Salsa Making Success: Salad Chopper vs. Core & More & Sankoku Knife

[pkd09]

Has anyone bypassed the Core & More & Sankoku Knife in this recipe and used the Salad Chopper? Remember the past version of salsa we had using the Salad Chopper for guests to make salsa?

 

[straitfan]

Yep! Worked perfectly! I did the "sturdier" ingredients first, then added the pineapple and lastly the tomatoes. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

 

[Cindycooks]

I love the pineapple salsa!

 

[raebates]

Yep, I used the chopper. Worked like a charm.I like the salsa okay, but I'm not sure I'd do it for a show around here. I think you need to be someone who likes the sweet/spicy of a fruit salsa to really enjoy it. That isn't necessarily a huge percentage of the people I'm meeting right now.

 

[c00p]

I loved this recipe - but it didn't have any kick to me, maybe that's because I took ALL of the jalapeno seeds out. I just served it with the Tostitos "hint of lime" chips (didn't have the time to make the homemade ones) and it was a big hit!!! I don't have the salad choppers, but I bet they do work well. I would think you could use the food chopper too.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

We are making DCB Fajitas and Pineapple Salsa at my Man Show on Saturday!

I gave the host the option of the "salad chopper" salsa, or the Pineapple Salsa - and he chose the pineapple. I think I'm going to use the tools as written though, because it's more tools in the hands of the men.

 

[candiejayne]

I think I might make this again this weekend, we have friends coming over to play cards. I love this recipe! When I did it, I didn't have the core n' more so i just cut the centers out while chopping them up. Otherwise I just used the santuko for everything.

 

[straitfan]

My neighbor guy stopped by my open house (after his wife left!) and I couldn't keep him out of the pineapple salsa. He LOVED it. (and bought the pineapple wedger and salad choppers so I can show him how to make his own!)

 

[kam]

WOW, it must just be me, but I HATED this. And I SO wanted to love it.

I tried the day I made it and the next day to eat it and I thought it was terrible both times. It was all I could do to open the container a third time to throw it down the drain!

 

[ChefPaulaB]

I have made it once using the salad choppers and love that, just didn't love the salsa... the onion taste was so strong, I'm not a huge onion fan but even the people that like onion didn't like it, so when I make it next time (and I will make it again) I will just totally leave out the onion, or possibly use a small sweet onion rather than the red onion. Then I think that it'll be great.

 

[kam]

I have made it once using the salad choppers and love that, just didn't love the salsa... the onion taste was so strong, I'm not a huge onion fan but even the people that like onion didn't like it, so when I make it next time (and I will make it again) I will just totally leave out the onion, or possibly use a small sweet onion rather than the red onion. Then I think that it'll be great.

I don't eat onions, so I usually leave onions out of most recipes, but in things like this, I will add the onion, just not as much as the recipe calls for.

I made it with very little red onion. It tasted bad, so I thought that I did not add enough onion, so I added more and it was still awful!

Maybe it was the red onion! I had NEVER bought or had red onion prior to this recipe, so maybe that's what it was.

 

[candiejayne]

I loved this... I've had only good things said about it too. I had boughten a large red onion and used half of it for this, and the other half for a pico slaw I do. Red onions are very strong though, I do not enjoy cutting them up.

 

[DebbieJ]

I have made it once using the salad choppers and love that, just didn't love the salsa... the onion taste was so strong, I'm not a huge onion fan but even the people that like onion didn't like it, so when I make it next time (and I will make it again) I will just totally leave out the onion, or possibly use a small sweet onion rather than the red onion. Then I think that it'll be great.

If you rinse the onions after you chop them, the flavor will mellow out.

 

[straitfan]

And you could use that little strainer that goes in the cutting board with meas. cups to rinse them.

I wasn't too impressed with this, until I used it for the red pepper for the quiche lorraine tartlet, that had to be rinsed and dried, and then all of a sudden I LOVED it! : )

 

[chefshawna]

I didn't think this sounded good at all until I tried it. I LOVED it!! I actually have been craving it lately! LOL