It would be cool to see some of Dan's designed gadget here on the channel

Dan: already knows the industrial chopper doesn’t work also Dan: aggressive tomato pounding

The industrial food chopper is a tool I'm intimately familiar with. The trick is to do it all in a single motion. Raise the handle all the way up to where it's nearly off of the guides and slam down with full strength. It's loud, it's messy, and a little frightening. You also should oil the rods.

At Carl’s Jr. we had a chopper that looked like the industrial chopper, it was for tomatoes and onions but it actually worked. I think it’s a copy cat that doesn’t work.

I have to question if that industrial chopper accidentally had the blade array in upside down. It just seems too much to believe that something like that was really *THAT* bad of a failure.

Love how everyone who's ever worked with restaurant/commercial food prep is coming to the industrial chopper's defense. I can't vouch for this particular brand but I can say from experience that generally these dicers work really well. I'd guess this particular product is either defective and misaligned or (as other commenters have suggested) the blades are inverted.

I have received 2 different brands of the “industrial choppers” as gifts and one of them did not work at all and the other is FANTASTIC! One of the differences was there are serrated blades and also there is much more leverage for the one I kept

For the Cheese Chopper, the block should have rested against the back plate. Otherwise the block squeezes back as the blade descends and also causes the whole 'drawer' to drift back as well. The lettuce chopper, try a half a head at a time, it would work fine.

the second one was obviously faulty. i used one every day to prep at ruby tuesday and had zero problems

It amazes me how hilarious he is but yet he keeps a straight face 🤣

The fry chipper was acting almost like the blade was in upside-down.

I worked in a restaurant for a while and they had a lever action version of that commercial chopper thing that worked very well. It only got used for onions and potatoes (the latter to make home cut french fries). It was useful because it was very fast and we needed to cut a LOT of fries. For home cooking, I have yet to see a cutting or chopping gadget that beats a properly used knife in the result and certainly in the cleanup.

There should be a "gadgets revisted" episode or 2 where Dan goes back and uses the gadgets he used incorrectly in other episodes and gets them right this time around

Anyone else annoyed that he didn't use the cheese slicer properly? The wheel is to adjust the platform and that panel at the back of the moving platform would help stabilize the cheese. It's not there for show its there for functionality

Two comments: the herb chopper, I wouldn't increase the amount of blades. I had a wood and steel one that had 3 blades and it was hell to use!! The blades were so close together that what ever herbs I was trying to chop would end up packed in-between the blades. Rather tightly actually, the more I used it the more got packed instead of staying in the cutting board to get cut further. It was a gift from an in-law so I tried to use it for a while; used various things like a chopstick, a fork... basically anything at hand to clean out between the extremely sharp blades except my fingers. Then it was out in a drawer and quietly forgotten about. Secondly that salad cutting bowl. In the original commercials you were supposed to be able to throw in all the ingredients to your salad, tomatoes, a hunk of cucumber, seeded Bell peppers and a bunch of lettuce, cut along the lines turn 90 degrees cut again and voila! Pour in a bowl, dress and eat your perfect salad. But the guide lines don't come down all the way as you saw. If I was redesigning this I would raised the bottom ¼ an inch and lower the guide lines ¼ an inch and make it out of a much sturdier plastic all over. Yes people want things to be "cheap" but that is less a concern of material costs and more a problem with companies demanding 400% profit after costs. Decrease the profit margins and we could get a lot better products.

I usually tend toward agreeing with all of his assessments EXCEPT this time. I’m not sure what happened with the industrial chopper but I’ve worked in restaurants for fifteen years and been around and used several of that particular device, and they do exactly what they’re meant to do, and yes, you do have to slide down the length of the supports with a fair amount of force but if the blades are sharp, as with any tool designed to cut, they do work. I wonder if they just didn’t get a restaurant grade version for the purposes of the video

If only he knew how to use that secon chopper. Lol it’s a lifesaver when I’ve got tons of things to prep at my job.

Ok. I've used the industrial chopper for years, and even when the inserts were starting to dull it worked fantastically. With dulled blades you do have to actually get a pretty forceful smash in, otherwise you don't reach the threshold required to cut the veggies, and you just wind up smushing them. But with a heavier, forceful and abrupt chopping motion, you wind up getting a whole potato's worth of fries every 3 seconds or so, perfectly cut and exactly even. Also there are multiple heads/inserts for the machine. So you can do a french frie potato cut, or you can do apple slices and cores, or you can do potato wedges, etc. A very useful time saver. ...also, might I suggest the expert in cases where he's getting no traction try double checking to make sure he's not operating the gadget wrong? I get that he's an expert, but even experts get it wrong sometimes.

