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Product Dimensions 11.75"L x 4.75"W x 0.5"H
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Product Care Instructions Dishwasher Safe
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Blade Length 28 Centimeters
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  • Faster, safer than using a knife
  • Great for cereal
  • Plastic, dishwasher safe
  • Slice your banana with one quick motion
  • Kids love slicing their own bananas
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Banana Slicer with Bananas

Hutzler #571 Banana Slicer

The only banana slicer you will ever need.

The easy-to-use Hutzler Banana Slicer provides a quick solution to slice a banana uniformly each and every time. Simply press the slicer on a peeled banana and the work is done. Safe, fun and easy for children to use.

Kids just love eating bananas with this as their favorite kitchen tool. The Banana Slicer may also be used as a quick way to add healthy bananas to breakfast cereal or to make uniform slices for a fruit salad or ice cream dessert.

Features:

  • Easy to use
  • Slices bananas uniformly, each and every time
  • Press the slicer on a peeled banana and the work is done
  • Safe and fun for kids
  • Dishwasher safe
  • BPA free
  • Banana slicing has never been easier or more fun!
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Slice an entire banana in one quick motion. Fun for children and safer than a knife. Dishwasher safe.

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Customers like the performance and ease of use of the food slicer. They mention it works well, is simple in concept and execution, and makes morning meal prep easy. Customers are also satisfied with the value for money, time saver, and appearance. However, some customers differ on the slice size, ease of cleaning, and size.

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160 customers mention "Works well"114 positive46 negative

Customers like the performance of the food slicer. They say it works well and is very useful.

"...In short, I'm pleased and impressed by the Hutzler's performance, but feel that the budget price may have led to some design compromises that, while..." Read more

"...Oh, and BTW, I hear that the slicer works great!" Read more

"...Or, a pointless piece of plastic pretending to outmaneuver a knife in its own game...." Read more

"...That's how good of a design they have created. Simply flawless...." Read more

81 customers mention "Ease of use"63 positive18 negative

Customers find the food slicer easy to use. They mention it's a simple tool that offers convenience. Some say it's effortless and the best product for busy moms.

"...Third, the design looks fun and simple to use and as I said for kids and small to mediums banana a fun and nice product but for larger bananas its..." Read more

"...It makes the work just a tad easier. When you have a hangry two-year-old waiting for their nanas with p-butter, it was most definitely a useful gift." Read more

"Best product for busy moms… makes morning meal prep so easy. Slice a whole banana at once and easy clean up...." Read more

"...and discovered a paragon of precision combined with speed and ease of use...." Read more

53 customers mention "Value for money"46 positive7 negative

Customers like the value for money of the product. They say it's worth the purchase, an inexpensive gadget that works, and the best product on the market.

"...WORKS PERFECTLY for that task. Money very well spent!" Read more

"Does not work with plantains, and cannot pair to iPhone. Still, good for the price." Read more

"Absolutely worth it but dangerous as hell. if you happen to be a banana.What can I say...." Read more

"...In all SERIOUSNES folks, this is pretty cool and was totally worth it...." Read more

52 customers mention "Time saver"52 positive0 negative

Customers like the time saver. They say it's much faster than slicing bananas by hand, cuts down smoothie making time by a good 10 seconds, and is amazingly efficient. Some also mention it makes storing their bananas much faster.

"This is a fast way to slice bananas and may save time if you have a lot to slice. Tradeoff is cleaning time, but a dishwasher handles that fine...." Read more

"...What an inspired gift you have given me! First, it is a tremendous time saver...." Read more

"...As for being impressed- the product speaks for itself it is amazingly efficient and the design is ingenious!..." Read more

"...Overall it's just okay, but it does let me cut bananas up faster...." Read more

51 customers mention "Appearance"51 positive0 negative

Customers like the appearance of the banana slicer. They mention it's cute, makes nice, bite-sized chewy banana snacks, and makes desserts look more professional. Some appreciate the pretty lights and say it looks fun.

