Too Lazy To Chop By Hand?

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The Swiss designed contraption arrived in the post only a few days ago. I was looking forward to it since the advent of our Advent season is days away from being officially December. The cold has set in although I am very surprised parts of England have already been privy to the joy of snow and we in the west coast of Scotland have had none. That still hasn’t prevented me for the upcoming winter - I have my winter clothing to hand as well as plenty of hot soups made up weeks ago and now in the freezer. I plan to make more soups and cut vegetables to freeze up for use in soups and stews. The only problem is that whilst I have a low energy low powered electric Tefal Fresh Express machine that can slice and shred, it cannot chop. I have since cut my fingers in a minor way trying to chop an onion or two! I can’t abide chopping manually as I always manage to cut myself even when I chop slowly with a sharp knife. Successful food prep shouldn’t involve so many machines - or so the latest brand of food processor or home mixers would have you believe. But even in the most professional of kitchens of friends who are far more of an expert than I am in the kitchen, all of them have more than just one contraption and usually an old fashioned pyramid slicer or shredder amongst all the high tech gadgetry. To eliminate the threat of me cutting another finger I thought it would be wise to buy a mechanical hand crank manual food processor. I had a “Cuisine” one for many years, fifteen years infact until the PVC plastic bowl broke and then a green one by Moulinex which my aunt has borrowed. I was expecting to see many online but where have they all gone? Only Chinese made appliances are available now and most of them are not all that well thought out in my experience. From poor mechanisms to very sharp blades with very little protection, I was left to buy a so-called Swiss designed Metaltex Rotomac hand crank food processor with a difference that can chop up onions and so forth. It does the job well but not without the lid coming off continuously as it lacks an airtight screw thread perimeter around the rim. It will only stay on the bowl with one of my hands whilst the other controls the new, fangled mechanism to turn the blade. Instead of an easy to turn gear handle a rather ferocious pull handle on a rope that springs back on a sprung mechanism is far more modern! It hinders safety when the handle is released and snapping back off my other hand to keep the lid down. Who ever thought this Swiss designed food chopper deserves an award should have laid down their hand on the lid themselves and tried it! Granted it is good for camping or even using in a home that doesn’t use that much electricity. Even preparing a salad would be reasonably easy - but it should be much more thought out as well as these rather handy contraptions being far more common place. If we are in a bid to lower everything in a home that uses an electrical plug, why do hand crank manual food processors no longer exist? (c)Nar2/Crystalvisions2015.