Waring Pro Stainless Steel Food Slicer FS150C

I've had this meat slicer since 2002. That's twenty years and never had a problem with it.

it works, but when it does, then it smell horrible. engine short? gets worse, probably will burn out soon. using less than 3 months.

I would give this THING one star, except it works, but, is frustrating. I've had it for about a year. You can take parts of it .. apart for cleaning - but - cannot take the sliding tray off for cleaning, and more.The Sliding tray the meat sits on sticks like crazy. I've tried lubricating it with veggie oil, pam spray, olive oil - everything except 3 in 1 oil .. or other types of OILs ..If I could - I'd throw it THROUGH my window. But. that would be more expensive than just throwing it away and getting a different brand.Watch out though. This looks like the same as the Cuisenart and a few others.BUYERS BEWARE

It sounds like a great idea. Buy a home food slicer so you can do your own deli meats at half the price. This isn't the machine for that. In fact, this isn't the machine for much of anything.At the deli they have high rpm slicers with strong motors and keen blades. This machine has a tiny cheap motor that they warn you not to use for more than a couple of minutes,(and you will know when the its time to turn it off by the distinct aroma of overheated electrical equipment) and it turns very slowly. The blade is serrated. Like a saw, Which makes it impossible to sharpen, and like a saw, it produces sawdust... tiny slivers of wasted meat. The wastage isn't the problem, its a relatively small amount, but it gets everywhere, behind the blade and into the gears, in all the nooks and crannies of the machine, and there are a lot of them.When the blade gets a little dull, which is pretty quickly, it will cause the motor to quickly bog down. This has two effects, the aforementioned aroma of smoke, and the grinding of the cheap nylon gears of the machine. That of course wears out the gears at an amazing rate, which causes it to happen more often, which wears out the gears...etc.Stainless steel...the only parts on line that appear stainless are the blade and the bar that the plastic carrier slides on. The rest is painted, and mostly plastic. Warning - don't clean the metal appearing parts with a scrubbing dish sponge, its only light paint and you will wreck the appearance in about 3 seconds.This thing is very light, a side effect of it's shoddy construction, which seems great until you realize that actually attempting to slice meat with it causes the entire machine to slide down the counter.Use: It SLIDES. You need to block it against an unyielding object. It is slow. It cuts ham reasonably well, but all other meats need to be chilled firm before it will do even a halfway decent job. Attempting to cut something warm and or soft is ineffective and makes a huge mess.

The meat tray will slip and bind. The only way to make it work is to raise up on the meat tray when pulling it back. ALWAYS look for others ratings before selecting anything.

This is the type of tool you want to give some thought to whether you will use it frequently enough to justify the cost, as well as have adequate and convenient storage space for it. My husband and I made the decision we did and are very happy with this purchase. The slicer itself is easy to operate. Although some folks suggest in the reviews that it is difficult to clean, it is not. You have to expect to sanitize any machine that can slice meat and this slicer is very easy to clean and very few little nooks or crannies to pay attention to. As far as slicing capacity, we can slice very thin. We brined 10 pounds of brisket into corned beef for St. Patrick's Day and quickly and efficiently sliced the majority very thin using this slicer. Worked great. Definitely recommend for the price and quality.

Works well. Just need to be careful when cleaning cause of the sharp blade

Bought this "Used-Very Good." It was clearly used for food, and has a damaged corner on the food tray. Rating is based on the machine & price point, not the condition of the used slicer.Got it for my kid so I didn't have to give him mine.Some notes:-All food slicers suck to clean. This one is no different.-The food tray assembly releases from the carriage for cleaning, with a cheap flimsy release "button"-The stainless steel food tray isn't nicely removable from the plastic base its mounted on. Food isn't supposed to get in there I guess, so why make it cleanable.-The carriage that the food tray attaches to --the slidey part-- is forever mounted on its bar.-The carriage slides smoothly, but feels kinda wibbly and flimsy compared to my decade old walmart slicer.-The adjustment knob & its mechanism aren't easily removable or properly cleanable, and food always gets in there. Most cheap slicers are designed like this, if that makes it any better.-These things should come with dust covers.I bought my first slicer to save money on sandwich meat, and it easily paid for itself. Found myself using it for bread, roasts, Christmas turkey, fruits & veggies, and everything else too. If you use it regularly, it's likely to be one of your favorite kitchen things.

It has been a while since we had a meat slicer. Improvements are that you don't have to keep a hand on the safety switch with this version, but can now use both hands to operate the machine (which I think is actually safer) and there is a built-in screwing device to take off the blade for washing - we used to need to use a quarter to do that which wore the groove down over time. This new version is much easier to use and clean.

We purchased this slicer to make jerky. Great, smooth, easy operation and clean up. Small enough to fit in the cupboard but powerful and adjustable for a variety jobs. Very happy with our purchase!