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Customer Reviews of Nicer Dicer
Customer Rating:   Summary: Not like the Commercials! Don't be fooled! Comment: Hi Everyone, I was so disappointed in the Nicer Dicer, the first thing I wanted to do is write this review to spare you a financial loss. I was amazed at the commercials to see how fast food items could be chopped. Personally, I hate food prep, so anything to speed it up would be a god send! First time use, I was cutting up orange bell peppers (capiscums) using the smaller finer blades (tiny squares), and I decided to save some time, so I stacked up 3 of them. I guess there was something wrong with the bell peppers, because not all of them went through. I thought to myself, maybe I can poke them out, but decided to give it 1 more whirl. So I pressed really hard to force it through, then boink... 2 of the blades popped out, and warped out 2 others holding it. It seems the blades simply rest on each other, and aren't really "joined". I can't imagine being able to do a hard freshly cut potato. Making french fries with the chance of metal bits, um, good bye potato. I'm going to see if I can get a replacement for the smaller bladed dicer part. But be warned, if the item is not soft, don't do it. If it get's stuck, don't force it through. Honestly for first time use, I would think 3 bell peppers cut with a knife into small chunks, then stacked on each other in the dicer circle should be able to get diced. Bell peppers are soft and flat, aren't they? Anyhoo, watch out! I'm going to use the big bladed one as that is all I can use now. So just tomatoes, mushrooms, and cucumbers in that thing, but the pieces are awefully big for my spaghetti sauce. I like them small. OH well... here's hoping for a replacement part. Overall, *not* recommended. Unless you're just cutting up tomatoes and mushrooms, I think you're good to go. I wish I could have used the smaller blades to cut my tomato's... Geez, I can't imagine what an apple would do to it. [To afraid to try less breaking the other bigger dicer part] Customer Rating: Summary: experiment with the product - it will work! Comment: I have had a nicer dicer for several years and I love it. Many of the problems people mention I have experienced but if you play with it you will figure it out. Everything I put in at first was too big. Cut smaller chunks before trying to dice. If you don't want the long strips, do your initial slices thinner then stack them when putting them on the dicer. I have no problems with tomatoes if I make sure the meat side is up and skin down. They are juicy so I put a dish rag under it and then just rinse it out when finished with juicy items. This weekend we used it for dicing sweet potatoes. Slice thick "chips" and them dice those...worked great. Hope this helps some of you that have one in their cabinet and have given up on using it. Customer Rating: Summary: Love it! Simplifies the chopping process with uniform-cut veggies or fruits Comment: I have found that using this product is really only effective IF you use the freshest ingredients. For example, if you have an onion that has been sitting in your kitchen for a while, you may have challenges using it, due to the tough layers of the onion. I use only fresh fruits and veggies and I have absolutely no problems. I love how quickly it cleans up, too! I've had mine for more than a year now and I use it all the time. When I need some chopped onions, I use my dicer to dice the whole onion, remove what I need for my recipe and freeze the rest of the chopped onion in a zip-lock baggie. It's perfect for helping with the prep work. I highly recommend this product! Customer Rating: Summary: One good, one bad Comment: Our first one (from Bed Bath and Beyond) cut everything and had no problems. We gave that one away and got the second on ebay. I ruined the blades on the second one the first night. The coarse blades bent twice on a sweet potato (not a yam). I fixed it the first time but gave up on the second time. I did not get through one potato! I threw out the coarse blade. I am using the fine blade for garlic. Maybe the one from ebay was a knockoff and not the real deal. Customer Rating: Summary: NO DICE! Slick advertising is misleading & false! Comment: A better name would be NO-DICE! I made hash browns today to test my Nicer-Dicer, but found it neither diced or chopped my potato! Instead, it produced either thick or thin julienned potato strips, depending on which blade I used. As per the instructions, I peeled & cut my potato in half. I first tried the larger blade, which produced long, medium thick, french fries, taking great ushing force. Because I wanted diced, not julienned potatoes, I read that I had used the wrong blade - I should have used the DICING blade. So I put the second half of my potato on the unit & tried the smaller-holed DICING blade, which seemed too small for my potato half. Using full body weight - and I'm a strong Norwegian gal - I thought the unit would snap in two as it was so difficult to push down, even following the instruction to put one hand on the jar and the other on the end of the unit while pushing. It didn't break. But, it once again julienned the potato, this time into thinner strips. I went back to the instructions, but found nothing there to tell me how to get diced pieces. And that's because it can't do it. I ended up transferring the strips to a cutting board & hand cutting them into diced cubes. And the clean-up wasn't fun as bits of potato got stuck in the tiniest edge holes which had to be poked out with a toothpick! Because the box says dices, juliennes and chops, I bought it. Unless I totally missed something, the Nicer Dicer only juliennes - totally misleading/false. Anyone who cooks knows that the result of julienning is totally different from DICING and CHOPPING! One produces strips, and the others produces small cubed pieces. Referring to the smaller blade as a DICING blade is also misleading as it is just another julienne blade. Conclusion: This is great for julienning, but that's all. So if you are looking for something that dices or cubes, save the $39.00. I plan on returning it for a refund tomorrow, unless someone who has it can tell me how to make it dice and chop! More Reviews Genius Nicer Dicer As Seen on TV. Put away that knife and leave the food processor in the cabinet. If you love to cook, but hate the hassle of preparation and clean up, you're going to love the Genius Nicer Dicer. Nicer Dicer Features: Small, Counter-Top Size Precision German Engineering, Stainless Steel Precision Cutting Blades, Sturdy, Impact Molded Plastic Construction. Genius Nicer Dicer includes: 1 Nicer Dicer, Base, 2 Blades, 2 Bowls & Lids, and Recipe Book. 
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