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- Innovative rotating 'Ball' system allows for easier chopping
- 500ml capacity, perfect for garlic, pesto, herbs, baby food and creaming
- 300w
- Dishwasher safe polished stainless steel blades
- Easy one touch operation with soft touch
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Sophisticated, simple, straightforward design make the Allure food preparation range from Russell Hobbs an eye catcher in the kitchen – with a British understatement. Designed in house by our highly skilled design engineers the Allure food preparation range follows the highly successful Allure kettle, toaster & coffee maker range making it the first ever fully co-coordinated breakfast and food preparation range in the market. For comfortable, easy and precise handling, all products are equipped with intuitively positioned control switches. Black elements and an embossed Russell Hobbs logo blend in with the stylish contemporary look of the Allure food preparation range. The Ball Chopper is perfect for that final bit of panache and theatre as you serve your meal! Its innovative rotating ‘Ball’ system allows for easier chopping and lets you show off in style in the kitchen. The perfect ‘prop’ for performing Kitchen Theatre, it’s designed to impress your guests. The Ball Chopper is great for onions, garlic, herbs, baby food and for making pesto and creaming ingredients. It has an easy ‘one touch’ operation, is dishwasher safe with stainless steel blades and is a must have piece of kitchen kit.
Product Description
• Stylish, contemporary ‘ball’ chopper
• Distinctive embossed Russell Hobbs logo
• Brushed chrome surfaces with black accents
• Innovative rotating ‘Ball’ system allows for easier chopping
• 500ml capacity, perfect for garlic, pesto, herbs, baby food, creaming
• Dishwasher safe polished stainless steel blades
• Easy one touch operation with soft touch
• Creaming disc
• 300w
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Well, this is a useful little widget. Basically, it chops. But it chops very finely, so it effectively liquidizes as well. That is it - that is what it does. But, to be honest, that is really all I want from a food processor. I don't particularly want something that chops and shreds and does all the fancy bits. I want a machine that can do something that I would normally do myself more effectively than I could do it. And it does.
It holds half a litre - so not a huge capacity. It has a number of restrictions listed in the rather chatty manual. These include:
a) don't put raw meat of any kind into the bowl
b) don't fill above the 500ml mark on the bowl
c) don't process large amounts in batches - if you need to process large amounts, you need the mini-chopper's big brother, the Russell Hobbs Allure blender
d) don't process hard foods - i.e. anything you can't cut easily with a kitchen knife
e) don't chop big bits - maximum 18mm cubes
f) don't try to chop ice - you'll damage the blades
So - apart from those 'don'ts', it's fun, even to the mis-quotation from Lewis Caroll which I will not copy here. However, I've scanned the diagram of the chopper and you'll get the idea from that.
The bowl and top are made from fairly heavy-duty plastic. It says '7 >san<' on the bottom, which I think indicates that it is made of 'styrene acrylonitrile' (see the comments at the bottom of the review. I'll post a web link). Anyway, it's the same sort of plastic from which Lego and hard hats are made, according to a website I found.
The instructions also include a number of recipes - sweet and sour sauce, black olive and anchovy tapenade, horseradish and apple sauce, coriander pesto, spicy pumpkin soup (which you have to do in batches - so much for 'don't' type 'c'), and some sweet ones too, including 'strawberry mess'. I made some black olive and anchovy tapenade - very successfully, I think. It's a bit messy to clean afterwards, but no worse than your average food processor. I think the 'gyre and gimbling' (i.e. swivelling the ball around on it's base) has limited effect, to be honest, unless what you are chopping is very liquid, but it's a nice idea and it is kind of more satisfying than just whizzing stuff up.
Also included is a strange white plastic cup-like thing with two semi-blades. This is not mentioned anywhere in the instructions, as far as I can see. It's certainly not on the diagram. I have posted a photo of it, so you can see what I'm talking about. I think - and I admit I haven't tried this - that it'll be for whisking cream, maybe making sure your custard isn't lumpy too.
Overall, the gadget is fairly small, easy to clean and store. Given that my use of food processors doesn't really extend beyond finely chopping and liquidizing stuff, I think I'm going to be using this a lot. Maybe not a huge capacity, but how many litres of black olive and anchovy tapenade do you want?
It holds half a litre - so not a huge capacity. It has a number of restrictions listed in the rather chatty manual. These include:
a) don't put raw meat of any kind into the bowl
b) don't fill above the 500ml mark on the bowl
c) don't process large amounts in batches - if you need to process large amounts, you need the mini-chopper's big brother, the Russell Hobbs Allure blender
d) don't process hard foods - i.e. anything you can't cut easily with a kitchen knife
e) don't chop big bits - maximum 18mm cubes
f) don't try to chop ice - you'll damage the blades
So - apart from those 'don'ts', it's fun, even to the mis-quotation from Lewis Caroll which I will not copy here. However, I've scanned the diagram of the chopper and you'll get the idea from that.
The bowl and top are made from fairly heavy-duty plastic. It says '7 >san<' on the bottom, which I think indicates that it is made of 'styrene acrylonitrile' (see the comments at the bottom of the review. I'll post a web link). Anyway, it's the same sort of plastic from which Lego and hard hats are made, according to a website I found.
