So You Woke Up Disabled: Get You A Dicer!
This dicer chopper thing is the greatest thing ever. Once again, a splendid Amazon find: https://a.co/d/8FemQCd
Did you know that most infomercial gadgets are for disabled folks? True story. So if you ever thought, “Come on asssssss iffffff we need a doohickey to do that. How stupid are some people?…”
Not stupid, physically limited.
I wish more people realized that physical challenges don’t necessarily indicate cognitive challenges but that’s another post for another day…
I loved the mandolin, but I needed an easy way to dice because sometimes you just need to dice things. Then I remembered a long ago infomercial. (Remember I struggled with sleeping for years, so I watched a lot of infomercials around two am.)
It was just a niggle of memory, a vague recollection of some type of press dicer. I got on Amazon and found several options.
My mandolin is great for quick and easy slicing for those with fine motor disruptions or fatigue. But sometimes you need things diced and this Amazon dicer is amazing. I use it to dice onions, jalapenos, and bell peppers but I can also use it to dice apples and potatoes for hash-browns.
It comes with two sizes of dicer plates. It’s easy to clean and the components are dishwasher safe. I also find it easy to assemble and disassemble for cleaning after I use it.
It does take a bit of effort to get the handle down to dice if it’s a larger piece or if it’s very hard, but I just lean most of my body weight onto it with a straight arm and I don’t find that tiring.
Having a dicer to do most of the work dicing onions is amazing and I haven’t shed a tear since.
(In the above picture, I just moved the bell peppers to a separate container before I diced jalapenos but the dicer container holds a lot.)
I love it and I think even able-bodied folks who hate dicing or don’t have the best knife work could get a lot of use out of it. I think you could even use this to let your kids help in the kitchen if they’re not quite old enough for knife-wielding yet.
You can read other instalments of So You Woke Up Disabled here:
So You Woke Up Disabled: Get You A Dolly
