What the maker puts in writing
- “Adjustable for slices in 3 thicknesses: 1mm (0.04 in), 2.5mm (0.10 in) and 4mm (0.16 in)”
- “Included food holder keeps fingers safe”
- “Comfortable non-slip handle, knob and foot”
- “Window shows slices below”
- “Slice directly onto a plate, cutting board or hook over a bowl”
Sixteen dollars for a food holder
OXO sells three mandolines on this shelf, and this one is hard to place.
Good Grips Handheld — $18.85 — 160 g — 1, 2.5, 4 mm · window · plate, board or bowl · no holder mentioned
This, Large Adjustable — $34.92 — 70 g — the same 1, 2.5, 4 mm · window · plate, board or bowl · holder stated
Precision — $34.94 — 230 g — five options including julienne · automatic height-adjustable holder that stores underneath · transparent runway · dishwasher safe
So against the cheap one this adds, in writing, a food holder and non-slip on the knob as well as the handle and foot.
The holder is not a trivial extra. On a mandoline it is the thing between your fingertips and a fixed razor edge at the last slice, which is where the injury happens. Paying for one that is actually stated is defensible.
But the Precision costs two cents more than this and publishes five cutting options, julienne, and an automatic holder.
And the non-slip knob is a real detail
The knob is the thickness adjuster, and you turn it mid-job with hands that are wet from the vegetable. A knob that slips is a knob you cannot set accurately, and an unexpected change of setting on a mandoline is a surprise you do not want.
Of the thirteen listings here, this is the only one that mentions non-slip on the adjuster rather than only the handle.
The window, which is OXO’s idea
Window shows slices below.
Nobody else on this shelf has it, and OXO’s cheapest listing explains it best: it means you will not “end up with too many sliced cucumbers or more potatoes than your gratin called for”.
Slicing is fast and rhythmic — you watch the blade, not the pile — and it is easy to go through a whole cucumber for a salad that needed half.
OXO’s Precision calls its version a “transparent runway”.
Seventy grams, which cannot be right
The catalog gives 70 g (2.5 oz) for this, against 160 g (5.6 oz) for OXO’s standard handheld and 230 g (8.1 oz) for the Precision.
So the model called Large is published at less than half the weight of the standard one. Seventy grams is roughly what a plastic food holder weighs on its own.
It matters because weight on a handheld is frame stiffness: you press down through the tool, and a light frame flexes at the blade mount — which changes the thickness partway through the stroke.
For scale, the handhelds here run to 350 g (12.3 oz) (Fullstar) and the bench units to 1,324 g (46.7 oz).
And “large” is never measured
No dimensions. No slicing surface width — the figure that decides what fits across the blade.
Benriner is the only listing on this shelf to publish one: a 2.5-inch surface on a 12.75 × 3.625 in body, described as narrow by design.
Since the thickness settings here are identical to the $18.85 model, size is the only thing that could justify the price — and it is the one thing the page does not measure.
What is not published
No blade steel, where Gramercy publishes 4CR15 and Fullstar 420. No julienne, which OXO’s own Precision has as one of five settings. No dishwasher statement, which the Precision 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.
