To prepare some dishes, you sometimes need to grind the ingredients beforehand. Of course, you can do this with a kitchen knife, but it's much easier, faster and safer to use a special device - a chopper of products, also known as chopper. Let's find out what he is.
How to choose a food shredder?
The only function of chopper is grinding. This device looks like a small container, inside which are very sharp knives. Do not confuse such a mini food shredder with a blender or food processor. Chopper will not be able to mix a quality cocktail or mix the dough, but he cuts the products masterfully, and the speed of grinding does not depend on the degree of their hardness. With the help of a shredder, even solid foods such as nuts, grain coffee and even ice can be turned into a powder.
The electric kitchen chopper works so: while you hold the button, the knives rotate and grind. As soon as the button is released, the mechanism stops. This allows you to independently adjust the consistency of crushed products, stopping exactly at the right time. The owners of kitchen choppers note that this device is ideal for preparing soups with mashed potatoes, pate, minced meat, chopped greens or cheese. In addition to electrical, there are also manual models of shredders.
The design of choppers of different brands is similar, but each of them has its own characteristics. Very convenient, for example, appliances with a neck for feeding products. Distinguished instruments and the size of the bowl - from 0.2 to 1.5 liters. Accordingly, the larger the bowl, the more volume of products in it will fit. However, if you buy a chopper solely for making baby puree, you should not overpay for a model with a large capacity.
Among chopper buyers, such crushers as Vitek, Maxwell, Bosch, Tefal, etc. are very popular.