OXO Good Grips V-Blade Mandoline Slicer | Vegetable Slicer, Sharp V-Shaped Blade, Adjustable Thickness Settings and Julienne, Food Holder, Ideal for Slicing Produce

p.s. WATCH VivianRogers6623 YouTube channel on how to put together the “OXO V Mandoline Slicer” - she makes it clear.EDIT:Great slicer -5 stars for that. Deserves 1?0 starsThe instruction manual deserves 1 star. Preferably 0 stats.I bought the .4 blade slicer. The pictures are not of that model.Looking for the same square hole in your slicer’s frame? Doesn’t exist.Very frustrating to figure out how to reassemble the (d*mn’) thing after it falls in the floor.Or how to put it back tigether after washing because tgere is a super sharp blade involved!One part is said by the manual to slide in vertically. But it only fits if slid in horizontally. You get the picture .I am a little nervous about attempting to change blades until I have mastered assembling it. Disassembly, however, is a piece of cake!This is the best mandolin slicer I’ve ever had. And I’m coming to realise that it is absolutely the best one for the job when it comes to slicing food to be dehydrated.The sharpness of a mandolin slicers blades is pretty critical. These are as sharp as they get!The slicer comes fully assembled in its box.The instruction booklet wasn’t so great. It was pretty disappointed with it when I had to figure out how to put the parts back together when deci her fell on the floor unexpectedly and its removable parts flew off.If I have good pictures, I can put things together in a snap. These graphics are printed clearly, but they are not instructive enough when the text is so brief.However, if when sits down, it looks at things for a while you “get it.”•••Warning•••Yeah, the instructions say that the blades are very sharp. They say not to touch them. OK. I worked with sharp leather knives for years, Jerry rarely ever cutting myself. I never badly.As the instruction booklet does not tell you how to clean the blade other than that it’s dishwasher safe, and I did not intend to put it in dishwasher, I was very carefully running a dish cloth with soapy water over it. Bad idea!I will not touch that blade again. I’ve got a very large bandage on the end of my finger and the finger is very insulted. Loads of blood.I put red pepper on it which stings. Either red or black pepper is a pretty good coagulant.The moral of the story is that I discovered from the instructions how to remove the blade in its plastic frame.The essential thing to know is how to remove the frame with its blade, and to only touch the plastic framework.And once you know to do that, you’ll never get cut! Well, and using a Kevlar glove is pretty important too. Yeah, I know, for most people it’s another expenditure. But I am now using the Kevlar glove on my right hand when I’m slicing things. And it WILL prevent spilled blood, even for the most careful folks.A slicer should be very sharp and it should last a long time, in my humble opinion.I think this will live up to both of those expectations. However, in order to do so, one needs to develop new hands to keep one’s fingers from getting cut on the blade.

Excellent product and easy to use and clean

Bought this mandoline because I like the OXO Good Grips 3-Blade Tabletop Spiralizer with StrongHold Suction so much. In comparing the tools I can see that OXO design has evolved since this mandoline was introduced in 2008 (search for "chowhound oxo mandoline video"). I do realize OXO has released a few new mandolines since then, but I wanted one with a v-blade, julienne cutters, a ripple cut, and a food pusher that is not spring-loaded, so I purchased this older one.I like that the Spiralizer has a separate box with drain holes in the bottom to store the blades; there is less opportunity to cut myself while the blades are drip-drying inside the box on my drying rack and it keeps them clean and safe when not in use. Other reviewers have complained that mandoline juice gets onto the blades stored onboard underneath this mandoline. So to simplify storage and cleanup I made myself a box for the blades (see attached photos).Like other reviewers I've discovered that carrots stain the runway; after grating only two carrots and washing immediately afterwards with Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Liquid Soap (8 oz, Peppermint), there was a permanent orange stain. This surprised me as Dr. Bronner's soap usually removes almost everything, and I washed the mandoline immediately. I don't really mind how it looks since it doesn't affect function, but if that were important to me, I could imagine being upset.I've cut oranges (thick) and onions (thin) so far. The food pusher worked just fine. The blade cut just fine. I've successfully minced onions using the "rotate 90 degrees on each cut" method, using the large (orange) julienne cutter in combination with the blue (3mm) setting on the v-blade. I've sliced mushrooms (those work best stem-side down toward the blade to get cut first). I've sliced ginger and garlic pretty cleanly on the 1.5mm setting. The food pusher does have some problems grabbing individual garlic cloves when they're mostly cut and only a little is left. I've tried julienning garlic into matchsticks with inconsistent results. I've tried waffle-cutting garlic cloves with inconsistent results. I haven't tried waffle-cutting anything else; I'm waiting for the chain mail glove to arrive so I can try it on carrots (I'd like to be able to make waffle-cut carrot "chips" for dips and not buy the yucky pre-cut ones in the store).A word about the cut-resistant gloves:I bought a cut-resistant pair of gloves NoCry Cut Resistant Gloves - High Performance Level 5 Protection, Food Grade. Size Small, Free Ebook Included! so that I could cut things that don't fit inside the food pusher. Unfortunately the tip of the glove caught in the blade as I was slicing the first onion, so in the end I returned them and bought the chain mail glove instead.I think I'm going to invest in a pair of these gloves, instead Anself Stainless Steel Mesh Knife Cut Resistant Protective Glove High Perfomance for Kitchen Butcher Working Safety

