The device works with four very sharp knives, which are mounted above each other. This arrangement is really well thought out, because that is (unlike similar devices) cut in the entire container, not only near the ground. You can simply plug it to run and does not have to stir around in between or unrecognized ingredients from the upper edge of the vessel tap into the cup. This really works great (except see below). I've tried the device now both dry individual ingredients (onion, garlic, carrots, bunch of parsley) and to mixed, partly liquid ingredients (3 different pestos, 1 Salsa).
The individual vegetables were all processed rapidly. Onion and carrots I had previously chop coarsely, since longer or thicker pieces block the knife in the shredder and so paralyze the device. For my purpose (vegetable rice) the results were very good: small and very uniform. For salad, the snippets so produced would only partly useful. The carrots are chopped; sees in salad not as appetizing as the grated variant. The onion is obviously a bit squashed hacking, so that the diced mass had a slightly mushy consistency. When preparing salad me the device is therefore not help - pity. Trying to chop a bunch of parsley, was only moderately successful. Parts of it were thrown in the very first round shredder at the container wall, got stuck there and were subsequently no longer detected by the knives. The Fitzel I had to then scrape out with a knife, so I saved by the machine hoes not really have time. The parsley looked after several rounds in the chopper also taken something.
With pesto and salsa me the device, however, has convinced one hundred percent - there is really optimal. For the pesto ingredients were of very different consistency (including various nuts / olives / cheese / garlic / oil / basil / spinach) processed salsa mostly softer (mango, pepper, onion, honey, lime juice). I have deliberately made in the preparation of little work - no voheriges crushing (except of course for large items such as the pepper), no "stages" processing. A kitchen gadget is for me only makes sense if it is not more or less presupposes extensive preparatory work but gets going immediately. I have therefore instead each given all the ingredients in all four test laps at a time into the vessel and operate the unit until the desired consistency was reached. That only lasted a few seconds - as fast as I had never done the preparation. And the result was always perfect: not too coarse, not too mushy; all the ingredients were wonderfully interconnected. Also, the basil and spinach have been (unlike the single shredded parsley) in the midst of the other ingredients processed along smoothly.
Conclusion: A powerful device that (almost) all crushed in no time. For each ingredient, the results are not suitable for any use; the possibilities are therefore limited. When preparing pesto and similar dishes but the unit is truly outstanding. And since it does not take away a lot of space, you can set up so that it is always at hand it even in small kitchens. Who as I like and often eat pasta and do not always want to stand for hours in the kitchen, gets a very practical helpers with this device.