I love how his redesign of the salad cutter is literally an ulu knife...its a strange knife used in artic regions if I remember correctly. So....he accidentally created an old but not well known knife design.

It’s interesting that people by these kitchen gadgets to make like easier but often times, especially for me, a knife or just a regular tool is a lot easier and faster. The kitchen gadgets that I’ve bought in the past never gets used because they make cooking harder or that I forget I have them

Still 40 years? It must surely be 41 years by now! Great reviews as ever Dan!!! And such great humor! Thank you!

Pretty sure the blades were in the wrong way on the vevor. Used one for years and as long as the blades are sharp and in the right way it cuts great. But if you put them in dull side up...

Glad I'm not the only one that thought there was something off with that chopper. When I worked at a restaurant they were used all the time and worked exactly as they were supposed to.

A few things: You should probably have him try the ones he tested incorrectly over again the right way. Especially the industrial chopper. Also, the link for the industrial chopper is incorrect and is a link for the Salad Chopper over again. Someone should probably fix that as well. I don't know if anyone goes over and reads these, but it's probably a good idea to also have someone make sure that he will be using every product the intended way. It doesn't make sense to rate it just based off of "intuitiveness" when part of the point of having products like these is to see if it works better than the traditional way when used as intended. The "intuitiveness" should come as part of the redesign portion, not for the whole thing.

I think the herb chopper should've gotten bonus points for being a 1-handed tool, where as the comparison tool needed 2. As per the lettuce slicer, I think that one was actually on track. If they made it a just a little bit bigger and put rubber grips on the bottom, this could also be a very useful tool for a one-handed person. You could state slicing lettuce is easy, which, sure, it is, but it does require 2 hands, so it could be useful. Still, neither was perfect though. And I definitely agree on the squared off top-handle for the herb cutter to give you a probably way better experience by feel.

The industrial press was used completely wrong. I have used this everyday, for 5 hours a day. It is an amazing device for dicing vegetables. (When used properly)

Am I the only one who is genuinely happy when see that a video with Dan is out? Don't get me wrong, the Epicurious channel is fantastic, but I love Dan's videos.

I used the second type of chopper for 20 years. If you quarter or halve the vegetables it works perfectly

The Industrial one was used completely incorrectly. When used properly with smaller pieces of veg or the larger blades it is a very effective tool for a restaurant kitchen.

I would like to point out that this series features a lot of gadgets that make daily tasks easier for people with disabilities. While it's goofy to some, it allows someone else to independently make dinner! Awesome series!

Thank you for another Dan video!! For the cheese slicer, I agree with that being a lot of plastic. I have a handheld little tool that has an adjustable metal string on it and it works wonders!

Maybe he should take a peak at the instructions for each device before he uses them. If you give an American football to someone who’s never seen one before, and they try to use it for soccer, then of course they’ll say it’s a terrible design.

I'm wondering if there was something wrong with that particular Industrial Chopper, similar gadgets usually work at least somewhat well

this guy is so entertaining to watch

Dan: alright, how much is this house “It’s $350K” Dan: alright * buys * Dan: *time for the left handed oil test*

Even without reading the manual for the cheese slicer, it is clear the cheese must be at the back of the device against the plate to prevent it from moving backwards.

The second tool is used for dicing. You put sheets of peppers, zucchini, etc. on it and then press down to get squares. Love this person though! Great videos!

I legit lost it when I saw the herb chopper have a function to flip the blades for storage, too many things don’t think about getting it out of where you are storing it and the potential dangers there!!

It’s possible that industrial chopper was defective, and the blades weren’t sharpened, but even that certainly highlights the problems you’d have down the road after extend use, and the blades get dull.

We actually had one of those industrial choppers in a kitchen I used to work in. I think maybe the blades on that one weren't sharp enough, because ours diced onions and peppers like they were hot butter. Never tried it with potatoes, but it was a godsend when we got it.

I work in a restaurant and use the second chopper every day to chop onions, green peppers and tomatoes and it works great. To use it you cut the item in half, put it in with the cut facing down and chop, very easy to use. Plus it has blades that could theoretically be put in upside down which could also make it not work properly.

