Chopbox is a smart 5in1 cutting board, will you help us? [Analysis]

Technology accompanies us more and more in more areas of our day to day, however, its growth and new applications make us see it present even in those places where we would never have imagined it, and that is what brings us here today.

Chopbox is a smart cutting board with five functions you didn't know you needed. Without a doubt, we have found it to be an extremely interesting product and we have not been able to avoid analyzing it. If you want to take a step beyond the traditional in your kitchen, you cannot miss the analysis that we have carried out of the Chopbox that we bring today, are you smart or foodie?

Materials and design: Ecological and waterproof

In essence, this Chopbox can look like any bamboo cutting board, like the one you can buy at IKEA or any other point of sale. We find a product with dimensions of 454.6 x 279.4 x 30.5 mm quite large, as you can imagine, so it would make a pretty versatile cutting board. The total weight is 2,7 Kilograms, it is made entirely in one hundred percent organic bamboo. These bamboo boards, which are the ones that I have been using in my day to day, are ecological and require little maintenance, since they do not absorb water or affect humidity.

It has small grooves on the edges that help us collect the "juice" Of those vegetables or fruits that we are cutting, yes, the brand ensures that both the surface of the cutting board and the knife sharpeners are replaceable in case they deteriorate significantly with use.

Despite having electronic elements, the table has IPX7 certification against water, So it is completely waterproof, yes, they remind us that we will not be able to submerge it or put it in the dishwasher, something that is not recommended with any type of bamboo table, whether or not it is "smart".

On the other hand, the table is actually capable of being divided into two areas, the generic one, and a table placed in the lower area that we can remove, in this way we will cut the meat and fish separately, thus avoiding the dreaded cross contamination of food. I thought it was a great idea to include an additional table that will be used to cut, collect waste or whatever we want.

Five utensils in one

We have already discussed the traditional "chopping board" function in relation to the chop box, But what can make us spend around a hundred euros on a product like this is precisely that it has some other additional functionality. Let's talk about some of them:

• UV light to disinfect: Putting the lower table on the upper one we can activate a 254 nanometer Ultraviolet Light that is capable of killing 99% of germs and bacteria. This will serve us both to disinfect the tables themselves, and to insert knives or utensils through the side hole. The light is activated and deactivated automatically and in just one minute we will have carried out the disinfection efficiently.
• Built-in scale: Another basic function, since we are cutting and we are making our main recipes, what we cannot miss is precisely a scale. In this case, only by moving the elements to the left we can automatically weigh the food with a maximum of 3 kg. You can choose the unit of measurement in its control panel as well as the "tare" function so that the weight of the container is not considered.

• Digital timer: Just under the weight, on the control panel, we have a function outlined with a clock that takes advantage of the LED panel to offer us time intervals of more than 9 hours thanks to its digital timer that responds easily to touch.
• Double knife sharpener: Finally, since we are going to cut, the ideal is to have the knives up to date, and for this it has two knife sharpeners, one made of ceramic and the other in diamond stone so that we can use it on all kinds of knives.

This table Chopbox uses a 3.000 mAh battery which is charged through its microUSB cable. I do not quite understand why they have bet on him microUSB knowing that USB-C is the current standard. For its part, this battery guarantees us up to 30 days of use, we have not been able to exhaust it in our tests, so we have not been able to verify the charging time, which we estimate will be around an hour and a half.

Editor's Opinion

It is a smart cutting board, yes, or rather the most technological cutting board you could imagine, and for that reason it has a price that is close to € 100 (€ 99,00 in powerplanetonline). It is clear that its functionalities are interesting and that they can make our lives easier, but this is a caprice product whose main added value is that if we are lovers of minimalism, we are saving four tools in the kitchen, something that in the times that they run, it is appreciated.

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