Things I Love Thursday: Chop Keeper (Giveaway)
Disclosure: I was given the Chop Keeper to review as well as a set to giveaway to a reader. The opinions on use of this product are my own.
**Contest Closed: Winner chosen is Laura, random.org number 13!
I am always looking for new and easy to use products for the kitchen. I want to find new and inventive ways to save myself, and you, time in the kitchen. I was recently given the opportunity to review the Chop Keeper and wasn’t disappointed.
The Chop Keeper was invented by a mom. First plus. It is a raised side tray that allows you a large work surface without all the mess. Second plus. It is also flexible so it allows you to pour the contents into whatever you are making if you need it.
I recently used the Chop Keeper for several projects. The first was my Toddler French Toast Sticks that I cooked up the other day. I needed a place to cut the 30+ slices of bread (preferably near a window for better lit pictures). It worked great and saved me from cleaning up a bunch of crumbs when I was through. I simply cut the bread on the Chop Keeper on my kitchen table (near the window) and then transferred the tray to the counter by my stove for dipping and cooking. When I was through I simply dumped the crumbs from the tray to the garbage disposal and clean up was through.
I also used the Chop Keeper to rise dough on a bread project gone bust. (More on that soon). At any rate, I lightly floured it and set the dough to rise. When I was through I transferred the dough to a baking sheet with ease. And again, very little clean up. I love that!
Would you like a Chop Keeper? I am sure it would come in handy for your Once A Month Mom March Cooking Day! Here is how you can enter to win (you can comment using the following criteria for up to 4 entries. Leave a separate comment for each entry):
1. Comment – What activity is the greatest cause of messes in your kitchen? (Mine would likely be my toddler but I don’t think the Chop Keeper is going to help that!)
Additional ways to enter:
2. Tweet or Facebook this contest – make sure that you use @onceamonthmom, @ArgeeCorp & chop keeper in your Tweet or Facebook status. And don’t forget to leave a comment below stating you have done so.
3. Become a Fan of Once A Month Mom. Leave a comment below that you have done so or if you are already.
4. Subscribe to the Once A Month Mom blog via RSS or email. Let me know that you have done so. Of course, if you are already subscriber make sure you leave that too.
This giveaway ends Monday, March 22nd at midnight. Winner will be chosen by random using random.org.
This post is linked at the Diaper Diaries Things I Love Thursday.
Whenever I make sandwiches with my girls, it seems to end up all over the place.
The Chop Keeper might help with that.
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What a neat kitchen tool! There are so many messes in my kitchen. Not sure which one this will help with!
Thanks so much for the chance to win!!
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The most messy thing I do is kneading bread or rolling out biscuits…all that flour on the counter!
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I agree that my toddler makes the biggest messes, followed by the stove I never clean, but the one the Chop Keeper could help with is cutting tomatoes. It’s always so messy!
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…adding sprinkles to cupcakes!!!
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Mine would be any sort of baking – I get flour EVERYWHERE!
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The greatest source of mess in my kitchen is that I take on too many projects at once and never get the first one finished before I start the next one.
Bread crumbs are the biggest mess maker in my kitchen. I slice bread several times a day and always have crumbs on the counter and on the floor.
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Baking with my 2 and 4 year old always ends in a huge mess! They love to “help” and there is always flour and sugar all over the kitchen by the time we’re done!
What a great giveaway. I am subscribed via RSS and think this would be great for cutting up melons and other fruit that always makes a huge mess in my kitchen!
Can I say my husband? Because he has never learned the clean-as-you-go method, which makes the otherwise fair you-cook-i-clean agreement grossly unbalanced!
But if we’re talking about an actual cooking *process* then I’d say prepwork: all the peeling, slicing, chopping, dicing, grating (oh, the grating!), etc. I can never keep everything I chop on one surface. I find bits of onion on the floor or cilantro ground into the grout…ew! So I am VERY excited about the Chop Keeper!
Making dough and kneading it is the messiest job for my kitchen because I have ceramic tile countertops and EVERYTHING sticks to the grout.
The biggest mess…homework it seems. But like you said, the Chop Keeper wouldn’t help with that. Food wise it is chopping the 20 carrots I do each week for lunches and snacks. I buy the regular carrots and chop them, enough for a week or a little more. The mess can be unreal, along with my orange fingers…
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The biggest mess is always when my husband makes his pizza dough. Thanks for the chance.
