Crying Over Salsa

Dex buys a new gadget every week. Most of them end up in The Drawer. This week Kit walked into the kitchen and found him sobbing over the cutting board, knife in hand. She assumed someone had died. Someone had: one red onion, forty minutes in.

Onions make your eyes water because cutting them releases an irritating gas, and the longer you hack at one, the worse it gets. So Dex's latest impulse buy is built to get the chopping over with fast.

What the Fullstar Pro Original Vegetable Chopper & Spiralizer actually does

It's a dicer with a lid you push down:

• Load. Set a peeled onion half (or a pepper, cucumber, zucchini) flat on the dicing grid.
• Press. Close the lid. Its pusher grid forces the food through the blades, and the cubes drop straight into the clear container underneath.
• Swap. It comes with interchangeable blades: a fine 1/4-inch dicer, a medium 1/2-inch dicer, plus ribbon and spiral blades for veggie noodles.

The container holds about 5 cups, the parts are dishwasher safe, and it costs under $30. Check Amazon for the current price.

Snag it or skip it?

Kit's ruling: it stays. She'd like the record to show it was the onion.

Get the veggie chopper on Amazon

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