ONCE FOR ALLUpgrade Safe Mandoline Slicer Plus, Biger Size, Adjustable Vegetable Food Chopper Potato Fries Cutter, Detachable Blade, Kitchen Chopping Artifact, Gift (SkyBlue)

Replaced our 24 year old Swiss-made mandolin! This tool is exactly similar to the one sold by Pampered Chef but half the price and branded differently.Well constructed of high quality materials! Tested with onions, potatoes, zucchini, celery and carrots! Cuts everything beautifully. French fries and chips were perfect! Potatoes and carrots required some effort as expected and the design really shines here! Made the all the prep effortless and safe without exposing the user to the cutting surfaces!This tool does have a learning curve: First time assembly and set up was tedious but manageable. Clean up is where this tool falls short and it is not very easy. It's helpful if you have a pressure sprayer on your kitchen sink. So don't cut anything sticky or sugary. Unfortunately that's the trade off. However, a trade off well worth the results! Highly recommended!

I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said in other reviews, but wanted to add my voice to the chorus, because this is a REALLY good product. It is well-thought out & engineered. I have carpal tunnel and arthritis, so I needed something that would really make chopping veggies easy. I've tried a lot of tools for that purpose; this one is the best.VERSATILITY: It makes slices and strips/fingers/julienne from very thin to about 1/3-inch. To dice, you'll need to run it through again, which is easy to do.CONSTRUCTION: It's sturdy and easy to put together, take apart, use. It collapses for storage. It's easy to clean.SAFETY: It's pretty much impossible to cut yourself while using it (I suppose if you really try, you could cut yourself while cleaning it, after it's taken apart, but a minimal level of care will prevent even that).CLEANING: Taking it apart for cleaning (removing the slicer assembly from the frame) is very easy. I think there's a version that doesn't come apart, but I'd definitely recommend spending the extra few bucks to make sure you get the take-apart model. Cleaning is easier than any other chopper I've used - and **infinitely** easier than my top name-brand $300 food-processor-with-dicing-attachment. You may need to pry a few pieces of chopped veggie out of a crevice, but the inconvenience is minimal. In theory, it can go in the dishwasher, but I'm afraid that could warp the blade, and doing it by hand is easy enough that I don't need the dishwasher. I *hate* cleaning kitchen utensils, but this really is a breeze, as long as you don't wait until the chopped stuff has dried on it. If you do, it'll take more elbow grease, but still doable with the included brush and a pair of tweezers.

Despite the manufacturer not being able to accurately translate and spellcheck the manual (the first thing you see in the manual is a section called "safty"), this is a fantastic item, fully worth the money. The engineering is clever, sturdy, and (with one exception) very well thought out. It does exactly what is says it does, although the learning curve on how to set the dials for certain cuts is slightly hampered by the bad English in the manual. Experimentation... risking a few cheap potatoes being random cuts... fixes that easily enough. The actual use, the actual cutting, is super easy and fairly consistent. There's always a few awkward cuts if the vegetable is oddly shaped and moves around a bit before you can fully stabilize it with the pusher thing (with longer vegetables you're going to be starting with hand pressure instead and switch to the pusher latet), but it's overall a snap to use. The input seems far larger than the Dash brand Mandoline that does the same thing. Okay, now onto the obvious weakness: it's clear that blade is eventually going to dull. It's non-replacable. When you dissamble it to clean it (the ONLY time there's even a minor chance of cutting yourself) you can see the blade is permanently bolted on. There's no clever engineering to make it removable and replaceable. In theory if they bothered to sell it, the entire cartridge assembly inside which includes the blade is probably replaceable... but given the shipping cost from Chins even if you CAN contact them, be understood, and properly make payment, I bet it would cost almost as much as buying a whole new mandoline. Hopefully that blade stays reasonably sharp for a few years. Note the disassembly and cleaning is also ridiculously easy. This is about a 4.5 of 5 for me due to the obvious planned obscelesance, but since we can't give half stars I'm settling on 4. If you have money to burn and don't mind potentially having to replace it with an identical unit when the blade dulls, then consider it 5 stars. It really DOES work that well. Oh... the one other minor ding besides deciphering the manual and the inevitable dulling is that it can't really chop (versus slice, julienne, etc). Their instruction for that is basically "put it through twice". Which is fine. That said, a $10 hand chopper is probably easier for that.

I wanted to wait until I had a chance to really use this before writing a review and I absolutely love it. I'm tossing my other mandolin. I have zero worries about cutting myself and the pusher is so much easier to use than any other "safety" features on other mandolins. The thickness adjusters are wonderful and cleaning it up takes all of a minute. The only downside of any is that sometimes your food will shoot out past your catching bin if you're slicing quickly. All in all, it's well worth purchasing.

The best kitchen tool I have purchased in the past 50 plus years. Works absolutely great, easy to use and to clean while keeping your hands away from the blade. I would highly recommend this product.Rick Sherman