Vegetable sheet cutter advice please!!

I've seen a vegetable cutter in the JB Prince catalog...essentially it will produce a thin sheet from potatoes, beets, turnips, etc. It also makes julienne strips. The pricier version will also make fishnet designs.

Has anyone used one of these cutters? My thought was to pan roast a fish fillet wrapped in a thin potato sheet.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Cheers,
TopChef

[Pete]

One of the restaurants that I worked at used to have one. We used it mostly for cutting thin potato sheets for wrapping things. My favorite was the Scallop Potato Cannoloni (sp?). We wrapped 2 scallops and sauteed spinach in potato, seared it to crisp the potato and served it with brown butter, lemon, capers and tomatoes.

[shroomgirl]

YUMMMMM
Jean George does a mushroom filling in a folded over potato sheet..crisp, creamy adn shroomy.

[lobster]

I don't own one, but I've used them in cooking school. They're pricey, but very durable, and sure does make it easy to cut spuds thinly and efficiently for the use you describe. Haven't tried the fishnet cutter on potato, but if that works, it would be an impressive, crispy wrapper around sauteed fish fillets.

[Nick.Shu]

you guys must be talking about mandolines, yeah?

[mudbug]

Is this an example of what you are talking about? http://store.yahoo.com/ultimatechefs...atprofman.html

If you are talking about mandolines, they are certainly worth the investment. They can range from $5.00 at the low end to a couple of hundred dollars. I have a $5.00 one from a factory merchant and it works great for the home. We use it quite often.

[mudbug]

I just looked up the JB Prince website. You must be talking about a
"mandoline" http://63.73.165.10/tradepoint/asp/d...rch&MultiDim=N


as opposed to a

"vegetable cutter" http://63.73.165.10/tradepoint/asp/d...rch&MultiDim=N

[Pete]

No it is not a mandolin that we are talking about. It may be called a vegetable sheeter. It can produce long sheets of vegetables. It works on the same basic principle as those table model apple peelers. The blade rests against the veg. and as you turn the handle the veg rotates and the blade produces one long continuous sheet.

Pete's got it right on the money.