Treated myself to a mandoline yesterday because I have been wanting one for ages.
Trouble is I can’t remember WHY I wanted it in the first place.
Any suggestions, please, for what I can start doing with it.
Or is it going to be stuffed in the pantry along with the kitchen blow torch that has never come out of its packaging.
Very good for slicing fingers, be careful. I've not figured out what a mandoline can do that a food processor can't. I had a cheap one in the cupboard bought in Lidl never used, so it went to the charity shop.
(18-09-2021, 09:39 AM)Hi JJB Wrote: [ -> ]Very good for slicing fingers, be careful. I've not figured out what a mandoline can do that a food processor can't. I had a cheap one in the cupboard bought in Lidl never used, so it went to the charity shop.
Mine is still in the packaging - so I’ve got 28 days to take it back for a refund. I’m actually wondering what it can do that a good knife can’t. Especially seeing as a recentish birthday present was a half day course on “Knife Skills”.
Please, please, please use the guard - watching them being used unguarded on TV makes me feel quite sick!
I have used one but have never bought one, and as you say, there isn't much that a good sharp knife won't do if used well, although it is slower, and for bulk a good food proc is as good.
(18-09-2021, 09:38 AM)Admin Wrote: [ -> ]I use mine for fennel
Fennel not for me - but thanks for the suggestion.
Its one gadget I've resisted buying! Don't like blood on my veggies, especially when its mine.
Woo - what a fab present! I would love to go on a knife skills course!
I use a food processor to chop or slice - but a mandoline would be much easier to clean if you aren't doing huge amounts. I'm not one for gadgets - always mixed my cakes by hand until the last few years, suddenly whisking a meringue is a lot more work than it used to be
Anyway - I love dauphinois potatoes - I don't believe you can't cut as finely with a knife as with a slicer? Lots of apples look much nicer and much quicker to do too. I think I would get a lot of use out of one.
They are scary things
I know our local charity shop refuses to take them in. I use a slicer attachment on my Kenwood chef instead I don't think I'd trust myself with a mandolin after seeing what a friend did to their finger ends.
Could you have wanted one to slice courgettes/cucumbers thin to go in pickles.
Well, going against everyone else, I think they are great!
I got one for my wife who never got round to using it. I took it out the other day and didn't realise all the different cutting blades that came with it, I chose one to make courgette spaghetti and it worked really well. There is a little handle thing that if you use makes it impossible to cut yourself.My next plan is to make sweet potato rice with it.
