Cooking is a learned skill. We watch our parents and grandparents in the kitchen as kids, we experiment as we get older and later when living on our own we live on take-out and ramen noodles while we cautiously explore and take those first few steps in making meals.
One of the first meals I made well, and often, when we were first married was roast beef and mashed potatoes. There aren’t too m any ways to mess it up, but it turns out I still had some things to learn. One day when I was cutting up potatoes to boil, my mom pointed out that cutting them in all shapes and sizes wouldn’t produce the same consistent cooking result. Duh! Cutting the potatoes the same size means they would cook at the same time – not one chunk much larger than smaller other pieces as I had been doing. Thankfully, mashed potatoes is a pretty forgiving dish but it made sense why you need to be consistent when chopping things to cook, aside from the aesthetically pleasing appeal of perfectly presented dish.
So, when I was presented with the opportunity to review and utilize the Breville Sous Chef 16 Peel and Dice in my kitchen, I knew that this would be a ridiculously awesome way to get that consistency – and Pinterest perfect quality – in my own dishes. Thinking of a recipe that requires lots of chopping and dicing, I knew that Hearty Vegetable Borscht was the perfect candidate! This recipe requires peeling potatoes and beets, then dicing them along with dicing carrots, cutting up green beans and onions and then adding some herbs and broth. While the ingredients are quite basic, it’s time consuming to prep it all. Enter in the Breville Sous Chef 16 Peel and Dice!
Here’s the Instagram video we did highlighting how the Breville Sous Chef 16 works (we were obviously impressed!)
Above are some stills from the video highlighting the process of peeling the potatoes and beets, then dicing them all within the same appliance. Using the appliance for the first time, there were pauses as we referred to the instruction manual to determine which blade was needed, and which spindle to use with it. Switching out these parts didn’t take any time at all, and the clean up was quick. Both my husband and I agreed that when using this for the same processes again, it would be quicker and easier because we’d know “Oh, this blade goes with this spindle.” The appliance comes with 8 cutting tools which provide a variety of options that give flexibility during recipe preparation such as, variable slicing, reversible shredding, Julienne and French fries cutter, dough blade, emulsifying whisk and the S-Blade.
The Breville Sous Chef 16 Peel and Dice does just that with ease – the potatoes were peeled quickly (it can peel 7 potatoes in 30 seconds!) The instructions mention using round potatoes rather than oval, for more even peeling, and mine were oval so there was some peel left on a potato, which was no big deal. The beet peeling was especially helpful because beets are so messy to peel. Because they were round, they peeled perfectly too!
The extra large dicing capacity means that the area is more than twice as large as the leading competitor which also helps
minimize preparation time. The 360-degree grid provides up to 10 cups of continuous dicing in seconds and we witnessed it’s speed first-hand with glee in the video! There’s even a Dough Blade included AND Emulsifying Whisk as well! Yup. You can prep a ton of ingredients for all your meals, we’re just getting started!
Look for the Breville Sous Chef 16 Peel and Dice wherever you find beautiful Breville products near you (Best Buy, Canadian Tire, and The Bay all carry Breville products). You can also shop online at Breville.ca for it, listed currently at $699.99.
Breville has kindly set aside another Sous Chef 16 Peel and Dice for one of my readers! To enter to win, simply fill in your name and email address in the form below and click BEGIN! Then simply leave a comment on this post telling me what recipe in your household you think you would use this sous chef for first! Don’t forget to check for additional entries like following Breville on Instagram and more!
I would make nut butter!
I think I’d make some potato leek soup
i would dice fruit for fruit salad
i would love to use this to make a yummy pesto dressing!
I would make my own hash browns by shredding potatoes.
I know a great cheddar rosti recipe and almost everything needs to be shredded
I would love to make a homemade vegetable soup
vegetable soup !
I’d make a beef stew, lots of veggies to peel and dice.
I would use it to make banana bread
I would cream soups… and also make hummus and things like that.
I would make a nice homemade veggie soup
Cream potato and ham soup
I would use this to help me with all the dicing, slicing and shredding it takes to make lasagna.
Making Borscht with this bad boy will make it a breeze and probably fun . You know boys love new toys. Haha I love borscht and this would save lots if time in the kitchen.
I would give this to my mom, who makes her life difficult by chopping everything by hand. I would guess that she would try to make hummus first.
