Which Food Chopper is Best? 

I think you should have taken a point or two away from the Nutrichopper since it kept pinching your hand. Who wants to use a device that keeps doing that?

A couple more things to consider. A person with arthritis in their hands would have a hard time squeezing the smaller one. Plus the fact it kept pinching .

The Vidalia wins simply because it’s larger and it doesn’t pinch your hand like the NutriChoper!

I use this high tech gadget called a knife to chop food.

Major negative points: the NutriChopper PINCHES you! I don't want to be pinched every time! I facepalmed super hard when it came time for the apple. 😂

Try cutting The 🍅 în half on The vidalia as well.

"Smooth as Silk!" Lmfao while he has veins popping out of his forehead and neck hahahahaha to funny

"OW! I pinched my hand again!" = Your NutriChopper experience. 😂 Nice job showcasing the strengths and weaknesses of each product, gotta love these comparison videos!

For a few bucks pick up the apple cutter. Heck, a $1 at the Dollar Store. Could do potatoes too.

For the life of me I cannot understand why they continue to make these gadgets so small. The bowls are small, the blades are small and in most cases completely useless.

You looked so frustrated doing this when the eggs when you took the chopper off the storing cube. Thank you for doing all of these reviews for us.

Nice review but I will just use a knife or mandolin

I really feel like you need to review kitchen gadgets while standing up.

I actually use the vidalia all the time. Had one break after nearly 10 years of use and bought another. That's how much I like it.

Love your videos! Thank you for being so thorough!

I've always loved your food gadget reviews. Keep it up!

Not to be a nitpicky, but I don't think you're "dicing" anything with either of those contraptions. Maybe if you sliced them up horizontally before you put them through, but I have a feeling that would send produce flying. If anything, the "dicing" is more julienning. Those "potato wedges" would make for great french fries!

I love Callback Items you bust out of the graveyard to implement into new reviews! #potatopeeler

I love the Vidalia chop. I don’t have to irritate my eyes chopping onions.

I always thought "dicing" meant cutting into cubes.Those are sticks or something.

James, I really like your reviews but with that shirt it looks like you're doing this one from prison.

13:18 was like an infomercial in and of itself. LOL "OH NOOO!" I made my own that actually works up to the size of an average cantaloupe, It takes very little effort and no need for a knife except for certain things. A cucumber? No problem... Place it on the cutting "board" and slide the end cutters to cut the ends off and slice or dice length-wise or width-wise (like for a salad). Maybe I should sell it, but I don't want the quality reduced so it fits into a $9.99 or $19.99 "As shown on TV" type of format.

I feel like the second you have to take a knife out is when a gadget for chopping stuff fails.

The tomato comparison was unfair. You should have at least cut it in half for the chopper.

James you have way more patience than me! One bad pinch and I would of toss that POS food slicer in the trash after throwing it on the ground. Great review as usual 👍

to the comments: a knife is fine except when you have to finely dice 5 onions, that vadalia actually comes in real handy. you just have to cut the onion in half or thirds and it dices right up. love it.

Your videos are so entertaining and informational so I know what to buy and what not to you have saved me multiple times!!! For that I say Thank you

I've used the Vidalia chopper for years! I love it. One of the things it tells you is to put the cut side down. I always cut my onions in half and put the cut side down and it works like a charm!

You should compare the NutriChopper to the newer Vidalia+, to which you referred at the end of the video.

I've had the Vidalia for years and wouldn't do without it. Love it for everything, including canning. Fabulous tool. You do need to do some slicing on some veg, like if you want to dice tomatoes for tacos and such. But if you slice the larger veggies it is easier to push down and does an amazing job.

At first I liked the Vidalia... But I think they're both pretty useless.

I have no use for either of these items but I watched the video all the way through because you make the demos so interesting. Thanks, James.

I have the vidalia chopper and I love it. I use mine for dicing. I do not use it as an everyday gadget, but for large scale cooking, canning and for precise dicing . It works best when using slices . I'm very slow at dicing things up so this totally speeds things up for me. I prep everything into slices, then go to town! You were very gentle with your chopper, I toss my item in and slam the lid down, chuck in the next rinse and repeat, a huge pile is done in no time. I use it most for tomatoes , onions , celery, cukes and peppers.

