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Pinzon Stainless-Steel Mandoline Reviews
The construction of the "finger gaurd" is collapsable and make slicing harder. A 4 if you just need to thin slice 1/8 inch scalloped potatoes or onions. The "wavy" slicer is cool if you want to make crudetts, or fry up "wavy lays pototo chips". Very nice peice if you want uniform hard veggie slices. I wanted the gaufrette option and the blades for this do not stand up to my expectations.
I give this 2.5 stars if you use w/out the gaurd and know when to slow down. For thin onion and potato slices fast in bulk this would be good, but if you already have a "slicer at work" forget about it. My knife skills are faster then using this except on potatoes, and onions. I tested and saw 4 adjustable sizes, none of them are paper thin.
Put what you'd spend on this thing towards a good knife or two. It's a shame that the blades won't last. Giving it two stars only because it's decently sturdy. This is extremely dangerous as most accidents in the kitchen are from people pushing dull blades through food and the blade slips and sinks into a finger. We went back to slicing cukes with a knife, which was faster. We had high hopes for it, but after slicing two cucumbers, the blade was noticeably dulled, requiring more effort to slice.
The shame of it all is we purchased this exclusively to make Sweet Potato fries & chips. I know it is because the blades are dull, but they were dull from day one. I have to agree, it makes nice kitchen art. . Only for soft veggies.
Anything tougher and it jams, sticks or breaks the food. . It is back to the knife method. Till then, I will leave it hanging on the wall.
This works great with Zucchini, onions, mushrooms. Useless. My wife suggested hanging it on the wall so at least we can get some use out of it. I do believe the housing is well designed, but the blades are miserable. It would be nice if Amazon would market replacement blades from a blade maker, then I might be able to get some use out of it.
I have tried it with carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, Asiago cheese crumbles, Mozzarella (I know it is soft) simple clogs the blades.
The price was the hook, my husband makes fries 2-3 times a week. We even made sweet potato fries for Thanksgiving. It is VERY sharp so this is not for the rookie cook. It performs well and looks great. I love this item.
I would recommend this slicer to anyone that wanted a quality product that would slice potatoes, onions, etc. I use it daily to slice potatoes and find that it works great. I have also used it on several occasions to slice onions. This item has worked out great for me.
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