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I would love to use this for several activities- especially when cooking with my messy kids! would be great to use when cutting loaves of bread.
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My son hates the crusts on bread, so keeping control of the breaad crumbs would be wonderful!
I think my biggest mess is from either making breadcrumbs or when I have to dredge something in flour.
Biggest messes in my kitchen…mmmm.. I love baking bread, etc, and after kneading the dough on the counter it is always a huge task for me to get rid of the bits stuck to it!
My greatest mess is my daycares preschool time. Things everywhere.
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How cool! The messiest thing in my kitchen is when I do yeast breads/doughs…I hate cleaning up the flour afterwards, so the Chop Keeper sounds like a good solution.
I would have to say when making homemade spaghetti sauce i make a mess everywhere, chopping the veggies etc.
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My daughter making her sandwiches, etc. makes the most messes.
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Biscuit making, pancake mixing, and cookie baking definitely rate up there for messes in my kitchen!
This would be really handy!! Would be great when cutting up messy fruit like, melons and pineapples!! I am a fan on facebook!
I make big messes dipping meats into a liquid, a dry, and back into the liquid to bake or fry. Yuck! Thanks for the opportunity
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I already subscribe via email and love your posts. I, too, find I make a messier than messy job when getting dough ready to bake bread. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would have to say my husband being my mess in the kitchen, but am thankful when he does offer to cook dinner. lol But this would be a nice addition to our kitchen since I am always cleaning crumbs, etc. off the counter.
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I just made 2 crockpots of applesauce and 2 of applebutter. I could’ve used something big to catch the peels and do the chopping on. Nothing seemed to work for me. This looks like it would be wonderful.
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I have facebooked your contest! what a cool item to giveaway
thanks for the chance!
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Right now, the greatest source of mess in the kitchen is our disinterest in cleaning up after dinner is done. Too many things to do afterward, and the dishes sit until 9:30p … or the next morning … or (on really busy weeks) the next. Ugh.
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My boys and their crustless sandwiches are the most frequent kitchen messes. I cook from scratch a lot, so I probably cause more messes than the littles.
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Gluten free baking–all the light starches and flours are hard not to get everywhere.
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A tie between when my husband cooks and my 11 month old eats finger foods!!
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it would have to be cutting meat…uh hate it.
Well, if I can’t say my husband, I’ll have to go with chopping onions. How about my husband chopping onions? Anyway, I NEED this!
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Some of my messiest jobs are chopping juicy things like tomatoes…a regular cutting board without edges just doesn’t work!
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I cannot tell a lie. Biggest cause of messes in my kitchen: I’m a messy cook! And I LOVE to cook, so my kitchen stays messy. I subscribe.
Too many snackers cause a lot of the mess in my kitchen! I subscribe via email!
Three boys between 10 and 15 that are trying to learn to cook cause A LOT of messes at my house.
Five over-excited cooks make for a messy kitchen! That’s when I question this open-floor plan we have! I subscribe via email. Thoroughly enjoy your posts.
My biggest messes are when I bake – stuff flying everywhere!
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4 kids, of course, make the biggest mess – either cooking for them or with them:) When I’m on a cole slaw kick, shredding cabbage. There is no board I have big enough to do the job.
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The crumbs from homemade bread
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What doesn’t make a mess?!? My messiest thing would probably cutting up chicken (the juices) and then breading them.
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My greatest mess – kneading bread. Flour gets everywhere. This would be a great help there!
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What causes the biggest mess in my kitchen is baking cookies… or doing anything with flour.
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My greatest mess is breadcrumbs from making sandwiches and also from cutting bread. I am a facebook fan and also subscribe to the newsletter
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This would be great for homemade french fries, and a gazillion things during harvest season.
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I would love you use this when cooking with my granddaughters.
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I’d like to say it’s my kids and maybe that’s true indirectly, but it would probably have to be ME. It could be that I have four underfoot and one in the belly that always seems to be in the way;)
One thing that makes messes is the crumbs everywhere all the time!
My biggest mess comes from slicing bread…crumbs everywhere!!
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Making homemade wheat bread always leaves my kitchen in a mess, but it is so worth it in the end!
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my husband is the greatest cause of messes. and he loooooves counter-based cooking (chopping, making noodles, etc.). this would be a great solution!
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