"...Third, the design looks fun and simple to use and as I said for kids and small to mediums banana a fun and nice product but for larger bananas its..." Read more

"...It also looks fun while staying in a utensil holder of ours among the other classy cooking utensils...." Read more

"...And the design and sunny yellow color make me smile every time I see it, like a big friendly sunrise early in the morning...." Read more

"...the product speaks for itself it is amazingly efficient and the design is ingenious!..." Read more

249 customers mention "Slice size"149 positive100 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the slice size of the product. Some mention it slices bananas pretty well, while others say the slices are a bit big and thick.

"...The Hutzler sliced smoothly and cleanly through the fruit, both sides making contact with the cutting board simultaneously, with satisfying tactile..." Read more

"The 'blades' just aren't sharp enough, the slices are too wide, and sometimes having to 'make' a banana fit just didn't appeal to me...." Read more

"...their peak velocity, the banana drops through them and is perfectly sliced...." Read more

"...Let me just say it's not and I get perfect cuts every time." Read more

89 customers mention "Ease of cleaning"43 positive46 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the ease of cleaning the food slicer. Some mention it's easy to clean just spray with warm water, while others say it's a bit difficult because of all the small slits.

"...the biggest design limitation of the Hutzler 571B: there is no self-cleaning mechanism for ejecting the banana slices from between the blades,..." Read more

"...It was faster than anything we had seen before, and clean-up was a breeze. However, the Hutzler 571 is so much more...." Read more

"...Dishwashers won't even remove banana residues even on metal knives)...." Read more

"...It's also dishwasher safe. Because of it's shape it doesn't fall to the bottom of the dishwasher and melt...." Read more

54 customers mention "Size"32 positive22 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the size of the product. Some mention it makes the perfect size banana chunks, while others say it's too big to be cute.

"...see banana designs and décor around the house, this also makes for a great big banana soap and sponge holder in your shower on your flat shelf...." Read more

"Works, but a little large and difficult to clean. Any time saved cutting is spent cleaning this contraption." Read more

"...It's much larger than it appears in the picture -- so much so that you could easily slice two average bananas at once...." Read more

"...I thought it would be a cute, fun gift but it’s too big to be cute. I wouldn’t buy another one." Read more

My life was incomplete without this
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My life was incomplete without this
I have had many major accomplishments in my life, met and married the love of my life, had a child with her, none of those are anything like the feelings I have towards this product. With unhinged glee my Hutzler 571 showed up today and without any hesitation I removed the two little (yellow, nice touch) wire ties and the card with the all important “Dishwasher Safe” label I test fit the device to a few of my bananas as I felt you’ll always remember your first one. I skillfully peeled the yellow devil and once complete I removed the Bananus, which you should never eat! I rested my new slicer to maximize slicing and pressed down with slightly more force than I imagined in my head over and over how it felt. Needing at that point to find a cigarette we foolishly ate the slices and chuckled with glee. Your life is incomplete without the Hurzler 571 in it.
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SW3K
5.0 out of 5 stars No more winning for you, Mr. Banana!
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2011
For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. "Use a knife!" they say. Well...my parole officer won't allow me to be around knives. "Shoot it with a gun!" Background check...HELLO! I had to resort to carefully attempt to slice those bananas with my bare hands. 99.9% of the time, I would get so frustrated that I just ended up squishing the fruit in my hands and throwing it against the wall in anger. Then, after a fit of banana-induced rage, my parole officer introduced me to this kitchen marvel and my life was changed. No longer consumed by seething anger and animosity towards thick-skinned yellow fruit, I was able to concentrate on my love of theatre and am writing a musical play about two lovers from rival gangs that just try to make it in the world. I think I'll call it South Side Story.

Banana slicer...thanks to you, I see greatness on the horizon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars In a city of a thousand bananas there is always a story
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It was a night like every other. Too many cigarettes and not enough work. Clients were as rare as hens teeth these days. It seemed word got out that I was getting sloppy. "Mr banana fingers", they called me behind my back. "He's losing his touch", they'ed whisper. But when you've sliced as many as i have you'd get soft too. Fat chance I was retiring now. Not with a '57 convertible half way paid off and a tab at the banana stand on 4th that was well past its shelf life. I was a one punch palooka half way to loserville, smelling like cheap cologne and broken dreams.

