MAAL—August 7, 2022✓ Verified purchase
The media could not be loaded. This is a great product and please bear with me - first time doing a video and this type of product review but felt this one was worth it! I got this because health reasons require a change of diet and food preparation and although I love cooking I hate the preparation. So, being told vegetables and fruits (heavy on the FRESH vegetables) would now be playing a big part in my life did not make me happy. I can't tell you what exactly made me settle on the Mueller product but 4.9 out of 5 stars tells you I am happy I did - we will get to the .1 in a minute. This product is wonderful - the video is not great and probably my first and last as I suck at it, I didn't even show the product up front, but it is the Mueller Onion Chopper Pro, don't know why they call it that because it chops EVERYTHING! I was standing in the video, but during this entire session which was a little under two hours, I washed and prepared a 3 lb bag of onions, a 3 lb bag of carrots, 2 large heads of celery, 2 large green peppers, 1 large red pepper, and 1 large orange pepper. I wasn't sure how small I needed to cut the pieces, so I tried to size them to fit the opening of the cutter blade. Yes, you do have to do some preparation, but all that small dicing and cutting is gone forever and that is what I hated. I thought if I could take an hour or so at the beginning of the week and get all the vegetables cut that would save at least 20 minutes of prep time per meal. In the end, I have enough vegetables for at least 2 weeks, not 1. I will be adding white potatoes and sweet potatoes soon, but need to do some research on how best to preserve them. This product is a lifesaver. The picture does not show an additional package of mixed peppers, another package of onions, and another package of carrots and celery mixed, all this was done at one time - I am truly amazed with this product. Now, let's talk about safety. They give you ample warnings. Remember one size of the blade is very, very sharp. My only complaint about this product and it could be my fault that I didn't figure it out is there was no way to store the blades within the container - that is my -.1. The product is easy to use, very sturdily built, easy to clean, and does not take a huge amount of strength to use. After the video, I was sitting down except to cut the top part of a couple of large carrots. It does not say it is okay to sit down. I am older and have a problem standing. I was seated at a regular, sturdy table with the product placed on the table and I was seated correctly. I very easily used the product with no problem, so I say for us "oldies, but goodies" this is a great product or for those who have a problem standing and have put off cooking because of food preparation - go for it, but be sensible. Great product, make it your next buy! Read more
Judy L.—March 6, 2017✓ Verified purchase
This mandolin is phenomenal. I have 3 of the Swissmar Borner mandolins that are much more expensive. The reason that I have 3 of them is that each has options the others don't have. This mandolin covers the cutting options of the 3 Borner mandolins and then some. Both have German blades and are manufactured in Germany. So they are comparable in this aspect. Some of the things I love about this set are: - it includes a waffle cutting blade that I had bought separately for the Borner sets - it has two different shredding blades that the other set don't include - the blades are every bit as sharp as the Borner blades - thicknesses of cuts are adjustable which is one reason I had one of the Borner sets - It includes a stand that can be used or not depending on the job. This is not an option on the Borner mandolins - I have all the blades I would ever want without storing multiple sets - The cost of this set is much less than the Swissmar Borner mandolins, but offers many more options So far, I couldn't be happier with this mandolin, and would highly recommend it. I can't imagine why the Swissmar Borner sets cost so much more unless it it just because of publicity. UPDATE 8/01/18 I bought this mandoline in Feb. 2017, and have used it periodically as needed. This year, I have been using it a lot more for slicing veggies, such as beets, zucchini, squash, etc., that we buy from local farmers. At this time of year, we buy a lot of these veggies that I blanch, package, and freeze for the winter. Although I still love all of the options for cutting vegetables offered by this mandoline, there is one thing I don't like about it that isn't included in the product page description. I have added pictures to this review to illustrate what I will attempt to describe here. On the top of the mandoline, there are slots that you can adjust blades to come through for julienne cutting (Pic #1). The blades you can choose provide two different widths for julienne cutting (Pics #2 & #3). Under the mandoline, there is a cover you can open for cleaning that covers the blades so you don't get cut on exposed blades (Pic #4). When the cover is opened, the blades are exposed for cleaning (Pic #5). I can see where it would be necessary to open the blade cover to clean the blades when you use them for julienne cutting. What i don't like is that this area must be cleaned even if you are using only the slicing blades since the juices and particles from what you are slicing go into the slots on the top of the mandoline. The blades under the mandoline are very sharp, and the slots on top are not often easy to clean. Although I do still like the many options available for this mandoline, I am tempted to buy a mandoline that would be strictly for slicing and easier to clean. One other feature that I very much like is that this mandoline was designed to fit securely over bowls or pots of different sizes so that you can slice directly into a vessel. This can eliminate a lot of mess especially when slicing something like beets. As for the cleaning problem with food getting into the julienne blade area, I fold a paper towel and slide it under slots of the base and above the julienne blades. Any juices that go through the base unit slots are absorbed by the paper towel which spares me having to clean the julienne blades every time I slice foods. All in all, I am still loving this mandoline. Read more
Peter and Terry W—June 22, 2024✓ Verified purchase
The media could not be loaded. I had another brand of mandolin slicer when working in Canada that I had to leave behind. This works as well or better than that with the exception of long slicing vegetables like zuchinni. One thing I use this for is making low carb zucchini lasagna. The other slicer had a recess in the top holder to use with cyclindrical vegetables on their side that allowed the pins to grabe the vegetables. This is flat across and the grid on the pusher does not engage the food and grip it. I had to use my thumb to push on the end of the food carefully and towards the end pull the remaining portion through. I did not want to add any of my protein to the meal... Other than that, it works great and will fit over some bowls. I wish they would make a bowl designed for this. Especially the long slices do not go into the bowl well as they hit the end of the bowl while slicing. Other foods work well. Mincing or dicing foods such as onions goes easily and one trick I use on items I want to dice is to make some cross cuts in the food so that the ends are not long strips. This is the same for all of these slicers, not just Mueller. Once that is done the dicing goes smoothly. Cleaning is easy except for the thin notches in the bed where the built in knives come up. You need a small bush to reach in there, but that cleans it up quickly. Nice unit. Read more
