This was the worst tool I've used in a long time. I tried it with a variety of sizes of onion and every piece just continued to get stuck in the blades. It was quicker for me to just dice them up with my knife then to mess with this tool, plus then I had to clean it!!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from cuisinart.comBy cuisinart, July 7, 2025
Hello- We are so sorry to hear about the trouble you’ve had with your push chopper. Cuisinart is committed to providing the highest quality products and consumer satisfaction. Please contact us at 1-800-726-0190 or via email to customerservice@cuisinart.com at your convenience and reference ticket number 8900319849. If you email us, please use the subject line ‘Cuisinart Review’. Cuisinart Consumer Care Team
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I've purchased several similar choppers through the years and this one is the easiest to clean and reassemble. Just that. I'll probably use this for many years to come instead of getting frustrated and deciding to use a knife instead.
I threw it out. It kept coming apart and barely chopped pecans. I've previously owned and Oxo, but have always had faith in Cuisinart. Not anymore, at least for small items.
I've had it for 2 or 3 weeks, and it works pretty well. There is one issue with it. It chops fine, but it does not come apart so you can clean the upper section that has the plunger in it. Plenty of food scraps get up inside there and it is impossible to get them all out. The hopper is also very small. It's difficult to even get half of a medium size onion in it.
The chopper is frustrating for 2 reasons: 1. The food chamber can detach from the base chopping plate. This spills everything. Easy solution --> have the food chamber screw to the base chopping plate. 2. The guide that controls the path of the chopping blade and wipes it clean on retraction, the black guide falls out of its snap-in location. This happens consistently. Solution --> engineer a positive connection, even a retaining pin, to hold the guide to the chopper. The blade is sharp and it is a task to re-locate blade through the guide for another use. This is a product issue needing a correction. Pros: Easy to clean. Strong stainless steel chopper with plastic chop-plunger.
Tried to use this chopper on celery and immediately ran into problems. Chunks of celery kept getting caught in the blades so I had to stop and pull them out. Basically, I spent spent more time unjamming the vegetables than chopping.
I returned the chopper and bought a no-name chopper for 1/3 the price that does a better job and is much easier to clean.
I love it! I had one years ago but lost it somehow after multiple moves across country. I recently purchased a different brand from a thrift store and it was a terrible design, difficult to assemble and easily fell apart. So I purchased this one, and it works perfectly. Saves me so much time in the kitchen cutting ingredients to make my daily salad!