Jaccard Slicer Mandolin / 7 Blades, Full Size, Stainless Steel

Love it!!! Quality product!

The blades work great. The mandolin cuts foods very quickly and smoothly. That it is stainless steel makes it strong enough to stand up to pressure no matter how hard I press down with the food to slice. The hand protector is a little hard to manipulate.

Slices paper thin veges (even tomatoes)! Easy setup and use. The hand guard works really well with only a little practice. Dish washer friendly as it folds to fit nicely into the rack. I can't say enough good things about this product.

If you want a mandolin, don't bother with cheap, flimsy one, get a good one like this.

I had a good, firm tomato and the slicer totally mangled it. I couldn't even manually cut slices into it by the end of it. I don't think this product is worth it.

It's easy to clean, easy to setup, easy to adjust to different size cuts. Beautiful piece of equipment.

I bought this as a gift for a foodie daughter. I did a lot of research on the Amazon site, especially customer reviews, most of which were very good. I hope it works well.

This is quite well made, except for one little problem: it doesn't work. Two stars for the good quality of the device, and a very unfavorable review for making a product that cheats the customer by not doing what it was designed to do. The base, the legs, all of the major components all work very well, but the blades are poorly designed and just don't slice food. They are thin little sheets of mild steel impregnated in a plastic bar. Unfortunately, there is a prominent ridge where the steel is buried into the plastic holder, and food will always hang up when you try to slice it.In addition to a crappy design, the steel quality of the blades is very low: each cutter is made of rather soft steel, and will never hold a good edge. I did manage to sharpen mine, but it is obvious after only a couple of strokes with a sharpening tool that these blades are very soft.Potatoes take quite a bit of energy to push across, and they are almost impossible if you load the narrow julienne-fry cutter. Simple slices the full width of the potato are not too bad if you don't mind banging the vegetable into a plastic ledge. The very worst results are from the tomato slicer. Quite frankly, it is useless. Every tomato I attempted was hopelessly mashed, and I was trying it out with firm tomatoes. The "slices" are mashed as they exit the bottom, and the tomato is mashed on the top during the attempt process.Because the effort required to push any food through this slicer is so great, the safety-holder cannot hang on to the food for the last couple of slices. The final result is that you may get a few good slices or even a few decent julienne fries, but the last 3/4 inch of food will be mangled, not sliced. Each stroke takes some major effort; a decent knife will be much better & easier.Regarding the safety holder? That too, is a major disappointment. It relies on a number of spikes to hold the food while doing the slicing. This is mostly ok until the food item is getting thin. Then it cannot hang on to the thick slab of un-sliced (but rather mangled) food, and you need to finish the job with a good knife. A complete re-design would fix this also: if it had a simple pusher-block that could push the food up to the blade and then stop, it would be fine. The current version is engineered to pass above the knife and then keep going, so it cannot "push" the food into the blade and then cut it off.The cheese grater works ok, but not as well as most cheese graters. Because the width of the grater is so small in order to fit the knife-holder, you must make too many passes to get the job done. The quality of the grating done with a firm cheese was very acceptable. The waffle slicer has such a small "wave" pattern that it just cannot give a good waffle cut. It also performs just as poorly as the other knives because of the prominent plastic ledge behind the steel cutter that interferes with the food passing through.I have not returned mine yet for two reasons: 1. I have sharpened the blades, and they are pretty obviously been tampered with when I attempted to grind down the plastic ledge that the food hangs up on. 2. I intend to make some solid steel blades of the correct size & thickness out of some high carbon steel. I believe giving this mandolin some decent blades will transform it into a really fine kitchen tool.Otherwise: just don't buy it. The design flaws will absolutely keep it from working right. I personally believe that this contraption was only built to look good as a wedding gift. It is obvious that the designers cannot actually have tested this and not experienced the obvious difficulties. It would be simple to fix these problems and make it work correctly.March 2016