Oxo handheld mandoline

by Katie

When I got married, I registered for a fancy OXO mandoline. "Just think of all the waffle-cutting of vegetables I can do!" I said to my husband.

(Photo from: amazon)

Guess how much waffle-cutting I actually did? Hint: not much.

The big fancy mandoline was fine, I suppose, but it was ENORMOUS.  Super bulky and too big (by far) to fit in a drawer, its pieces always ended up strewn at the back of a cabinet. Plus, its super safe finger guard grabbed too much of whatever I was slicing so it wasted a ton of food. I never used it. A few years later I gave it away.

But I actually DO occasionally need to very thinly slice something- potatoes for a tortilla espanola, for example, or onions for Vietnamese Chicken Salad. And a mandoline is much better than my sub-par knife skills for doing that. So I bought this (strangely enough, also made by Oxo):

(Photo from: amazon)

This little $15 contraption is the perfect compromise. Slim enough to fit in a drawer, it makes quick work of thinly slicing onions or potatoes or whatever you want. It has three thickness settings and a kind of basic finger guard (translation: be attentive when using it.). Does it slice as perfectly evenly as a $150 mandoline? Probably not. Do I care? Not a whit. It gets the job done, it’s cheap, I'm sold.

Comments

[Christy]

I was given a pretty nice mandoline (also made by OXO) and I have used it to make very uniform thing slices of fruit for my dehydrator, but I hate it. I hate cleaning it, the extra blades are stored in it and I always feel like I have to wash them every time I use it or if I remember to take them out before hand and put them in a drawer I forget about them.

I think I'm going to be ordering the $15 one you recommend very soon.

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