They really take the hassle out of preparing fresh, home-cooked meals for your family; chopping all your vegetables for you in seconds. Most manual pull-style choppers do not have dishwasher-safe lids, but the bowls and blades are often dishwasher-safe. Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.

A vegetable chopper is just what it sounds like, a piece of kitchen equipment that chops your vegetables for you so you don’t have to do it yourself with a knife. While a great kitchen knife can do the job, the best vegetable choppers, whether manual or electric, help speed up meal prepping and get an easy weeknight dinner on the table quickly.

Most vegetable chopper blades are made from stainless steel which is easy to clean and non corrosive.

The manual chopper from Brieftons that we’ve listed above has loads of great reviews and might be just what you’re looking for. She makes killer scrambled eggs, enjoys a glass of un-oaked chardonnay and takes pride in her love of reality television. The big handle is easy for most to hold, and in our Lab tests, the blades spun smoothly to evenly chop vegetables. We’ve read through our forums and weighed up tried and tested reviews from our Mumsnetters to find the vegetable choppers that they rate and recommend. A lot of the more versatile electric choppers can be used in pretty much the same way as a food processor, just on a smaller scale.

The clear bowl has well-defined measurement markers, and the lid locks onto the bowl easily but securely to help prevent spills. Both Abigail and Becca consulted Nicole Papantoniou, director of the Good Housekeeping Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, who analyzes thousands of products each year, including manual and electric choppers and other useful kitchen tools. They tend to be more versatile, giving users the chance to chop vegetables as well as to make purees and dips, like guacamole. Vegetable choppers are perfect for those days when you want to cook your family a healthy, homemade meal but don’t want to spend ages chopping and slicing before you even turn the oven on.

The next on our list of the best mini choppers is another one that’s pretty much like a mini food processor, both in looks and function.Vegetable choppers are far safer than using a knife to chop vegetables, however, some models are safer than others.

With it being a manual device you’re in control of how much you spin the blades, so you can chop the veg as finely as you want in it. Electric choppers are particularly versatile; not only can they quickly chop vegetables, but they also blend up dips, sauces and purees. It comes with four different blades — a large dice, a small dice and two spiralizing blades — which provide versatility for chopping a variety of vegetables and fruits. With it being made of glass it is heavier than a lot of the other mini food choppers out there, but it also feels a lot more sturdy.If you often chop small amounts of herbs and garlic, smaller manual choppers make light work of these jobs. It comes with a set of two stainless steel blades that you can use for chopping both coarsely and finely, as well as puréeing and liquidising. Once you get used to using a vegetable chopper, whether it’s an electric model or a hand operated model, you will find it is so easy to use, you’ll wonder how you ever got by without one. They should last a relatively long time but if you notice the blade isn’t as sharp as it should be, it’s probably time to replace it. Variable settings - Some choppers have different settings that let you control the speed of the blades.