The intro was gold 🤣

For the industrial chopper the blade may be upside down, or there is too much being put in it. Used to use one all the time while I worked at a taco place for red onions. We'd quarter them first before trying to chop them...

Instead of that cheese guillotine, you should just get a traditional Norwegian cheese slicer/cheese shaver. It could be translated either way, and technically you do 'shave' off a thin slice.

the lunar lander thing has a wall mount sister with a lever to push the food threw the blade and it works awesome. 10 out of 10.

I believe his redesign for the industrial chopper has a pretty bad flaw because that plunger doesn't go straight down it moves along a curve and having that near the end would have the object being pushed sideways into the blades, I would suggest a pivot point between the arm and the plunger with a linkage along the hinge so it stays in line with the blades .

With the salad chopper changes you basically suggested it become a rounded kitchen axe. I guess history kind of one that design already. I always love to see these videos, you’re a joy to watch.

He is the best part of this channel! I can watch him all day!

Some inventions that I would love to see Dan review are either some of his own designs, sushi gadgets, or possibly some tea inventions(If there are any).

The second gadget triggered me so bad I couldn't keep watching. I've used those same type of choppers in several restaurants and they worked great, so great in fact I had wanted to get one for my house but I wasn't sure how'd I store it when not using it. Definitely user error on his part.

What's crazy is when I worked at multiple restaurants we had something like the Vevor device and we used it ALL THE TIME to quickly chop stuff.

Gotta love how Dan’s redesign of the first salad chopper is just an ulu. Indigenous knowledge and ingenuity FTW! 🙌

It’s making me so sad that at least three of these products were used incorrectly in some way- seems like they didn’t get a fair trial because of user error!

At least two of these deserve a re-review used correctly. Come on guys

A new video from Dan Mimosa always brightens the day

😫 Me - when Dan's video starts to buffer 5:43 Never ever discontinue this series. He is teaching me Physics more than my actual teacher does. I love Dan a lot ❤️

Man isn’t using the chease thing right you have to make the back of the white moving piece touch the back of the cheese

I cant help but to think you may be using industrial chopper … wrong? But I don’t know what would be the correct way of using it. Maybe with a hammer? Edit: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psmEhLio2bete6s.html, oh it seems it is not meant for the potatoes, but for very tiny pieces of vegetables.

I like to listen to these review as it helps me fall asleep. I’m not saying it’s boring or anything but just comforting to fall asleep to.

The way he redesigned the salad chopper turned it into a similar shape to a traditional Ulu knife

Dan apologizing to the poor Tomato is a mood honestly

I’m always surprised that many people do not know that a “Kaasschaaf” exists. It’s a cheese slicer we use in the Netherlands for Gouda cheese, to either get an extremely thin slice or a thick one, depending how much pressure or angle you put on it. Also if you’re not careful it might destroy your knuckles, so super fun.

this is my favorite series on youtube. I LOVE IT

Ok. NGL, I've been binging these videos. Just too wholesome and interesting and Dan is a delight. 😊

I work in a pizza place, I use the industrial vegetable chopper practically every single day I work, it definitely has its flaws and dangers I will say that. We mainly use it for much easier things than a potato I'll say that, but the way we use it we slice the veggies first into much thinner strips so the blades pass through and we get diced cubes of veggies rather than long rectangles. I definitely don't recommend it for making French fries 😅

Interesting ypu had such a hard time with the commercial style food chopper. Reviews on Amazon are 4.5 stars as are others. I've a friend who has one, I'm not sure of the brand, and uses hers during canning season and makes fries with it all the time.

I used the industrial chopper all the time in one of the kitchens I worked in, it's more for easy dicing. You put a slice of tomato or onion in there and it dices it

Lunar lander 🍅 cracked me up. PERFECT!🤣🤣

I'd love to see the oily left hand test done as a comparison to doing the traditional method with an oily left hand as well. I understand that it can highlight some design flaws, but I think doing it that way would help demonstrate the difficulties that people with motor function issues have, and why such gadgets might be necessary. For example the cheese chopper - while it might not be better than using a knife in theory, for some people using a knife to get consistent slices safely is a super difficult thing. I just think it would be nice to consider the needs that the machines might be filling, as well as discuss how they could be better designed.

I mean, there's no way he thinks you are supposed to just push a whole onion through right? Like those choppers have been used for decades and people figure it out. Cut that tomato or onion in half and it'll fly right through with one or two good hits.