But then she walked in. She was a knock out. the kind of girl that made old men suck in their gut and young men puff out their chest. "We'll hello there sweetheart, the dentist office is next door", I said with a smile.
"I'm not looking for the dentist", she said. "I'm looking for Johnny Flynn Private Slicer."
"Well you came to the right place", I said, mustering up what I hoped was a look of confidence. "Tell me what's on your mind."

The story she told would have turned the most jaded slicer green with banana envy. It was a big job. The biggest. And even though my gut was turning somersaults I knew I couldn't turn it down. This was the kind of slicing gig that would make a hundred reputations or destroy a thousand more.

Her father was the head of the Dole banana conglomerate and some Ivy League poindexter came up with the big idea to do the annual customer gala with a casino night theme. But this time they were gunna use banana chips instead of poker chips. These babies had to be stripped, sliced and dried to exact measurements if they were going to be handled by Dole's biggest clients.
"I heard you're the best", she said.
"Was the best", I thought. "Yeah, I've still got the chops. Watch this. I grabbed my number 7 knife and threw a banana in the air. I swung at it and missed it entirely. My knife stabbed down through nothin' but air and dropped out of my hand on the table in front of me. I watched the banana spin slowly as it fell fell fell and slap, like some miracle you read about in those dime store slicer mags, the banana landed on the knife blade and was cut cleanly in two. My jaw dropped open in amazement and my eyes were big as saucers.
"Impressive", she said.
"Impossible", I thought. "Yep, impressive is my middle name.", I stammered.
She tossed her red hair back and said, "You got the job. See you Saturday at eight."
"B... Buh... but, we haven't talked about my fee.
She laughed and said as she walked to the door, "Whatever your usual fee is, I'll pay triple."

Then she added, "Oh, and if you blow this gig you'll never work in this town again."

And with a slam of the door she was gone. I realized then she hadn't told me her name. That didn't matter. Everyone knew who she was. It was splashed across the society pages every week. "Dole diva doles out dollars to the down and despondent" or "Lecherous love lorn Lothario leaves Linda Livingston livid". L. & L. but friends just called her Elle.

"You'll never work in this town again".

Those words echoed over and over in my head. As I reached for my hat my hand was shaking. But then, I looked down at the table and saw the miracle banana perfectly sliced.... an accident, or was it? Maybe the big guy up stairs was gunna save my sorry heiner once again. I said a quick thanks to my guardian slicer and headed home. Once I got in bed doubt crashed into my head like a 500 lb gorilla on a sack of Dole's finest. I wasn't gunna come out of this. Not ol' Banana Fingers. I needed help fast and I knew just where to get it. Johnny Flynns mentor in this business was a crusty old slicer named Harvey Muldoon. Long retired he learned the trade over seas cooking banana fritters and stew for the yanks during WWI. If anyone could help me pull this off it was him. I know it was late but I went over and told him everything--about the dame, the gig and the banana trick. He sat their stone faced until I told him about the banana flip, miss and slice. If it wasn't so late in the evening I would swear he shed a tiny tear. He got up from his chair and stood there. And with a smile he said, "I guess you're going to be needing this." He dragged the paint chipped chair over to the corner of the room, got up on it. Reaching up to the ceiling he pushed at a plank which moved out of the way. He reached into the ceiling compartment and pulled out a box wrapped in an old World War I army issue banana sack. Inside was a battered tin box. With a look of immense pride he handed it to me like a father handing someone their new born to hold for the first time. "This saved my life", he said as he carefully lifted the dented metal lid. Inside was a hand cut form made of velvet and soft cotton and nestled in the middle was a strange looking device. Reverently he took it out and handed it to me. "Be careful now. It's razor sharp."
"What is it" I said.
It's the Hutzler 571. It's what gave me the speed and precision to feed thousands of doughboys a day with mess tins and steaming bowls of banana fritters, pudding and stew.
I was intrigued but skeptical... until I saw it in action. Shazam! It sliced bananas faster than Ricky Ricardo could smack a conga drum.
"I will take good care of it", I said solemnly.
"You better. It's yours now.", he said.
I was overwhelmed. "I don't know what to say."
"You can start with a simple thank you" he said with a smirk.

