Slap Chop – Graty Product Review

Who doesn’t know the infomercials funny guy Vince promoting The SLAP CHOP – the amazing food chopper that dices, chops and minces in seconds.

Right now Slap Chop online has an offer: for “limited time” (the longest limited time ever) you can buy one Slap Chop and receive second Slap Chop free and all you have to do is just pay separate shipping and handling charges for the additional Slap Chop.They will also include Graty – the awesome cheese grater that sells in As Seen On TV stores for $14.95.

My son received the SLAP CHOP and Graty combo as a Christmas gift from my friend. She even spend the extra money to upgrade the Slap Chop to the deluxe version with better stainless steel blades and Graty with extra blades.

You would never know that there is a deluxe version of Slap Chop unless you order it online and you are willing to pay extra $9.99 per set ($19.99 for the buy 1 get 1 free deal) for the upgrade.

Which brings me to a question. Better stainless steel blades? Would we get Slap Chop with bad blades if we didn’t upgrade?

I wonder. Would the cheaper stainless steel blades chop and slap any less?

I searched on the internet and I found many reviews from people recommending Slap Chop as well as Graty products and I wonder if any of these people actually used Slap Chop and Graty themselves or they are just being paid to promote it?

Here is my take on the Slap Chop and Graty.

Deluxe Slap Chop with “better” stainless steel blades. It’s not too bad of a product. You can’t really chop with using 1 finger as Vince would have you believe.If he was here I would slap him. You can’t put too much food at once or the pieces would get stuck inside the blades. The rotating blade doesn’t rotate evenly all the time as the Slap Chop guru Vince would have you to believe. Every second or third time you end up with half of the food too chopped and the other half of the food in large chunks.

Also it takes few chops more to have the same consistency as seen on the commercial and sometimes the plastic cap that’s covering the blades falls off and you have to unscrew everything, clean it and re-attach it. Not the fun part of slapping and chopping.

It is easy to clean, but again you can’t just rinse it. Sometimes you have to use little tiny brush to clean the blades properly.

Graty the cheese grater. If you receive your Graty as a part of the offer that’s fine. If you go and buy it in As Seen On TV store or anywhere else in my opinion you will be wasting your money.

Graty is a small plastic container that has two compartments so you can use two different kinds of cheese. The “deluxe” Graty comes with 3 different blades.

My son tried the Graty and was upset that it didn’t work as shown on TV. My hubs decided to show him how it’s done, but no success.Finally, I took it upon myself to test it out while making pizza.

I put two small pieces of cheese in the compartments, closed it up and proceeded to turn it with ease as seen on TV. There was no….fettucini, linguini, martini or bikini….All there was after 5 minutes was sweat running down my back, my hands were hurting from the grip I had on the Graty, the Graty sign was almost smudged off the cheese grater and all I had to show for was less then 1/4 cup of grated cheese.

Cleaning the Graty was a nightmare.

So in Conclusion:

Slap Chop is a handy kitchen gadget when I need to chop small amounts of nuts or fruit in a hurry. It is an average food chopper, but I would not purchase it myself. My kids like using it while pretending they are in a commercial.

Graty is a completely useless kitchen gadget and the worst cheese grater I ever tried. I would never spend my money on it.