Pop Chef, Anaranjado

I purchased this product to make something cute for my neighborhood's annual summer picnic and was a little hesitant because the reviews are not all that great. While I can't review on how it works for bread, cheese and meat, it worked as I'd hoped for fruits. I used it on watermelon, honeydew and cantaloupe to make fruit kebabs.2 or 3 cut pieces did bounce off the plate and land on the floor when I first started, but I don't consider that a design flaw, rather my need to pay attention to the distance from the Pop Chef to the plate when ejecting the fruit. :) I had a few failed ejections as well - when trying to use all the scraps of fruit left over from initial cuts - if the fruit doesn't fill the die when it's cut, you won't be able to pop it out since the air will escape around the fruit rather than pushing it out. The hole at the top of the bulb also must be covered when popping.All in all, it worked very well for me - nicely defined cuts, easy to use, easy to clean up and the kebabs were a big hit. It also brought a little bit of fun into an otherwise rather tedious project.

It arrived with a crack in it in several places. I'm not one to return things but all in all nice product.

I received it, opened the box, and pieces fell out. It was already broken. I looked inside the box to see if I would like it. It's just a long cookie cutter with a bulb on the air to push air through the "cookie cutter" and pop out the fruit. For some reason I thought I'd be able to cut open a watermelon, stick this thing all the way to fill it up, and that it'd pop out about (5) 1 inch pieces of fruit in your desired shape. WRONG. You have to cut the fruit into 1 inch slices and push this expensive "cookie cutter" into it and hope that the force is great enough to push the fruit out of the cookie cutter. Since I had to prep the fruit by slicing it anyway, I ended up buying 1 1/2" cookie cutters instead. Worked even better, that way, both my daughter and I could make shapes at the same time - it worked out better for bonding purposes to get the cookie cutters instead. In retrospect, this thing is probably much more difficult to clean also.

This pop chef kit is great for adults or kids, I found that the shapes work great in cutting the shapes in bread and fruit the same but as for popping the bread out didn't work for me every time, pops out the fruit wonderfully, nice variety of shapes comes with 3 short shapes sun, flower, butterfly and 3 tall shapes circle, heart, star, kids love this set already used it to make flower shaped Pb&J sandwiches, and heart and butterfly shape watermelon pieces, kids and adults can use this set easily, I have to say that it is easier for me to cut the fruit in no thicker than 1in to cut the shape out easily and make sure the shape is complete or the shape will be harder to pop out, looking forward to using this set for much more.

Honestly I though this was a great idea and I couldn't wait to try it out. It does work but it was disappointing. It is cheaply made plastic so I don't foresee it lasting very long. The air bulb doesn't hold enough air or pressure to push anything out (maybe dry bread but a wet melon slice was stuck tight). We ended up taking the bulb off and sticking a skewer through the hold to get them out.Invest is some really nice metal cookie cutters and it will work just as well for you and you'll have more shapes to choose from.It's a great idea and I'm glad I tried it but I'll stick to more traditional methods because it didn't save me time and just added to my clean up.

I received a lot quicker and faster than I thought and I free shipping one of the best deal's that found on the internet I've been looking everywhere for the pop chief and I found it for an incredible price and the shipping was fast because when I order it they said it would shipped to me at a later date but I received the pop chief a lot earlier with free shipping and every where else wanna charge for shipping I really like the seller who I purchase my pop chief from I will probably order from them again

After carefully reading all reviews for all cookie / fruit / veggie cutter things that I could find, I knew these were not the best. However, I bought them anyway, because they had the best selection of shapes, and the shapes I wanted, in almost the size I wanted. They are a bit too big, though, and I couldn't, for example, use them to cut strawberries or cored pineapple.The "pop" feature is useless. Pretty much everything got stuck and had to be pushed out with one of the included skewers. The few things that didn't get stuck still didn't pop out with the popper thing, we had to shake them out.I'm not disappointed in this product, because I bought it expecting exactly what I got, but I still don't like it. If you don't need it for exactly what I needed it for, you are better off with something else!

This is so easy to use a 6 year old can do it... And he had so much fun making each of the shapes. It is easy to clean and the shapes are simple and fun... I can imagine this tool being used to make the most decorative and festive fruit salad that it might be too cute to eat.

My finished fruit sculpture was beautiful!