Used properly-and safely-the mandoline can be a magical device, turning out paper-thin or chunky slices that look like they’ve been cut by a machine and in record time. Some have attachments that allow you to julienne or make waffle cuts as well. You hold food in one hand and slide it down the mandoline’s platform and across a blade or blades, slicing it by adjusting the height of the platform, you can control how thickly the mandoline cuts. If all you want is a tool that can shave vegetables or fruit into salads or make potato or other vegetable chips, this might be the mandoline for you.Īt its best, a mandoline allows cooks to slice fruit and vegetables much more precisely, consistently, and quickly than with a chef’s knife. And we think its lower price justifies its limited functionality somewhat it still performs the difficult task of making even, paper-thin slices better than most of us can muster with a chef’s knife. But its size and simplicity make it easy to use, clean, and store. It’s much more limited than our favorites: It can make only thin slices, it can’t make julienne, and it’s too small to accommodate large produce such as eggplants. It’s also more expensive and bulkier to store.įinally, the inexpensive Kyocera Soft Grip Adjustable Mandoline Ceramic Slicer is our Best Buy. It’s just not quite as sharp as the Super Benriner, so it sometimes choked on fibrous produce, and it can julienne in only two preset widths and thicknesses. It sliced most foods evenly and in many thicknesses a clearly marked, accurate dial made it exceptionally easy to set just how thin or thick we wanted our food to be. We also liked the OXO Good Grips Chef’s Mandoline Slicer 2.0 it was the easiest to use of all the models. Just one caveat: It lacks a good hand guard, so you’ll need a cut-resistant glove to use it safely. Simple and fairly compact, it’s easy to set up, clean, and store. Better still, it slices in an incredibly wide range of thicknesses.
The Super Benriner Mandoline Slicer is our favorite mandoline it had the sharpest blade we tested, slicing and making julienne from even the toughest foods as if they were butter.
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