Use a pizza cutter! I use it to chop lettuce and such because I like SMALL pieces of lettuce ... I put whatever I want chopped into the large Tupperware bowl, and then use the pizza cutter to chop it up quickly! You're going to love it!

Forgot....with water to soak in, ha!

Just a little FYI....when I lived in Japan, they taught me to put my rice in the rice cooker early in the morning with all my desired seasonings, let it sit all day then flip it on in time to be done for dinner, always oishi! A rice cooker is the way to go.