Nemco Slicers Buyers' Guide

Best for: Quickly cutting and shredding hard- and medium-density vegetables like peppers, tomatoes, citrus fruits, onions, cucumbers, lettuce, cabbage, mushrooms, and zucchini into uniformly thick slices.

The most versatile piece of equipment in Nemco's slicer lineup, the 55200AN Easy Slicer lets the user dial in the desired product thickness in ¹⁄₁₆-inch increments up to ¹⁄₂-inch with an easy-to-use thumb-screw adjustment. This model can handle the most common salad and sandwich toppings, including peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and mushrooms.

For even greater simplicity, 55200-series slicers are available in fixed-blade models that slice foods into a set thickness. These are available with ¹⁄₈-, ³⁄₁₆-, ¹⁄₂-, ¹⁄₄-, and ⁵⁄₁₆-inch blades. A version of the Easy Slicer is also available with a ³⁄₁₆-inch shredder blade for shredding lettuce for sandwiches and cabbage for coleslaw and house-made sauerkraut.

Best for: Dicing, cutting, and wedging hard vegetables, citrus fruits, and cooked chicken breast.

Maybe you need a tool that can practically do it all - chop, dice, cut, and wedge everything from peppers to lemons. In that case, you should consider investing in an Easy Chopper 3. This simple but versatile tool is designed with an interchangeable plate system that lets you cut vegetables and fruit into ¹⁄₄- to 1-inch cubes and ¹⁄₄- to ¹⁄₂-inch slices. If it's fruit you need to process, choose a six- or an eight-section wedge kit.

Improving on its predecessor, the Easy Chopper 3 features a color-coded blade and pusher system that makes it easy to identify the correct combination of components each time you change blades. The 4¹⁄₄-inch cutting area has plenty of room for chopping large pieces of product without the need to cut them into smaller pieces first. The base of the unit is wide enough to accommodate ¹⁄₆- and ¹⁄₃-size, 6-inch-deep food pans to catch produce.

Easy Chopper 2

The Easy Chopper 2 is the second version of the Nemco chopper. It was the first in the series to feature the 4¹⁄₄-inch-square cutting area that lets users process larger pieces of produce without first cutting them into smaller chunks. The Easy Chopper 2 is also available with more blade assemblies than its predecessor, with a total of seven available cutting blades and three wedger kits.

Easy Chopper

The original Nemco Easy Chopper introduced the ergonomic, weighted handle and lightweight, rugged construction that have been hallmarks of each version since. Like its successors, the Easy Chopper features an interchangeable blade system with four available cut sizes and three wedger kits. The Easy Chopper is built with a smaller 3¹⁄₂-inch-square cutting area that helps save space on your countertop and makes the original Nemco chopper a great solution for operators who need a versatile piece of equipment in a compact footprint.

Best for: Cutting lettuce, cabbage, melons, and cooked chicken for salads

The LettuceKutter is the tool you need if you want to chop head after head of lettuce for salads. Its blades are designed to make clean cuts that won't cause lettuce to brown around the edges. There's even a special blade assembly for chopping Romaine lettuce into 1-inch by 2-inch strips for Caesar salads.

Chopping lettuce is the tool's most popular application, but its wide chopping surface makes it handy for cutting cooked chicken breast and cubing melons for fruit salads. There's an available support board that holds the LettuceKutter over a food container to catch product after it's processed.

There are six different versions of the Easy Lettucekutter, each with unique grid dimensions. Find the one you prefer in the table below.

Best for: Making uniform slices of onions for onion rings, burgers, and sandwiches

If you serve a high volume of sandwiches or onion rings, then an Easy Onion Slicer has the potential to save your staff hours of labor each week over slicing onions into by hand. Besides its eponymous bulbous vegetables, this unit can also handle celery, potatoes, pickles, citrus fruits, and firm tomatoes.

The Easy Onion Slicer comes in ³⁄₁₆-, ¹⁄₄-, ³⁄₈-, and ¹⁄₂-inch slice versions. Choose the model you need from the table below.

Best for: Cutting potatoes into french fries and wedges.

No manual method of cutting potatoes into french fries is faster than Nemco's Easy FryKutter. The tool's D-shaped handle is designed with the user in mind, and the motion of the lever is designed to work in unison with the natural motion of the body to improve comfort and reduce fatigue and the chance of operator injury.

This machine can be mounted to a table or to a wall above a collection container to set up a smooth and efficient food prep workflow. The FryKutter is available in six configurations: three for processing fries and three for cutting potatoes into wedges. Use the following table to choose the right one based on the dimensions of the fries you want to cut.

Easy Flowering Onion Cutter

Best for: Creating "flowering" onion appetizers.

The Easy Flowering Onion Cutter makes quick work of prepping onions to be battered and deep fried to create the popular appetizers made famous by a national steakhouse chain. This tool comes in one size, but a sold-separately adapter lets it process smaller onions.

Easy Wedger & Easy Apple Corer

Best for: Wedging fruit and coring apples.

Wedging citrus fruits and coring apples with a knife can be tricky. The Easy Wedger & Apple Corer reduces each task to one simple motion.

The tool is available in 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-section wedging versions, and one 8-section corer.

Easy Cheeser

Best for: Cutting cheese into uniform sticks, cubes, or blocks.

Whether you need to cut blocks of cheese down to smaller chunks for appetizers, salads, or to use in recipes, Nemco's Easy Cheeser will yield quick, consistent results. Use it to process just about any type of cheese including mozzarella, Monterey Jack, cheddar, Muenster, Swiss, and American.

Easy Chicken Slicer

Best for: Slicing cooked, boneless chicken into uniform pieces to top salads, pizzas, and sandwiches.

The Easy Chicken Slicer is designed to cut cooked chicken breast into uniform pieces to top everything from salads to pizzas. This tool can be a huge time saver in kitchens that serve a lot of grilled chicken salads. This Nemco slicer can also speed up the workflow in build-your-own concepts like sandwich shops and burrito joints.

Best for: Cutting potatoes into wavy, curly, and spiral fries.

The Spiral Fry Potato Cutter is designed to cut the tubers into spirals and curly fries, popular accompaniments to sandwiches and entrées in a number of different restaurant concepts. Sold by themselves, wavy, ribbon, and chip twister fries can fetch high margins, and they're popular items at concession stands and festival kiosks.

Find the Spiral Fry Potato Cutter you need in the table below based on the type of fry you want to produce.

Best For: Producing high volumes of spiral, ribbon, wavy, and chip twister fries.

Operators like festival vendors and concession stand managers need a way to produce novelty potato snacks with speed and consistency, and that's just what Nemco provides with its PowerKut Food Cutter. This piece of equipment runs on 120-volt power and cuts a potato into ribbon, spiral, or chip twister fries in a matter of seconds.

Use the table below to find the PowerKut Food Cutter and accessories you need to start serving these high-margin items.