Review on 🔪 Borner V5 Plus Set: Get the Complete Slice and Peel Experience with V5 Powerline Slicer, Blade Inserts, Safety Holder, and Storage Box! by Jamie Vanderburg

Used it last night to dice two sweet onions, a head of lettuce and some tomatoes. It's spicy and went well with the salad. Shreds up a small head of taco lettuce very quickly. The main problem is the vegetable holder. It has prongs that you have to dig into the item you are cutting to hold it so you don't hold the item with your fingers. The pins are small round pins with flat ends. I tried onions, didn't bother with them. Tried a tomato, didn't penetrate, crushed the tomato under pressure before the tines broke the skin. I also bought a pair of cut resistant gloves and used them to complete the process, but that still didn't remove the onion and tomato parts that weren't cut. The onion was big enough for me to quarter, which of course resulted in some layers of the onion separating and not slicing, so I set those pieces aside again and sliced them with a knife. Also, I had a dirty, wet glove that needed to be rinsed and dried before I could put it away. Pros: If you can hold the item securely and slide it over the blades, it gets the job done very quickly. It might be a good kale grower, if so it will save it from getting a $10 price sticker at a flea market. Cons: Dirty, the tomato was quite mashed. You'll need to use a much larger bowl to hold the veggie pieces than you need to hold them as you can't secure them on the small bowl well enough to avoid spilling. At least I couldn't. It might be better to dice a flexible cutting board and then scrape it into a container. Something else to wash. Simple physics, when rolling dice apply multiple small blades and two large blades to make all the cuts. When dicing with a knife, only a small area is cut at a time, so much less effort is required, hence the tendency to break or break food into pieces. Possible solution: I could try using a Dremel tool with a small conical sanding tip to puncture the spikes in the food holder to see if I can get it to bite into the food before it gets crushed. If the food was on the spikes, it might have avoided some of the mess of mashed tomato and flaked onion. Overall conclusion: Probably the subject of a flea market. I wish I had spent the same money on better kitchen knives.