How to choose Best Mandoline Vegetable Slicer

A Mandoline Vegetable Slicer is your best kitchen partner for easy and quick slicing of your vegetables, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, fruits, and carrots into uniformity of thickness regardless of paper-thin slices, strip or any other pattern.

Choosing the best Mandoline Vegetable Slicer is a headache for us and also a challenge. There are so many factors we have to consider before buying. First of all you have to decide what you want to achieve in preparing your food. The followings are the common points to be considered before buying the slicer.

1. Durability

The best mandoline slicers must be durable enough to withstand the pressure of sliding produce down without having too much of strength. The spiral slicers should cut as long as possible, unbroken ribbons without clogging.

2. Adjustability

The more variable settings, the more versatile your slicer will be enabling you to cut deli-thin slices of cucumbers or thick tomato slices. The thickness setting should be easy to adjust and lock firmly in place. Mandolines with pre-set increments are faster to set up but limiting. Usually people prefer dials that let you select any cutting height and make fine adjustments as you go.

3. Company Brand and Support

The brand of the slicer you buy must from the established and trusted company.  The quality is good and reputation reliable. You will therefore use it with confidence. In case you need to seek advice or service, the company support is very important.

4. Safety Guard

The cutting guard of a mandoline slicer is called a safety guard. It’s essentially a handle with spikes on one end and a plastic or metal plate in between. The spikes stick into the end of whatever food you plan to slice, you hold the handle while you move it back and forth over the blades, and the plate protects your fingers from contact with the blade. Without a cutting guard, it’s quite easy to give yourself a nasty injury on a mandoline slicer, so make sure your chosen model comes with a good one.

5. Assembly/Disassembly

The slicer must be easy to assemble and dismantle after using.

6. Output

The more variable in the setting the better results we have in the output. If we can have different shapes and cuts, the slicer is simple to use and not complicated, we can buy it without much of consideration. So far I can think of now is the Tupperware Brands MandoChef which can produce up to 8 different shapes. The thickness is from 1mm to 9mm.

7. Maintenance and Cleaning

Cleaning is final part of  choosing a best Mandoline slicers. It must be easy to clean as slicer can be tricky to clean for two reasons. Firstly, food can easily get trapped in the blades, nooks and crannies on some models. Secondly, the blades are very sharp, so you have to be careful when washing and watching out to prevent from injury. Thirdly it must be dish wash friendly.If you have any questions please contact us.