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salad chopper
Salad Chopper. I stopped by Subway a few weeks ago to pick up lunch and ordered a chopped
salad. In typical Subway fashion, the meal assembler had me pick the ingredients I wanted in the
salad (i.e. spinach, olives, peppers, etc.), all of which she then deposited into a bowl. Basic, right?
What she did next blew my mind. She then began chopping up the ingredients into fine bits using a
kitchen tool that looked like a weapon from the mid-80s cult-classic sci-fi fantasy movie KRULL. It
had two curved blades that ran somewhat parallel to each other until its ends met. The server
rocked the blades back and forth in a salad bowl, slicing and dicing. I was agog. I told my wife about
it. She was amused by my excitement with this method of salad prep. My fascination with the
Subway salad escalated when I pulled a forkful of the chopped salad.
I had to have this culinary system. A quick search on Amazon revealed to me that the tool that
Subway uses is a variation of a mezzaluna ("half moon" in Italian). I ended up buying another type of
salad chopper made by Oxo. This version looks like a pizza cutter born with dicephalus. Now that I
have the salad chopper, I foresee so many more salads (with each component reduced to the size of
confetti, because... salad parade).
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THE CONE - ISSUE #9 - SPRING 2016