BRON COUCKE - Professional Mandoline - Stainless Steel - Slices Fruits and Vegetables, Makes French Fries and Julienne - Straight Blade + Waffle Blade - Adjustable Thickness - Includes Safety Carriage

When we decided to get a mandolin, I did a lot of research. I read many, many reviews on a lot of different brands and styles. We looked a may of them in the local stores. I just was not satisfied with their quality and sturdiness. We decided to purchase this one, the Bron Original Stainless Steel Mandolin. Well worth the price! The construction, sturdiness, sharpness and ease of cleaning. Hot water and the sprayer nozzle does it. I also like the fact that you can get replacement parts from Bron. I cant imagine i'll need any but it is nice to know you can. The box is also handy for storage. I do recommend cut resistant gloves, it is that sharp. It is our go to for a lot of things.When we first got it, I used one potato and one carrot to figure out how it worked. What a joy, i cant believe we went so long with out one. Want carrot sticks for the kids lunch, get a weeks worth in 5 min. want coleslaw, done in 10 min. And the kids love the fact we can have fresh french fries any day.I really don't under stand the reviews that say it is too sharp or hard to use!! Sharpness is a good thing. Hard to setup or hard to use? You have got to be joking right? Setup out of the box was straight forward, i like the edge brace, you can set it over the counter edge and really do a lot of slicing. The thickness setting is infinitely adjustable from paper thin to the maximum. I my opinion that is a good thing( if you don't know how thick a potato chip should be the instructions won't tell you). I looked at the instructions for about 30 sec. when I first opened the box. I did look at them again after about two months just to see if I missed something, nope.

After much research this was my first choice until actually using the de Buyer dicing mandoline form William and Sonoma. I knew I wanted a quality and versatile mandoline that would last for years to come as well as do the job with consistent results. I've used two other mandolines, the OXO mandoline and de Buyer dicing mandoline, this is the only one that will give consistent slicing thickness at 1mm or less thickness between slices as well as from one end to the other end of the slice (where most failed continually)It's not made clear on amazon.com but this particular Bron mandoline come with the 10mm and 3mm julienne blades. 2mm blades would be nice sometimes but cutting 3mm x 1mm yields a similar cut that is nice in its own right. You can always purchase the blade set with the 2mm and (8mm / 4.5mm) blades separately. This brings me to a fantastic attribute to this mandoline. If you somehow break something you can purchase every single part separately!The Good and great: It cuts perfectly at any thickness. The blades are super sharp. The guard a bit odd at first compared to the deBuyer but in the end superior in my opinion as the guard really transmits pushing power and isn't a hindrance at all. Blades are riveted in for strength. Its stainless steel where it counts. It doesn't need a non stick surface for the food to slide down because the polished SS is slicker than anything else. Julienne blades are fixed to the mandoline. All one piece so no cheap plastic blade holders to fall off as in the de Buyer dicing model. Separate blades fro crinkle and straight. Collapsible feet that fold neatly out of sight. It looks beautiful leaned against the wall on your countertop!The slightly less fortunate: The rubber on the feet slide more on some countertops than other models (either hold at the cross bar on the legs or sit on large wood cutting board) The guard doesn't work for the crinkle blade (buy the Microplane Cut-Resistant Glove for $10-15). Only comes with two julienne blades.Nothing is perfect generally but I do with the guard worked for the crinkle blade. I would have paid the extra for the additional SS required but the quality of the product out weights the few negative things.In the end if you are looking to spend more than fifty bucks on a mandoline spend the extra and get this. You will be able to give it to your grand kids some day!Note about Photo. The Amazon photo of this is slightly wrong. Guard is backward and the legs also fold out with the vertical support from the base of the legs to the top as pictured on many other websites.

Really well built mandoline. The adjustments are smooth but firm enough not to move while cutting. The blades are stupid sharp, so make sure you use cut proof gloves! One of my favorite things... it's made from really good stainless steel, and most of the time you can wash it by simply rinsing with hot water.The food holder/handle thing is also of extremely high quality. It has a spiked pad on the underside to hold the food in place that appears to be made of solid PTFE, which is not a cheap material (but excellent for kitchen use)!This mandoline just oozes quality. It's a joy to use. Definitely worth the money if you make fries/chips, julienne, or slice veggies on a regular basis.

Realy happy with the perfomance of this mandoline so far. Had it for about 2 weeks now and it is way better than the last mandoline I owned. Of course it was a bit more expensive than the last one but well worth it to me. I saw one in local store at nearly double the price ($280.00) so $150.00 was a great deal.The safety gaurd is easy to use and solid stainless construction. The last one I owned had a cheap plastic gaurd and it was not guided on rails like this one. The guided safety gaurd prevents slipping when cutting hard root vegetables and damaging the blade (or myself).The blades for this one are all self contained on the madonline and rotate and lock into position. The straight blade is very sharp so be sure to raise the upper sliding surface above the blade to avoid cutting yourself when haddling/storing the item.Storage - Really happy that all of the blades and the gaurd can store together on the machine. It looks good left out in the open as well. It hangs a little funny off the rack when hung by the support leg since it swivels out, but I may drill a hole near the top to get it to hang straight up and down.Be sure to read and understand the instruction booklet provided with it.

Missing 2 of 4 rubber snap on foot pads to stabilize the unit during operation

Product arrived late, box was damaged. Product obviously used, it still had food particles on it. Disgusting.Was sent as a gift, now recipient will have to go through the trouble of returning.