Kitchen Plus 3000 Food Chopper - 8 in 1 Manual Food Processor Chop, Blend, Whip, Mix, Slice, Shred, Julienne, and Juice - As Seen on TV

I bought a Pampered Chef manual chopper for $64 about 4 years ago. This one is actually easier to use! But it feels cheaper and I'm not sure it will last very long since the materials seem to be cheap and flimsy.I do a fair amount of chopping -- mostly onions -- where I don't need a ton done, so I like to have a manual chopper on hand.I saw this on a TV ad and was intrigued. I researched mini choppers and this one had the best reviews.This makes short work of onions. The rotary blades are sharp on both sided--one side regular and the other serrated. You can crank it either direction, and if your food gets bogged down, just turn it the other way for a rotation or two and get back to chopping. I am a little worried that the crank shaft will not hold up after chopping dense foods (carrots, etc.). The gears are plastic, so I'm not sure how durable they will be.There are a few things that bother me: the blade handle (the one with the ball top) doesn't attach securely to the lid. That makes it feel cheap. The little egg separator on the lid is a nuisance. I can't imagine enough people needing an egg separator enough to justify putting it so prominently on the lid.Another other thing that I really HATE is that the handle on the bowl is not really a handle. You cannot hold the bowl with it, or it comes apart (the body of the bowl is clear, as is the "handle" protruding from it. There is a white "grip" to the handle that sort of snaps on (with a lot of effort), but the grip comes of very easily. I have wondered about gluing it together so that I can actually pick up the bowl and not just use it as a lever to secure the bowl while I am chopping.As far as the shred/slice/julienne blade set:-- mostly a bunch of garbage. The shredding and grating surfaces are plastic and not nearly sharp enough to grate or shred. It appears they added those things in as a perk, but for me they just clutter up my drawer. I have found the slicer to be useful (making very thin potatoes for a casserole). I like how it has a safety handle so you don't risk cutting yourself. I do wish there was a safer way to store the blades in a drawer.All in all, I really do like this food chopper. Will it last forever? Probably not. The concept is a great one and I hope the materials hold up; maybe someday I'll find a more durable one for a decent price. This one is worth the money.

I love, love, love this chopper! You can't beat the price and it really does a great job! I saw this chopper being sold & demonstrated at a large craft/retail fair. I was skeptical.... but it looked pretty amazing. I decided to give it a try because you can't beat the price. It is wonderful & I use it all the time. I have a high priced food processor - and that is great for some things, but it tends to mush up or over process some things....like making PICO DE GALLO. This chopper does it perfectly! You throw in your tomatoes (quartered), onion (quartered), cilantro, jalapeno & lime juice....twist the handle a few times & Ta-Daaaah! Perfect Pico! It doesn't smash the tomato at all! I can literally make fresh pico in 2 minutes!!! It's also great for chopping vegetables and using the slicing attachment. I loved mine so much I bought another for my mom for Christmas. For the price you just can't beat it!

It's the exact same product of the Kitchen Plus 2000 (even the recipe book, that has "3000" on the cover, actually has "2000" written inside in all the recipes)! We bought this one to replace the bowl for the 2000 that we owned, and all the extras we have from our 2000 fit this one just as well, because it was actually cheaper to buy this whole set than just buying a new bowl. So now we've got two sets of tools and lids.Anyway, it works really well for making salsa, and doing the not-so-fun jobs like slicing onions or potatoes. Does it with ease and without the tears! Our 2000 use to make a grinding sound when rotating it quickly that was pretty annoying, and I had a hard time mixing all the ingredients to a finer salsa, but my husband managed it just fine.

I had been looking for a food chopper for some time and figured I would end up with one of the old fashioned kind you know the kind with a jar and a lid with the blade on the end of a plunger and having to work really hard to get my food chopped the way I want it done. I found this food chopper and it is the BEST money I have spent in a long time so easy to use and clean it takes me longer to peel an onion than to chop it!!I have done both celery and onion and both came out great (in my electric chopper celery just seems to be nothing but strings) in this it chops like a dream not a bunch of strings as with my electric.If your looking for an easy food chopper this is it, great value for the money. I actually look for recipes where stuff has to be chopped now if there was a lot of chopping before I wouldn't make it but I can now do them with ease!

This is better than I ever imagined it would be!,I hummed and hahhed for a long time about buying one of these,but wish I'd bought it a lot sooner...it's great for chopping dried apricots to toss in a cake recipe,but used it yesterday to make the batter for 'toad-in-the-hole',used the 'paddle',it did a great job but the batter turned out waaaay to thick!,will be great for 'American' pancakes.....I'll go back to a hand whisk for my 'toad-in-the-hole' batter!UPDATE..18TH MARCH '13Well,was using this item to chop my dried apricots on Sunday when the handle broke completely off and the 'turning' handle started making noises to tell me it was about to break as well...I'm really upset because its worked great, especially for chopping the dried apricots,which was what I esp. bought it for,I knew the apricots might cause problems with their stickiness,so I always added some of the flour from the recipe to the chopper to prevent the problem....It's probably to late to return but I am going to write to the manufacturer to complain!

Making salsa is a charm. Works well.