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1.0 out of 5 starsYou'll get plastic in your food.
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2020
Yeah, I think that is by far the most important thing about this review. This isn't a big deal for softer foods, but you don't get a mandoline just for the soft stuff, you get it for things that take work. While chopping olives has been fine, my seitan has had plastic in it consistently - that's the little white bits in those photos. It's also not a fluke. I hoped it was, as I like the thing well enough but I replaced the first and found the same problem with the second. Multiple uses for both, and it only got worse the more I used it so it wasn't just factory debris.
It's also, to be blunt, a pain to clean and food gets stuck in the top and bottom rather than coming all the way out. It does clean well enough thanks to the included brush/pick, but no way to disassemble or get a good deep clean, just surface work. Not a fan of that.
And, you know...plastic in the food. Not a fan of that either.
It does chop nicely enough - not perfectly, as chewy things will take some extra work and don't always slice evenly. Because of the hopper angle you'll get a weird angle as you cut which causes a few small chunky slices as an inevitability, and likely some tearing on chewier things (pepperoni sticks, for example). Those will likely get stuck in the top or bottom and may come out with some taps, or may have to be removed later while cleaning.
Also it chops its own plastic fantastically. Really nice clean cuts that, unlike the other food you're cutting, will fall right into the tray into your food.
Too bad, it's really good for things that require a bit more work, and the design is indeed quite safe to chop with. I do have to dismiss some of the safety though, as it *is* tough to clean the raised blades, you really have to get in there, and it's easy to cut yourself in that process. Oh, and the part where it drops bits of plastic in your food, that's probably not safe either. I'm lucky I was only heating the seitan around 200 degrees in my Dash air fryer when I spotted it.
Then again, who knows how much was in that pizza I cooked at 550 before seeing the issue, eh?
