I am starting to use my hand-me-down probably bought at a tupperware party mandolin like 2x a week......problem with it is it's adjust-ability when it comes to how thick or thin you want slices...only has 2 settings and the thinnest isn't thin enough for me.....so I have to kinda "shim" it with something to get it thin enough, but then the thickness isnt really "uniform" as the pressure from my hand-tends to make it go from thicker to thinner.
i seem to be using it a lot for potatoes......first to make potato pancakes (or pommes palliason) I do REALLy thin slices, then juillien myself the rest by hand into thinner than match sticks...
yesterday i used it to make really thin/long slices of baking potato to make "potato raviolis" yesterday is when I really would have liked to have a better adjustable, more rugged mandolin.
I only took of a finger pad once.... |