Customer Reviews

OXO Good Grips Mandoline Slicer

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4 star:		(18)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(20)
1 star:		(55)

 

 

I've had this mandoline about 4 months after reading the recommendation of a Washington Post writer. It has worked well enough, but I sometimes wonder if the Boerner V-slicer would have been a better purchase. The blade is *not* that sharp, although it does a good enough job on potatoes, my main use for it. It is easy to clean and the blades are all right there when you need them, but I have one big gripe. The holder/pusher seems to "grasp" a lot of whatever you are cutting, leaving huge chunks of leftover potato, cucumber, carrot or whatever. My objective is not to throw away 15-20% of my vegetables.
Addition to review: returned said mandoline and replaced with Boerner V-slicer. No comparison! The V-slicer is sharper, easy to use, and doesn't waste large chunks of vegetable. It Sliced cukes and tomatoes with ease!

An avid home cook that is a collector of both cookbooks and cooking gadgets writes this review. I am a fairly accomplished home cook and own more than my share of kitchen gadgets. I received this product as a birthday present a few years ago and have been more than satisfied with its performance. I have summarized my observations of this product below:

Pros:
1. Makes perfect thin slices every time
2. Stays sharp longer than I expected it to.
3. Easy to disassemble to sharpen the blade
4. Simple to clean, I usually hand wash it
5. Small size means it is easy to store
6. Very easy to change thickness settings and large easy to read dial
7. Apparently well made. I expected the plastic would have given up by now with the repetitive use this gets at my house. But, it is still going strong two years after purchase.

Cons:
1. I wish the documents that came with the device had told the customer to remove the blade and sharpen it regularly as I believe this would increase customer satisfaction.

Overall I highly recommend this product anyone that slices a lot of vegetables. I embarked on a mostly vegan lifestyle about 4 months ago and I slice a lot of vegetables. If you are looking for something that is fast, this is very helpful to have in the kitchen. It is important to remember that this item is essentially a knife a on a stand. Just like a knife needs to be sharpened periodically so does this blade. If you don't sharpen it will not function as intended. As long as you are comfortable sharpening your knives you can purchase this product with confidence that it will get the job done.

Mine works wonderfully. The blades are razor sharp and come covered with a thin plastic strip for protection. Perhaps the previous reviewer failed to notice this and remove the strip? The only issue I've found is that the plastic legs are somewhat fragile. After two uses, one of the legs snapped off just below the hinge joint. I'm getting a replacement, though, as I'm very pleased with this tool otherwise.

Compared to other mandolines on the market this OXO masterpiece is a great value. It outperforms others costing twice as much.
It is safer and better performing than any we have tried. This OXO Slicer is user-friendly. Blades are safely covered when not in use. Blades store on the unit and legs fold compactly. It's even easy to clean.

I agree-the blade is not sharp enough.I bought it to make sweet potato fries and the julienne blade can't get though a sweet potato. It sticks & binds terribly and the force of the potato, broke the tab that sets the blade dial for julinne & it doesn't hold at all. I returned that one & got a replacement but its was no better. I now use the staight cut blade only and stack up the slices in the opposite direction to make fries. It still requires a lot of force & I often must wiggle things to get them through. The pusher is useless. I think a sharper machine with a simpler design would be better & much safer.

I also am an OXO fan, I own many of their gadgets and have found them very well designed, useful tools.

I'm afraid that they missed the mark with the mandoline completely. I was very much looking forward to their version, a good price range from a respected company. However, I should have held out for a more professional brand.

First and most problematic, there are no instructions in the box. How can you sell this type of high-end product without a manual? For one thing, it's incredible dangerous if used incorrectly and secondly, there are some adjustments which need to be made depending on what you are cutting.

I found the plastic to be somewhat flimsy feeling in my hand and the blades either aren't sharp enough, or, the food holder is poorly designed so that it is difficult to apply the correct pressure to get the slice. Also, you wind up with a lot of wasted food.

