Kyocera Ceramic Adjustable Mandoline

[woodburner]

I recently procured this at my local knife and kitchen shop. What a dream to use.

Clickety

The ceramic blade is incredibly sharp, and the unit offers four differnet slice thickness choices. Dishwasher safe, small and compact.

Highly recommended

woodburner

Edited December 24, 2006 by woodburner (log)

[Anna N]

I recently procured this at my local knife and kitchen shop. What a dream to use.

Clickety

The ceramic blade is incredibly sharp, and the unit offers four differnet slice thickness choices. Dishwasher safe, small and compact.

Highly recommended

woodburner

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That looks nifty enough to add to my wish list! Thanks for sharing.

[irodguy]

I recently procured this at my local knife and kitchen shop. What a dream to use.

Clickety

The ceramic blade is incredibly sharp, and the unit offers four differnet slice thickness choices. Dishwasher safe, small and compact.

Highly recommended

woodburner

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Yep I purchased one on ebay a while back. I purchased it to buy some time before replacing the blades on my mandoline. It's been a few months and I still have not felt the need to deal with the mandoline. It's simply so easy to clean up and does such a good job. The mandoline is such a pia to clean up...

[MarketStEl]

I just added this to my other two Kyocera ceramic slicers -- a straight slicer that slices finer than the finest setting (0.5 mm, IIRC) on the adjustable model and a julienne slicer that I took back to Williams-Sonoma this week because one of the julienne teeth got chipped and the plate cracked. They told me it would probably be about a week before a replacement arrived.

These are easier to use, more convenient and less expensive than regular mandolines, and they slice beautifully.

[Dave Hatfield]

Do they also do julienne & crinkle cuts? Or do you have to buy more than one to get all of the cuts & infinitely variable thickness's?

[woodburner]

I believe that only the straight blade is available, which is razor sharp.

woodburner

[MarketStEl]

Dave: AFAIK, there is no model that cuts ridges.

The three slicers I described are three separate items, all different colors: The julienne model is green, the super-thin straight slicer is yellow and the variable-thickness slicer is red.

Williams-Sonoma told me that they no longer carried the julienne model in their stores, but they don't carry the variable-thickness model either (I bought mine at Kitchen Kapers), so that doesn't mean it's not in production. I was told that they could back-order a julienne slicer to replace my damaged one under their lifetime guarantee.

[Sam Salmon]

Fo the first time in a long time I see a kitchen tool that I don't need but really want.

Thanks for the posts everyone I think for the price it's a deal!

[tamiam]

Out of curiosity, what are your favorite uses for it?

[MarketStEl]

I use the super-thin model to slice potatoes for hash browns, and I julienne carrots for my tossed salads all the time. The julienne slices are very thin, which I like.

[Dave Hatfield]

Dave: AFAIK, there is no model that cuts ridges.

The three slicers I described are three separate items, all different colors: The julienne model is green, the super-thin straight slicer is yellow and the variable-thickness slicer is red.

Williams-Sonoma told me that they no longer carried the julienne model in their stores, but they don't carry the variable-thickness model either (I bought mine at Kitchen Kapers), so that doesn't mean it's not in production.  I was told that they could back-order a julienne slicer to replace my damaged one under their lifetime guarantee.

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Thanks for the clarification and information. These sound great, but...

Being old (fashioned) think I'll stick to my classic model which does everything.

Besides, I'm not sure where I'd find Kyocera products here in France.

Maybe next trip to the states.