Outlet ✨ Chef’n Zipstrip Herb Stripper, Arugula/Avocado 🧨

8 reviews for Outlet ✨ Chef’n Zipstrip Herb Stripper, Arugula/Avocado 🧨

1. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Jennifer A. Ray – June 1, 2014

   Whenever possible, I like to use fresh herbs in cooking. For the last couple of years, I’ve grown my own herbs in pots on my patio and look for recipes to use them. Some herbs are easier to chop than others, and I am always looking for a new way to get the herbs off the stem and into my dish.Herbs like rosemary, thyme, and tarragon can be removed from their stems by pulling the ‘branch’ backwards between two fingers. This works, but it can take some time and so many leave stick to your fingers when you use this method. Other herbs like parsley can just be chopped off the stems, but it is hard to keep from getting any of the stem in the mix.I found the Chef’n Zipstrip Herb Stripper on Amazon and was intrigued enough to order it. This gadget is supposed to easily strip the flavorful leaves from the herb stems, and also measure the herb in the little receptacle attached to it. Great idea!Having now used it, I can say it is a pretty useful tool. I make an herbed tomato dish that has fresh parsley, oregano, thyme, and chives in it. Obviously, I didn’t need this gadget for the chives – I just took my herb mincer straight to them. But the rest of the herbs worked very well. Simply find the hole that best matches the thickness of your herb stem, and pull the stem through. It will strip the leaves as it pulls them through. If you are lucky, all of the leaves will fall into the attached bowl, but I recommend setting it on a cutting board or plate to catch the pieces that would otherwise fall on the counter.The oregano worked extremely well, as did the parsley. I almost didn’t use it for the parsley, but tried it just to see and was amazed at how well it worked for the parsley. It pinched the leaves easily off the stems and for the first time I didn’t end up with lots of little parsley stems in the dish. Not a huge deal, but I’d rather have more leaves than stems. The thyme was a little trickier. Most of my thyme sprigs had pretty delicate stems that broke easily as I tried to pull them through the hole on the herb stripper. I ended up using my fingers for the thyme.I’ve since made Bearnaise sauce with fresh tarragon and some roasted potatoes with fresh rosemary and found this tool works really well for both of those herbs.The Chef’n Zipstrip Herb Stripper will be a staple in my kitchen’s arsenal from now on. I highly recommend it to anyone who cooks with fresh herbs, unless you have a sous chef to prep for you.

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Amazon Customer – May 19, 2015

   Ok, so I love that they want a review of this beautiful piece of 1970’s styled plastic. Not only does it possess the magical powers of looking like a soup spoon from a hibatchi grill, but the plastic will come to life and dance.If you’ve ever seen beauty and the beast from Disney, you know what I’m talking about. That soup spoon has nothing on my mean, green, dancing plastic maching. Speaking of machines, this mechanical wonder of the 45th century not only strips herbs like a mother fing machete, but clean up is easy. That’s right, it self cleans too!As you finish using it and play house music so it can perform a perfect swan lake, it will shower and sing a lullaby so you can rest easy while it does the dishes too! No more fights with your partner over chores again! Dishes, laundry, mopping and anything else you can imagine. To be honest though, I made a fatal error today.I put on my music forgetting the magical powers of this device and stuck a stick of dill through the middle whole where it’s heart should be. As he woke up he saw the herb coming and it was too late. Luckily the hole is more like a piercing and he started laughing…but never stopped.Anyways, this is all a lie. It’s a piece of freaking plastic with different sized holes. Yes it works perfect, how could it not? You stick the herbs in the hole, pull them through and it rips the leaves off the stem. It doesn’t come to life, cannot move, has no magical powers, but clean up is easy since all you have to do is rinse it under water, that was pretty much the only accurate thing above. I love it and will be buying one for my friend this holiday season.

3. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Itchy and Scratchy – June 20, 2021

   It worked like a charm on Rosemary, saving my fingernails that staining.It did NOT work like a charm on Thyme. Then again, I don’t think anything will,after this 3rd attempt at a device to tear tender leaves off of tender stems.The little basin seems redundant to me, as I am usually doing a cup at a timeand it holds little more than a 2oz. measure in volume. It works for me.

4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Danielle Dimieri – May 31, 2022

   Makes using Gresham herbs so easy. I don’t know how I lived without this gadget.

5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   imabuyer – June 7, 2022

   Some herbs like thyme and smaller herbs don’t work well.

6. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   sad and timeless – June 17, 2022

   Imagine! even with wet fingers you can get a neat little pile of spice leaves off their stems and measured without getting frustrated or including the stems in your measurement or deciding to eliminate the spices from your recipe altogether, in preference to coping with picking tiny leaves off skinny stems like some sort of beetle infestation.

7. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Julie Collins – June 18, 2022

   Fits all stem sizes for a variety of herbs. I use it so often I bought a second one! Catches everything in the cup and super easy to clean.

8. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Madge – December 2, 2022

   Absolutely love this! I cook with fresh herbs all the time and this makes it so much easier! Definitely recommend.