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Am I insane for coveting my neighbors Nicer Dicer? Who has one, who wants one, who thinks they're worthless?

http://www.nicerdicer.com/

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

is that the kind of thing with which you can also cut a tin can in half?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Here's how it works:

http://www.nicerdicer.com/howitworks.asp?b=2

If this thing can cut a tin can in half then the terrorists can never win.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

after a traumatic experience with a salad shooter many years ago, i'm wary of contraptions like that.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

That illustration looks like it requires two passes through the machine to dice a potato, by which time you've probably broken the thing's hinge. I think dicing by hand is one of life's joys! If you need perfect dice, or dice for a party of 20, I'd spring for a mandoline.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

German engineering has ensured hinge integrity.

See, dicing by hand is something I'll never do well. Even the thought of finely chopping garlic has me trembling.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't even allow you to adjust the dice size? Let us know how it goes if you order it. $40 would buy a nice knife-skills class though.

I'm not sure I understand this claim: "The pieces are separated into individual layers to automatically prevent them from falling back through the cutting blades!"

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

I enjoy chopping things with a knife too much (possibly far too much) and I'm gadget-wary, though fascinated by infomercials. Does the Ronco Veg-a-matic still exist? "Slices, dices, makes julienne fries!"

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

No more Veg-a-matic, only the Dial-a-matic, which only slices and juliennes, no dicing :(

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Several things are at work here:

1) The perky German woman who appears on the infomercial has me under her spell.
2) I took a cooking class where the knives were 10x sharper than mine and I have the scars to prove it.
3) NO MORE TEARS

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

3) NO MORE TEARS

Remember, this is potentially a marketing ploy.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Hm - no 30-day money-back satisfaction guarantee?

Can you borrow your neighbor's and try it out? I'm imagining a right mess if it tangled with a ripe tomato.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

But the perky German Fraulein made an apple Strudel using only the Nicer Dicer! Strudel!

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

My neighbor is wholly fictitious and exists only in my wildest dreams.

Mark my words, this will end in NO MORE TEARS.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

so, let's say you use your Nicer Dicer to make apple strudel once a month, and that you use it to dice onions for your chili 4 times a year, and that you use it to make french fries twice (because they just aren't the same when you make them at home and dealing with the deep fryer is a pain and all that), and you use it once a week through the whole summer to dice all the things you need for salsa (12 weeks = summer season). That's approximately 30 uses/year and if it lasts the 5 years of its 5-year 100% quality guarantee (what means this?), that will be 150 uses, so at ~$50 (39.99 plus tax and shipping), that's only ~0.33 cents per use.

It's justifiable. I will send you some apples if you will make me some strudel.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Hell, I'll use this at work shredding documents.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Wow, then it's a deductible business expense!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I mean, how can you say no?!?!?

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Is it me or is that the worst German accent ever faked.

― ray garcia, Saturday, 22 April 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I think the German lady was for real...I don't think she fakes it.

― Karina, Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:54 (twenty years ago)

She's real...REAL HOT. amirite

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

did you end up purchasing this? i recently got my father the grip 'n flip that he's been wanting for years, and he raves about it.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

no, I chickened out. What would I do with all the extra time I'd save by using the ND? I shudder to think.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:39 (twenty years ago)

I got one of those mandolines. It has proved pretty useful actually, esp for thin potato slices for that potato-bake type thing (we call it potato bake, some call it scalloped potatoes). I'm thinking I might try making my own home made potato crisps and beetroot or sweet potato ones too.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

I also have not yet sliced my fingertips off, but the blades give me the fear.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

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