Product Description

Unless you practise for years, it's very unlikely that you will be able to get perfectly even slices of tomatoes or cucumbers, or identical julienne potato sticks. Not only does variation in size lead to a less professional, less visually appealing look, it also translates to uneven cooking. Solve the visual and cooking problems simply and easily with this sturdy, easy to use mandoline slicer. It's got safeguards to keep your fingers attached to your hand where they belong, and it all locks together for safe and easy storage (no sharp as razors blades lurking in a drawer waiting for someone careless to blunder in).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24682 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: White
• Brand: Zyliss
• Model: 11700
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.80" h x 6.80" w x 16.30" l, 3.25 pounds

Features

• Slice vegetables and fruit into uniform thickness
• Includes four slicing inserts plus two julienne blade inserts
• Rail guided system permits safe, easy motion over blade
• Slide-on storage caddy stores inserts safely
• Dishwasher-safe (top rack); 5-year warranty

Amazon.com Review
Nothing beats a mandoline for cutting uniform slices and strips of fruits and vegetables--and this model places your safety first and foremost. The base has a built-in stainless-steel V-shaped blade with a safety button that locks in any of the six included blades, ensuring that they can never accidentally move out of place. The food holder has an ergonomically designed handle that allows the full range of slicing motion and provides a stable grip. The food holder safely slides up and down on the mandoline’s unique grooved rail, which keeps the motion controlled and on track. For thicker chunks of fruits or veggies, the holder can even be lifted and angled to one side while still gripping the track. Food stays secured with the food guide, which pushes food through the holder and grips it with its sharp teeth.

The mandoline comes with six different blades that perform a variety of slicing functions. A 1/8-inch julienne insert is ideal for grating shoestring potatoes or carrots while a wider 1/4-inch julienne blade makes strips of zucchini or beets for steaming. The four slicing inserts offer different sizes--1/32-inch, 1/16-inch, 1/8-inch, 1/4-inch--to accommodate the widths of the foods you’re slicing but can all be adjusted to paper thin or chunky thicknesses. The 1/4-inch blade also serves as a safety insert to keep the blade from damage during storage. A storage caddy holds all blades and also acts as a drying rack after washing. The mandoline has non-skid feet to securely hold the base during slicing and an indent on the base so it can be used over a bowl. All parts are dishwasher-safe in the top rack and the entire product is covered by Zyliss under a 5-year warranty. --Cristina Vaamonde

Customer Reviews

It's okay
I bouth this to replace the Pampered Chef slicer and thought I could not go wrong with Zyliss. The guard does not always slide well. I have to use a little vegetable oil to make it slide nicely. It slices well. I use this mostly for celery. However the julienne cuts are difficult. It's hard to push the vegetables through them. Also the blades for the julienne custs bend after a few uses. Most of the time, I don't bother taking the slicer out, I just use my knife.

Rubbish!
First of all, I feel like im going to slice my wrist open just looking at this thing. It will not cut uniform shapes of anything, let alone potatoes. My sole desire was to make sweet potato chips with this waste case and I cannot even slice through one end of a potato without using all of my strength to push it through. It is easy for vegetables like zucchini ----but its a zucchini!!!!!!!! The white base deck was stained orange after one use and will not come clean, food gets trapped under the blades...Save your money and chop the old fashioned way.

Absolute rubbish, waste of money
This item is complete junk. The blades became blunt after I used the carrot Julienne fitting only 6 or 7 times. Then the part that moves up and down started to jump off its rails every few swipes, effectively making the item completely unusable. Oh, and the plastic surface quickly stains, and it's impossible to re-sharpen the blades (and I have many different sharpening devices, including diamond and ceramic sharpening stones). I had it only a short while, but ended up throwing it all into the trash. I recommend you get yourself a really good kitchen knife instead, one made of VG-10 steel or similar. They are pricey, but last forever and are easily re-sharpened.