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MIU Stainless-Steel Food Chopper | 
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| Brand: MIU
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $27.95
You Save: $12.04 (30%)
New (5) from $27.95
Rating:  6 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 3.9 x 3.9
MPN: 90001
UPC: 806700900011
EAN: 0806700900011
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Manually minces small quantities of onion, garlic, herbs | | • | 18/10 stainless-steel construction with plastic bowl | | • | Zig-zag-shaped blade rotates as it cuts for uniform pieces | | • | Stand beneath chopper keeps blade off tabletop | | • | 8.5-inch Height x 3.5-inch Diameter |
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Product Description
The stainless steel food chopper is great for chopping vegetables and nuts and is fast and easy to use.
Amazon.com Review
This manual mini food chopper is perfect for mincing small quantities of onions, garlic, or herbs quickly and with minimal cleanup. The upper half of the chopper is made of beautiful brushed stainless-steel with a transparent plastic bowl on the lower half for watching the chopping process. Pump the non-skid handle up and down and the zig-zag-shaped blade cuts and then rotates to cut at a different angle during with the following pump for more precise chopping. The bowl easily twists off the chopper for filling and emptying and secures back on with a twist in the opposite direction. A pointed stand on the chopper's underside props it up so the blade doesn't touch the tabletop and also assists in scooping stray pieces of vegetable from the lip of the cup. A plastic base keeps the chopper from sliding during use. --Cristina Vaamonde
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Not what I had hoped for. February 24, 2008
John A. Kremm
This chopper looked like the perfect tool, but I never could get it to work right. Food jammed in the cutters, it didn't cut/chop cleanly all the way through the food, like onions. Not so easy to take apart and clean, or put back together. Could've been just me, but wasn't too happy.
Good while it worked February 11, 2007
Virginia Reviewer (Virginia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This item is attractive and chops very well. However, mine stopped spinning between chops after about 2 weeks. Now I have to manually spin it after every chop.
As the other reviewers said, it is a pain to put back together. I almost always have to ask my husband to do it.
No longer functioning November 18, 2006
Suzy-Q (Seattle, WA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I received this as a gift last year (after putting it on my wish list) and used it a couple of times. To clean it, you undo the few parts that it has and put it in the dishwasher, which is great. But, the main housing has a black plastic part that fits over the zig-zag blade and has to be in place for the chopping to work. Well, I can no longer get that black part to fit over the blades. I tried for about 10 minutes tonight and finally threw the damn thing in the garbage. So frustrating. Either the blades bent or the plastic thing changed shape a bit - it has to fit the zig-zag of the blades just perfectly in order to work. I give up.
it did work fine for a couple of weeks but then.... April 30, 2006
Timothy F. Purcell (Blossvale, ny)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The handle you depress to push down the chopping mechanism is built in two parts. Mine has come apart and I can not figure out how to get the parts back together. This makes my chopping frustrating when it usually is one of the more fun parts to cooking. (for me anyway) This is disappointing, but you get what you pay for. That lesson is coming back to haunt me time and time again.
The item you receive is NOT an MIU France model March 27, 2005
Geoffrey (Rochester, Minnesota)
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
I'm a little frustrated on this purchase. I wanted a food chopper, and settled on this one, thinking it would be better quality (and not made in China) than a lot of similar models available from competitors. What I received was a generic chopper in a generic box that just says "Chopper" on it with no instructions, and it is made in China. The picture is the same as shown on Amazon, but there is NO reference to MIU France ANYWHERE on the box or item itself.
The chopper itself seems to perform okay. I've used it a few times thus far. It is a little hard to clean and some of the plastic pieces worry me as far as their quality. I was hoping for something better than my mother's Zyliss chopper that I loved when I was living closer to home, but knowing what I know, I would not have purchased this model. I bet you can find a similar model on Amazon (or elsewhere) for probably $10 cheaper. I'm a little disappointed that Amazon wasn't more forward and honest with their marketing practices. When you buy an item that says it's from "MIU France" and spend higher money for it, you expect an item from "MIU France" to be shipped to you, not some cheap knock-off that probably sells for $10 less.
The stainless steel portion does look very nice (again, it is the same as in the picture), but the flimsy plastic pieces irritate me, and I'm sure that I will get a lot less life out of this machine than my mother did from her trusty Zyliss.
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