A new, easy-to-use kitchen utensil that quickly reduces fresh lettuce to bite-sized pieces
The Lettuce Gizmo® (trademarked name, patented) slicing guide is the key component of a lettuce slicing system consisting of a slicing guide, knife, and cutting board. Using the Lettuce Gizmo® Slicing System, you can cut the lettuce of your choice into bite-sized pieces, making your own “bagged” lettuce from either head or leaf lettuce in just a few quick and easy steps.
With the Lettuce Gizmo®, you can quickly and easily create bite-sized pieces of lettuce as if you were using a commercial-grade lettuce cutter!
Currently, preparing lettuce at home means tearing leaves apart by hand or slicing them free-handedly on a cutting board. Both approaches are difficult, time consuming and messy. If you choose to slice lettuce on a cutting board, you add the risk of accidentally cutting your fingers. Making matters worse, these methods usually don’t even yield bite-sized pieces of lettuce! Processing lettuce into bite-sized pieces is simply troublesome, tedious, and frustrating!
The Lettuce Gizmo® significantly reduces the time and effort required to slice fresh lettuce into bite-sized pieces, without making a mess in the process. It is a simple-to-operate, inexpensive, and safe alternative to a commercial-grade lettuce cutting machine, requiring very little space to operate and store. It provides a quick-and-easy means of slicing-up lettuce into small, bite-sized pieces. The easy clean-up design is durable and engineered to last a long time under normal use. The Lettuce Gizmo® Slicing System, complete with a knife and cutting board, allows you to affordably achieve professional results every time.
(The future injection molded configuration of the Lettuce Gizmo® slicing guide, along with cutting board and knife, is shown below)
The Lettuce Gizmo® quickly pays for itself in savings achieved by cutting and packaging your own lettuce!
At first glance, buying convenient pre-cut/pre-packaged lettuce avoids the hassle of cutting up lettuce yourself. Compared to uncut heads of lettuce, pre-cut/pre-packaged lettuce is very expensive! Examples from our local grocery store were priced at $3.29 per 11 ounce bag, working out to $4.79 per pound. On the other hand, uncut heads of iceberg lettuce in the same produce section were priced @ just $1.39/34 ounces. After removing the bitter core pieces (generously assuming 25% loss), uncut lettuce comes out to $1.39/25.5 ounces- that’s just 87 cents/pound!
The bottom-line is this: you can select and buy your own fresh lettuce, quickly and easily cut it up with the Lettuce Gizmo® Slicing System, and bag it yourself for as little as 1/5th the price of what the stores charge to do it for you! This could save you $269.88 to $539.76 (or more) each year on your lettuce purchases! On top of that, your lettuce will be fresh and clean, and you get to keep the select pieces!
Technical Specifications
Slicing Guide (slotted plastic cylinder)
- Custom design/manufacture from PVC pipe
- Overall Height: 7.75”
- Outside diameter of cylinder body: 6.6”
- Inside diameter: 6.0”
- Wall thickness: 0.3”
- Slots: 4 parallel sets of opposing slots x perpendicular 4 parallel sets of opposing slots (16 slots, total)
- Slot height (from bottom): 5.75”
- Slot width: 0.150”
- Material: PVC Plastic
- Color: White
- Approximate weight: 1.5 lbs
Slicing Knife
- Commercially sourced
- Round-nosed blade
- Overall length: approximately 15”
- Blade length (heel-to-nose): approximately 10”
- Material: stainless steel
- Edge: cut-resistant, double-bevel-ground
- Handle: textured, one-piece-molded, plastic
Cutting Board
- Commercially sourced
- Dimensions: 8.5 inches wide x 11 inches long x 0.30 inches thick
- Textured cutting surfaces for gripping
- Material: Polypropylene plastic
- Color: Translucent white