Review on 🔪 Jaccard Stainless Steel Full Size Mandolin Slicer with 7 Blades by Danny Poulin

This is pretty well done, except for one small problem: it doesn't work. Two stars for the good quality of the device and a very negative rating for creating a product that deceives the customer into not doing what it was designed to do. The base, legs and all major components work very well, but the blades are poorly constructed and just won't cut food. These are thin sheets of mild steel impregnated with a plastic rod. Unfortunately there is a noticeable protrusion where the steel meets the plastic holder and the food will always get stuck if you try to cut it. Aside from the crappy construction, the quality of the steel on the blades is very poor: any cutter is fairly soft steel and will never hold a sharp edge well. I managed to sharpen mine but after a few strokes with the sharpening tool it becomes apparent that these blades are very soft. A potato takes quite a bit of energy to get through, and it's almost impossible when you're loading a skinny julienne. - Fryer slicer. Plain full-width potato slices aren't too bad as long as you don't mind slicing the veggies into the plastic bar. Tomorezka delivers the worst results. Honestly, it's useless. Every tomato I've tried has been hopelessly mashed and I've tried hard tomatoes. The "slices" are kneaded as they come out at the bottom, while the tomato is kneaded at the top during tasting. Because the force required to push food through this food slicer is so great, the safety holder cannot hold the food. for the last few slices. The bottom line is you'll end up with some good slices or even some decent julienne fries, but the last 3/4 inch of the food will be mangled rather than sliced. Each stroke requires great effort; a decent knife will be much better and easier. As for the security holder? That too is a big disappointment. It relies on multiple spikes to hold food in place while slicing. This is mostly normal until the product starts to thin. Then he will not be able to cling to a thick piece of uncut (but mutilated) food, and you will have to finish the job with a good knife. A complete redesign would fix this too: if it had a simple pusher block that could push food up to the blade and then stop, it would be fine. The current version is designed to go over the knife and then move on, so no food can be "shoved" onto the blade and then cut off. The cheese grater works well, but not as well as most cheese graters. Because the width of the grater is so small that it takes too many passes to fit in the knife holder to get the job done. The quality of the grater made with hard cheese was very acceptable. The waffle maker has such a small "wave" pattern that it just can't cut the waffles well. It also performs just as poorly as other knives due to the protruding plastic burr behind the steel cutter that impedes the passage of food. I haven't returned mine yet for two reasons: 1. I've sharpened the blades and they're pretty good. Apparently I was tampered with trying to remove the plastic bar that the food hangs on. 2. I intend to make solid steel blades of desired size and thickness from carbon steel. I think if you give this mandolin some decent blades it will make a really good kitchen tool. Otherwise: just don't buy it. Design flaws absolutely prevent it from working properly. Personally I think this light was made just to look good as a wedding gift. It's obvious that the designers couldn't really test this and didn't have any obvious difficulties. It would be easy to fix these issues and get it working properly. March 2016