I would make some hummus
Oh let me count the ways… or recipes… lol I would probably start with squash soup!
I would make cauliflower soup or potato leek
awesome machine I would make vegetable soup
I would use it to make vegetable soup.
I would make my Baba’s homemade Borscht
vegetable soup
Would make some salsa.. dip and guac
Since we still have lots of tomatoes from our garden I would use this to make some salsa – it would really come in handy as chopping up all the ingredients by hand takes so long and I hate cutting onions.
I’ve been craving hummus and this would be the perfect tool to make a huge batch!
I think I would love this to peel and slice potatoes for a recipe of scalloped potatoes.
A soup or beet salad. 😍😍😍
cheesecake
cheddar broccoli soup
OMG!! this is super awesome, I have never owned a food processor and I would love the dicing feature to get all my veggies the perfect size for my healthy veggie soup!!
Hi Tenille,
This would help me a lot with my vegetable soup recipe, this would be perfect, a kitchen must-have. 🙂
Cheers,
Jessica
soup season is here, i would use to make a bacon broccoli potato soup
I would make carrot soup!
I’d make a veggie stew!
I would hell me create a quick pasta sauce, cutting all ingredients super quickly! Thanks
I’ve done the beet battle for years whether it’s for borscht or pickling or roasting. This would be so amazing to have.
I would make potato soup
My friend just recommended a potato leek soup recipe so I’d make that.
I just bought Chrissy Teigan’s new cookbook and I’m keen to try her Pad Thai Spaghetti first. So this would help me with the chop, chop aspect of that. Love Breville. I have their Cold juicer and it’s fab.
I would probably make a hearty vegetable soup. Thank you 🙂
Would definitely use it for soup making!
Oooo! There are so many things to make! I would start with a hearty beef stew and then with all the extra time I’d have I would make a variety of pestos.
I would use to make coleslaw, would be easy to use to shred the veggies!
fall/winter I make a LOT of soups, so I would use this for exactly that! I like that it could peel beets and probably turnip too!
I would use it for all different types of soup as I enjoy soup in the fall and winter.
Amazing!!
I would use this to chop up vegetables for beef stew and to shred potatoes and cheese for potatoe casserole.
I’d probably make vegetable soup.
Wow – this looks amazing! I saw your instagram posts and was hoping there would be a giveaway! We have a hearty bean soup that full of veggies, this would be great to help us with our prep. Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
I think I would use it first to assist me with making clam chowder.
Borscht!!!
A soup or STEW!! Gah the convenience of this would make for saving time and energy!
I’d make some guacamole!
I would love to make tomatoe soup in this!
I would make nut butter.
I would love to use this to make a pesto sauce, and many other delicious ideas! This is such an awesome appliance!
I would make vegetable soup.
I would make a delicious spaghetti sauce loaded with veggies
I would make homemade pizza. Use it to chop the ingredients and also mix the dough.
Red pepper, butternut squash soup is what I wanted to make with this.
I would use it help with making potato soup
It would definitely help with vegetable soup. So much chopping
I would make a lovely homemade turkey, lentil and carrot soup.
It would be awesome to have the Breville Precision in my kitchen
to do the chopping and pureeing.
Loaded baked potato soup…it is soup season after all!
I would use it to help make butternut squash soup.
I would make my green base for my green rice bowl with this.
i’d use it to make hummus
I would use it to help me make potato pancakes!
I wonder how it will work on sweet potatoes… We love roasted sweet potatoes, but I dread cutting them into cubes.
I think I would make some broccoli soup
I would make a mango salsa!
I’d make butter nut squash soup.
It would make homemade green curry paste simple and fast.
I would make potato salad.
I would use it for doing my beets up to freeze.
Oh gosh – I want to try it out on beets myself!
I’ve started food prepping on Sundays, so I would use this for all the Fall soups I’ll be making! I hate prepping the veg.
I would make salsa!
I would make some potato soup 🙂 this looks so helpful!! Thanks
I would make purple yam pie and share it with family and friends.
Hearty stews for fall 😊
The first thing I would make is Minestrone soup. I don’t make it as often as I would like because of all the prep. The Sous Chef 16 would make it such much easier and faster to make.
I would love to use it a hearty vegetable soups
I would be using it to make Scalloped Potatoes which I find very tedious trying to get each slice the same thickness so they cook evenly.
