Weston Restaurant Quality French Fry Cutter

by Weston

Product Features

• Easily cuts potatoes up to 6 inch long into 3/8 inch french fries
• Can be mounted to any flat surface
• Heavy-duty cast-iron body with stainless steel components
• Disassembles for quick & easy clean-up
• Stainless Steel blades

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 20.6 x 9.4 inches ; 11.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000T3OO8C
• Item model number: 363501W
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,826 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #18 in Kitchen & Dining > Kitchen Utensils & Gadgets > Graters, Peelers & Slicers > Mandolines & Slicers

Product Description

Cuts up to 50 lbs. of potatoes into restaurant style french fries in an hour!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

86 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best, August 21, 2009

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Michael Riley "earglasses" (Glendale, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weston Restaurant Quality French Fry Cutter (Kitchen)

Having tried any number of wimpy french fry cutters, I finally bit the bullet (premium pricing) and ordered this one.

It is the bomb.

When I opened the box, I was stunned at the durability promised by the quality of the components. The cast iron parts (lever arm, feet and frame) are covered with a nice soft green finish so thick that I can't tell whether it's a really good powder coating or baked enamel. Most important, the cutter heads and their heavy metal frames are strong enough to cut yams with no sign of flexing that might otherwise threaten a broken frame. However, yams may mush up before they will pass through the cutter. I wound up with one yam that yielded only two-inch-long shoestrings, even when I used a series of full-body presses on the armature in trying to force the yam through. Better to use a mandoline and/or a chef's knife for yam fries, I've concluded.

But never fear: potatoes work fine in the Weston, particularly if you've left Russet spuds in a cool dark place for a month or two before cutting. That way, some of their starch will convert into sugars that will make your fries tastier and crisper.

Cutter heads are a snap to change, using three hand turned wing-nuts. The pusher head can be replaced by undoing two large and relatively accessible Phillips-head screws. Another great feature is the availability of important optional accessories, like different size cutter heads and huge suction cups that attach to all four feet for a great grip on granite counter tops. These suckers are even made of a green rubber that matches the color of the frame.

Nobody's perfect, nor is this product. The suction cup feet are attached by poking protruding bolts through the feet of the cutter and screwing on their locknuts. Trouble is, the bolts I got were too short to rise above the holes in the feet. I solved that one by shaving an eighth of an inch disk off of the top of each suction cup using a paring knife, to make the bolt protrude far enough for the nut to "grab."

Other problems were a bit more vexing. The two screws that held the pusher plate to my machine were tightened to the point where the thick lockwashers behind them had totally flattened out. These folks must have gorillas working on their assembly line. It took a brace and bit to loosen the screws to the point where I could remove them and replace the pusher head. Also, proper assembly of the unit called for the use of a couple of wrenches to properly tighten the bolts holding the armature in place.

Big deal. This product is a joy to use, really does work splendidly with spuds up to six inches long, is easy to operate and clean up when done. If you can afford it, accept no substitutes.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fry Cutter, November 30, 2009

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This review is from: Weston Restaurant Quality French Fry Cutter (Kitchen)

We have owned several of the lesser quality and lesser cost cutters from Wal_Mart, Target, Outdoor World, etc.... They all worked well for a while but this thing is a brute. All I can say is, BUY IT, you will not be disastifed in any way.
The feet are metal and slide around on the ceramic counter tops. I added some small squares of neopreme to the feet to keep it from scratching the counter tops and to help hold it in place while using it, but other than that very small fault, it is great.

34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for cutting fries, September 12, 2009

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M. Sabes (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weston Restaurant Quality French Fry Cutter (Kitchen)

This is a great product if you must slice a large number of potatoes for French fries. However, pushing potatoes through the cutting blades does take a large amount of strength in spite of the long handle.

The feet are metal. This means that I cannot use it directly on my tile counter top. I would have preferred that they included rubber feet.

The cutter blades are very difficult to clean. The little bits of potato and the starches delight in hiding in the nooks and crannies. A bit of time with a good stiff brush is in order. The cleanup time dictates that one must need to slice a number of potatoes in order to break even.