This genius gadget cuts cooking time in half and even chefs can’t resist it

Whether you pick fresh veggies from your own garden or stock up at your local farmers market, an abundance of summer produce makes preparing warm-weather dinners a breeze—but the preparation is another.

A simple coarse salsa, a big salad or a stir fry is flavorful and easy to make, but chopping every single ingredient can be a pain. In search of the best tastewanted a solution that would help her save time slicing, dicing, and chopping vegetables at home. A quick search on Amazon revealed an affordable tool that she liked so much she ordered a second one for her mom.

Fullstar All-in-One Vegetable Chopper

“During the summer, I want to spend less time in my kitchen and more time outdoors,” Calvo says. “One of my favorite things is a chopped salad, but it’s so much work to peel and chop everything. With this tool, I can do it all in no time. I’d say it cuts the time and effort by 75 percent.”

Large countertop dicers make manual work easier in professional kitchens, but they’re not suitable for home kitchens. Calvo, who has commercial dicers installed in restaurants, thought he should have something similar for his own kitchen.

With a quick search, she found Fullstar’s all-in-one vegetable chopper and ordered it right away. Fullstar’s multi-tool functions like a mandolin, with interchangeable blades designed for a variety of cuts. Options include a slicer (with three thickness settings), grater, julienne blade, and two dicing blades (one small, one large). Choose the blade you want to use and attach it to the top of the clear, BPA-free box, designed to catch produce as you process. This oversized catch tray makes cleanup a breeze. Blades not in use are stored in a standing organizer, protecting your hands from sharp edges.

“I’m not a gadget person, but this is a real time saver,” says Calvo. “It’s so sharp that it doesn’t pulverize veggies. I’ve had it for over a year and it hasn’t lost any of its sharpness. I use it to dice everything from raw potatoes to fresh, juicy tomatoes.” And Calvo’s mom, a hairdresser who suffers from arthritis, loves the chopper, too: “When I found the Fullstar All-in-One Veggie Chopper, I knew it would help ease my mom’s pain, so she can enjoy cooking and we can enjoy her cooking!”

This tool comes with many parts, the finger guard is a plastic hand guide to keep your fingers away from the blade, protective gloves are included, and it also comes with a handy tool, the 3-in-1 spiralizer, which is sold separately.

Calvo’s kitchen is very organised and he keeps all the parts he needs for his all-in-one in one drawer, but if you can’t dedicate an entire drawer to the all-in-one, you can use plastic storage boxes to keep all your tool parts together and safely stored in a cupboard.

Get it now on Amazon for $40. After all, it’s a chef-approved product.

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At the time of publication, the price was $40.