Börner Mandoline Slicer V5 (Plus Set) • Adjustable Vegetable V-Slicer with Extra Accessories + Peeler • Kitchen Slicer For Slices, Strips, Dices • Stainless Steel V-Blade • Color: Purple

When we wed nearly 40 years ago we purchased a mandolin manufactured by Borner, a German made product. It worked terrifically. Slicing veggies with the numerous attachments was smooth and continuous. Over the years pieces began to disappear with moves. We eventually lost it.We have purchased many mandolins over the years. Some high end and some cheap. None cut smoothly; they always jammed up in a cut. It was disappointing. I final gave up on the mandolin usage. One day on Amazon I ran across the Borner V-Slicer. I immediately ordered one. I am so happy to share the new upgrades are tremendous and the same ease of cutting is the same.If you want a great vegetable cutter this is the one. Good luck. Thank you, Borner.

I read tons of reviews and checked Consumer Reports. I settled on this mandolin. I have mostly used it for cabbage when I make sauerkraut. The few other applications I have used it for have been just fine. But the cabbage is exceptional. It will make home made sauerkraut go from really good to simply sublime and you will never eat dead, store bought kraut again. This mandolin is a game changer.I have used this tool a LOT. After a few uses I really got the hang of it. It’s very safe. It does a perfect job, literally perfect…. It speeds up prep but far more importantly, it creates perfectly uniform results. I can’t speak to many of the features or extras, I haven’t used them. But a basic Madeline? Perfect.

I've had past models of this, and it was great. And this new one seems more heavy duty, and it will allow you more thickness options, but I'm not sure it's worth the extra effort. It does take extra time and effort to carefully select the thickness setting. It was easy before. Put it in one way, it's thiner, the other, it's thicker. Now you have to line up the arrows, set it in, push the button, and try to slide it up or down to reach and stop at the desired setting, which is harder and takes longer. But you can choose from more thickness settings.The holder is much worse, IMO. It's harder to store the blade accessories in, and worse, it is VERY hard to line up the plastic connector (like a mortise (female) and tenon (male) wood joint) you have to line them up blindly (you can't see it directly, like a hook on the back of a picture and you try to find the nail to hang it but have to guess where they line up since you can't see through the picture). And if you do line it up, it does not lock in very tightly or with a satisfying snap, and it looks like it might easily break, eventually. It seems less stable sitting there, too. And the safety guard is also harder to set into the holder and hangs slightly at an angle. I am not thrilled with the way this thing is stored.But it works fine and it's very sharp. Clean up is still a snap.Finally, that peeler is also very sharp and effortlessly peels veggies, but honestly, the peels are much thicker than my other peelers, so there is a lot of waste - unless you plan to use the peelings. The other features on the peeler and garnish tool are not well explained anywhere here, on the product packaging, or on YouTube, either, but you can probably figure them out.

VERY sharp. Use with care. Keep out of reach of children

I have never used a mandolin before, so I cannot say how this compares to others. But...I absolutely love this one! It slices thin enough to make potato chips. I had to experiment with oil temps to get them fried right. Started at 350 degrees and finally found they fry best at 300 degrees. That was a shocker for me, but it works. It even cuts tomatoes perfectly...really ripe ones! I've only tried to dice a couple of times, and it worked great. I would highly recommend this. The only negative thing I have to say is about trying to register it for warranty. The site I was sent to was not in English. I emailed the seller and was told they would take care of it. I don't know if they did, because I never receive confirmation. Nonetheless, I would buy again, even without warranty.

Love the ease of function and the ease of rinsing off. Some reviews said you cannot cube with this but both fine and larger julienne blades have a cubing position. All you have to do is angle the vegetable within the the hand protector at 45 degrees from the direction of sliding on one pass and rotate 90 degrees to 45 degrees from the direction of sliding in the other direction on the next pass. So easy to change thicknesses in slicing. This is my go-to cutter for many functions I used to do with the chefs knife taking less time with this, and more uniformity. I purchased a no-cut glove for finger protection but so far I don't think it is necessary if you go to the safety shield part way through the slicing every time.