Do you have to chop food in the cup, or can you just use a cutting board?
1567601
You do not have to use the cup. Yes you can use it on a cutting board. It is a good chopper.
587613
I use it as it, but you can only chop, grind, and puree without having the option of slicing or shredded style.
937148
I agree with Grub. Consider this, only enough water is required to last through the cooking process, which is only minutes. It is the steam that cooks, not the water. Note that the water can splash up into the cups if not all cups are in place. I have found that my best results come when all cups are in place and contain an egg.
848547
You can chop anything in this handy little chopper. I love mine and use it for everything.
1546075
You can only use the dip cup separately. The veggie tray has to be used with the bowl and lid.
1679494
It is a small cutting board and not very useful on the table. The knife that comes with it is not a quality knife and the bowls are also small. If I had it to do over I would have just gotten the table with only the sink and no the other extras. You could just cut right on to of the table. But due to the extra stuff two people could not use the table at once, where as a person could stand on each side of the table.
1265922
NO I would not put a wood cutting board in the dishwasher, for the woods sake AND the rubber non slip matting...it cleans up very well, put one of those flexible plastic type cutting mats on top if your cutting chicken etc, other wise a simple hand washing AND DRYING will do the trick, we love ours.
1839188
I haven't used the chopping function -- not sure there is one but I suppose you could try. It's a blender so does great at pulverizing. For any chopping I use my knife...and in some small instances will use food processor.
1177374
Well I use neither. I actually just grabbed a small coffee cup and use that. It works the same, maybe even better than a bowl, since it has a handle which is easier to hold.
1762644
yeah I'm sure you could cut it with a good jigsaw, fine tooth wood cutting blade. I just used wood drill bits to put holes in it. You might want to do a little at a time, so that the blade doesn't heat up and melt the cutting board. It also could make it a little flimsy, I think. depending on the hole size. Cool idear.
1963166
I have not tried chopping nuts, but I imagine there would be no problem if the nuts were coarsely chopped before putting them in the chopper. I make awesome pico or salsa, but i always start with the onions, tomatoes, and peppers cut into pieces. If i cannot easily pull the cable, I reduce the size of whatever is being chopped. As for pesto, i would use nuts like walnuts because they can easily be chopped. The chopper is so much easier to use than the food processor or the blender.
1859950
There is a separate small block made to hold the knife. When I am not using the knife and cutting bowl, I stand the bowl on end then put the knife and its little holding block on top.
115092
It's more of a working area rather than a chopping table but you can definitely chop on it (remember to oil it if you do). I wouldn't.
475659
The bottom of the clear plastic container on both the mini and full sized choppers is removable so that you can use the chopper on a cutting board.
1605558
Yes, but when I use it I make sure there is nothing, nothing near it and I place a wooden cutting board under it. I hope this helps.
286738
Very easy to clean...I just rinse it out when I finish....the trick on this if you want to chop (and not puree) just pulse and do NOT fill the bowl more than half full.
2127886
I would use a chop saw, that would do the trick nicely. I had to drill into mine and used a drill bit with a point on it - worked fine.