I would make a vegetable soup!
Coleslaw… my family seriously can’t get enough
Grandma’s chili sauce .. so much chopping and prepping to make. What a breeze this would be!
I would use this to make sweet potato fries.
I’d make Caldo Verde
Wow, the recipe options are endless using the Breville Sous Chef 16 Peel and Dice! THe first thing I would make is soup, closely followed by stew, chilli, & hummus.
I would use this first to make all the hummus!!!!
Pumpkin & Butternut Squash Soup or the family recipe creamy potato soup with garden chives.
I would make soup. no more dicing by hand.
I would make applesauce, just apples, water and cinnamon.
How amazing!! I would also make the Hearty Vegetable Borscht recipe first. Mmm…fresh dill and a dollop of sour cream. And NO more red hands!! I need a Breville Sous Chef 16 Peel and Dice!
hmm.. I want to say Salsa. is that too basic? My SO would use the crap out of this thing. Me? I’m not a whiz in the kitchen so… Salsa is about as fancy as I get.
This would making hearty winter soups so easy. Our favourite is beef, barley and vegetable. So many other recipes we could make because the prep would be so quick.
I would make hummus 🙂
The hearty vegetable borscht you made sound great. I’ve always wanted to try borscht.
I would make some roasted red pepper hummus.
I would definitely use it to peel potatoes. I really dislike that task!
The first thing I would make is Beef Barley Soup. This Breville appliance would make it so easy to dice all the veggies.
I would make vegetable soup.
I would like to use this to help me make coleslaw.
I would make some popsicles for my kids, ha ha!
I would love to make borscht as well. Mom is too far away to deliver.
This would be useful for all the prep involved with making Harvest Chicken Autumn Stew!
I would use it to peel and slice potatoes to make scalloped potatoes.
With the holidays right around the corner i’d put this to work making big batches of pie crusts to stock up the freezer! We love bringing home made pies to potlucks and parties, but the dough is a pain in the butt.
I would use it to make a great minestrone soup, not having to do all the chopping would be awesome
Hearty vegetable soup 😊
I would use this to make my stock pile of salsa in the fall when the garden is out of control!
I dont have a/c in my house so we dont do a lot of cooking during the summer months on the stove. I look forward to this cooler weather to go back to making home made soups and stews!! I would make borsch soup first
I would love to make a vegetable soup
I would make a vegetarian chilli
I would love this to use as a part in my new, healthy lifestyle! Every week I meal prep. Part of this prep is to roast beets, sweet potatoes and butternut squash…time consuming but worth it. This machine would be amazing to have!
I would make salsa!
I would make a veggie stew!
i`d try to make homemade salsa!!
I don`t know if my comment went through.. I`d make homemade salsa!
Exciting to think I can get rid of multiple machines. As someone who makes tons of soups, sides and sauces…this would help my prep.
I would make some vegetable soup!
I would love to use my Roasted garlic carrot soup
I’d use it to slice potatoes for a giant pan of scalloped potatoes
I’d use it for veggie soup!
humus yummy
id make my soups with this
I still make all my grandson’s toddler food. I am drumming up and idea for pumpkin, apple sweet potato. It sounds more like a dessert than a vegetable.
I think the first thing I would use this for is to make pie crust
I would use this to chop vegetables for a vegetables soup. Perfect now that the days are getting colder.
I’d make a hearty vegetable soup.
Potato soup
Salsa
❤️ My kitchen needs this. I need this. Oh what I could make! ❤️ My list is endless. Cinnamon buns. Potatoe soup. Fruit juice.
I would make a vegetable beef soup.
I have been wanting to try scalloped potatoes. I think the Breville Sous Chef would be a great help for this dish.
Roasted red pepper and tomato soup!
I would definitely make some delicious vegetable soup!
It would be handy for dicing up veggies for pasta sauce
Neighbor gave me a recipe for Fruit Dip: The ultimate with Marzipan Paste and Ricotta Cheese. This would be the bees knees – dip without lumps.
this would be great to make my beet & carrot salad
Would love to use this to help make some homemade soup..
Think i would try to make peanut butter!
I would like to use it for homemade fries first.
I definitely would make my borscht! That’s one concoction that you FEEL the healthy when eating. Yum!