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EdgeCraft 610 Chef's Choice Premium Electric Food Slicer

Product Review

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INTRODUCTION

This is a product review of the EdgeCraft 610 Chef's Choice Premium Electric Food Slicer.

This slicer came to 'Fork and The Missus as part of their general acquisition of SHTF kitchen appliances, principally for slicing veggies and fruits to dehydrate.  'Fork and The Missus had impressed upon them the efficiency of dehydrating a given veggie or fruit by keeping the thickness of each piece about equal.  In other words, a good knife is this tool's backup, having eschewed a top-rated food mandoline built by Germans for lots of folks but not for 'Fork (another product review in the fullness of time).

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Whassup With This

Not insanely priced, well recommended, safely delivered, easily unpacked, virtually intuitive for him - noting 'Fork had worked commercial slicers as a kid - meat, cheese, veggies.

He set it on the kitchen counter, turned it on, and took on cabbage heads, carrots, celery, and onions. 

Conclusion:  hated it.

"Why 'Fork would NOT recommend this slicer to other than the enemy" in 'Fork's own opine.

1. Slid all over when operating in 'Fork's experienced opinion - this might stay put on a rough surface, but on the old bugger's Corian it could and did slip this way and that depending on the superior direction(s) of operating forces moment to moment; so slicing guy not only had to work on lateral stabilization while moving the cutting stuff back and forth in order to slice but also to press the rest of the frame down and hold the veggie to the blade as it whittled away.  Hey folks, how about suction cups or sticky feet or a stay-put pad or something?

2. Underpowered in 'Fork's opinion - the motor labored - he and she could see it in the blade spin, hear the blade spin slow -e.g., at times on bigger onions and on celery stalks especially at the stalks' bottom ends.  Don't want to think hard about how this 'n might could get to be disappointing on a good chunk of roast beef.  Gave 'Fork the sense of the old saw about sending a boy to do a man's job.  Would 150 watts of motor break the bank?

3. Not built for slicing some stuff, in 'Fork's opinion.  Try slicing baby carrots.  You can only handle compression to the wicked-sharp cutting wheel, but not thrust . . . so the little orange critters twisted out of square to the blade either in the cut or in the return to cut again.  Insult to injury - you slice 10# of baby carrots and keep a happy face.

4. Messy, even in 'Fork's opinion, and he's a guy.  There's a pitiably-hard-for-him-to-reckon-with discharge tray of plastic.  He could not figure how to work that little thing through one stalk of celery, let alone three.  Celery slices were all over the place - in the little tray, on the countertop and piling up, even under the slicing carriage frame.  The cabbage slices mounded.

RECOMMENDATION

Give 'em to the enemy.

EPILOGUE

More's the pity - this slicer seems very well rated on Amazon.  Make's 'Fork feel sorry for the rest.  If this is as good as it can get, oh dear.