Progressive GPC-2549 French Fry Cutter
- Easily create dozens of French fries or julienned vegetables with a single push of the lever
- Simply place small or half potatoes into the chute and squeeze through for thick or thin fries
- Interchangeable stainless steel blades with 25 holes for large and 49 holes for small fries
- Easy to operate lever action
- Hand wash only
This lightweight cutter divides a potato into its French-fry essence in a jiffy. One blade creates up to 49 3/8-inch fries with a single lever-push. The other creates up to 25 half-inch fries. You’ll get those numbers, however, only if you precisely shape a large potato to fit the bed. The bed’s size is the cutter’s only drawback. Even if you cut a large potato to fit the head, the fry length is at most 3-1/2 inches. That length, however, is ideal for carrot, cucumber, and zucchini batons assemble a vegetable tray around a bagna cauda, an Italian dipping sauce of olive oil, butter, garlic, and anchovies. And such batons get you halfway to a pretty dice for a vegetable soup. Hand wash.
In the package are 2 different sized blade grates and push blocks that are easily assembled and removed from the main body by depressing a small lever and turning a latch, respectively. Cutting capacity is less than 4 inches in length. You’ll have to “cut” large Russets before “cutting!”cleanup is mostly easy, if you have a baby bottle nipple brush to poke through the grate holes and cross brush the push blocks (a toothbrush for the latter works also). However, the main body has slots where the push block slides. This area collects and traps small potato fragments and is difficult to clean.