Mandoline Slicer V5 (Plus Set) • Adjustable Vegetable V-Slicer with Extra Accessories + Peeler • Kitchen Slicer For Slices, Strips, Dices • Stainless Steel V-Blade • Color: Purple

When we wed nearly 40 years ago we purchased a mandolin manufactured by Borner, a German made product. It worked terrifically. Slicing veggies with the numerous attachments was smooth and continuous. Over the years pieces began to disappear with moves. We eventually lost it.We have purchased many mandolins over the years. Some high end and some cheap. None cut smoothly; they always jammed up in a cut. It was disappointing. I final gave up on the mandolin usage. One day on Amazon I ran across the Borner V-Slicer. I immediately ordered one. I am so happy to share the new upgrades are tremendous and the same ease of cutting is the same.If you want a great vegetable cutter this is the one. Good luck. Thank you, Borner.

I read tons of reviews and checked Consumer Reports. I settled on this mandolin. I have mostly used it for cabbage when I make sauerkraut. The few other applications I have used it for have been just fine. But the cabbage is exceptional. It will make home made sauerkraut go from really good to simply sublime and you will never eat dead, store bought kraut again. This mandolin is a game changer.I have used this tool a LOT. After a few uses I really got the hang of it. It’s very safe. It does a perfect job, literally perfect…. It speeds up prep but far more importantly, it creates perfectly uniform results. I can’t speak to many of the features or extras, I haven’t used them. But a basic Madeline? Perfect.

While the product is very good, the instruction manual needs to be improved--greatly! There is very little description on how to take it apart. These are very dangerous tools for the average person. It one is not careful, you could injure yourself, especially if you are in a hurry--like most people are in the kitchen.

VERY sharp. Use with care. Keep out of reach of children

I have never used a mandolin before, so I cannot say how this compares to others. But...I absolutely love this one! It slices thin enough to make potato chips. I had to experiment with oil temps to get them fried right. Started at 350 degrees and finally found they fry best at 300 degrees. That was a shocker for me, but it works. It even cuts tomatoes perfectly...really ripe ones! I've only tried to dice a couple of times, and it worked great. I would highly recommend this. The only negative thing I have to say is about trying to register it for warranty. The site I was sent to was not in English. I emailed the seller and was told they would take care of it. I don't know if they did, because I never receive confirmation. Nonetheless, I would buy again, even without warranty.

Love the ease of function and the ease of rinsing off. Some reviews said you cannot cube with this but both fine and larger julienne blades have a cubing position. All you have to do is angle the vegetable within the the hand protector at 45 degrees from the direction of sliding on one pass and rotate 90 degrees to 45 degrees from the direction of sliding in the other direction on the next pass. So easy to change thicknesses in slicing. This is my go-to cutter for many functions I used to do with the chefs knife taking less time with this, and more uniformity. I purchased a no-cut glove for finger protection but so far I don't think it is necessary if you go to the safety shield part way through the slicing every time.

Used it last evening to dice two sweet onions, a head of lettuce and some tomatoes. It is sharp and did an acceptable job on the lettuce. Very fast at shredding a small head of lettuce for tacos. The major problem is the holder for the vegetables. It has prongs that you are supposed to stick into the item to be sliced to hold it in order to keep you from holding the item with your fingers. The prongs are small round pins and they are flat on the ends. I tried an onion, would not penetrate. Tried a tomato, would not penetrate, the tomato squashed under the pressure before the prongs would break the skin. I had also purchased a pair of cut resistant gloves and used them to complete the process but that still did not avoid having parts of the onion and tomato that would not slice, I ended up with a slab of each that was too small to dice. The onions were large enough that I quartered them which of course resulted in some of the onion layers separating and not slicing so again I laid aside those portions and diced them with a knife. Plus, then I had a messy wet glove that had to be rinsed out and dried before I could store it.Pros: If you can hold the item steady safely and get it across the blades it does the job very quickly. It might be a good cole slaw maker, if so that will save it from getting a $10 price sticker at a yard sale.Cons: Messy, the tomato was pretty mushed. You need to use a much larger bowl to catch the veggie bits than it would take to hold it, because you can't steady it on a small bowl well enough to avoid stuff escaping. At least I couldn't. Perhaps dicing over a flexible cutting board and then scraping it into a container would be better. One more thing to wash. Simple physics, in dicing you are hitting multiple small blades and two large blades to make all the cuts. When you dice with a knife only a small area is being cut at a time so much less force is required, hence the tendency to smash the food or for the food to fall apart.Possible remediation: I may attempt to use a Dremel tool with a small tapered grinding point to put points on the spikes in the food holder to see if I can get it to bite into the food before it squashes. If the food were on the spikes that might avoid some of the tomato mush mess and delamination of the onions.Over all conclusion: Probably a yard sale item. I wish I had spent the same money on some nicer kitchen knives.

I got my first Borner slicer in the early 1990’s(included in the picture) and it just finally wore out. I was happy to discover that they were still made. I originally bought it when I was younger and did a lot of preserving but have continued to use it through out the years. Now that I have arthritis in my hands I use it to help with chopping and cutting.It is very easy to clean however the new one does not stand upright on its own and I don’t have a lot of storage so it doesn’t fit where I kept my old one.I definitely recommend this slicer over others.