We have been trying out Pop Chef from Character to cut food into shapes and make some fun lunches. The set contains 6 different shapes and works with a variety of food from fruit and vegetables, to bread, cheese, sliced meat, and more. You can also use it to shape dough while baking to get cookies in these shapes.
The shapes included are:
- Heart
- Star
- Flower
- Circle
- Sun
- Butterfly
Some of the shapes are larger and some are smaller, which is useful if you have fruit of different sizes.
I found the tool very easy to use, with most foods the cut food will just pop out very easily when you tap the top of the orange pump. If any food gets stuck there is a tool included to help to dislodge it.
Here you can see the tool being used to make shaped bread for some fun sandwiches. The tool cuts very neatly so the shapes all come out very well defined and recognisable.
There are skewers included in the set too, so you can make fruit kebabs, which would look great with a variety of rainbow coloured fruit and would be ideal for a healthy party food.
We used the Pop Chef to make some fun sandwiches for lunch, using:
- bread
- cheese
- peppers
- banana
- apple
I was not sure whether the Pop Chef would manage to cut hard fruit like apple but it was fine!
The pieces should be cleaned just with warm soapy water, and this is easy to do as there are not really any nooks and crannies where food will get stuck, to make it hard to clean.
The Pop Chef is a fun tool, easy to use and I’m sure we will make many more fun food displays with it in future.
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I have never seen or heard of that before……It does look like great fun x
A super cute idea. My kids love it when I cut sandwiches into shapes. I tend to stick to everyday cookie cutters that I have in my cupboard though.
Oh my! Genius! My son always has star shaped sandwiches in his lunch box but I’d LOVE to do some funky shaped fruit too! 🙂
I think it looks really sweet and I’d use it all the time for cutting biscuits and fruit and icing etc – I’m not so sure about the star shaped sandwiches for mice though….you’d need a microscope to eat them 😀
i LOVE this idea! great for kids lunches at school 🙂 x
So THIS is what my twins have been asking for!!!! They keep asking for a “Pop Chef” and I hadn’t seen it so didn’t realise! Thank you for enlightening me 🙂
That looks fun, and my toddler loves his food to be entertaining too!
How fun is this, never come across it before
that looks like a good idea, we usually use cutters but this looks easier to use for popping out the pieces that get stuck in cutters.
This would certainly make for more interesting packed lunch boxes – my kids would be thrilled!
That’s great. My 2 love shaped sandwiches
That looks such fun x
love this idea kids will eat more if theyhave the chance to have hands on and its more fun x
Never seen this before, but my son would love it. He is obsessed with stars at the moment!
I have never seen one of these but it looks great!
i secretly want one of these for myself!
I had heard of these kind of things but never seen them in action – I always assumed they would be really fiddly and difficult. I guess not 🙂
I like the look of this. It looks easy to use and makes food much more fun for fussy eaters!
I really like the look of this, it would be fab for making Bento lunch boxes.
Love the idea of the ‘kebabs’, such a funky idea!
this looks great, will bare this in mind for the future
Ooh I’ve not seen this before, looks great too – lots of options with all those shapes!
These look brilliant – Eliza will only eat her sandwich if it is in a fun shape!
I think this is a great idea for getting them to make and eat the things that they ‘don’t like’.
Oooh that looks fun! I love a kitchen gadget! x
I love the look of this, would be great to make food for kids parties!
What a neat little gadget – I can definitely see it making lunches fun! How cool. x
This looks like so much fun. J would love to have a go all by himself 🙂
Oh I love this! Would be ideal for the fussy stages! Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested
Oh I’ve seen these and they look great. They would be perfect for party food!
I am loving seeing all the different ideas people have used it for. Your sandwiches are so cute.
These look like so much fun 🙂 #TriedTested
I absolutely love mine and for the price would definitely buy it knowing how good it is – I keep popping shapes into food now, just because I can! x
What a fab idea – especially for fussy eaters x
This is a really fun idea! I could also imagine it being great for finger-foods at a toddlers birthday party.