Product Website: edgewareproducts.com
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Product Website: edgewareproducts.com
Video Review: - YouTube
Previous Woot: http://home.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?PostID=4810690
Looks like almost double the price there, not including shipping.
paperthin to 9.5mm =/= infinity.
Why would you want to slice open mandolins? Banjos I can see, but not the instrument of the bard!
If you’re in the Mob, this is the ideal tool for removing fingerprints.
Believe me, I know, I sliced a good portion of my thumb off before Christmas.
Now to think of ways to commit crime using only my thumb…
I’m extremely skeptical about mandolines these days after falling for a seriously crappy (yet pricy) one at Bed Bath & Beyond a few years ago.
The no-name mandoline we picked up at the local Japanese import shop was far better for a tiny fraction of the price.
Does it slice mandolins?
Less than 2 months ago I picked this up on home.woot and I just used it last night for the first time to make some sweet potato fries. I paid $20 bucks more for it. I can’t say I’m very impressed. The video sold me, as did the price, thinking I was getting an excellent blade.
The design of this product is pretty sweet. Very solidly constructed, comes apart easily and cleans very easily as well.
My main issue is with the blade. It just couldn’t cut the sweet potato very easily. I let the potato ripen for over a week before attempting to cut it. It eventually did cut, but I had to exert a good deal of force.
Another issue is that when set the cut thickness to the highest setting (3/8"), the vertical julienne blades are too short and won’t cut all the way through. I have to set it to slightly under 11/32" to get it to julienne properly.
Maybe I should just try cutting up some softer veggies…
Yum, finger sandwiches!
Seriously, use the guard - every time.
OK, is it just me, or do the vertical blades for cutting fries (or wahtever) seem to be made out of PLASTIC?? WTF?? (Want to hug?? I don’t think so!!) For you Military types, I posted Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot.
Sorry, but I’ll wait for a REAL MandolinE.
(All, a Mandolin is a musical instrument. A mandolinE is a food processor.) (Yes , if you hang an “E” on your mandolin, you can use it to bang food into a pulp.)
steve
i bought myself a different mandoline last year on amazon (it was a norpro) for much, much less… it works great. infact, i made potato chips yesterday.
in 1 year of infrequent-yet-regular mandoline use, i think i’ve only nicked myself about 3 times… twice of those were when the handguard slipped off the potato-or-similar-food-item… so handguard or not, don’t get cocky. and once you get to the last 1/3 of your food item, please slow down, lest you find a fingernail in your salad.
I’ve been looking for a decent mandoline in the $50 range…This is a little more than I want to spend and doesn’t seem to want to cut potatoes…Oh well, I’ll keep looking…
Like zxinfinity, I purchased this here in December for $20 more.
Like zxinfinity, I tried to cut sweet potato fries with it, and found it difficult. (To be fair, sweet potatoes are the hardest thing to cut with a mandoline; they all have problems with them!).
Things you should know – everything grey-colored in the picture is aluminum, everything black is hard plastic – so the blades on the removable parts are set in plastic, but this isn’t a problem as the parts are rather sturdy.
Pros:
-This beast is heavy. I tend to brace mine against the back of the counter anyway, but it isn’t going anywhere and will not flip up on you.
Cons:
-The back feet are plastic, not metal. Since we’re going to be pushing down on this thing to make our sweet potato fries, it would have been nice if they were metal, too. But they’re sturdy, and lock well in the extended position, so no big deal.
-one of my black plastic feet had a hairline crack in the hole where the screw attaches it to the base – but despite heavy use, it hasn’t worsened. I’m hoping it doesn’t fall off…
-To change blades, you have to flip the beast over, and unscrew a weird triangular-shaped knob (think Wankel rotary engine shape). If your fingers are the least bit moist, you’re not going to get a grip on it.
Final verdict: I like it; I’m happy I bought it. $99 felt a bit steep as a price for me, but I was still happy with it. $79 makes it a good deal!
Oh my gods, the literature one sometimes finds on this site. Exquisite. woot has some of the finest writers, be it parody or not, that I have ever read. Masterful.
I thought putting food on aluminum was bad. That is why the aluminum cookware is no longer popular.
So am I mistaken or is this aluminum OK ?
Thanks.
I’ve had this for a while now and I actually use it quite a bit. I’ve cut a lot of stuff with it (not me yet)[knocks on wood with still-in-one-piece-fingers) including sweet potatoes and I find it to be pretty easy to do. So I guess given the other review its YMMV. I suspect the other reviewer wasn’t using two hands. And it is a bit of work to get started. But once you get that first pass going, the rest is easy.
It’s very sturdy and easy to clean. I’m not a fan of the cheap ones. They don’t have the heft to stay put.
…ok… and why is kids.woot featuring band-aids today?
Awwww, I thought it was an Nvidia card
devzero beat me to it. I thought that was amazing and appropriate synergy to have the Band-aid assortment right alongside the Mandoline. Hand protection is a must with these. I use mine regularly and love it; but one impressively deep nick taught me that it should not be used without a cut-proof glove. You can find kevlar gloves for $20 or less and they really work. Won’t protect you from punctures, but do a great job preventing accidental slices. If you get the Mandoline, be sure to find a cut-proof glove to use with it.