What the maker puts in writing
- “Cuts evenly every time! Slide fruits or vegetables along the blades for fast meal prep. Easier than a knife as a vegetable chopper”
- “Includes 5× Blades – Blades evenly cut onions, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, apples, and more. Use as a cheese slicer, grater and as a julienne shredder”
- “Prepare your food, then use the food pusher to move it over the blades. Secure it by holding the handle”
- “Replace bulky food processors with our slim food slicer! (1) Unfold the legs then slice food onto a cutting board; or (2) fold the legs and slice directly in a bowl or plate”
- “Twist the knob dial for thickness (1-9 mm (0.04 to 0.35 in)) or julienne size (6 mm (0.24 in) to 9 mm (0.35 in)). Top-rack dishwasher safe. Made in China”
The folding legs are the clever part
Where the slices go is a real problem and this is the neatest answer on the shelf.
Unfolded, the slicer stands clear of the board and you work at an angle — which is the comfortable posture for getting through a lot of potato.
Folded, the whole thing sits on the rim of a bowl and everything lands in it. Nothing spreads across the counter, and you are not transferring a pile of wet cucumber with your hands.
The alternatives here are hooking the foot over a bowl — OXO on two models, Benriner — and the container supplied with the two Mueller choppers.
Two ranges, which is honest
Thickness (1-9 mm) or julienne size (6 mm to 9 mm).
The only listing on this shelf to treat julienne as a separate measurement, and it is the right call: a julienne blade cuts a roughly square section, and below about 6 mm (0.24 in) the strips are too fine to hold together on most machines.
Elsewhere: Fullstar builds in a julienne blade and states no size. OXO Precision offers julienne as one of five named settings. Benriner supplies three toothed blades — coarse, medium, fine — which give three widths, also unpublished.
Dial or clicks
Mueller and Benriner are the two continuous dials here; Fullstar (four), OXO (three, on two models) and Ibergrif (three) use discrete settings.
A dial gives you any thickness. Clicks give you the same thickness twice — which is what a gratin wants on Monday and again on Friday.
And note the ends of the ranges: Mueller starts at 1 mm (0.04 in), where Benriner’s dial reaches 0.5 mm (0.02 in) — the only setting on this shelf fine enough for crisps.
Nine hundred and ninety-eight grams
A bench unit rather than a handheld, and the weight tells you which:
Handhelds — 70 g (OXO Large Adjustable, implausibly) to 350 g (Fullstar)
Bench units — Mueller Chopper 921 g · this 998 · Gramercy 1,134 · Mueller Pro-Series 1,324
Mass here is rigidity. You push hard along a mandoline, and a frame that flexes at the blade mount changes the thickness partway through the stroke. Gramercy is the only listing to address it directly, with a “substantial stainless steel frame… without wobble or flex”.
The safety food pusher
Prepare your food, then use the food pusher to move it over the blades. Secure it by holding the handle.
Which is the plain version of what this shelf’s better listings elaborate on: OXO Precision’s holder is automatic and height-adjustable and stores underneath; Fullstar’s has steel tips rather than plastic; Joseph Joseph offers three grips for three shapes; Gramercy puts cut-resistant gloves in the box.
A mandoline is the commonest source of serious cuts in a domestic kitchen, and the injury comes at the last slice.
Top-rack, and where it is made
Top-rack dishwasher safe. The right qualification for a plastic-bodied tool — the bottom rack runs hotter and nearer the element, and warps it. Four listings here specify it.
Made in China. The only country of origin published anywhere on this site. Unremarkable in substance — most tools at this price are — and unusual as disclosure.
No blade steel grade, where Gramercy publishes 4CR15 and Fullstar 420. No slicing surface width, which only Benriner gives. No warranty.
Availability
On sale at around $35 on the American Amazon store at the time of checking.
Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 4 October 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
