When you’re a busy parent, anything that saves you time is worth looking into. And when it comes to saving time in the kitchen, a vegetable chopper is one of the best things you can buy. You will find that using a vegetable chopper allows you to use more of the vegetable. This means you waste less food by using more.

I'm disabled with one ‘good’ hand. I have a Zyliss Easy Pull which is brilliant. It has different blades, from fine to coarse, then you literally just pull the handle. Easy to clean and durable.” (Recommended by Mumsnet user Uncomfortablydumb53) Overall size - Look for a chopper that’s neat and compact so it won’t take up too much room on your worktop and can easily be stored away in a cupboard when it’s not in use.A vegetable chopper is just what it sounds like, a piece of kitchen equipment that chops your vegetables for you so you don’t have to do it yourself with a knife. It’s a one litre bowl with a 500ml capacity for food, so you can chop up everything you need for a family dinner. With it being made of glass it is heavier than a lot of the other mini food choppers out there, but it also feels a lot more sturdy.

As you can now chop vegetables faster and easier, you will reduce the amount of waste you produce in your kitchen. Which reduces your environmental damage, resulting in you reducing your carbon footprint. As you can now successfully chop vegetables into the correct size for many recipes, you will find that you need to use less vegetables to achieve that desired shape and size. Which means your vegetables will go further. Saving you money in the process. We weighed up the pros and cons of each model we found to decide which vegetable choppers offered the most value for money and would be the most useful to busy families. Why you should trust us Don’t want to add another bit of plastic to your kitchen? Then take a look at this Russell Hobbs chopper with its beautiful glass bowl.

What is a vegetable chopper?

The cheapest chopper on our list is the no-fuss, no-frills manual vegetable chopper from the OXO Good Grips range. It comes with a set of two stainless steel blades that you can use for chopping both coarsely and finely, as well as puréeing and liquidising. And it also comes with a blending tool that’s perfect for making your own mayonnaise and for mixing up sauces, dips, and dressings. There are advantages with both types of vegetable choppers, manual and electric. Manual Vegetable Choppers

A great all-rounder in the kitchen, the VonShef Mini Chopper makes preparing dinner for the family so much easier. Variable settings - Some choppers have different settings that let you control the speed of the blades. This is really useful if you want to use it for more than just cutting up your veg. Think about how much control you need to have over the process and choose a model that gives you what you need. I use a Zyliss chopper. It's excellent for chopping veg for soups, etc.” (Vetted by Mumsnet user NanTheWiser)With it being a manual device you’re in control of how much you spin the blades, so you can chop the veg as finely as you want in it. There are a few different types of vegetable choppers available. Some are like mini food processors, with blades that spin around to cut your veg up. Others are a lot more simple and work by manually pushing the food through a grid of blades. What can you do with a food chopper? You simply pop your food in the bowl, put the top on, and then pull the handle to spin the blades and chop the food. This depends on what you want to use the food chopper for, but these are the key things to look out for: Small and easy to take anywhere with you, so great if you need to blitz up baby food away from home

The Kenwood Mini Chopper is one of the most food processor-type choppers on our list, and it is basically a mini version of their standard processor. It has four blades and two speed settings so you can chop, dice, blend, and purée everything you need in no time.Once you get used to using a vegetable chopper, whether it’s an electric model or a hand operated model, you will find it is so easy to use, you’ll wonder how you ever got by without one. If you choose a vegetable chopper which is manually operated, it will require you to physically operate it. This assumes you are fit and have the ability to use one. There are a number of different options when it comes to vegetable choppers, with the 2 main types being manual models which can chop your vegetables into small, neat pieces in a really short time. Or the electric models which have the ability to chop, mince, dice, blend and mix almost everything you can eat. Including meat, fish, vegetables, purees and sauces. These models tend to be like food processors, only smaller so they leave your kitchen with more space.