Indian cooking needs a lot of chopping, dicing, and cutting of onions, tomatoes, ginger, and garlic. A manual chopper allows you to do all this in a jiffy, without any effort or the need to pull out the mixer-grinder for simple everyday stuff. We diced and sliced for over three weeks in four different home kitchens and in our review lab to find efficient manual choppers.
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Most Efficient Manual Choppers
Pigeon Chopper
This manual chopper has a 400-ml capacity and three stainless steel blades. Both vegetables and fruits can be effortlessly chopped using this device.
Made using premium quality food-grade material, this manual chopper has an anti-skid base. The blades have an eight-degree bend that promotes zero cloggings. You get 21 cuts in a single pull. The sturdy rope is made of polyester and this chopper comes with a safety lock.
Ganesh Chopper
This manual chopper has a plastic body and stainless steel blades. It has a non-skid base and a big handle that makes the pulling motion easier.
You get up to 380 cuts in under 20 seconds. This manual chopper is easy to disassemble which makes cleaning and maintaining it easy too. Built to maximize comfort, this manual chopper can be used for dry fruits and nuts too.
Solimo Chopper
This large manual chopper has a 500-ml capacity. With a blue lid and a transparent body, this manual chopper would suit most kitchens.
This handy fruit and vegetable chopper is quite compact and can be easily stored in cabinets or shelves. Additionally, only premium quality food-grade material has been used to make this product. The individual parts of this manual chopper are easy to clean. The pulley mechanism is very sturdy.
Wonderchef Chopper
This manual chopper has a silicone base that prevents it from sliding or skidding. The transparent jar is useful for mid-chop peeks. This manual chopper comes with the standard three stainless steel blade design. It has an ergonomic design and comes with a special whisking attachment which can be used for beating eggs or preparing homemade curd.
Smile Mom Chopper
This powerful manual chopper has a jar with a 900-ml capacity. Chopping, cutting, whisking- you can do a lot with this one device.
This manual chopper comes with a separate storage lid. This manual chopper doubles as a storage container too. Made using BPA-free material, this manual chopper is safe for everyday use. The jar and lids are completely leak-proof and easy to clean.
There is a wide variety of brands available in this segment. We believe these choppers are best utilized by a small family, with the number ranging from two to five family members. Manual choppers save a lot of time in the kitchen, these are easy to wash and clean, and many brands now offer value-for-money products that you can use for months to make your time in the kitchen productive efficient.
How We Picked The Brands
There is a wide variety of brands available in this segment. We categorized brands that come under 1000/- and picked the variants between 300 and 500 ml. We believe these choppers are best utilized by a small family, with the number of family members ranging from 2 to 5. Beyond this family size, we believe most would prefer to go for electric choppers or even food processors that do more than just chop and dice.
How We Tested
Once all 10 vegetable choppers were with us, we shared them with four different households who used them for a period of two to three weeks on rotation. This was crucial because durability should be an important benchmark, and observations from someone using these on a daily basis would be valuable. We took their feedback into account, and also tested all 10 vegetable choppers in our lab for a week. We used these to chop onions and tomatoes, separately as well as together.
Parameters
The parameters to judge these vegetable choppers included noise, effort, color/look, and any other USP or differentiation they had to offer.