Progressive International Vegetable/French Fry Cutter

SUMMARY: Fast! Works great so far!

I have wanted a french fry cutter for a while. Restaurant quality cutters were way more than I wanted to spend. I looked around and found some for under $10. The the sub $10 french fry cutters seemed cheaply made and got poor reviews. I found some more expensive models, but they also got poor reviews. I gave up looking for a while.
But then I looked again. I found a french fry cutter made by Progressive. It was under $10, and got pretty good reviews. Hmmm. I ordered it. Well the cutter came yesterday. I used the 25 hole blade to beging with. The size of the cutter will not allow for a whole russett potato to be cut into fries. I had to trim a little off the ends of the potato. It took a just little bit of muscle to pull the lever down to force the potato through the blades. But the cutter made the work quick and relatively easy.
Tonight we decided to make low fat french fries again. I decided to use the 49 hole blade. My wife offered to make the fries, but I suggested I better do it. Good thing. Using the cutter with the 49 hole blade took more strength. For me it was still not to difficult. But I doubting it would have been as easy for my wife.
The unit seems strong enough. Time will tell whether the cutter will hold up or not to repeated uses.
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Posted by Rob in Reviews on April 12th, 2007 |