Mini mandoline?

TechsasJim

Anyone have a good recommendation for a small mandoline?    We love thinly sliced radishes for a variety of dishes and while my knife skills are fine it’s a pita.   

Tia!

Legume

If you're gonna get one, get one you can easily use with onion and potatoes too and ignore the OSHA violation that Fishless will inevitably post.

We have an OXO full stand one we love, but there plenty of handheld ones.

ColtsFan

Benriner makes a small mandolin 

DoubleEgger

Get a food processor instead. I know of several people, including myself, who ended up in the ER due to those meat eaters. 

GrateEggspectations

TechsasJim said:

Anyone have a good recommendation for a small mandoline?    We love thinly sliced radishes for a variety of dishes and while my knife skills are fine it’s a pita.   

Tia!

Buy a knife you’ll enjoy doing it with. You can thank me later. 

alaskanassasin

Legume said:

If you're gonna get one, get one you can easily use with onion and potatoes too and ignore the OSHA violation that Fishless will inevitably post.

We have an OXO full stand one we love, but there plenty of handheld ones.

We also have the OXO version, if I can remember how to put the damn thing together.  You can crank out serious quantities of evenly sliced veggies and I  always use the hand guard. We had a little hand held one that I took my finger tip off with, it was great I wish I could remember the name of it for you.

Canugghead

DoubleEgger said:

Get a food processor instead. I know of several people, including myself, who ended up in the ER due to those meat eaters. 

I'm on that honour list

Botch

I have a small mandoline from Kyocera, that I bought maybe 20 years ago.  It has a double-sided, ceramic blade, which is non-adjustable.  It cuts very thin slices, perfect for radishes but too thin for, say, potatoes.  My only complaint is that I have to use a rubber band to keep the hand guard over the blade in a drawer; after 20 years it's still dangerously sharp.  
I checked amazoid and they're still sold, although they now have an adjustable model, looks like the same size, still only $25 or so.  I have a normal-size Benriner for potatoes and other stuff.    

Ozzie_Isaac

Get one that doesn’t need the safety guard to use. The safeties limit the size of stuff you can cut.

TechsasJim

Thanks all, and Botch I’ll likely go your route.   I sliced a handful last night using same Wusthof knife I’ve used for a long while.   Sharp as crap but it’s still a pita IMO.   

JohnnyTarheel

They are banned at our house after 2 incidents... yes two!!!!

fishlessman

Legume said:

If you're gonna get one, get one you can easily use with onion and potatoes too and ignore the OSHA violation that Fishless will inevitably post.

We have an OXO full stand one we love, but there plenty of handheld ones.

Five generations of blood on that slicer. It's an heirloom

Canugghead

JohnnyTarheel said:

They are banned at our house after 2 incidents... yes two!!!!

One was enough for me. Can't blame the tool if it happened to the same cook 

zaphod

Botch said: 

I checked amazoid and they're still sold, although they now have an adjustable model, looks like the same size, still only $25 or so.  I have a normal-size Benriner for potatoes and other stuff.    

the adjustable model seems to be one edge, slices only come off on the down stroke. but both are still available, so a good find there.

caliking

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Boatman1

Benriner. Use a cut proof glove.

CP92

I have something very similar to the below made by Kuhn Rikon.  I love it for paper thin garlic slices. Remember the scene in Goodfellows in the prison where he's cutting garlic with a razor blade?  Same results.

https://www.amazon.com/Rösle-Stainless-Gourmet-Slicer-11-1-inch/dp/B0000YOLNI/ref=asc_df_B0000YOLNI/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9122606362794114855&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007681&hvtargid=pla-2281435178858&mcid=1cb4bb566c4a37c5b903e546b4634ae3&hvocijid=9122606362794114855-B0000YOLNI-&hvexpln=73&gad_source=1&th=1

Elijah

Not mini but after injuries to everyone that used the standard one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PDNH6YT

Gulfcoastguy

I have one of the Oxo models. Never hurt but I always use the guard except for jalapeño slices. I have a rule though, if I find myself saying that I can get one more slice, I have to stop there. My nephew’s first wife did a number on. Herself with one though.

JohnInCarolina

We have the OXO one too.  I don’t use it much but when I do, I almost always use the guard.  Without the guard I take it very slowly.  Haven’t had an issue with it yet but it is scary sharp for sure.  

TechsasJim

Gulfcoastguy said:

 My nephew’s first wife did a number on. Herself with one though.

i got nervous when I read this…then i re-read it.   Hahaha.   

Gulfcoastguy

Agreed, she is somewhere in Arkansas last that I heard. Nobody’s all bad, she made excellent 🥧 pies. Wife’s number two delegates cooking to my nephew which might be for the best.

Ozzie_Isaac

Gulfcoastguy said:

Agreed, she is somewhere in Arkansas last that I heard. Nobody’s all bad, she made excellent 🥧 pies. Wife’s number two delegates cooking to my nephew which might be for the best.