Gadget for chopping /shredding vegetables (especially cabbage!)

[candycane222]

I have quite a small cramped kitchen so I need something small. I think ideally something hand-powered that can be taken apart and rinsed/put in dishwasher, so its put away fully clean.

I make a lot of coleslaw and grating is messy and the bits are too small. I suppose I could get a coarser grater but I do like the idea of confining the bits.

So hit me with your gadgets 😁

I think I need that one 😂

I've ordered it.

No one trusts me after I was finely dicing onions one day and diced a tiny bit of thumb into the mix.

Not sure if I should admit that it went into the pot!

@agent765 😂😂😂😂😂 I'm sure my family have eaten parts of me over the years 😂😂😂

For all you finger choppers out there (I too bear the scars), I thoroughly recommend cut-resistant gloves. Just remember to put them on before you pick up the grater or mandolin.

https://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/rolson-cut-resistant-large-work-gloves-395439

A gadget-mad friend of ours sliced the top of his finger with a mandolin. We arrrived to stay - found them gone (to hospital) and blood all over the kitchen floor!
Next day, dh dropped the wretched thing in the bin.

Personally I find a good, serrated knife best for slicing/chopping veg - I do slice and chop a lot. But it’s hard to find one that cuts absolutely straight. Dh ordered an expensive American one recently, to replace an old one, and the sodding thing doesn’t cut straight!

I pray that my brilliant ancient one won’t die on me.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER yes there was alot of blood with me too! I wont use the mandolin part anymore. I wanted thin slices as I was dehydrating fruit 😂 I do like my gadgets but won't bother with that one. 😁

All these gory posts are confirming to me I have made the correct gadget choice. I'm already perfectly capable of regular cuts and burns to my fingers necessitating far too much unhygienic plaster-wearing, to need any help from a mandolin

<watch me as I draw blood rinsing my new gadget under the tap...>

Ha ha good choice. I'm the same! So I was daft to even think about the mandolin 😂

From the videos that seems to chop rather than shred or slice/grate?

I think Im going to order that Kenwood one

It's arrived! Very pleased with the results. Not very big which is ideal for me - just makes a couple of portions at a time.

(it's the string pull zyliss one by the way)

Glad you like it OP. I couldn't live without mine! Watch out when you are washing up ... I've cut myself several times !

Ha yes I am being very careful and have warned dh too!

Is that red cabbage in there? What have you done with the rest of it, I chopped one up the other day, well I thought I had chopped up the whole thing, the bowl and then the pan wasnt even big enough, then looked behind me and Id only used half of it!!!

How do you ever get rid of this stuff!!

My Kenwood came, Im really impressed

Hehe that cabbage is from before Christmas! Luckily it lasts very well in the fridge.

Must say that Kenwood processor looks very nifty too!