- Hi, I'm Parris and today I'm trying out
another food preparation device.
Today it's the Clever Cutter.
This is a little cutting board and blade in one.
It let's you cut any variety of foods with just one hand.
(soft guitar music)
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- It's kind of like a knife and cutting board,
but also kind of just like a big pair of scissors.
Let's see if it can be delicate enough to cut
through some shortcake without smushing it flat,
but strong enough to cut through some tough fruit
and vegetables.
I picked this up a year ago from their website,
but I see you can get it now at Target and stores locally
for about $15.
You can find out more about it at the link
down below this video.
Now I ordered this about a year ago, but never got around
to reviewing it, because I hoped my daughter, Roxanna,
would do the video with me, since she has to deal
with just one hand working.
I thought this would be a great kitchen appliance for her,
but I can't get her to sit down and do the video.
So I'm going to see how it works and I'll recommend it
to her if it seems like something that would help her out.
Okay, so there's a safety catch here to keep it closed.
They warn you in the instructions, it's very sharp.
Watch, don't get fingers or other things in underneath
of the blade.
One thing I really like about it, though,
is it says you can put it in the dishwasher.
So okay, we pull the thing back.
Wonder if you can do all this with just one hand?
I should try that too.
So there we go, they do also say don't try to cut anything
bigger than the opening of the Clever Cutters.
Feel like I should be out trimming the hedges with this.
Okay, so the mechanism makes it so it stops
just before the blade hits the cutting board,
unless you really squeeze it.
I guess that's because you don't want it constantly
hitting that plastic surface or it might dull it.
They also included a peeler in my order,
but I think that's because I ordered it long ago and online.
Alright.
Well, that's the mechanism.
And then you put it like that.
This would be hard to do with one hand,
to keep it safe.
Let's start out with the fruit and vegetables
and see if it dulls it down any.
And then see how it does on some leftover shortcake
from Easter.
Let's start off with the cucumber, I'm used to slicing them
with a knife on a cutting board.
And see if this can do it more neatly.
And by the way, I do have a question for those of you
out there who are more knowledgeable about cooking
and food preparation than me.
Seems to me that in the U. S., you always peel a cucumber
first before you serve it to people,
but I know that in other places I've lived,
they leave like strips of it on to make it colorful
and so forth.
What's the actual story on this?
Do we, in America, peel cucumbers before slicing or not?
Alright, so usually we also cut off the ends
and throw it away.
I'm going to try to cut off just that much.
Oh, it's cuttin' real nicely!
Well, that wasn't bad at all.
Okay, go for some thin slices here.
Yeah, that last little bit doesn't cut unless you really
put the pressure on.
I can slice it fairly thin, this isn't too bad.
I think those people who have the cooking degrees,
who can go chop, chop, chop really fast on a cutting board,
might get through a cucumber faster than this.
Yeah, that worked pretty well!
Next up is something that requires
a little more delicate touch, a tomato.
If you don't want to smush 'em, it needs to be very sharp
and cut through it nicely.
Let's see if that will happen.
Cut off the top here first.
Yeah, still pretty sharp edge, that's good.
Now for a thin slice.
Yeah, I'm just having problems with that last little bit
where it doesn't hit the cutting board.
Keep the fingers back, okay!
I'm still liking it!
Now here's a purple potato.
I don't usually buy purple potatoes,
so somebody else bought this.
I don't know how long ago, but it feels pretty tough.
Should be a good test of the cutting strength of this.
So let's see if we can cut off
about a quarter of the potato here.
Oh yeah!
Nice.
Had no problem with the potato.
I have a very old lime that I also found in the crisper
of the refrigerator that,
I think it was George Carlin that said, it shouldn't
be called a crisper, it should be called a rotter
because that's what fruit and vegetables go there to do.
Try to cut this lime in half.
Here we go.
Oh, I'm gonna spray this in my face aren't I?
(grunts)
It's slippery!
I don't wanna get my fingers in,
I can smell the lime already.
(grunts loudly)
(laughing)
I think it's a lime!
Okay, try it this way.
Two hands!
Why is this so hard to cut?
Oh, it must be the rind, it's just giving it a hard time.
Or it's gonna explode with lime throughout the room.
(grunts loudly)
Alright.
That has defeated the Clever Cutter, hmm.
Let's get back on track with an apple, golden delicious.
I'm not sure how I would cut it with this.
Let's just cut from the side I suppose.
Well, that's a different way to prepare an apple,
but it does cut it fine.
I thought this was shortcake, I was incorrect.
This is angel food cake according to the label on top.
I know shortbread.
Jimena's actually waitin' out in the living room
for a little piece of this.
So let's see if I can cut a little piece of it.
Hmm.
Guess I'm just gonna have to pick it up.
Alright.
Here we go!
Oh, it's squishing!
It's squishing!
Not too bad, but there was a lot of initial squishage there.
But it bounced right back.
Yeah, that actually did cut nice and smoothly,
nice and evenly.
And it ended up with no permanent
squishing of the angel food cake.
Mini pizza cutting opportunity appeared,
so I thought I would try the Clever Cutter on this.
Well, that did a pretty good job,
it's just not long enough to cut all the way
through the pizza.
Not bad, the pizza usually is a mess cutting it,
because it grabs the cheese and tomato sauce,
and strings it along and makes it kind of a mess.
But this is turning out pretty nice.
So for mini pizzas, not bad.
If I could just cut in a straight line, it'd be alright.
Here we go.
Well, the Clever Cutter did cut everything I expected it to.
That lime, I don't know.
But I guess the question is, what purpose does this serve
other than having a cutting board and a knife?
I feel more in control with a cutting board and a knife
than with this because I have to hold whatever it is
that I'm cutting near here.
It makes me a little paranoid for my fingers.
Again, the Clever Cutter goes for about $15.
You can probably find it in your local store,
if not I'll have a link to it down below this video.
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