Cleaning isn't very easy either as someone else pointed out.

All in all, one of my least favorite kitchen purchase ever. I've only used it once, because it was so much of a bother. I'm much happier using my chef's knife and doing it all by hand.

I longed for a mandoline for years. When I finally decided to buy, it seemed the OXO mandoline would be a good choice: trusted brand name, decent price, good features. This mandoline makes interesting cuts and stands nicely on the counter. However, the food holder makes no sense to me, and the manual explains nothing about its use, only says to not use the mandoline without it. That's the only way I've been able to successfully slice anything--without the food holder. I have such a hard time removing the blade for washing that I finally resorted to prying it out with a table knife to clean it. I've enjoyed slicing cucumbers and carrots; have given up on tomatoes and cheese. I wish I'd known these drawbacks before I bought and used it, because it isn't meeting my needs.

It is helpful to read other reviews. I thought it was me. I thought it was the vegetables. Now I think it is the mandoline. I'm also an OXO fan, but this tool doesn't make the cut, literally and figuratively. The holder is a pitiful design. I often feel as if I'm risking my fingers' well-being as I grip the holder and drive the vegetables towards the blades, praying that I get a semi-decent cut of vegetable and not my knuckle. I also risk cracking my hand on the counter as the vegetable sticks and my hand keeps flying on by. I agree with other reviewers who complain that a major portion of vegetable is left to be cut when the holder decides it has done enough work. Folks, find another mandoline. This one will not make you love the kitchen.

I love OXO products and I am always very excited when they introduce something new. When they first introduced the mandolin, I "had to have it". I have had it for more than a year now, and have a reasonable amount of experience using it.

Good points:
1.) Form factor is GREAT. Folds up compactly, food holder snaps underneath. Once folded and put away, very little wasted space.
2.) Pretty easy to clean. Blades slide/pop out and the rest, you can pop in the dishwasher.
3.) Adjustable slice width. I think this was the feature that really stood out to me when I was looking for one of these. Maybe I missed something, but most of the less expensive models I looked at had "thin" and "thick" slices, but not an adjustable dial.

Not so good points:
1.) The blade is, essentially, set up to chop, rather than slice. This is okay for potatoes and such, but for onions, it can be a problem. It cuts cleanly through the leading edge of the onion, but the tailing edge can get mangled.
2.) "waffle" cuts are disappointing. I was really looking forward to using this to make waffle fries, but you can really only use it to make waffle potato chips. I'm not sure what other models can do, but the wavy blad on this is pretty shallow, so you can't make thick waffle cut things.
3.) The holder is a little tricky to use: Other users have complained that a lot of food gets wasted because of the spikes. The food holder has a plunger-like setup. You stick it in the food, and push down on the plunger to get the food out to the blade. If you only hold the food-holder by the sides, instead of pushing down from the top, you'd never get the food all the way out.
4.) The shredder is so-so. Well, really, the shredder works great, if that's really the tool you want. I was using it to make breakfast potatoes / potato pancakes. Then, I discovered OXO's chopper, and decided this was a much better tool for what I wanted.OXO Good Grips 1057959 Chopper

I am a huge fan of OXO products, so when I saw that they'd come up with an inexpensive mandoline, something that I'd coveted but could not bring myself to spend $200+ on, I was thrilled. But when I assembled and tested it, not so much.

While I liked the design, its performance was completely unacceptable. No matter what thickness I adjusted it to or what vegetable I tried to slice, the results were thoroughly disappointing.

Judging from the fact that other reviewers found the same problem, and yet again others seemed quite happy with the performance (which is why I decided to try it out myself) I'm wondering if maybe some but not all of the blades were manufactured poorly. A mandoline blade should be frighteningly sharp. When I pulled the blade from the unit and tested its edge, it was much duller than any of my kitchen knives.

Anyway, I am returning this item and going mandolineless again.