Manual vegetable cutter: pros and cons, review, rating of the best

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Manual vegetable slicer helps simplify cooking. Not every food processor fits into the dimensions of a modern apartment, and it costs a lot. But a mechanical vegetable slicer may well become a budgetary solution to problems: chop food, chop cheese or eggs, and the whole action will take much less time than manually. And your slices will be neat and even.

Features of use

How to use a vegetable cutter? This is an ergonomic and well thought out device for quick cutting of various products. Each function has its own set of knives and blades that do not go dull for a long time. Vegetable slicers are compact, convenient to store and dishwasher safe.

They are also safe to use and do not waste electricity at all. You can take a vegetable cutter with you to the nature (to the cottage) and quickly build a beautiful dish. And the main function of the device - the shredder, will happen much faster than if all this was done with an ordinary knife.

Electric vegetable cutters for the home have some advantage over manual ones: they cope better with raw vegetables and do not require physical effort.

Types of Vegetable Cutters

1. The simplest device is a grater, fixed in a plastic drum. The product rests on it, the nozzle is pressed and rotated with effort. Such mechanisms are affordable and various types of graters are included. Suitable mainly for cooked foods.
2. Grid with cutting cells of different sizes: slices, cubes, egg slicer or very small. Such a manual mechanical grater is most often used in the kitchen due to its ease of use and functionality.
3. V-shaped knife in the frame. It necessarily has a part in which products for protecting hands are fixed. Vegetable slicer performs many types of shredders (slices, straws), and all kinds of blades help her with this. They are very sharp and require skill and caution when working.
4. An alligator suitable for cooked and raw foods. It works like a crocodile’s mouth - the product is placed inside, the lid is pressed with force and the food falls into the container.
5. Slicer can peel and chop. Thin slices for drying, chips or frying potatoes come out especially well with it. It can also cut into strips.
6. A multifunctional device, a symbiosis of a small combine and meat grinder. Products are placed in a container with knives. During rotation, the handle moves the knives and they divide the food into parts. There are many grinding methods in such a device and they depend on the selected nozzle. The convenience of a mechanical mini-harvester is that vegetables are constantly in the container, there is no spraying and scattering.
7. A spiral unit that produces similar curls or the finest straws. It is very easy to operate, works like a meat grinder and costs a little.

How to choose a vegetable cutter for home

• Pay attention to the smaller plastic parts. The best devices are completely composed of aluminum or stainless steel, less commonly other alloys. A metal appliance will last longer than plastic.
• See which accessories are included. The larger the range of interchangeable blades, the better.
• It would be nice to read reviews on the Internet about the selected model. It can be beautiful from the outside, but completely unsuitable for use after assembly. But positive feedback will help save money. And of course, a trusted brand is responsible for quality. Therefore, steel knives will not blacken (as in unknown Chinese models) and plastic will not crack during the first work.

The best mechanical vegetable slicers - compact and easy to use

Nicer Dicer. Very famous vegetable cutter thanks to advertising. It exists in several trim levels (Plus, etc.). Buy Nayser Dyser in Moscow is inexpensive (from 1 thousand. rubles). Despite the plastic parts, the device is quite durable and works on conscience.

Stainless steel knives are sharp, they do not deform products, and they can not be sharpened for a long time. You can find almost all existing methods of grinding in this device, but a grater for cutting vegetables is the main task. Also, despite its rich functionality, it is very convenient to store Nayser Dyser, thanks to folding parts and blades.

Alligator Lux. This pres-grinder, made in Sweden, crumbles raw and boiled vegetables into bars and cubes. The last type of cutting is one of the most popular. An electric cutter for vegetables costs the same as an Alligator (from 8 thousand rubles), but the mechanical device justifies this price and will last a very long time.

You will get a durable metal case, 3 interchangeable sets of blades, special sticks for easy cleaning, rubberized legs and a box-drive. It is especially convenient to cut a manual manual onion with a vegetable cutter - quickly and without tears.

Wavy edge self-sharpening knives (sereitor) are best suited for fibrous products. And even partially dull, it will serve better than usual.

Wellberg. An Austrian company manufactures cutter models for handheld machines in China. Vegetable cutter Wellberg 9549WB is one of the most bought, at a price of 1000 rubles, suitable for all types of products. It is a chopper, whisk and separator at the same time.

The unit is completely safe, can handle a large amount of provisions at the same time. The manufacturer even provided a removable carrying handle and a lid for the spout to keep the work area clean.