The instructions also include a number of recipes - sweet and sour sauce, black olive and anchovy tapenade, horseradish and apple sauce, coriander pesto, spicy pumpkin soup (which you have to do in batches - so much for 'don't' type 'c'), and some sweet ones too, including 'strawberry mess'. I made some black olive and anchovy tapenade - very successfully, I think. It's a bit messy to clean afterwards, but no worse than your average food processor. I think the 'gyre and gimbling' (i.e. swivelling the ball around on it's base) has limited effect, to be honest, unless what you are chopping is very liquid, but it's a nice idea and it is kind of more satisfying than just whizzing stuff up.
Also included is a strange white plastic cup-like thing with two semi-blades. This is not mentioned anywhere in the instructions, as far as I can see. It's certainly not on the diagram. I have posted a photo of it, so you can see what I'm talking about. I think - and I admit I haven't tried this - that it'll be for whisking cream, maybe making sure your custard isn't lumpy too.
Overall, the gadget is fairly small, easy to clean and store. Given that my use of food processors doesn't really extend beyond finely chopping and liquidizing stuff, I think I'm going to be using this a lot. Maybe not a huge capacity, but how many litres of black olive and anchovy tapenade do you want?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Being positive this is a visually appealing 'mini ball chopper' in that it's sliver and, as the name suggests, round. It's bigger than most other 'mini' choppers which may be a disadvantage for those with limited space. However it's not high so will fit under a kitchen work surface with cupboards above.
More negatively a bit like Alessi projects one suffers a degree of loss of functionality for style. However, Russell Hobbs is not Alessi and lacks the the pedigree. The design limitations are less easily forgivable therefore. So what are these problems? In use the ball revolves on its base and really needs to be held when operating; I've found the blades tend to trap food I want to chop and I need to open the blender to push the food away from the blades - for the food then to become trapped again. Surprisingly the ball motion does not seem to shift trapped food. I also found that the items the chopper will chop are limited. Even fruit has to be carefully prepared. Much is made in the instructions of making smoothies but because of the preparation involves the de-coring, peeling and more this makes for a less healthy smoothie and one taking longer to produce. Finally the item is a bit of a nightmare to clean.
The instructions bizarrely fail to mention that it will whip cream - possibly more useful than the chopping functions. This uses an additional included plastic inset to replace the blade that introduces air into the cream. I have another processor with a similar device. I can't understand why Russell Hobbs don't include details - a product too quick to market?
In summary, style over function but less forgivable for a non-Alessi produce - although it is better value. Limited use as a chopper and smoothie maker. Better for thickening cream. Hence my middle-ranking score.
More negatively a bit like Alessi projects one suffers a degree of loss of functionality for style. However, Russell Hobbs is not Alessi and lacks the the pedigree. The design limitations are less easily forgivable therefore. So what are these problems? In use the ball revolves on its base and really needs to be held when operating; I've found the blades tend to trap food I want to chop and I need to open the blender to push the food away from the blades - for the food then to become trapped again. Surprisingly the ball motion does not seem to shift trapped food. I also found that the items the chopper will chop are limited. Even fruit has to be carefully prepared. Much is made in the instructions of making smoothies but because of the preparation involves the de-coring, peeling and more this makes for a less healthy smoothie and one taking longer to produce. Finally the item is a bit of a nightmare to clean.
The instructions bizarrely fail to mention that it will whip cream - possibly more useful than the chopping functions. This uses an additional included plastic inset to replace the blade that introduces air into the cream. I have another processor with a similar device. I can't understand why Russell Hobbs don't include details - a product too quick to market?
In summary, style over function but less forgivable for a non-Alessi produce - although it is better value. Limited use as a chopper and smoothie maker. Better for thickening cream. Hence my middle-ranking score.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I was disappointed with the Allure Mini Ball Chopper. I found it easy to get started and operate, but then found that it chops food too finely - it's not so much a chopper as a blender. But for me the most disappointing aspect is the fact that food keeps on getting lodged under the blades, which requires stopping, unplugging (I'm not putting my fingers anywhere near a simply switched off blender!) and the food needs to be dislodged with a spatula before starting again.
The Allure looks good, is fun to use, but fails in its job. I've gone back to using my Kenwood CH180 instead.
The Allure looks good, is fun to use, but fails in its job. I've gone back to using my Kenwood CH180 instead.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Seems fine
This is a nice handy little food processor that could also double as a blender. It tends to chop food up quite finely in a very short space of time so you need to go easy on it to... Read more
Published 8 months ago by AMR
Stylish and practical but not perfect.
The Allure mini chopper offers a good looking although somewhat limited (due to its size) functionality. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ian Wantling
ann
When you realize how the gagets fit together it works nicely. Wouldn't like to be without it as it does so many things so quickly
Published 8 months ago by ann
Less style more substance please...
[Reviewed by Mrs O']
The Russell Hobbs Ball Chopper certainly does what it says but does so with little finesse and limited design functionality. Read more
The Russell Hobbs Ball Chopper certainly does what it says but does so with little finesse and limited design functionality. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Kevin O'Keefe
Style over substance?
While this latest offering from Russell Hobbs is a novel idea for a blender and one that is entertaining enough to conjure up a bit of theatre in the kitchen, it is in no way a... Read more
Published 8 months ago by C. Moorby
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made by reliable brand Russell Hobbs
unique swivelling ball feature to help chop easier and more even
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made by reliable brand Russell Hobbs
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Published 9 months ago by G. Archer
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