Chopper Food Processors

I get salad at a local salad place where you go in and choose your ingredients and then they put all the ingrediants you chose for your salad including the type of lettuce into a chopping machine. What comes out is yummy chopped evenly mixed ingrediants in a matter of seconds.

So I tried doing this in my food processor and no matter how little I tried pulsing it- it cut the pieces of my salad way too little- almost to a salsa. Especially the leaves of lettuce.

What kind of chopper do you think these guys use. I’d really like to get one. I would totally eat more salads if all I had to do to make one was dump all the ingrediants in a machine at once and it spit out a nicely chopped salad.

What kind of electric chopper will chop salad- including Lettuce?
I get salad at a local salad place where you go in and choose your ingredients and then they put all the ingrediants you chose for your salad including the type of lettuce into a chopping machine. What comes out is yummy chopped evenly mixed ingrediants in a matter of seconds.

So I tried doing this in my food processor and no matter how little I tried pulsing it- it still cut the pieces of my salad way too tiny- almost to a salsa. Especially the leaves of lettuce.

What kind of chopper do you think these guys use? I’d really like to get one. I would totally eat more salads if all I had to do to make one was dump all the ingrediants in a machine at once and it spit out a nicely chopped salad.

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• electric salad chopper
• electric salad chopper food processor

do you know anything that could work as a substitute? i have a "salsa chopper" will that work? XD
what about that cross knife thing? i dont mind buying something as long as it isn’t expensive

thanks!

It is okay, or will it "ruin" the lettuce? I usually buy the shreds, but I have not had very good luck with finding "green" lettuce, or it is done for a day or two later. I put it in the green veggie bags, but that has not helped it. I was hoping to try to make my own "shreds". I use it in a pita pocket for my lunch everyday. If it is okay to shred it in a processor, how is the best way to do it? I have the Food Network Mini-Procesor/chopper. I just bought it, so this is all new to me.

Thanks…

I’m getting rather confused. Went from liking Mandoline Slicers to not really liking them. I think a food processor would be IDEAL (one that is good with shredded cheese quickly & potatoes for homefries). Anyway, I was looking online here and saw something abt shredders/slicers? I think but not totally sure that those attach to a regular standard mixer? I might have one of those stored in the attic somewhere, never used so I have to go look but is that what they are or are they separate?

And what is best out of these 3….Mandoline Slicer, Food Processor or Shredder/Slicer thing?

Thanks.
And I know there’s other brands besides Kitchen Aid
I would like to make thin french fries, thin zucchini slices (I call it zucchini spaghetti; then I just cook it with olive oil & garlic, etc. I hand sliced one once. NOT again! Took WAY too long).

Also would like to make homefries.

Would like to shred cheese to make my own mac & cheese. I have a little chopper. I also have the magic bullet but I was thinking something more powerful, like a processor. My Bullet doesn’t do cheese all that well. And whatever else I can think of.

hand grating takes time, will it matter if I throw them in a blender?????
made a lowfat turkey meatloaf, found a wicked chopper, chopped , carrot, garlic and mushrooms,pulsed onions with blender and it actually was good, with extra breadcrumbs, wasn’t too mushy.