Surpahs V-Blade Mandoline Adjustable Slicer - 5 Stainless Steel Blades - Vegetable and Fruit Slicer, Vegetable Shredder, Spice, and Nut Grater - Professional Grade - Includes Hand Guard and Blade Box

This is one sharp gadget. I love that all the blades fit perfectly in separate container. They are way to dangerous to be left lose. This sharpness of course is what makes this Mandoline so useful. Also, being able to choose the thickness of what you are slicing makes it much more useful. With my old mandoline I had a couple of choices of thickness which didn't always work for what I was trying to do.

If you’re right-handed, this compact, lightweight mandoline should work for you with versatility and ease. Its design replaces traditional complexities with two knobs, one to dial the vertical cutters (julienne) in and out (they pop up through slits), and the other to adjust basic cut thickness. For right-handers these knobs will be on the front edge of the mandoline’s body. No labels or graduations are supplied, but the resulting settings are plainly visible - and it’s characteristic of this design to eliminate whatever is not strictly necessary. Some of the depth adjustment structure seems just a bit flimsy, but I don’t see a real danger of failure.The only components needing to be removed and replaced in the traditional way are the straight cut and crinkle cut blades in their large plastic frames (or the three graters that can fit into their space). There’s no idea of storing blades or graters onboard; all five fit into a supplied plastic box - and that leaves the mandoline body perfectly safe, because completely bladeless, when not in use. The blades fit very snugly when snapped onto the mandoline, maybe too snugly.Cleaning is very easy. But you have to remember to open the cylindrical plastic door on the bottom that gives access to the julienne blades when they are retracted. The julienne blades need cleaning, of course, and the whole area needs drying after a wash-up.It takes more than clever design features to make a good mandoline: in use it needs to feel right. This one feels fine. Nothing is stiff or jerky. Not surprisingly the resulting cuts are very clean. There’s no kind of catcher for the output, but notches on the bottom of the unit grip the rims of 6-inch or 8-inch bowls, and that works well. A small cutting board or dish can also slide under the mandoline when it stands on its own legs.There’s a design oddity. When making waffle cuts on any mandoline, a user must turn the hand-guard (food holder) through 90 degrees, back and forth, after each stroke. But this mandoline’s hand guard has deep side rails on the bottom that may be intended to guide it during straight cuts (unnecessarily) but that could get in the way of waffle cuts. No way to remove those, unfortunately.Nevertheless this is an effective, easy-to-use kitchen tool. The same company’s Surpahs Vegetable Dicer is wonderfully solid and capable - the best of its kind that I’ve ever used. I bought this mandoline mainly because I liked the dicer so well.

This is crap. I bought it because I could make waffle fries. You absolutely can NOT make waffle fries on it. The side pieces on the hand guard doesn't allow you to turn the guard to get a waffle fry. The hand guard is terrible. Everything falls off of it and you end up wasting half of the Vegetable. I tried to shred a potato to make hash browns one morning and I used 3 potatoes and barely had a serving of hash browns because once you get to the last couple inches of the potato the guard won't hold it on. I finally gave up and switched to my old box grater where I could at least use the whole potato. This is an awful awful product. Please don't waste your money and your vegetables.

I was underwhelmed and returned this product. We make sweet potato chips a lot, and I expected this device to make life easier. The oblong sweet potatoes would not fit into the food holder. They would never stay in place and would fall off. Whenever I did manage to fit them in, the blade felt dull. I had to use a lot of force to get those spuds to slice. Because the food holder was worthless, I opted to freehand slice the potatoes on the device. This resulted in me slicing my thumb. I will admit...that part is my fault for foolishly choosing to freehand slice. However, it would not have happened had the device came with a food holder that worked and served its purpose.I found that using a simple knife and cutting board, like we did before, was much easier than trying to use this item.

Love it, easy to use, sturdy, high quality, good buy. Can even make waffle fries. V-shaped blades require much less effort than the straight blades. Would recommend. Would buy again or as gift.

Awesome! Works wonderfully - just watch your fingers. Use as directed. Easy to use, easy to clean.

Makes good homemade French fries.

Did work as it said it did