Kenwood Mini Chopper, 0.35 Litre Dishwasher Safe Bowl, 2 Speeds, Rubber Feet for Food Chopper Stability, 300 W, CH180B, Assorted

This is a great little chopper. I mainly use it to mince ginger and garlic paste that i make for my curries. It minces them up in seconds. This is easy to use, sturdy and great value for money. Its got some weight to it so it doesnt slide around when you are using it, stability is very good.

A few years ago I was put off buying this chopper because of the label "a Delia cheat gadget" - not because of anything against the wonderful Delia but just not liking the idea of using a cheat! However, having bought one I would say that one of the things other reviews don't mention is how much FUN this wonderful gadget is to use. Its small but elegant design means it's a very neat and precise little tool. I really enjoy the whole experience of pulling it out of the cupboard to whizz something quickly, then rinsing the bowl and blade under a hot tap, without the chore of washing or dish-washing a full processor. (I've only dish-washed the bowl, blade and lid a few times, but for what it's worth I didn't see any sign of discoloration. Btw, the remaining motor housing is well sealed and easily wiped down.) Since buying the mini-chopper I've used it almost every day, and it shows no sign of wear. Mostly this is when cooking for two, but also easily for four. I use it a lot to make breadcrumbs for pané: preparing Scotch eggs or schnitzels for two, the chopper can take all the bread in one go if you want, but I've found it's actually faster in two short loads - a mixture of short and long pulses. I also use it when preparing baby food from fresh vegetables or fruit for our granddaughter. And having being used to laborious hand chopping when making duxelles for Wellingtons, etc., it is such a pleasure using the mini-chopper to render mushroom duxelles in about 4-5 seconds. Indeed, I now add mushroom and cabbage duxelles to most casseroles and pies for a really intense flavour, alongside diced onion (I still prefer to fine-dice onion by hand), and the chopper copes very well with finely chopping a chorizo sausage, mincing turkey and chicken meats, and grating up raw carrots, cabbage, apple and sprouts for coleslaw. (My wife now says her favourite way to eat sprouts is to have them finely chopped and sautéed for five minutes in a little butter with finely chopped chorizo.) Very, very highly recommended.

I have mixed feelings about this product. I bought one last year, several months before buying this unit, however the first one failed to arrive in time for Christmas, so I ended up keeping it myself and buying this one to give as a gift for my son and daughter in law much later in the year. From day one I have struggled to remove the bowl from the base unit on the one I have. The product is also stated to be two different speeds, however, no matter how gentle I am with the button the only two speeds I've noticed are 'on' and 'off' !!! I cannot differentiate between the speed it chops at when the button is depressed half way and when pressed down fully. No matter how gentle I am, it disintegrates mushrooms to mush and anything other than rock hard cheese just ends up in a glob that rolls round the bowl. Having said that, when it comes to vegetables, it is brilliant and reduces the time for which they need to be cooked when making soups or stews where it doesn't matter if neat slices of veg is important. With this in mind and because I had a new grandson whose food would need to be chopped up small, I went ahead and bought the second unit as a gift. Big attraction was that the item only has a small footprint so my son would be able to find space for it in his crammed kitchen. However, although they have not said anything about the unit, I noticed that after only a few weeks of use, one of the lugs on the bowl had been broken off, clearly because of the difficulty in removing the bowl from the base unit. A few weeks ago, when the unit was less than 3 months old, I noticed that the second holding lug had also been broken off the bowl. So Kenwood need to address the difficulty removing the bowl from the base unit. Thankfully the integrity of the bowl wasn't damaged and the chopper still works. My one continues to prove fiddly to remove the bowl, but I obviously have more patience than my son and d-in-l, so I jiggle the bowl until I get it off the base unit. I do consider it a design fault though. Small tip. The bowl is acrylic so will stain when chopping carrots. Put a few drops of olive oil or similar onto a piece of kitchen towel and rub round the bowl to remove any staining. Works a treat.

This is a really useful little chopper, great for making bread crumbs & crumble and finely chopping onions, garlic and ginger, bought to replace a previous one that had ran out of power after many years of great service. One of my most used gadgets that doesn't take much space for storage

TBF, all of these small choppers are lacking performance to rate them perfect, however if compare like to like, this one is the best I ever had. This is my second buy of the same model, for I broke a lid of the one I had, and am very happy with performance. I want it to chop, and it does that perfectly well.

Wow, what a small powerful machine! I didn't have high hopes for it but I'm really pleased 😍😍

Great small chopper. Well priced. Nothing to dislike.

Now I can say that this is one of the most useful items in my kitchen. Egg mayonnaise, chopping small amounts of onions for freezing, pate making, breadcrumbs with cheese.. endless uses. I read reviews on Which before buying it. Which gave it a cheapest best buy award with 74% and nothing anywhere near that price range went much higher. I already have a larger Kenwood food processor and as I live alone, I was fed up with having to use the big one for small chop jobs and also liked the idea of making my own mayo in small quantities [it doesn't keep well] and the drizzle hole is perfect for that. I used it yesterday to chop onions and sweet potato for hash browns. The small sweet potato was rough cut in chunks [about 2 cm x 1 cm ] and processed in two parts. Half a medium sized onion chopped roughly into four - processed in one go. Both easy, both producing fairly consistent sizes. And I could feel how it would reduce much further quite quickly. I found all parts easy to remove and clean. I nearly bought the Ninja as I love their blender, but when I saw how food got stuck I backed away.. that's a big NO NO for me. The base is a little [very little] tricky as it has no handle.. but if you are careful and feel it rather than force, you should get the knack fairly easily. It does take very small quantities, but it also takes up little space.. The instructions say 'don't use for coffee or hard spices' which is a pity but my main purpose for this is to chop small quantities and mix small quantities. The bigger Kenwood is a pain to wash, too big and I live in a small studio.. so it invaribly goes in the dishwasher but it is great for larger portions and mixing pastry etc. Last year I ordered a cuisinart mini after much $oul $earching as I have to be careful with my spending.. It was stolen from outside my door. It's taken me a year almost to get round to trying again.. and this time I had to go cheaper.. That one cost over £40 and this one £14.99. I also paid for extra warranty given most items are not made to last [my bugbear as I have kettles and dishwasher etc my mother bought 25 yrs ago]... The warranty was about £3 or so.. bringing the price up a bit.

It’s a uk item. Did come with adapter Very strange that it was sold without this explanation The seller offered full refund and keep the item though.

Best chopper in the market,, using it from past one n half years...stylish,, compact n handy😍😍😍 truly satisfied...

I used it to make food for my baby and its working perfectly

I had use this same product before and had purchase it more expensive than wat amazon had offered . It was really handy and ease my work in the kitchen.

love it becos it is tiny and compact. easy to clean. and work as expected. been wanting this for a very long time.