Progressive International Prepworks NUT Chopper, Grey

When I received this nut grinder I was impressed with its size. The top of the grinder fits quite a few nuts. I also like you can chop them coarse or fine. The base is quite large and holds up to 1 1/2 chopped nuts and has an easy removal bottom which does not move on the counter when using. This is by far the best chopper I have purchased!!

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.

I like the size of this chopper, and the shape of the bottom makes it more stable than similar choppers I've had over the years. The graduated measurements on the bottom container are very convenient for tracking the amount of nuts being chopped. However, I am not pleased with the size of the chop. I've tried turning the blades in both directions, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. I was hoping for a coarser chop.

It’s kinda made upside down , at least the functionality would recognize it sets on wider side ant that’s a lid !? Only grinds from one side and it’s on the bottom / quality is strong enough yet grinder is set too course and one sided - wired it would be produced this way , it’s not consumer friendly , yet the old one like this I can’t find and it was smaller but functional /

I like the square bottom. It seems more stable than my old conical one. I like that I don’t have to hold the thing together while I grind as I have to with the one that unscrews in the middle. I don’t like the way it grinds. The handle is hard to turn, and one ends up swinging it back and forth instead of making a circle. You get a lot of dust and mixed size chunks. It’s not easy to clean the blades. If you turn it upside down to pull off the bottom cover, some nuts that go up into the top section get stuck. If you try to take off the bottom cover without up-ending it, some of the nuts spill out. So far, I’ve only used it for pistachios and walnuts that I put in cookies. [Sometimes frozen nuts are easier to chop because they are brittle and frozen oils don’t gunk up the blades as much.]