What do you use to chop up fresh foods?

[katlovesaandw]

Ok, I decided to make the gang their 1st egg/veggie mix.
I have an Oster mini chopper already that I use to make small batches of humus for myself so ASSUMED it would work great for a boiled egg and cooked veggies plus some fresh kale.

WRONG!

I don't think it made the egg shell small enough and it took forever to get the kale in small bites and I am pretty sure there are still a few big sprigs in there.

What brand or whatever do you use? How do you pulverize your egg mixes, etc?

[lchrucker 2]

I've never found a good short cut. I dice everything with a big old kitchen knife.

[Ginene]

I use my NINJA to chop eggs, veggies, etc. But I purchase Hatched eggshells, as I have gotten lazy and was tired of pulverizing egg shells. I used a marble pill crusher to crush my shells. Make sure they are super tiny, especially if parents are feeding babies

[mayble]

I use one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-EHC6 ... od+chopper
and I love it!
I don't use it for egg (too mushy) but it does a fantastic job of chopping greens and veggies into tiny bits without turning it to mush.
I mash eggs with a fork and mix with Harrison's High Potency Mash (rather than cornmeal) to make eggfood. When I have tiny babies in the nest I peel the eggs first, and add pulverized oyster shell for extra calcium.

[katlovesaandw]

Ok, thanks. I know I have to get something better. If it won't chop cooked veggies or kale....or even a boiled egg well....jeez.

[lovezebs]

Hi Kat. LoL. A morning in the life of a finchaholic.

When I saw the question as to what we chop with, I had a little chuckle. My first answer, was, a knife of course.

Seriously however, I really do use a knife. I only have seven birds, so I don't need huge amounts on a daily basis. What I do , is put the eggs on to boil, grab my greens, veg, fruits out of the fridge and put them into a nice cold wash to liven everything up a bit.
Then I get all the baths, food dishes and what not and throw them in the other sink into hot soapy water. I clean off any poopy problems off perches etc with a wet paper towel and remove paper towels and newspapers from bottom of cages.

Now we get to work. Get the eggs cooling in some cold water. Drain the greens etc and give them a good rinse and chop away on a cutting board until I have enough for their breakfast. Place that on their special plate and sprinkle with crushed dry meal worm.

Wash all their dishes and dry. Fill them with seeds, water and so on, and line everything on the table in order to the background music of bird song in full volume. Replace paper, sprinkle with fortified grit and start loading everything back into cages with a multitude of beeps, chirps, trills, meeps and squacks for encouragement.

While the crew are having morning baths, I mash up their eggs, shell and all into their egg dishes. Put them back in cages and sit down to enjoy the feast.

And let me tell you, these guys sure know how to enjoy a meal. It just makes a Mother smile.

[katlovesaandw]

Sweet, THANKS!

Still trying to get into this routine.... and was following the recipe I found on making an egg mash. Said to toss it and veggies, etc. into a mini chopper. I was like I have one..... well, it SUCKS. It is going to thrift store tomorrow because I don't like things that only work ok or are 1 task..... if you cant chop boiled egg or cooked veggies...something wrong!LOL

[lovezebs]

Good luck, and have fun chopping!

[finchmix22]

I use a food processor and use pulse, not the continuouse setting. That way I pulse six hard boiled eggs about 5 times, with dried eggfood added, such as Cede. You can add chopped veggies, but I find it makes the eggfood sticky and thick instead of crumbly and light.

[cindy]

a Ninja food chopper

[katlovesaandw]

I found a black and decker mini chopper at the thrift store for cheap yesterday.... will see if it works better than my POS.

Otherwise..... I may just have to invest a little moolah and get something that WORKS.

[Angela&Shalamar]

Regular food processor. Process veggies first, add eggs ( I crack the shells to get them started) pulse and serve.

[katlovesaandw]

That may be what I invest in. A good one. I have had cheap ones and they are that...cheap. I want one that will do lots of things.

[Perfex]

I use food processor for veg. I do not combine with egg. The egg,veg and sprouted seed are in three separate piles on a small paper plate. Now that I have so many birds the processor works a charm for chopping veg.

[cindy]

I used the Ninja chopper to finely chop carrots and kale, this is mixed with cooked quinoa and dried steel cut oats. The egg is grated by hand with a fine grater