I really love your reviews and I try a lot of the stuff that you gave a good review too.

I use my Vidalia Chopper all the time. I cut slices (with a knife) the thickness of the cubes in the grid - thicker for the large grid, and thinner for the small. I cut onions, potatoes, green peppers, carrots, avocados. Because I regularly cook for very large groups of people (casseroles for several hundred) I save tons of time and effort, and get perfectly diced vegetables every time. Also, chopping slices reduces the effort to what an old lady like me can comfortably do.

I use the vidalia every time I make pico de gallo and it works really well. I didn't know there was a later version so I'll have to look into that. It does work with tomatoes you just have to cut them in half or otherwise have it so the skin is against the top and the cut part is against the blades or if you slice it then it doesn't matter because basically you just need the soft part against the blades. But I use it for all of that from the tomatoes to the peppers to the onions and I have tried with cilantro but it doesn't work super well. The only problems I really have with the vidalia is that it will occasionally catch against the top like happened in this video and you have to kind of jiggle it to get it to release and cleaning the little block area can be kind of annoying sometimes however you can put the entire thing in the dishwasher which is freaking awesome. Or at least I do and I'm lazy and I put them on the bottom rack so it's pretty versatile and it holds up to a lot of crap. The Nutri Chopper just looks extremely annoying to me because of the small capacity and the fact that you have to put so much effort in your hands and wrists whereas with the vidalia you can just lean your entire body on it

I absolutely LOVE your videos! Even if it's a product I'm not interested in, you bring a smile to my day. You know what I learned from watching this video? I learned that I'm going to stick to my large and unbelievably sharp chef's knife when cutting ALL vegetables! lol

Another enjoyable video. Although, you didn't even talk about one of the features of the Vidalia, which was one of the selling features for me when I bought one years ago, and that's the container. I can chop a lot of different food with that and store it in the container part. Or, I can carry it to a pan without getting my counters dirty. With the Nutrichopper, not only do you have to cut your food small before slicing/dicing, it looks like you can't store a whole lot (although it does have a seal tight lid which the Vidalia doesn't). Also, like others have said, you need to cut the tomato in half to get a better comparison. Other than that, keep up the great work, I've been enjoying your vids for a couple years.

We bought one of those Vadalia choppers years ago and still use it from time to time. Its great for a lot of things especially tomatoes... remember it says to cut a flat bottom? Makes the Vidalia work much better

I always like your reviews!

You did a great review!! I just purchased the VCW on 10/22/19 at Bed Bath and Beyond and paid $19.99. I LOVE IT!!! The dicing blade is wonderful. The only thing is that it can be a bit noisy, but I can live with that because it works so well. Go with the VCW IMO.

Another great video from freakin reviews.

I love these! I've had a few of these types of choppers, (the ones you press down on), going back to my first one the "Nicer Dicer"! I only use them if I'm going to be doing a lot of chopping. (I have a few recipes where it saves me a TON of time)! I'm not sure if they still make it but, the original "Nicer Dicer" I still have, still use & is the best made one! In my opinion. If you can find one, GET IT!!!👍

My Vidalia chopper also has a slicer and two sizes of grater, as well as a thingy you use to hold the veggie you’re slicing so you don’t slice your fingers (and you really, really need to use that-as I learned the hard way). Anyway, I highly recommend it. My only grumble is it is kind of a pain to clean that top thing-veggie pieces get way up in there and do not want to come out, even with the claw.

I was wondering about the Nutrichopper. Thanks for the video.

Your such my HERO ! You show me the "best" of items (I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I NEEDED) !!!

You have helped me so much with this. I wanted a gadget to slice mushrooms and most of the little slicers bend the very first use and are impossible to clean. That would be my slicing and wedging gadget and the other for dicing. I end buying pre-sliced vegetables and they cost more and go bad faster.

I have had several different food choppers but my all time favorite is the Vidalia Onion Chopper. I've had three: I gave away two as gifts and went and got another one. Love it.

Me. A minimalist. Also me. Watches James with ridiculous but thorough, wholesome reviews.

