Vegetable cutter

A vegetable cutter (10) having a lower housing part (14), which has a knife (16) on its underside and receives a rotatable inner body (18) having a cutting grid (20), the inner body (18) being fillable with the vegetable, and said vegetable cutter having an upper housing part (12) with a ram (26), which is disposed on a spindle (24) and in the operating state plunges into the inner body (18) and upon rotation of the upper housing part (12) relative to the lower housing part (14) executes an axial motion counter to the cutting grid (20), and said vegetable cutter further having a coupling means (28) for coupling the upper housing part (12) to the lower housing part (14), said couling means (28) being operable between an operating state to provide engagement with a thread of the spindle (24) and an open state to allow a free axial displacement of the spindle (24) and changed to the ram (26), and the coupling means (28) being connected to the upper housing part (12), and that the spindle (24) being guided for axial displacement relative to the upper housing part (12) on an axial guide (34) on the upper housing part (12) and secured against rotation relative to the upper housing part (12) on the axial guide (34).