Börner V3 TrendLine Mandoline Starter Set (6 pcs.) • Vegetable Slicer (V-Slicer) + Safety Guard + Inserts + Collection Tray + Multibox • Kitchen Slicer Set (White)

It has been a great investment and has paid for itself, many many times over. I use it more often than any other gadget in my kitchen. Clean up is simple, just rinse and store in back in it's holder, it drips dry with no rusting and the blades are still super sharp after being used pretty much daily since November of 1999. I use it to dice onions and peppers in seconds when I make chili, sloppy joes or tacos. I use it whenever I make hashbrowns, potato chowder, potatoes au gratin or even french fries as I can safely and swiftly slice potatoes into cubes, thick or thin strips, chips, scalloped slices or fries. It can julienne tender-crisp delicate slices of veggies for stir-fry or a salad or side dish. You can make quick easy carrot and celery sticks for snacking, cucumber slices for salads, tomato slices for burgers -- you name it this does it. I love my Borner V-slicer and recommend it to everyone. I still buy this for every wedding gift and housewarming party that I've attended since 1999! Yes, there are less expensive mandolins and more expensive ones, but for the ease of use, super quick clean up, handy storage/safety holder and just overall sturdiness and reliability of this little tool I rate it 5 stars all around. I know I sound a bit over the top raving about it, buy I could not recommend it more enthusiastically. Wait--I can! This thing rocks! Buy it, try it, you will adore it! It has drastically reduced my preparation time on many dishes and it has become as essential to my kitchen as my chef's knife and fry pan. But again, this is a high quality product with German-made blades that stay sharp longer than you will. It's super sharp and slicey. If you like your finger tips and don't like blood and gore--then use the safety guide and a little care and you'll be a-ok. When dealing with any cutting tool, just as you would with a chainsaw or with a knife--use care, common sense and precaution. Always use the little safety food guide that comes with it, and make sure that you are holding the guide properly so that the arrows point the right way and the guide slides smoothly! It's very safe to use if you use your head, but yes, the blades are really very sharp. However, with sensible care the Borner V-slicer is safer than a knife and very easy to use. The V-slicer has a safety catch at the base. To get it out of it's case you simply release the catch and gently remove the slicer. If you reach inside or try to yank or force it out without releasing the safety catch first--you'll injure yourself. The unfortunate woman whose hand was badly sliced while removing the slicer from its case probably didn't take the time to release the catch before she tried to remove it from it's safety case. Having had a tendon reattachment of my own after a box-cutter hit a metal staple and sliced into my hand, I do really feel for her, but it's not the Borner V-Slicer's fault she injured herself--Please use care! It's a very sharp edged tool, and the bladed edges for julienne and cubed foods are dangerous too. Read the instructions, use the safety guide, store it in its safety case and avoid touching the blade edges. With a little normal caution you'll soon be confidently slicing veggies in seconds like a pro. **** REVIEW UPDATED NOVEMBER 28, 2011 - I am updating this review to reflect my 12 years of product use. I wrote the original review in November of 2002, after owning the V-slicer for only a few years. I've had it 12 years now and I still use this thing (the same unit) practically every day. Crazy. It's a great tool, and very safe when used correctly. In all the years I've used the V-slicer I've cut myself maybe six times - and each time it was because I wasn't using the safety guide from laziness or I had oriented the guide the wrong way. Despite using it more or less daily since November 1999, the only issue we have had with it is that one of the small plastic hooks on the front of the storage unit broke off and now the safety guide (or "hat" as my husband calls it) cannot stay neatly attached to the unit when stored. No biggie. There's some minor cosmetic stuff too - it's gotten a bit stained from tomato sauce at some stage, and there's also a slight ding in the blades right in the center "V" where the two blades meet - not sure how that got there, but it has no effect on the slicey-diceyness of the thing. 12 years and it still works great and is ridiculously sharp. **** REVIEW UPDATED NOVEMBER 29, 2011 - Murphy's law. I updated the review for this and the very next day -- the safety catch on the bottom broke off. It can't be stored safely on the countertop now, so I'm ordering a new one. 12 years. The product lasted me 12 years. Pretty dang good for a mandolin that cost me about $25 bucks back then. I firmly stand by it, and I endorse it as a great, economical and labor-saving tool.

