November 9, 2009 | reviews
Ever wonder why the basic principles of detonating dynamite have yet to enter the culinary arena? And while we’re on the topic of wondering, why Wile E. Coyote doesn’t launch some kind of class action lawsuit against Acme Corp for their obviously faulty products? Well, the Slap Chop answers the first question as well as a few more—an ingenious kitchen device that offers up a veritable pimp roll call’s worth of slapping.
For those of you who associate any kind of slapping in the kitchen with the kind of coupling that’s best kept away from food prep areas, think again.
For the target market, people who dimly recall ordering something off the television while they are sobering up and angrily emptying the waste paper basket looking for the receipt, wait, at least until we’ve given you the full rundown of the product here.
Now, we’ve already proven ourselves capable product reviewers of those As Seen on TV products, most notably of the Ab Circle Pro device, which looks like it would separate heretics from their non heretical brethren in the Middle Ages—literally—and Turbo Jam, a fitness DVD led by the atomic pumpkin-complected ‘Chalene’, featuring enough washboards to start a zydeco band.
According to the site, the Slap Chop is a “manual chopper machine that works when you slap the plunger part. Every slap triggers the 3 blades below to chop and cut the food. The more you slap the Slap Chop, the finer the food gets”, ‘finer’, here referring the particulate created not a value judgment about anything admirable or excellently created in the kitchen using the device.
Now, product reviews are often tainted by the obvious conflict of interest on the part of the reviewers—most of whom, we’ve heard, head to the nearest pawn shop with the free products they’ve reviewed after dispensing 750 words on them, but this is certainly not the case here. Why, you ask? Well, not only is there no pawn shop within a short cab ride of either of our residences, but we are reviewers sui generis. In a show of good faith, we’ve not even opened the package the Slap Chop came in, and have sent it back to the company intact—our review not being contingent upon actually using the product, but, based on our previous experience reviewing similar products and extrapolating from there.
We can conclude the following about the Slap Chop:
- It chops, most notably, vegetables and other food products and in a pinch, could be used by loan sharks to threaten removal of one your digits for nonpayment
- It employs gravity, the principles of physics and most importantly, latent male aggression
- Has a pitchman, unafraid to wear a headset while spouting quasi sexual innuendos, which is not the first thing you’d think of when listening to someone in a headset and now, certainly won’t be the last.
- Has a pitchman with the chutzpah required to ‘Slap Chop’ a mushroom along with an apple.
- It comes with a ‘Graty’ that grates, not only your nerves, but cheese.
The slap shot is a piece of junk
was advertised as 19.95 plus sh. Ordered on mastercard and the charges ended up over 80.00 canadian. Big rip off. E mailed company and no response. Big surprise.
hey!!! they charge to my credit card the 80 dollars too! I send them an e mail… What happened with you??? Do they gave you your money back?? I am so mad! I cant believe they are going to steal my money!
This people is stealing!!! They charge 4 times the prize on my credit card, not only that, I called and they start talking about some extra charges, and the were really rude and told me “I cant do anything, have a nice day”
And, if the slap chop and the cheese grater works nice, I wont be this mad, but they doesnt work!!!!!!!
Dont buy this!!!! this is a scam!
Okay, this devise cannot even cut an onion. So the family is sitting around at xmas, 2 slap chop gifts, both did not work could not cut an onion. The Onion kept getting caught in the blades. So a family member came over and saw them and said, “well i got one 3 months ago and have already thrown it out”. It’s crap DO NO BUY.
Well this is for all people read this and wannna try to buy this product.
Im not sure if work or not because I dont buy yet, but you can find this product on ‘ Bed Bath and Beyond ‘ same price and maybe with discount because they have a lot , ( also the others products you see on tv too ) and dont need pay S&H or take the risk to extra charges on your credit card.
Hope this help. Have nice day
The Slap Chop has has met its match in 2010 with the arrival of the Shake-N-Chop. While the disappointing Slap Chop was being sold to consumers, the incredibly innovative Shake-N-Chop was in the works being developed. The Shake-N-Chop is intended to release yourself from the suffering of Slap Chop. If you are looking for a superior and well-designed food chopper, the Shake-N-Chop is highly recommended. Check it out at: Shake-N-Chop.com
I’m doing a project on the slap chop and i have some questions for the people that bought it..
1. How was it packaged.
2. How is it shipped?
3. What company makes it?
4. Where is it made?
Get back to me thanks!