Just saw a commercial for this and I’m just confused. It claims that it cubes and dices things. Such as tomatoes. But it looks like it just stuffs the food through a grid of blades, which… well, wouldn’t that just cut stuff into long strips, like french fries? How would it cut those long strips into cubes? Or are they just lying? I don’t get it!
It looks to me like it chops things into strips, like you said. If you want cubes, you have to put the strips back onto the blades and chop it a second time.
Other things that looks like it chops have natural breaks like onions.
I have something at work that is simlar has blades (or rather wires) in one direction only, but the concept is similar. Anyways, there’s a part they’re not telling you if they’re saying it cuts into cubes. On a machine like this, cubes will take two passes. The first pass will make ‘fries’ so to speak. You would then have to retieve them and put them back on in another direction to make cubes.
BUT
Onions only take two passes with a knife to make ‘cubes’ (not really cubes, but diced pieces) and since this is called a Vidalia chop wizard that may be what they are referring to.
Also, if you first slice a food into pieces roughly the size of the grid on the machine, then once pass through will make cubes.
Does that make sense, the Jewel of Russia seems to think so.
Wow, that took me seven minutes to think out and type?
The commercial specifically says that it instantly chops tomatoes into cubes.
Well, then, it must be true, right? Cause we all know commercials always tell the truth.
Well there’s instant and then there’s instant. I mean, Minute Rice takes five minutes but they can still call it Minute Rice.
Well, if you look closely at the ad on your link, they are not lying…however, they did cut the tomato into a slice before they put it into the chopperthingie…so technically, it would come out in “cubes” if you slice the tomato the same thickness as the little sharp squares that cuts it into pieces.
Hi Opal-
If you look closely at the video when it is doing the cheese, you see that the cheese sitting there is already sliced once. So, a bit misleading.
My friend has a manual chopper at work that has two stages and is cranked by hand. It looks like a large salad bowl, upside down, on legs. Place it over another bowl, drop in an oinion (or ???), then crank handle while pushing down. The first stage cuts like ||||| then the second stage is a blade that whirls around on the bottom like a lawn-mower blade.
I think a design that is similar to you link could work if as you pressed down a blade slid along the bottom. But you would need multiple blades for multiple cuts.
-Tcat
:rolleyes: While I highly appreciate people being snotty to me, because it makes me feel so special, one thing I specifically asked in my OP was if they were lying. I don’t automatically believe it, I was just stating what their commercial says for clarification.
It looks like a lie to me, in the sense that one passthrough by a tomato doesn’t satisfy cubing. The potato demonstration clearly shows the whole potato being made into French fries, not cubes. Unless the tomato “fries” fall apart and they feel satisfied that that is the same as cubing 
I think it’s two-pass as well. We bought one of these doohickies for my mom back in the '60s. I think it was called the Vegematic back in the day. It was 2-pass. It is misleading…the single-pass approach would be veggie-Magic!
I don’t think it’s quite a lie, just a misrepresentation of the truth. Sure it chops stuff into cubes, if that stuff is the right thickness to make cubes in the first place. In the potato demo it clearly makes fries.
I wouldn’t use it if you gave one to me. How hard is it to cube stuff? Really? Have they thrown in the free set of Ginsu knives yet?
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I still don’t know how a sewing machine works*, so I’m not even going to try and tackle this.
*Seriously.
I watched it three times. The word “instantly” does not appear in the sentence about chopping tomatoes. As I hear it it says “Chopping Tomates can be a soupy mess, but Chop Wizard chops tomatoes into cubes!”
What happens when the blade finally dulls? Can you get replacement blades or do you have to buy a whole new thingie?
You may be right that they do not specifically use the word instantly, but they show them putting a tomato into it and then show diced tomato in the bottom, which to me directly implies that putting a tomato into it and pushing down the top will result in a cubed tomato.
The piece with the blades is removable. In fact, the thing comes with two different types of blades (all for one low price.) I guess you could buy a replacement blade but the whole damn thing is only $20 so you may as well get a new one. My guess is that something else would break before the blades got dull anyway.
It’s just a new fangled version of the Vegematic :o
You want a REAL cuber.
Here’s your cuber.
It works like a pasta maker. The ‘fries’ come out and then a blade spins around and chops them. I’m guessing it’s about $1000.