Freshware 7-in-1 Onion Chopper, Vegetable Slicer, Fruit and Cheese Cutter Container with Storage Lid and Mandoline

This is a great idea that could have been executed better. I understand the need to make the product affordable, but the fact remains that making something less expensive also (often times) makes them less durable. The plastic construction of the chopping handle (for lack of a better word) allows it to flex and thus puts extra stress on some areas. My wife and I chopped an onion on the device and it worked well. You have to cut the onion in half and you have to use a decent amount of force to push the onion through the blades, but it works. While it works, the handle will flex, thus putting extra strain on part of the hinge. With the hinge and the handle both made of plastic, it is only a matter of time before this breaks.The grater attachment works for small jobs, but I will stick to our food processor for grating cheese, or for grating much of anything. The mandoline slicer works nicely as well, and it has a constantly-variable depth adjustment that allows you to get very thin slices if you choose. I really like the mandoline part of this unit, but it won't replace our better mandoline. With this said, you will be very satisfied with this if you don't already have a slicer.In addition to chopping onions and trying to grate cheese, we tried to dice a tomato. Strangely enough, it worked quite well. The only problem is that it shot juice out the front. We put a paper towel around the front and chopped tomatoes very successfully. It would work better for this if the blades were sharper, but it does work.If I could change anything about this unit I would make the top out of metal instead of plastic. I do not feel that this will last very well.

This has made cooking prep so much easier! Honestly, this has to have been one of my best purchases because of how efficient and quick it has made meal prep. When I would cook for guests, I would spend hours chopping bell peppers, tomatoes, and onions (onions being the worst of all because it would be in tears by the time I finished). Ever since I have received this chopper, I only spend 10 minutes on preparing all of the vegetables. The only bad part about chopping onions is removing the skin. That's all!The blades are extremely sharp and chop with ease. To make it easier on your arm I would recommend cutting things like tomatoes and onions into four pieces so that you don't have to apply too much pressure to have them chopped.I also love the slicer. It has a thickness control that allows me to slice extremely thin, yet perfect, pieces of anything I want. Just the other day I sliced a bunch of beats for a salad. And the layers were A LOT THINNER than I would ever be able to achieve with a knife.I am extremely happy with this and it has saved me so much time! This is one of my go to's now when I recommend to others what is needed in the kitchen!

This thing is absolutely AMAZING! I read alot of the other reviews and I know some people said their's broke, some even on the first use. I've used mine to chop everything from onions to sweet potatoes to zucchini and have had absolutely no issues. I literally use them almost every day in my kitchen. When and if it ever breaks, I will come right back to Amazon to buy another one. The larger dicing insert is perfect for potatoes or large chunks of vegetables in a soup or dish, the smaller dicing insert is perfect for onions that you are adding to a dish for flavor. The mandolin works very well and unlike my other mandolin, must be designed better, because I haven't scraped any knuckles on it. We also use both of the shredding attachments on a regular basis. I haven't used the julienne attachment, but do plan to soon to make frites. The trick I use, place your vegetable in it and I hit the top down with my fist. Pops right through, chopped perfectly. It does feel like there is a bit of stress on the plastic if you try to just push it down, so it seemed safer to me to make it quick.

This gem of a chopper works great with hard (carrots, beets, potatoes) or soft( tomatoes) foods. The non slip bottom keeps it in place.I store the blades and rake (to clean the blades) in the catch container with the hinged chopper firmly snapped in place. I place the flexible plastic refrigerator storage cover on top of the hinged chopper securing everything with a wide rubber band. It's rectangular shape makes it easy to store in the cupboard, or with chopped food in it, in the frige. Storing the blades in the container keeps them away from wandering hands... good design. I would put this product on a very high shelf when not in use if I had small children. This chopper works extremely well making my salads, soups and toppings look as if I've had professional chef training.

I really wanted to love this product. It has a couple major flaws for me, though.I bought the one with the attachments to do grating, slicing, etc.... Admittedly the only ones I have tried are the small dicer, larger dicer, and thin slicer, but they did not impress at all. Firstly, I couldn't figure out how to attach the top to the bottom container while slicing or dicing without it sliding around all over the place instead of locking in. It could be human error, but I'm an engineer so I doubt it. Secondly, the dicer is near impossible to chop with. I tried a 1/2" thick section of onion and had to push with all my might, only for it to get stuck on the dicer. The larger dicer works a little better, but it's just not sharp enough. If you are only dicing tomatoes, then maybe this will work for you. Lastly, the slicer...I used it to slice potatoes to make chips, and it has many thickness settings which is nice, but no matter which thickness you put it on, you will get a variation between slicing a tiny piece off the potato, to super thin (perfect for chips) to not thin at all. This caused some of my chips to be crunchy and others to be soggy (some unusable because they were only 1/3 of a chip) after I cooked them.I wasn't very happy overall with this purchase. It seems like a versatile product, and some of the other attachments may be okay that I haven't tried, but I dice and slice more than anything else, and it underperformed in this area. It's cheap, but I would spend your money on something better!

My wife saw this item at her friend's house and we were trying to find this. When we saw this on Amazon, she was glad and this simple product has made her life much easier.She hated cutting onions and this product cuts onions in few seconds without those tears..Initially she hated this as she was finding hard to cut the things and things were getting stuck. Now she has learned the tricks. Cut onions in four pieces and it goes pretty smooth. Still some pieces may get stuck but use a chop stick kind of thing to remove. I hope manufacturer provides something more useful for this job rather than provided cleaning brush. Still much better than tearful cutting spells on chopping boards. Also pieces are uniform in size which is great thing vs cutting on chopping board with knife.Besides cutting other vegetables like red and green peppers is quite easy. Also recognize that these blades are not as strong as kitchen knife and in order to cut the hard vegetables easily the key is to cut them not very big before cutting with this item. It comes with lots of useful attachments for chopping and slicing and they are all good. Overall product quality is great and plastic is BPA free and strong. Blades could have been stronger though.I would just spend full price of this item just for tear-less onion cutting..Caution: Hand wash only. Not suitable for dishwasher

I loved using this, makes Resturant life a lot easier. However, after using it for nearly 6 months, we broke the bigger dicer and the small dicer does not work very well at all. It would be nice if they had two of everything that came with it because they are fairly thin.Not easy to clean at all, the blades make it almost impossible to get small pieces of food out.

This is an amazing product, I should have tried it sooner. To slice from tomatoes to cheese, or chop onions, green pepper, you take less than a minute and everything is ready.The reason I don't give it 5 stars, is the cleaning of the product, it's messy and you have to scrape leftovers from the plastic press, I've seen some that you press and it will pop up so you can easily clean it.Bought another to gift my parents who loved it.

I've bought it to save time, since I spend about 30 min each day chopping salads. Well, it is not designed optimally, you have to use holder and you can use this holder with anything bigger then 2 cm, which means you still have to chop manually. I've managed to cut myself with it because I was not using and since blades are very sharp, cut was very deep and there is now a scar. Also, even though blades are sharp it can not cut some things, like tomatoes. It does nice job cutting eggplants, potatoes and onions, but blades area is not big to fit big chunks, which means you still have to cut anything before using it. Cleaning could be better, you have to spend time removing bits and pieces.Conclusion: it will save you time only if you're doing very big portions of food, like more then 4 liters.

This is a pretty solid product. It's all plastic construction, so it's not overly strong, and it's not recommended for dishwashers (the main fallback). The onion chopper works well, although it can be time consuming to clean. The main reason I did get this, however, was the mandolin and it works perfectly. With various attachments it should have all of your needs covered right there. I would absolutely recommend this to someone that needs it for occasional use.