That opening dad joke was absolute GOLD. 🤣🪙

Dan basically just redesigning the first gadget into an ulu was pretty cool

He is the best person on this channel

I’m pretty sure the second one you tested had the blade installed upside down.

For a quick dicer chopping-force test I would try this. Get a kitchen scale, a potato or tomato, a relatively sharp knife and a small cutting board. Put the cutting board on the scale and set the weight to zero. (We're trying a whole vegetable because that's what the photos show on Amazon - search for "industrial chopper, look for the non-levered versions). Cut off a small piece of the potato or tomato to create a flat, more stable bottom surface. (And wear gloves as a precaution). Hold the knife horizontally and press it directly down into the vegetable, without slicing (meaning, without sliding the blade). Read the scale at its maximum. Multiply by 15 (the number of blades in the medium-size dicer grid) - or by at least 10 if you assume that not all the blades would be in contact. Note: This test won't account for the fact that the cut pieces will also be compressed as they start being pushed through the grid.

The industrial chopper had me rolling the entire time!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The industrial chopper was something I used a bunch at an old restaurant job and it def works, even if you have to be a bit forceful with it. I will say for us though we pre sliced the veg so we could get small diced veg as opposed to thin French fry-esque slices, can't imagine just slamming that down on a whole tomato

I love Dan and I love watching him age throughout the series. He's still just as sharp and clever and his wrinkles just hide more ingenious designs!

6:16 it's for slices to make diced. Oil the bars before use, saves on knife sharpening. Works great for diced tomatoes.

I could be sober watching this and have an amazing time. I could also have a few drinks and watch these videos and still have an amazing tome watching them. Love the guy who does the testing!

I just love this videos and Dan... He is freaking amazing, i want to adopt it as my own grandpa... Hope that the universe grant him a lot more years with good health.

alot of people seem concerned the second gadget was defective but I have a simple solution for why it didn't work. the blade tray was probably put in upside down and was chopping dull side up. I worked with kids who never learned which side goes up and I could imagine the crew putting it together before use didn't notice or it came upside down.

Yeah, I used that exact industrial chopper for like six years and it works perfectly everytime. It makes french fries. I weigh 135 pounds and it doesn’t even take much force to get a large russet potato through it.

I work in a restaurant and when prepping food we actually use basically that exact industrial vegetable chopper but only for soft things like avocados, occasionally on carrots but nothing very thick or dense

My first job was as a frycook and they had one of those industrial choppers sitting on a shelf. I tried to use it on an onion and had the same experience.

i watched another channel called freakin reviews and he done a video on the cheese slicer recently he didnt like it either neither did the cheese expert he took it to

The big dicer is used on slice food, in kitchens we would slice tomatoes with a slicer and then run them through that unit to dice them evenly and fast for making Pico de Gallo, also put onion slices through it

5:42 the smile when smashing the tomato 😂

I think the Vevor device is meant to be a dicer. I think the vegetable is meant to be cut into slices, and then you place the slices on the device to dice your vegetables faster. Probably not useful for home use, it's likely more useful for someone who runs a shop that sells sandwiches or salads etc.

It has been annoying me lately how Dan doesn't use the products in their intended purpose. For the Industrial Press, he didn't try using smaller pieces which it needed. For the Cheese Chop, he didn't rest the cheese at the back of the contraption. And for the Lettuce Chop, he didn't cut the lettuce to size at the start causing it to be awkward to work with and not cut through.

We had one of those industrial choppers at Jimmy Johns but it was MUCH sharper than that and actually worked wonders for prep

Love that Dan actually commented and corrected people in the comments 😌

Excellent 👌🏻 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a wonderful day everyone 🌻

As someone who works in the service industry, it’s so painful to see the industrial chopper being misused so horribly.

I had a horrible few days, Watching him smash veggies with that 2nd product gave me a laugh I really needed.

You gotta love Dan's approach to these videos

You used the second chopper wrong

Episodes like this make it clear his expertise is home goods, not industrial goods. Nothing wrong with that, just needs to be put into consideration considering videos like this can be detrimental to the sales of a product.

For the lettuce cutter, I think it would be cool to have a “lid” that goes over the top that can also be a salad bowl

@5:44 Best tomato sauce maker I have ever seen! Actually, it was quite comical watching you have fun. Thank you for all the videos and recommendations... and those that lack