Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

USE IT FOR THE INTENDED PURPOSE and you will love it. I chop onions and other vegetables practically every day. This is where this little machine excels. Takes very little space. If you are comparing it to a large food processor which chops and mixes large volumes of hard stuff like nuts, then you are making an unfair comparison. People who buy the wrong things for the wrong purpose and leave a negative review, do a great disservice to potential buyers. I have noticed this with many other products, a few negative reviewers made me think twice, cost me weeks of additional research, only to find that some people used a sandal for rock climbing or not knowing the difference between a slow juicer and a blender; there are numerous examples, but I do not want to digress further. The process I am describing will work with most vegetables, but take onion for instance. In the past, I often cut it buy hand, because the process of cutting it into smaller pieces, scraping it out, then washing it took longer than cutting it by hand, even though the onion makes most of us "cry". Not so with this machine. I only cut the onion into a few small pieces - five seconds. Because of the four blades, it chops the onion very fast (three to four pulses, i.e. 3-4 seconds) and evenly. The top section and the inner cover comes off instantly, even though it is very well secured while running. Pull out the blade unit (very easy, hold it by the top so you do not run the danger of cutting your hand) and run it under the tap, 4-5 seconds; getting the onion out directly into the pot is again very easy, because of the wide tubular design. No nooks and crannies that would slow you down. I never put it into the sink (to wash later), since washing it out - completely - takes less than five seconds. Voila! You are done. Your onion is perfectly cut in the size you want it (depending on how many times you press the pulse button, which is very responsive) and the three unit parts that I washed/rinsed in seconds are drying in the drying tray next to the sink. Putting it back is ridiculously fast. If I prepare a huge amount of many different vegetables or nuts, then I use the food processor, which takes a lot longer to wash out. But for every day cooking in a hurry, THIS UNIT IS FANTASTIC.