Come Saturday I was all ready. I made a small leather holster for it so that I could pull it out at a moments notice. I practiced my draw in front of the mirror day and night. I can't say that the event went perfectly. But I got the satisfaction of Elle saying I could slice her bananas any old time of the year.

I found my confidence that day. Thanks to some divine help and an old man's secret weapon I made it to the big banana leagues. No more scraping around for the odd job. Now I named my fee and sliced my way across the banana circuit. But still, with my fame and banana jet set status Linda Livingston was still out of my league. Now when I read about her in the society section I save the article and place them in a folder in the large steel safe along with a battered tin box. When I see it I say a quick thanks to her for walking into my life and giving this old flatfoot a chance to start again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Hutzler is a miracle - the yellow bullet - better than Salvorsan or penicillin.
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2013
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It was hard, medical school had pounded me - nearly four years of toiling in the deep (DEEP) south had almost broke me. The hours were long and sometimes never ending, disease and malnutrition always my dark shadow everywhere I went. But my calling was the healing arts - and this was my mission. I had also fallen in love with Betina-Jo - a beautiful (though mildly rotund) nurse on the 4th floor (pediatric ICU post care and feeding) of the nearby university hospital.

Then the dam broke - patients started flooding in - the diagnosis was a mystery and the symptoms were legion - we were but a small dam to the tsunami of suffering. Even our brilliant attendings, even the unbelievably super intelligent Arthur C. Guyton (the father of medical physiology) and his acolytes could not figure this out and the mystery deepened daily and inevitably along with the hideous suffering. Confusion (eventually becoming delirium), painful and swollen joints, running pustulous sores (I know icch - but thus the life of a pure healer), swollen bleeding gums and patients becoming edentulous (okay, admittedly a lot of them already were but it seemed to get worse so we made them brush their teeth more)(also they had to use mouth wash made up by the dental school students), and weakening unto a horrible lingering death was the pattern of symptoms. We all cried and moaned and even gnashed our teeth. We wailed and gnashed our teeth some more but to no avail. We finally even prayed to the medical gods (Cushing, Abbott, Favalaro, Harvey and even Freud) but it did us no good - our sacred whispers only settled quietly to the damp sweaty ground of Mississippi where they just fungated in the sickening silence.

Then, one sickening sad morning I was sitting in my on campus hovel (err dorm), sadly eating my fruitios with the cute little banana slices sadly adorning it, twirling my 571B (my mother in Gulfport had gotten it for me as a Christmas present that year)(THANK ALL THAT IS HOLY!) languidly on my little finger when the words came into my mind - THIS IS THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS THEM!

I looked around in shock (I was single and Betina-Jo was asleep over at her place after a late night of holding the hands of the dying little malnourished children in the unit), wondering where the heck did that come from?

And then I heard it again, "THIS IS THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS THEM!"

"What?" I said out loud to no one in particular (except for the 7,251 cock roaches which I shared my apartment with when Betina was not there). Hesitantly I looked around.

"THIS IS THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS THEM!"

"Huh?" I looked around and screamed, "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?"

No one responded. I wrung my hands together and then in agony I looked down at them - I had a paper cut from the 571B (I was still holding) on my left pinky.

"DAMN YOU! WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?" I screamed.

Then it hit me -- like a two-by-four between the eyes! I hit the floor as if I'd had a grand mal. When I came to, 7 roaches were staring at me, with this WTH look on their little faces. Their antennae moved in the stillness.

I shooed the roaches back into their corners and got up quickly and then staggered a little (light headed from the recent seizure and dehydration from the typical Jackson heat and humidity). I made it into the kitchen and poured another friendly little roach out of my drinking glass and threw down two quick (but tepid) glasses of tap water. I suddenly had a mission and little time to realize it and take it to its success.

I grabbed the Hutzler 571B and my white coat (with handy pocket stethoscope and otoscope and ophthalmoscope and tongue blades and...you get it) and headed out the door. The 571B slid into my pocket like it belonged there, and maybe it just did.

