Slap Chop
by Ontel Products
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Slap Chop
Customer Review: Slap Masher
Summary: 1 Stars
This product only requires two slaps -- one for myself for buying it and one for Offer "Vince" Shlomi for hawking it. He is a comedian after all, so I guess the joke's on me for being suckered.
I bought this product for chopping what I chop most -- tomatoes, scallions and onions. It failed miserably at cutting through the tomato and onion skins and the scallion leaves no matter how hard I slapped it. On top of being a poor chopper, it's also a time waster and creates more of a mess. It produces a great deal of waste by leaving large amounts of food in the plastic ring at the base, on the blades and inside the white housing. Not only did I waste my time destroying my food, but it took more time trying to get at all the pieces in the contraption with a small rubber spatula instead of wasting it by rinsing it all down the drain. If I had to say something positive about this product, it did a fantastic job of turning my vegetables into mush while trying to chop through the aforementioned trouble areas. So, if your infant likes mashed scallions and onions in tomato paste, this is the product for you!
Every job is made easier with the right tool and the proper tool I suggest for slicing and dicing fruits and vegetables is a santoku knife. If kept sharp and used properly, even a dirt cheap santoku will work wonders leaving you with every bit that you cut readily available, a minimum mess and more time for creating in the kitchen.
Customer Review: One STAR is too generous a rating for the Crap Slop!
Summary: 1 Stars
This item is EXTREMELY flimsy! Tried to chop my very first item--an onion. First of all, the container is so small that I had to chop up the onion just to fit it inside the compartment. Might as well just continue using a knife and a cutting board since you're going to have to wash them both anyway. Okay, the onion slices got stuck between the blades so instead of getting chopped, the slices just went for a ride--up and down... "Wee!" I had to take the chunks out to chop them manually to mince, which required that I pull out the chunks that were stuck in the blades. Afterward, I tried to wash the blades and the bottom container. The whole thing literally fell apart. What a joke! But the joke was on me for buying not only one, but FOUR, as Christmas gifts. But when I discovered how poorly they were made, I couldn't, in good conscience, give them to anyone--not even my worst enemy deserves such crap! So the other ones are still in their original boxes, in my closet. I am going to try to use the one I have to chop cat food (kibbles) for my aging cat. Haven't tried it yet. I read other reviews that said that only thing this item is good for is chopping nuts. Well, we'll see if it can handle kibbles. If not, I'm tossing it straight into the garbage bin.
EXTREMELY FLIMSY! HUGE WASTE OF MONEY! NOT EVEN WORTH A 1/2 STAR!
Customer Review: Mediocre, Before We Got The Bill
Summary: 1 Stars
I dind't order this off of Amazon, my mom ordered it from the T.V. Bad way to go. We used it three times. I found it difficult, almost scarry to seperate, to clean. The instructions are pretty lame. I used it on Green peppers, onions and carrots. It did fair. Probably worth it if it actually cost what the T. V. commercial says. I didn't try it on nuts, (almost would today,ahd the bill not been recieved.).
So, today, we recieved the bill. It was supposed to be buy one for 19.95, get the second free. She bought the deluxe model, with blades, that to me, did not seem very deluxe.I frequently shop at amazon.com and at Bed Bath and Beyond, and there are better choppers. The bill we recieved was for 63.79, apparently this is the Slap Chop's normal route. After a few phone calls,and neatly placing it into the box, (it is my mom, me, I'd not be so neat about it),it is to be returned in a few minutes. I can buy one for much cheaper than 63.79 (website final price). I wrote this here, on Amazon. I noticed Amazon.com also has a link to buy it at the Slap Chop website, well, don't. Take head from this review. There are plenty of food choppers youi can buy either on Amazon.com, or at stores, that work much better than this.
Customer Review: Try the Pampered Chef version
Summary: 1 Stars
Started to buy this due to the "special deal" of BOGO with a free grater. Thank God for internet reviews.
56 out of 94 rate a 1 star? That's horrendous. I had the Pampered Chef version of this chopper until it relocated with my ex. Had to replace it with the KitchenAid version, which wasn't nearly as good, but apparently head & shoulders above this Slap Crap. The Chef version must be the Cadillac of these manual choppers. It's still going strong after about 10 years and it works! The KitchenAid works good but doesn't have the clamshell opening feature for cleaning. And for those of you clinging to "old school" of just using a good knife, I'll mince an onion to micro pieces in the time it takes you just to slice one. A "real" chopper such as the Pampered Chef or KitchenAid cuts chopping and mincing time to a small fraction of what it would be with a chef's knife. And yes, I DO know how to use a knife.
Oh, and BTW, I love these moronic 5 star reviews claiming "we don't know how to use it" or "you have to SLAP it!" Oh really? Thanks for that input, rocket scientists.
Customer Review: Simply worthless.
Summary: 1 Stars
Once upon a time, like many people, I felt a good, sharp knife was sufficient for slicing and dicing... and even chopping. Then I saw this innovative little device on TV. Since everything advertised on TV is worth buying, I figured this would enhance my life and provide new pleasures to a seemingly mundane activity. I was wrong. The Slap Chop should be renamed simply "Slap" as it really does nothing more than exercise your hand's ability to hit a spring-loaded device. The unit is cheaply made and not strong: it had difficulty chopping a tomato, for Pete's sake. And one might presume that a device partially called "Slap" would be designed to be slapped viciously, which turned out to be a requirement to get it to work even at the least acceptable level. However, that ultimately became its downfall when the damn thing fell apart.
Moral of the story: use a friggin' knife like the rest of the world. Only in America would we try to replace a seemingly perfect device with a piece of plastic sold by a loudmouth on TV.