This is a very versatile set of cutters offer durability and ease of use. I like the height adjustment that dials right in. The thickness dial can be set to zero to safely store the very sharp blade when not in use. It is a good size and I like that the cutters are easy to change out. Unlike most of these mandolin slicers, the push grip has a curved base that allows for slicing things like zuchini lengthwise. I use this to slice the zuchini in long strips to make a low carb version of lasagne. I coat the strips in coconut flour and bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes to dry them out some so they do not make the lasagne soggy.

Extremely easy to use and does everything I needed it to do. I even sliced a Turkey thigh on this slicer on the second setting and they came out perfect for stuffing in a Burrito or even for a sandwich. Easy to clean and store until needed.

I had a nice-looking stainless steel mandoline slicer years ago. While slices looked nice, it was every bit as risky as using a knife to thinly slice whole fruits and veggies. I got a couple of bad cuts from it. It eventually got to the point I wouldn't use it and just avoided recipes requiring a lot of thinner slicing.Using this OXO mandoline is a completely different experience. I sliced whole potatoes last night and got a great result much more safely without risking my fingers at all. Unlike slicing with a knife or my previous conventional mandoline, it's much easier and safer to cut most or all of a vegetable without wasted ends. The mandoline is sturdy and secure, and its design is pretty ingenious in terms of safe storage of the various blades and disassembly for cleaning. I'm very happy with this purchase!

Let's be clear about one thing: This mandoline ITSELF is great. It works well, has multiple blades that all store underneath it, cuts easily and without much effort, produces very thin slices. Unlike diagonal blade mandolines, it doesn't try to push the food to one side as you cut. It comes with a FAIRLY well thought out pusher that protects your hand well.Unfortunately, the pusher is a weak point. Its pressure plate is thin, un-reinforced, and developed a web of small cracks after only about half a dozen uses. You also can't get replacement parts except by warrantying THE WHOLE THING ... so, bad from a sustainability viewpoint.I THINK I've devised a repair for mine, but I have a lot of tools and materials and I know how to use them. My repair plan probably isn't something just anyone can do. I don't know for sure whether it will work; the glue on the new backing plate I made is curing right now.FIX THIS PUSHER, OXO! It is a disappointing weakness in an otherwise very good tool. That pressure plate should NEVER have been a single, thin sheet of un-reinforced, unsupported brittle plastic. You should have known what would happen. This has the look of an originally metal part that someone switched to plastic to save cost, without a single thought to whether the mechanical properties of the plastic were adequate for that design. That and the absence of any replacement parts except by warrantying the entire tool are MAJOR disappointments that cost two stars off this rating.