At the University hospital I barged brazenly into the kitchen to the utter befuddlement of the staff.

"I FIGURED OUT OUR PLAGUE! I'VE GOT THE CURE!"

They all looked at me in shock, some desultorily even (looking back all these years, I realized now why - it is so hard to surprise a hospital kitchen worker who can cook pigs feet and collard greens and serve them with a straight face every day, sometimes even mixing in buttered grits?). One rather corpulent worker (I believe she specialized in boiled okra prep) passed out, she was obviously stunned (or incredibly hypoglycemic -- maybe her diabetes was out of control - hard to tell at that exciting moment in my young medical life).

I waved the staring and stunned workers aside and pushed 30 pounds of pickled hog's jowls off a food prep area and grabbed a bunch of bananas and let the 571B works it magic.

Soon I had several hundred pounds of sliced bananas (the Hutzler truly is miraculous in so many ways), and yelled, "Serve the nanners to the chillens first!"

And they did it!

It was like a gate had opened and the monkeys overran the banana plantation and I was the chief chimpanzee! I felt on fire, slicing and dicing like a demons spawn, whether right or left bended bananas - it mattered not. There were lives to be saved, and, by GUMBO, I was there to save them!

Soon we had served all the patients, then the staff, and finally the doctors and medical students (even the interns each got a slice).

Covered in peels and banana muck I finally wearily slowly walked out into the cafeteria.

They cheered. A loud roar went up as I walked out into the usually dreary eating area.

Hundreds of white coats and white nurse's dresses and even tiny beaming faces from wheelchairs gave me loud huzzahs!

I quietly held up the 571B over my head. It was the real hero. Not me.

"Speech! SPEECH! SPEECH!" Hundreds voices yelled in unison.

I brought the Hutzler down and slid it into my pocket - we were one again, never to be separated. I bowed my head. This moment was almost sacred.

After a few long moments, I looked up, and said quietly (the crowd hushed immediately),

"It was the Hutzler 571B, not me, that did this. This was just simply scurvy, SCURVY!" I shouted and the crowd quieted more."Run rampant like a pirate horde through our beautiful community and state and the 571B along with a little help from a friend," I smiled, "has turned back the tide this time, THIS TIME!

I looked around. "We need to bow our heads and thank the Hutzler family for sharing! They've given us so much!" I was almost crying as the words choked out. The cafeteria was quiet now.

And everyone did (bow their heads, not run rampant - it was too hot and humid).

We said our thanks that day. And then one by one, we all quietly went back to our mundane existences - I onto a residency out west - my classmates elsewhere - but the 571B was always by my side.

And to this day, in a quiet little glassed wall case, buried somewhere deep in the bowels of that university medical center, sits a little bronze memorial to the Hutzler 571B.

And somewhere out here in the west, in an old house, weathered by the snow and fierce Utah winds and sun, sits that original Banana Slicer, still with the hardened goo on it from that fateful day it saved thousands of lives, along with the aging doctor who somehow, some way knew when and how to use it.

Thank you Hutzler family, and the 571B, we all love you and will forever.

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Flávio SilvaTocchetto
5.0 out of 5 stars Elogio
Reviewed in Brazil on October 26, 2024
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Cynthia Sampson
5.0 out of 5 stars A great little gadget
Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2024
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I slice a lot of bananas to freeze for smoothies and this makes it fast and easy. And the slices are uniform. Just love it.
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David E Navas B
5.0 out of 5 stars Util y seguro
Reviewed in Mexico on November 10, 2020
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Super util! Y muy seguro para q lo usen niñ@s también.
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Mr. P. R. Woozley
5.0 out of 5 stars I don't know why I bought this. Certainly, ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2016
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I don't know why I bought this.
Certainly, we eat bananas but not in little discs.

This is not the manufacturers fault so five stars for being exactly as expected.
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MiniKitten
5.0 out of 5 stars Idéal pour découper ses rondelles parfaitement et sans effort
Reviewed in France on May 19, 2016
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Compense largement le peu de sûreté / régularité de mes découpes : les rondelles de banane sont parfaites et c'est un outil que je recommande lorsqu'on veut faire des garnitures à la banane.
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