I love my Vidalia chopper and have used it for three years. I do sub cut my veggies and it is wonderful for mass production when making salsa or prep for an entire week of ingredients. I never use it for cheese, but those veggies are cut in minutes.

Just what I needed! Thanks for dicing, slicing, and getting pinched so we dont have to. Because of your vid, I know that my weak hands can't work with these choppers. THANK YOU

Hey James, would you be able to review the EZ Twist grater? Found it when I googled that Kitchen Magician you mentioned your father had

Excellent honest ‏review

I'd love a product review of the newer Vidalia to see if it's worth the money. I have a slap chopper and still use it but won't mind an upgrade to a quieter gadget. Thanks for this comparison video!

By the time you've used them and washed them up you may aswell have just used a cutting board and a sharp knife.

James you made me laugh so hard at the end 😂 I love 😂😂

The Vidala could chop all the ingredients in one container. And you don't pinch your hand unless you wrap your fingers over the edge. If I have to cut it up that much to get it in the chopper, then cutting it the rest of the way would be faster.

I had to use headphones because of the grunting James was doing 😂

I've got the vidalia, don't use it too often because it's kind of hard to clean, but it can save time and effort when you need to dice a lot. Tomatoes aren't usually a problem if you halve them first, although some squishing is to be expected (not as bad as yours, however). Also, the less tall you can make the food, the less force it'll take to get it though the blades.

We use the 1 second slicer regularly, love it!

Great job again! Tyfs!

I have the Vidalia chopper & I use it to dice a whole onion or a whole bell pepper then I put them in freezer bags so whenever I need some diced onions or peppers for a recipe, it’s all ready to go. There are just 2 in my household so when I get an onion or pepper I never use the entire vegetable & would end up throwing it out because they go bad. Using this has saved me in that respect so I don’t always have to keep buying a whole onion when I only need 1/3 or 1/2 onion. $ saver for me. Also, I do have arthritis in my hands so it has also been helpful that way.

you do great work ! thanks

I use my Vidalia chopper all the time and I love it. I don't put huge chunks in it, and it is so easy to use. I like that it catches all the bits, so they don't fly all over the counter top.

Thanks so much for these reviews and comparisons. I almost got the Nutri Chopper before watching this. I decided to get neither and go with the OXO Good Grips Vegetable Chopper.

Thumbs up for reading instructions on a product you are reviewing.

You ought to get a gig on SNL as the Fail With Gadgets dude. Most people cook, all people eat and you are incredibly humorous with your narratives. RememberJohn Belushi doing the Samuri Sanwich Maker? You could be the new Balushi without the sword!

I have the vidalia chopper, I use it often. I love it, it's a great help in the kitchen.

The Rotato! My friend just gave me one; it's so entertaining! Nice comparison video

My Vidalia chopper broke the first time I used it trying to chopping onion. The plastic by the heater seems to be the problem. It doesn’t look like any of these save all that much time because of cleanup anyway

Great review. The downfall of many of the chopping/slicing units is the amount of pre-cutting required to make the vegetables to fit the units. I recently found one on QVC called the Genius 12-Cup Chopper w/5 Blades and Glass Baker w/Storage Lid. The cutting area is 4" x 4 1/2", so it handles most items with very little prep cutting. I find myself using it often as I had a bad arthritic attack on my right arm that left me with less than half the strength I would normally have (slowly recuperating), as it doesn't require a lot of effort to press. There are a glutton of units available from many sources with varied cutting blades for different shapes and sizes. The Genius line alone has probably had ten or more variations on the unit in different sizes and blade assortments. The one I bought though has been the largest I've seen to date. Though if you are looking for something to dice only, look for an old fashioned potato fry cutter. Not so great for soft veggies, but it will have the best leverage for cutting fries than most any other unit.

I have that old chopper. Never found anything that can beat it in years. Mine was even older than yours though. Mine only came with a single tray.

I have a chopper that is just a ring with blades used on any flat surface by pushing down over the food. It is 4" round which is great for most things. It can slice, chop, dice, and wedge. It also has a wedge blade with core circle that works ok. The food doesn't need to be flat and there is no pushing die to clean. It's not perfect but better and much simpler than most of the other gadgets I've thrown away..