A mandoline slicer is a must for an OCD cook like me. The perfect slices you see in cooking shows cook evenly and quickly and look great on the plate- but they're impossible with a knife. Oxo has always provided good, solid kitchen gadgets, and their track record in my kitchen drove me towards this unit when I began the hunt for a mandoline slicer.Upon unpackaging, this slicer seems a bit daunting. There are (2) extra blades in a seperate case along with a spacer to go with the food holder, and an additional (3) blades are housed in the unit itself along with the (1) installed slicer blade (a total of 6 blades included). All fit nicely within their respective slots / containers, and you can't shake any of the spares loose.The instruction manual is pretty good. Good diagrams with supporting text. It has a bit of a learning curve (pages titled "How to Cube" require you to reference "How to Change V-Blades" and "How to Change Cubing Blades"). Also, each blade is color coordinated with the thickness know along the side, which matches the manual. This assures that your cubes will always be, well, cubes!Your first and most basic slicing is simple. Food + food holder + back and forth motion = perfect slices (my first-cut items were a bell pepper and an apple). More complex operations require some reading- unlock, open food track section, open cubing / julienning blade section, remove / install cubing / julienning blade, install slicer blade, close up, unlock. But again, the slices were perfect (my next item was an onion- cubed perfectly within about 10 seconds). The crinkle blade adds some drag (USE THE FOOD HOLDER) but results in beautiful food.The cubing feature alone is well worth the price. The food first passes over the vertical sawtooth blades and is scored, and then each subsequent pass a 90 degree turn scores the food in the opposite direction and the slicing blade seperates perfect little cubes from the food. Repeat until the end. Chopping an onion like your favorite Food Network star is complex and often leaves a good chunk of food un-choppable. This baby makes little pieces of 90% of the onion. Nice.Cleaning is fairly simple. A stainless model would be nicer dishwater-safety, but longevity of the product is my goal, so I hand-washed after use. The dishwasher is said to dull blades anyways, so it's better to just take it for a dunk in some warm soapy water. Rince and let air dry on a towel and bam- you're good to go.A storage container for the whole setup would be nice, but hey - this will probably remain on my counter anyways. I can't imagine a meal that wouldn't benefit from use of the mandoline.One or two uses of this unit and you'll be an expert. Also, you can chop everything in about 5 minutes and put it all in little bowls mis-en-place style and host your OWN cooking show.

Uso questa mandolina OXO già da diverso tempo ed esprimo un'opinione estremamente positiva.E' facile da utilizzare, ha diverse lame che consentono di tagliare non solo a fette ma anche a julienne e con 4 diversi spessori. Inoltre, grazie alla grande affilatura delle lame il taglio è molto facile e non serve usare molta forza, anche nel caso di verdure meno morbide come le patate o il cavolo verza.Ciò che mi ha convito ad acquistarla al posto di un'altra mandolina con altrettante opinioni positive su Amazon è il fatto che questa ha anche le gambe che consentono di non doverla tenere sollevata mentre si taglia anche perchè nel caso di verdure più dure sarà necessario esercitare maggiore pressione.Le lame sono estremamente affilate, consiglio quindi vivamente di utilizzarla con dei guanti resistenti al taglio, se ne trovano a pochi euro anche qui su Amazon. Vi è infatti in dotazione un attrezzo per tenere le verdure ma per affettare l'intero pezzo è preferibile utilizzare i guanti i quali aiutano anche a lavare più facilmente la mandolina senza rischi di tagli.Il cambio delle lame non è facilissimo ma con il libretto di istruzioni alla fine si capisce il meccanismo (anche in questo caso i guanti sono fondamentali per non tagliarsi, vista l'affilatura).

Really good mandolin. works very well

I bought this because I have other OXO products and they are of good quality and work well.This mandoline is dangerous!For starters, it is very fiddly and awkward to assemble and disassemble. You will find yourself holding one of the very sharp 'V-Blades' by your fingertips trying to get it to fit into position. This is bad enough but if you want to change the blade in the middle of food preparation and it is wet then you are in danger of getting a very nasty cut.It says in the description that it is dishwasher proof. Well, it is not! The markings on the dial have all but washed off and what remains can simply be rubbed away.

Muy buena calidad. Solo es un poco espaciosa, se puede acomodar sin problema. Tener cuidado porque las cuchillas son muy filosas. Súper práctica

At first I was turned off by the price but I realize that it is well worth the extra 10€ in comparison with similar models on the market. It took a little maneuvering to figure it out but once I did, I was hooked. I love the all the different widths available. We ate making interesting salads everyday with ease.