You want to make a breathtaking salsa, but smashing all the ingredients over and over again with your knife just isn’t cutting it for you. It’s time to try your hand at using a triple blade action that rotates on every downward press so that with only 20 presses of the button your tomato, onion, garlic, peppers and cilantro are pulverized. Sounds great doesn’t it? Well it actually is wonderful as it certainly cuts down on the time needed to create salsa or to finely chop onion or garlic for whatever dish you are preparing.
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But if you’re like me, you probably are thinking there is a catch, and there is. While it can pulverize whatever you put under the turning blades, it is limited on how much you can pulverize at one time. I my testing, I could get about 1/4 of an onion at a time or one roma tomato at a time. And if you’re trying to make a large amount of salsa, it will take a while.
The second catch is the cleanup. No matter how you use it, each of the 4 parts will be filled with leftover choppings. The diagonally designed blade takes a bit of water and sponges to get all the extra pieces of onion and garlic out of the crevices, the plastic cover will be filled with chopped goodies as well as both of the upper housings. If you determine that you want it to be thoroughly cleaned, you can toss it in the dishwasher after rinsing it off in water.
So do I still use it? No. We’ve decided that we like a chunkier salsa so we actually go with a vegetable chopper that does a great job of chopping up our salsa to the chunkiness we like which is more like a pico de gallo. But if you are looking to extremely finely chop onion or garlic for a dish or you like your salsa to be more of a pulpy orange juice consistency, then this chopper will get it done with less effort than you would need using regular knives.
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