![]() A mandoline lets you slice cucumbers into paper thin ribbons, shred cabbage for slaw, and - depending on the available attachments - cut potatoes into perfect cubes for potato salad. Make tastier salads and slaws: I cannot not abide a salad bowl filled with uneven chunks of vegetables.And don’t forget the fruits: A thinly sliced pear or apple is absolutely heavenly on a brie-based grilled cheese. Bonus: You’ll shed fewer onion related tears, as the slicer is faster and sharper than most knives, and less exposure time and cleaner cuts means less syn-Propanethial-S-oxide (the compound responsible for your tears) is released into the air. You can accomplish both with a mandoline. Build better a better submarine (sandwich): Making a good sandwich is all about balancing flavour and texture, which is why I like my lettuce shredded and my onions sliced paper thin.Here are some of my favourite uses for the tool, in no particular order: ![]() Slicing vegetables before cooking is the most obvious use for the mandoline slicer, but once you have one in hand, you’ll find yourself slicing and dicing all sorts of foods. Creative ways to use a mandoline slicer Photo: Claire Lower In addition to wearing the proper PPE, there are other steps you can take to cut down the risk of injury, like making sure the slicer is stable, cutting your food into manageable portions before slicing, and keeping the blade sharp (dull blades require more force to cut, and that’s often where you run into trouble). If your mandoline comes with a guard, use it, but otherwise: Get a protective glove and put it on your hand. To use the slicer, you slide the food down the plastic ramp and over the blade, which, depending on the blade you’re using, cuts the vegetable into a paper thin slice, a julienned matchstick, or - in some cases - a waffle fry.īut if your hand slips on the slide, and you aren’t using a guard or wearing a cut-resistant glove, you can wind up with a horrific injury. These blades are housed in a plastic frame, and it kind of looks like the world’s most painful plastic slide. Mandoline slicers come in many different shapes and sizes, but they all have one thing in common: extremely sharp blades. Not only will your sandwiches, salads, and side dishes look more polished, but they will taste better, resulting in you eating more vegetables (and perhaps a few more fruits, as well). And while everyone should take the time to learn basic knife cuts, a mandoline can help you achieve professional looking slices, matchsticks, and cubes much more quickly. Uniform cuts look professional, but they also ensure ingredients cook at the same rate and are seasoned or dressed evenly, with each slice of zucchini or cube of potato receiving the same amount of love. One of the easiest ways to tell a real-deal chef from an amateur is to look at their slicing and dicing.
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