping time: I can dice onions, carrots, apples, papaya — even brocolli, quite easily compared to cutting fruits and vegetables with a knife.

It has two cutting boards, fine and medium. For breakfast this morning, I diced papaya and apple in the “fine” cutter, with excellent results. I also made a huge pot of veggie soup this afternoon, and it saved a lot of prep time.

It’s convenient, simple to use, and easy to clean. It’s one tool I know I’m going to use daily, for my salads, soups, and breakfast fruit bowls. Hopefully it lasts a long time under daily use.

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Update: after a few days of  heavy use, it broke. Nice concept, but it didn’t last under serious heavy use. To use it successfully, you need to precut the veggies (onions, for example) into manageable sizes. You can’t put huge pieces of hard root veggies in it and not expect the plastic hinge to crack under the load. I can’t recommend this tool… Nice concept though.

Ok, time to go back to basics, i.e., a well-sharpened knife.