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MIU Stainless-Steel Professional Mandoline Slicer | 
 enlarge | Brand: MIU
List Price: $119.99
Buy New: $83.95
You Save: $36.04 (30%)
Rating:  54 reviews
Color: stainless steel
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.3
Dimensions (in): 17.5 x 4.5 x 8.5
MPN: 90767
Model: 90767
UPC: 806700907676
EAN: 0806700907676
ASIN: B0006ABVJS
Availability: Pre-Order (0-0 Business Days)
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| Features:
| • | Creates precise, uniform slices of fruit or vegetables | | • | Durable; dishwasher-safe; 18/10 stainless steel construction | | • | Includes 5 blade attachments for straight, waffle, or julienne cuts | | • | Safety holder's easy-grip knob protects fingers from blades | | • | Measures 14-2/5 inches long by 4-1/2 inches wide; lifetime warranty |
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Product Description
This professional deluxe mandoline is made of heavy 18/10 stainless steel, rubber grip handle and rubber grip legs. This favorite in professional kitchens, shred, slices, waffle-cuts, and juliennes vegetables with precision and speed. The stainless steel safety food holder protects your fingers and firmly holds food in place while gliding over the cutting / slicing blade. Our mandoline includes 3 juliene blades, cutting blade, waffle blade and storage case.
Amazon.com Review
Unlike food processors, MIU's mandoline allows precise control over the texture and size of every cut, producing attractive, uniform vegetable and fruit slices. Constructed from durable, heavy-gauge, 18/10 stainless steel, this French-made tool creates attractive pommes Anna or paper-thin slices of cuke in record time thanks to five, versatile blade attachments. Three julienne blades cut in 3-, 5-, and 10-millimeter widths for French fries or slender carrot strips. The smooth blade creates straight, even slices of potatoes or radishes, while a serrated blade makes attractive crinkle or waffle cuts. Each attachment slides into a side opening, and locks into place for secure slicing and easy blade changes. An enclosed safety holder grips and pushes food, protecting hands from sharp blades. It has an easy-grip, stainless steel knob. Rubber grips on the holder's base add to the tool's stability. This mandoline is dishwasher-safe, measures 14-2/5 inches long by 4-1/2 inches wide, and arrives with a plastic storage case for the blades. --Mary Park
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Disappointed September 24, 2008
P Lunday (Oklahoma City, OK USA)
I found the cutting blade to be too dull to be effective. I wrote the company to complain, but got no response. I think a good knife works a whole lot better than messing with the mandoline
 I didn't heed the warnings... September 17, 2008
J. Sherman (Southern California)
Well, I ended up at the emergency room after slicing a good portion of my thumb off. I had only had this a few hours when I decided to check the different thickness settings using a potato. There's not much of an instruction book that comes with this item but I'd read the reviews and knew better than to use it WITHOUT the hand guard. Now I'm afraid to use it at all, at least without kevlar gloves.
Aside from this mishap, this seems to be a great mandoline and I'm living proof that the blade is very sharp. Maybe some of the problems lie with the skill of the user. It is very easy to set up and I don't have to physically change blades. When done, the whole thing pops in the dishwasher. If my family doesn't throw it out (they're still upset wth me for being stupid), I'm sure I'll want to try it again after I get these stitches out.
 MIU does not stand behind their product. July 5, 2008
Shopperholic (Copiague, NY United States)
I got this and was very impressed by the look and feel of it. I didn't get around to actually trying it out for a while, however. Like many others, I found when I did try to use it that the blades themselves were dull and of very poor quality. It tears the food instead of cutting it. Unfortunately it was past the 30 day return period and MIU has ignored my emails. I would not buy another of their products.
Blades don't cut. Period. June 23, 2008
Walter Donovan
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Title say it all. Blades are also pretty much impossible to sharpen by hand. I tried with sharpening stones, even with a Dremel and could not get these things to cut. Add the two hours wasted in sharpening time to the 80 bucks wasted for the mandolin and you can see why I wish that I bought a piece of crap for [...] bucks rather than a piece of crap for [...] bucks. In fact the old $[...] mandolin cut much better than this.
Oh yeah, don't read the French name and think the mandolin is French made. It's Chinese garbage just like everything else that comes out of that country. Bottom line... if you want a nice mandolin, look elsewhere.
Quality control problems May 30, 2008
The Dotted Lion
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with other reviewers that this mandoline is poorly designed. I think there must also be quality-control problems at the factory. That is the only explanation I can come up with for the range of comments about this product. I was able to use the waffle blade just fine, but not the straight blade. The waffle blade should be technically harder to use, so I don't think user error can explain away all the problems reported.
The saying that a sharp knife is safer than a dull one seems like a contradiction. We know however that when you have to use excessive force to cut something bad things happen. The unit I received came with a dull straight blade made of metal that is difficult to sharpen by hand and doesn't fit in my knife sharpening station. Because I had to use a lot of force to try to get potatoes through the blade area the plastic around the blade is now coming apart.
I suggest buying a V-slicer instead.
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