I purchased this mandolin few years ago because I cook a lot and a mandolin is an essential tool in the kitchen for me to speed things up when it comes to prepping to cook. After using it almost everyday for the last 5 years, this mandolin is still sharp and going strong. Vegetables can be sliced into two different thickness, and it is especially good when you want to slice things very thin which can be harder to do with a knife. I especially hate julienning hard vegetables like carrots with knife. It's a tedious work that takes a lot of time for regular home cooks like me who's not a chef, and this product makes julienning vegetables much easier and faster. The only thing I do not like about this mandolin is the hand guard/holder, which is about the same as any other mandolin that's out there. it's quite useless for me because it doesn't quite hold the vegetables until they are very small and it's difficult to use it to hold the vegetables at the right angle. So I stopped using it after first few uses (I don't even know where it is anymore, probably tossed in the garbage) and I just use my bare hand to slice. The bad thing about that is that the edge of the cutter is quite sharp so if i get distracted while slicing veggies, I sometimes cut my flesh if I cut the veggies too small. But that happens only once in a while so I still love using this mandolin. Washing it is also pretty easy. I just wash it with a bit of soap and water right after using it. If you wait a while to wash it, small pieces of veggies that are stuck to the mandolin dry up and stick so it's better to wash it right after. The plastic part can also stain a bit after using it for a while and if that happens, just need to give a bit of scrub with a sponge and that will goes away. Overall, this is a very nice mandolin that makes slicing veggies much easier but need better design for the veggie holder.

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La mandolina es muy facil de usar, es bastante filosa y es muy practica. si tienes un puesto de tacos y quieres picar cebolla en cuadritos este seria un instrumento ideal.

Slices and juliennes well. Carrots are a little hard to get nice fine longish julienne from, but cucumber works well. Slices tomatoes, cucumbers and onions very finely and efficiently. Shreds cabbage well for coleslaw. Can even dice an onion if you make cross-cuts into it before hand. There are videos to show you what you can do with it. Not perfect, but very good and useful:)

Yes, it's sharp. I had 2 main objectives: thin slices of cucumber, onion, for sandwiches and as salads in sour cream & vinegar and thicker slices of potatoes for cooking in my grill. This slicer is perfect once you read the instruction booklet because the raised plastic instructions are hard to read. I had not been concerned with the julienne cutters until I read the tip to cross slice an onion and then run it thru the small julienne blade to make diced onion (and other items) which is great for salmon sandwiches. I found that placing the board flat, over a suitably sized plastic container, made the collection of the output much easier that tipping it and letting the slices drop on the counter top/cutting board. When slicing onions, make a slice, move the slicer back a half inch and make the next slice for easy separation, etc. The slicer makes consistently thick slices, so much easier than using a knife, especially when cutting the last half of an onion. Yes, I like onions, but the same applies to anything that you want sliced. The limits are 1/16" for the thin setting and 1/4" for the thick. Using a Breville Grill which I also bought on Amazon, I can cook the potatoes both sides at the same time for perfect results and having all slices the same thickness is very important - and the slicer does just that. I may even try slicing cabbage to make cole slaw. Since I've had this only a short while I can't comment on reliability. My only criticism is that the thick julienne cutter doesn't fit properly in the 'box', there's interference between the cutter and box but not the blades, so I'm not worried. Just be sure to keep everything where small children or 'clutsy' adults can't play and slice of some finger tips. I don't see the need for those special gloves, I use my unprotected hand/fingers until there's about 1" left to cut and then I use the hand guard to finish. The only tiny problem, if it really is a problem, is when slicing English cucumbers with the tiny tips which can't be sliced, they just tip over inside the guard and have to be pushed out using the plunger. OK, not a problem then. I've read other reviews from folks that have had some version of these V slicers for many years, I just wish I'd known about them before now, but late is better than never, I'm very happy to have this in my kitchen.

２５年程前に衝動買いしたドイツ製V字スライサーを愛用していました。さすがに最近切れが悪くなり，同じ製品（Orijinal Borner V-Slicer）を探しておりました。このサイトで一番安く見つけ，リピート購入しました。切れ味は抜群。安全に関する機能はそのまま受け継がれています。旧モデルにはなかった2枚のカッター刃も新たに追加されています。これを使うと他のスライサーを使いたいと思いません。