raweater
02-23-2012, 08:08 PM
I bought this mandoline a few days ago and it can julienne as fine as 2x2mm which is just like slightly thick spaghetti noodles. I just made zucchini pasta with it and it goes so fast it took me well under a minute to process a full zucchini. The noodles are just a bit on the thick side but really not a problem, plus if you toss them with sea salt and wait a while (which I didn't do this time) they will soften but are still perfectly fine as is.
I was also impressed that it can actually dice (6x6mm or 2x2mm), I had never seen a mandoline that could dice before, basically it uses a blade like the french fry blade but with blades that are twice as tall so it cuts the thickness of 2 cubes at once, and by rotating the food 90 degrees on each stroke it semi-automatically dices! Very ingenious.
It's a mid-range model by OXO that's around $50 and can be set between 1.5mm and 6mm. Does anyone here have a high end $150 or more mandoline and if so does it also have the ability to dice like mine does? I might want to upgrade to a high end one in a year or so. I had been using my food processor discs as my mandoline for years but decided to try a real mandoline. I'll have to test whether it ends up faster than the food processor or not including clean up, but I have this huge collection of food processor discs (at least 8) which I wouldn't mind getting rid of if this mandoline does the job (the 8 discs take as much space as 3-4 mandolines!)
http://www.styleathome.com/img/photos/biz/Style%20at%20Home/summer-food-mandoline1.jpg
I was also impressed that it can actually dice (6x6mm or 2x2mm), I had never seen a mandoline that could dice before, basically it uses a blade like the french fry blade but with blades that are twice as tall so it cuts the thickness of 2 cubes at once, and by rotating the food 90 degrees on each stroke it semi-automatically dices! Very ingenious.
It's a mid-range model by OXO that's around $50 and can be set between 1.5mm and 6mm. Does anyone here have a high end $150 or more mandoline and if so does it also have the ability to dice like mine does? I might want to upgrade to a high end one in a year or so. I had been using my food processor discs as my mandoline for years but decided to try a real mandoline. I'll have to test whether it ends up faster than the food processor or not including clean up, but I have this huge collection of food processor discs (at least 8) which I wouldn't mind getting rid of if this mandoline does the job (the 8 discs take as much space as 3-4 mandolines!)
http://www.styleathome.com/img/photos/biz/Style%20at%20Home/summer-food-mandoline1.jpg