So, I grew up without a dishwasher, and my mom had a Vidalia, if not a VERY similar product, and trying to get all those little onion chunks out of that grate was a NIGHTMARE for 10 or 12 year old me. She used it a lot too. I just use a knife for chopping vegetables, but there's certainly times I wish I had one of those "slice and dicers," as my dad would call it!

I still have the Vidalia chopper, after a decade. I lost the little cleaning comb (I use a toothpick now, just don't let the stuff dry on), however the thing is still as sharp as brand new.

Luv ur vids! The Kitchen Magician. Yep, I remember that one, too.

Brand new subscriber just wanted to ask you do they have anything electric that can do this Work for you because I have carpal tunnel and there's no way I could squeeze those things. I'm looking for a way to do the work that my hands don't have to. Maybe Something electrical that can dice and chop so you don't have to. A machine where you just put the vegetable in there and press a button and it does the work for you.Thats what I'm looking for. Would love it if you could review something like that !!!!

The tomato bit you should've used a flat surface for the tomato (cut in half). Fantastic review, it was a pleasure to watch.

I don't much, I don't eat veggies, but I do LOVE those big boxes where you just slap the big plastic lid and everything just drops in the container. I think it was called the Magic Cube, name may vary though cuz the NutriChopper is called NicerDicer here, although it does come with a container for the pieces to drop into.

For apples, an old school apple slicer and corer works wonderfully. One tool to remove the core and cut it into wedges.

This guy is hilarious. Had so many laughs at his grimaces. Loved this review.

I have a device similar to the vidalia , BUT has interchangeable blade from dicing to chopping, to slicing, to a maddolin. The small dice cuts an onion into perfect for hot dogs pieces with very little effort. Deep container with lid + 7 blades was $17.99 on Amazon.

I can think of a couple of gadgets that would do everything these claim quicker and easier. A Mandolin, and a food processor with slicer attachments. Or a knife.

As a person who has to use a dicer for onions and tomatoes to make a bunch of Gauc, even with the larger area of the bigger one, it's still best to cut the onion into 4ths and the tomato in half. As with the tomato the skin will cause it to mush and for the onion you'll have to use way more force then needed.

I love watching your reviews. My favorite part. realizing how easy it is to do all of these things using every day objects. Do I need any of these choppers… no personally I’ll keep using a knife. But then I don’t chop that much.

My family had a Vidalia for years and used it for tons of meals.

I feel for the tomato you put it too close to the right edge rather than centering it. I’d still use a regular knife that I can pick up for four cents though lol

You should have used the Nicer Slicer Dicer. I have one and I love it. It has slicing, dicing, apple wedges, mandolin, and shredder blades with a large container. That would have been a better comparison.

God I love these long reviews

Did those blood blisters heal up ok? Thank you for the warning on these gems. Take care

Nice review! I can see both of them making their way to the bone yard shelf! JUNK!

I have the Vidalia Chopper and it is awesome.

James, I bought the Vidalia chopper back when it came out in 2006...I loved it and used it for years until I broke the hinge. Most fruits and veggies require you to cut them in halves, thirds, or quarters...including the small dicing option. Lastly, I never once pinched myself using the vidalia chopper. Love your videos.👍👍Born and raised in Ames/Boone, Iowa, but consider Alaska to be my home. #Iowegians

I've been looking to purchase a new vegetable chopper. Your video could not have come at a better time. Thank You.

I remember my mother having a similar gadget in the 70’s. It was all metal with metal wires. We used it to make French fries out of whole potatoes. Checking eBay it looks like our cutter was similar to the ekco miracle cutter.

I was going to buy this couple weeks ago but decided not to, so glad because the pinching my fingers would have totally pissed me off. Thanks for the vid.

I use the mince/small dice on the Vidalia for onions all the time. I usually quarter the onion -- works easier and faster.

Any nightshade (tomatoes, peppers...) skin will get hung up in the Vidalia if you put it in skin down. Anything halved or quartered placed flesh-side down will usually work great, though.

I have the bigger one and it works really good then when you have trouble with the splices it you can hit it for it to work

How do u get more blades for the big vegetable chopper