PrepWorks Nut Chopper – Manual Handheld Nut Grinder for Chopping Nuts, Seeds, and Herbs, Easy to Use, BPA-Free

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Very durable nut chopper. Easy to use and clean. It is a good value for the money and I highly recommend.

What I Like: The square design of this nut grinder is much better than its round counter part as all six grinding blades are full length. This makes for a more efficient and more consistent grind. It is easy to use on softer nuts like walnuts and pecans. The removeable bottom makes it much easier to clean and remove finished product. The grind, although inconsistant, is better than results in a food processor and far less effort than chopping with a knife. What I don't like: It is not a sturdy when grinding almonds as there is alot of flex in the handle, it takes a good amount of effort, you really need to secure the center of the crank with your thumb while turning a half turn at a time with your fingers otherwise it feels on the verge of breaking apart. The handle is also too short and too flimsy to get proper leverage on hard nuts like almond. Although it does a good job on softer nuts with almonds the entire mechanism flexes and unless I support it as mentioned above it feels like it will break apart. I also saw no difference between course and fine grind. Summary: At $23 this is as good and as sturdy as one can expect. I would pay more for a sturdier version that made it easier to grind almonds but I saw no such option. For the money I'm OK with it and it does give an acceptable grind for nuts used in sundaes, baklava, and to put over cereal. I am not confident in its longevity as improper technique with almonds may break it.

I tried it on walnuts. "I should have more walnuts in my diet and less Gluten" sooo. This is great! Put the walnuts or whatever kind of nuts you want in the top. The crank indicates to turn in one way for fine chop and turn the other way for coarse chop. The you turn it (which is not the smoothest to do, but it is what it is) and the chopped nuts go into the holder below. Not as messy as me chopping with a knife and lots safer. I can chop twice as many nuts in the same time. ( I put them in my yogurt with blueberries.) It seems the nuts I refrigerated are a bit easier to chop. I have washed it in dishwasher top rack twice and it comes out fine. I am impressed with this! There are even measurements on the bottom cup so you can see how much you have chopped, for recipes. Turn the whole thing over, open the bottom lid and you can dump the nuts out easily.

Sharp blades and works well. It lasted a year before breaking, it is just a lot of plastic. I was happy when it worked, but am now shopping for another and will go in a different direction to try and find something more durable.

This is good for chopping nuts

I thought this would be the answer to my hatred of chopping nuts or paying the high price of chopped nuts in the store. It turns out that the only positive thing I can say is that the retro color is cool. This chopper does not work!! The parts are difficult to put together and don't stay together when you turn the handle to chop nuts unless you push down hard on the top. And even then, if you aren't pressing down straight, the chopper topples over, the components came apart and chopped nuts spill all over your counter. So, after I cleaned up the mess, even though I was turning in the direction to produce larger pieces, at least half of what came out was powder (nut meal); totally unusable for what I was baking! I'm honestly not sure how you're supposed to get the "chopped" nuts out successfully. When I turned the chopper over to empty the bottom compartment, I apparently wasn't holding all the parts together strongly enough because the components came apart again...nuts all over the counter!! This chopper has serious design issues!! I wish I had returned this after the first use but I decided to try it again knowing all I had learned about it. The second time was only marginally better. I still had to man-handle it and I basically got nut powder in the end. I was going to give it to Goodwill but decided it wouldn't be fair to whoever bought it and threw it away instead. I have only ever written one bad review before this and didn't really want to spend the time writing this one, but I felt strongly that I needed to tell of my experience.

Now this year is the best thing I believe I have gotten off of here. I love this utensil. It’s amazing. It’s what you need. I saw it at a friend’s house and so I had to get me one.