I would like to use this to make large chopped salads in a bowl. What kind of bowl would work? Or is it better on a cutting board?
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I ordered the set of bowl and cutter which comes with it as well as ordering the single one. This is a quick and easy to use salad bowl. It cleans easily as well. The salads are great with however chopped a little or a lot. We normally keep the tomatoes, cucumbers out which we add the amounts we want. The blades are very sharp. I'm sure you will also find more to do with this set etc. nuts and such.
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Use a cutting board. One you can easily replace. The Ulu is extremely sharp and made to stay that way.
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a metal bowl works fine...i just use plastic one. The blade is sharp but has not damaged the plastic any. I prefer using bowl because it keeps all the lettuce together and you dont have to handle it as much
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Oh, yes. Definitely on the cutting board. Then divvy out portions to each bowl, add garnish and or dressing and you're ready to go.
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I would recommend a wooden or heavy plastic bowl so you don't scratch surfaces of (or possibly break/chip) glass or ceramic bowls. This knife does work well on a chopping board/butcher block as well but be prepared for a bit of a mess with anything juicy, like tomatoes. I've used a chopping board to to chop/mince lettuce, onion, cilantro, jalapenos and tomatoes and it works great.
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I think it would be wonderful. I have used this one for a layered salad. It is beautiful.
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Hello Susano, I don't know if this will work for longer julienne veggies, but I do make nice long julienne "french fried" potatoes using this slicer. Do you have a specific purpose ie recipe for the longer julienne zucchini? Please let me know what that is, and I will try it for you before you purchase this slicer. You can contact me here, or at my email joyrose94@yahoo.comThank youVal
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The bowls are really designed for salads or small amounts of soups, it is about 1 1/2 inches deep. You can use if of course for cereal but you may need to have seconds!
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This bowl really isnt deep enough to be a soup bowl. Its better for salad. I bought the Red Vanilla Extreme Vanilla bone china set which has a nice soupbowl, and in white it mixes well with the black rice set.
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If you can cut it with a butter knife, you can chop it with this. Its not like an electric food processor by any stretch. I only use it for very very very soft foods. Not too versatile whatsoever. I recommend good knife or an electric food processor. It's good for salsa and sauces.
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There are 2 attachments that are included, a slicer and a shredder. If you are doing large quantities, then your food processor would be more useful. The tube on the salad shooter holds just enough for a couple of salads. I use mine for slicing apples to put in oatmeal, and it will easily slice a whole apple cut in chunks. But this is the normal amount of food. For large quantities, use your food processor. For things like 2 or 3 radishes, 1/2 a carrot, etc., the salad shooter does a nice job. I use my salad shooter every day.
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I don't know i never used it for that purpose but I suppose it would work well it works well with salad.
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I am sorry, I gave it away to my daughter. I wanted a big, light weight bowl for mixing a large salad with dressing, marinating meat etc. It is great for my purposes, but I can't measure it. Nancy
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If you watch the youtube demos it helps. They add already sliced items to the bowl and then use this tool to chop into smaller bits. Main reason to use this is to get a finer sized veggie. The blades are not sharp like a Ulu blade or mezzaluna but works great for greens, herbs, fruit, ect. Food that is already cut up. Worked great for cucumber pieces and sliced almonds.
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There is no well around the edge of this board- so juices will run off this. You should look at their carving boards that have an indentation aroung the edge. This board is excellent for slicing vegetables or raw meat.
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I own this bowl.but have not used for chopping. I own 2 bamboo cutting boards and after much use they don't show it, so I'm guessing you can. It won't be ruined, it might just show it's been used, but probably not much. Bamboo is an amazing wood.
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I don't bother trying to hold it over a bowl. I hold it at an angle over a cutting board so the cut pieces will drop onto the cutting board. I don't put the feet on the cutting board because it might slide, and if it slides while I'm trying to slice something, that could have untoward consequences.
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Both speeds are pretty fast, it might depend on just how small you want your salad pieces. I think it might still work, I love mine.
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Yes, I do that frequently, for salads. Works great, you get nice clean slices both times, resulting in neatly chopped eggs.
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I use a salad plate to my corelle dishes. Works fine. I have even used a paper plate.
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I think it depends on the size. With mine (8") it would be difficult to chop lettuce, baby spinach would probably work. The Ulu Bowl is rather for chopping smaller things like garlic, herbs, chilies, onions etc. And for this purpose it is the best item I ever had in my kitchen! You have to practice a little in the beginning, to get the right angle for moving the knife, but once you found out, you will never ever want to be without it.