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Oct 30, 2024

6 Best Vegetable Choppers of 2024

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These vegetable choppers make prep easy and fun.

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The trusty vegetable chopper can make cutting veggies, blitzing up sauces and chopping herbs a breeze. 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.

Vegetable choppers come in various styles, from manual pull or push models to motorized versions that make chopping quick and effortless. These appliances vary in materials and capacities, ensuring there's a perfect option for every kitchen and lifestyle. Whether you want to avoid the hassle of hand-chopping garlic for pasta sauce or need a speedy way to prep peppers for a salad, a good vegetable chopper is a valuable tool to have on hand.

At the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, we rigorously test thousands of products each year, including food processors, personal blenders and more. As part of our evaluations, we put dozens of vegetable choppers — both manual and electric — through their paces and tested 11 popular models. During testing, we focused on ingredients commonly used in home kitchens, such as onions, parsley, celery and canned tomatoes.

Testers loved this electric vegetable chopper because the motor located at the top of the model operates somewhat like an immersion blender. It powers a windmill-like blade to chop foods finely and evenly, producing a mince of onions in only one two-second pulse, making it a very powerful and efficient chopper. In fact, testers suggested that it was so powerful that they had to be mindful not to over-process — for example, after five pulses, onions were pureed.

The large-capacity bowl, which has a gripped base to prevent slipping, is great for big tasks like chopping bell peppers, but it can prove difficult when chopping smaller items, like a few cloves of garlic. The motor is detachable from the dishwasher-safe bowl for easy storage. The bowl also comes with a locking lid for storing chopped vegetables in the refrigerator.

Fullstar's chopper has gained a lot of attention on TikTok and is a top seller on Amazon. 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.

Insert the larger dicing disc and press down on the hinged lid to quickly chop firmer foods like potatoes or onions; use the smaller disc for softer foods like tomatoes or avocados. Or flip the lid open to use the spiralizing disc. Take note: If you want a perfect dice, it helps to cut the food into even planks first.

Unlike other vegetable choppers, this pick is not suited to chopping parsley or other herbs, so it's best used for larger vegetables. It is dishwasher safe and has a durable, large-capacity base (5 cups!), so it can prep more veggies in one round than smaller models.

A food processor is a workhorse in your kitchen: It chops veggies in minutes, purees smooth dips and creates delicious sauces (like pesto!). And this mini food processor option takes up significantly less storage space than its larger counterpart. It's a great choice for those with smaller kitchens, but it's important to note that it can't do all of the same jobs as a larger food processor, like make dough, nor does it come with additional attachments, like a grating disk.

In testing, this electric vegetable chopper produced even and finely chopped results, whether onions or softer ingredients like canned tomatoes. The bowl is large and clear, but it does not include a maximum fill line, so use caution when adding liquid to ensure the chopper doesn't overflow.

This small but mighty chopper is a fun way to mince garlic — a job that can be smelly and messy. Simply add cloves to the chamber, close the lid and roll the wheels on your countertop.

The rolling action causes the blades to rotate — testers found it to be incredibly intuitive and easy to use. Plus, it has a compact design and can easily fit in most kitchen drawers for easy storage. This tool is dishwasher safe, which is great since the blades and enclosed chamber can make it difficult to hand wash.

In testing, this chopper minced garlic cloves quickly and neatly, so it makes a great gift for cooks who love to start their dishes off with this ultra-flavorful aromatic. But testers did note that it doesn't have functionality beyond garlic.

This compact manual chopper uses a pull mechanism (kind of like starting a lawnmower) to spin the blade and chop vegetables. The big handle is easy for most to hold, and in our Lab tests, the blades spun smoothly to evenly chop vegetables. The roomy bowl (holds 25 ounces) has a grippy bottom to prevent slipping, but we noted that it doesn't include measurement markers.

Testers noticed some bruising on the chopped parsley leaves, but the blades worked efficiently to cut through onions and to puree canned tomatoes. The blades also stood firmly in the base even when food was added, but they were easy to remove for simple cleaning.

This small-capacity chopper is great to keep on hand for cutting small amounts of vegetables, like shallots or a handful of garlic cloves. The clear bowl has well-defined measurement markers, and the lid locks onto the bowl easily but securely to help prevent spills.

The grippy base resists slipping on the counter when vegetables are being chopped. The plunger can be locked in the lowered position for more compact storage. Plus, all parts are dishwasher safe and can be easily disassembled for more thorough cleaning. In testing, we found that the way the blade spins sometimes means that ingredients are chopped in the same place, resulting in cut that are less even than other models.

Our experts considered manual and electric vegetable choppers of multiple capacities for this test. We researched the vegetable choppers that consumers are interested in buying and reviewed the offerings from brands that have performed well in other tests.

We evaluated the ease of use and performance of 11 vegetable choppers by chopping onions, carrots, peppers, garlic and celery. This helped us determine the evenness of the chopping and the ability to produce different sizes.

We minced parsley and pureed tomatoes to check the performance with soft and wet foods. We also took note of the ease of assembly and cleaning.

✔️ Type: Vegetable choppers come in two styles: manual and electric.

✔️ Capacity: If you have limited storage space — or generally prep only small amounts of veggies — a chopper with a small bowl is a good option. Larger-capacity choppers clearly require more space to store, but the spacious bowls allow you to prep a lot at once or at least to empty less frequently as you chop in batches.

✔️ Material: Vegetable choppers are generally made with plastic or glass bowls and steel blades. Many models also include grips on the bottom of the chopper bowls to provide stability while chopping. Most manual pull-style choppers do not have dishwasher-safe lids, but the bowls and blades are often dishwasher-safe. Rely on the manufacturer's instructions to correctly wash and prevent the breaking of choppers or dulling of blades. Never wash the motors or mechanisms of an electric chopper.

For many people, they are. They're often faster than a knife and generally smaller than a food processor. Vegetable choppers come in handy when you're chopping a large amount of produce or are looking for a quick, low-mess solution for chopping small items like multiple cloves of garlic.

Electric choppers are particularly versatile; not only can they quickly chop vegetables, but they also blend up dips, sauces and purees.

The best vegetable chopper to buy depends on how you want to use it. If you often chop small amounts of herbs and garlic, smaller manual choppers make light work of these jobs. Onions and other large vegetables, like carrots, may require a larger-capacity chopper. Electric vegetable choppers, like mini food processors, provide more versatility, so if you like to make dips or purees as well as chop vegetables, investing in an electric chopper is helpful to have on hand.

Associate Food Editor Becca Miller has been with Good Housekeeping since 2018. She writes about all things food and cooking. She is a passionate home cook and is always looking for the best kitchen gadgets to make dinner prep a breeze.

Abigail Bailey is the assistant to the General Manager of the Good Housekeeping Institute, and she covers everything from kitchen gear to mattresses. She led the testing for this story, spending hours researching and chopping produce to find the best vegetable choppers.

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.

Becca Miller (she/her) has been working in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen since 2018, where she researches and writes about tasty recipes, food trends and top cooking tools. She graduated from NYU with a liberal arts degree focusing on creative writing. She makes killer scrambled eggs, enjoys a glass of un-oaked chardonnay and takes pride in her love of reality television.

Abigail (she/her) is product reviews writer who has covered everything from kitchen gear to mattresses and smart blinds. She graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.A. in creative writing and earned her M.S. in publishing digital and print media from New York University. She currently works at Wirecutter, but has also spent time on staff at Good Housekeeping and The Southern Review literary magazine. In her free time you can find her quilting, cross-stitching or trying to figure out how to squeeze one more bookshelf in her tiny apartment.

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