The Best Kitchen Mincers for Cooking

Top Chef competitors may only need sharp knives and a cutting board to perfectly mince herbs, but those people are professionals. Even the best home cooks could use a mincer, and for several reasons. It saves time, kitchen space, and stress. Brand new cooks, individuals who want to increase their consumption of fresh vegetables and nuts, and amateur chefs could all benefit from a quality mincer.

What to Look for in a Mincer

What do you need to consider?

• The Food: If you’re looking to mince and mash garlic cloves, then look for a garlic mincer. However, if you want to mince, dice, slice, and chop vegetables and herbs, look for a multifunctional tool. If you’re clear on your cooking goal, then you’ll have no trouble finding the perfect mincer.
• What You Have: Maybe you’ve already got a garlic mincer for fresh alfredo sauce. So then you can look for something to mince those onions for salsa or those nuts in your pantry for some cookies. Do an inventory on your current kitchen gadgets, then go from there.

Most Compact: Geedel Food Mincer

The Geedel Mincer is a truly compact little guy! The streamlined design makes mincing, chopping, grinding, and dicing delightfully easy. Amazingly, this miniature mincer is equipped with an inner stainless-steel blade that rotates 24 degrees every time you push down on the top button. That’s a lot of power! With this compact kitchen tool, you can mince veggies, nuts, herbs, and more. It’s easy to disassemble and dishwasher safe.

Best for Herbs: Harold Import Co. Gourmet Fresh Herb Mincer

HIC’s herb works like magic with herbs. It’s a simple, handheld tool with nine stainless steel blades. Just hold it in one hand, press down with the other, and roll. Being in control of the mincer is empowering; it’s all you, with no machine needed.

Best for Garlic: ORBLUE Stainless Steel Mincer

Has crushing ginger root with your hands left you with sore hands and wrists? The Orblue stainless steel garlic press crushes and minces cloves and roots so that you don’t have to. Well, you do need to squeeze the handles, but the ergonomic stainless steel tool allows you to mince your way around the kitchen with ease. The product even comes with a garlic peeler rocker—a long, silicone tube that rolls the peel off and keeps your fingers free from the lingering garlic scent.

Most Versatile: Mueller Austria Pro-Series

Are you an extremely busy person who feels torn because you want to spend more time in the kitchen making fresh food? The Mueller Austria slicer, mincer, chopper, dicer, cutter, and container combo may have a solution for you. Just get veggies and herbs and make yourself comfortable in a spot in the kitchen with a clean countertop. The product comes with five interchangeable blades and three different-sized chopper blades. Simply insert the blade most appropriate for your recipe (small dicer for onions, for example) and press down on the lid. Your perfectly diced onions fall into the container, ready for use.

Unique Design: NexTrend Garlic Twister Mincer

This little kitchen gadget is one powerful tool. For one, you can use it to mince so many things: garlic, ginger, nuts, herbs, peppers, and so on. You just place your food item in the chamber, set the top in place, and twist! The NextTrend twister is made in the USA and comes and several colors.