>slices your fingers and hands off
the blade of the mandoline severs the arm
>>21783290It's true. Use the guard bros, or at least be careful/pay attention. I sliced off a quarter inch of my thumb using a mandolin because I was rushing and being a retard.
>>21783290oy vey
>BenrinerBest on the market. Japanese steel is no joke.
>>21783290A mandoline loses its effectiveness if no regular blood sacrifices are made.It demands tribute for its service.
Troons love this device.
>>21783290Mine came with cutproof gloves. They work well. Handy to wear when using the box grater, too.
>>21783323i am about due for another sacrifice
>>21783290It's barely faster than chopping to begin with, truly the very dumbest kitchen toolAt least a grater has a unique use
>>21783290Only if you are using it wrong. I’ve probably only ever cut myself on one once in about 20 years. And if was only a little scratch. You have to hold things on if a certain way and curl your fingers inward and backward and use your palm as a guide, and know when to call it quits before it gets higher risk than reward.
>>21783290literal skill issue. my 9 year old niece can use one just fine on her own
>>21783290Unironic skill issue
>>21783290Hello Jeremy Clarkson.
>>21783310the included guards in Benriner mandolines are pretty shitty, so I bought a pair of cut resistant gloves to use instead, but I'm still nervous every time I have to use mine.
>>21783290Mine came with some sort of pusher plate that I could use to push the vegetables around. Didn't yours?Also, is everyone getting these captchas or just me??
ive used mine more than enough times, dont understand how youd put your fingers into the hole or w.e, just stop slicing when you are near the bottom of the vegetable and do it more carefully then or toss the small end
my friend works at the front desk of an emergency room, and she told me like a third of finger amputations were from these things lol
>>21783290>let’s just crack open these bee-ACKK
in every kitchen i've ever worked in i'm the only person who a.) actively uses the mandolin, and b.) has never injured myself with a mandolini feel like you need to be legitimately retarded or dangerously irresponsible to seriously cut yourself on one of these things. hold things properly, ensure you have a solid grip, go the right pace, not the fastest pace, and stop cutting WAY earlierit's always the retard taking shit down to the literal last milimeter cutting his fingers off. with all the waste in an average kitchen, i promise the extra 100 slices of potato you'd get from 50 entire pounds doesn't matter at worst, and can go into stock at best
And by "your" I assume you mean "my" because you're a reckless idiot who doesn't know how to slice.
>>21783974They work just fine, but they can wear down over time, especially if they repeatedly contact the blade. Just inspect them before each use and you'll be fine. I've never cut myself on my mandolin because I always use the gloves.
>>21783310>>21783974>cut resistant glovesthe trickiest part is finding some that actually work especially on amazon where there are millions of them and they're all basically useless
>>21784088>my friend works at the front desk of an emergency room, and she told me like a third of finger amputations were from these things lolIt's for ceiling fans and children put on shoulders. Also worse for pit bull owners who think their dog is fine around people because of a good home and family.My only kitchen injuries are burns, and all were my own fault.
>>21784139Just don't buy safety gear on Amazon, full stop. Anything that you're buying to protect yourself from slicing off a part of your body, buy from a reputable seller. It's worth the extra money every single time. There are many kitchen/restaurant supply stores you could purchase quality safety equipment from
>>21784190just to reiterate this because not enough people do it - more often than not, kitchen/restaurant supplies are one of the few things Amazon hasn't cornered the market on, not even closealmost ANYTHING other than niche consumer appliances will be drastically cheaper from a hospitality supply depot, and have an actual spec sheet of the exact materials it's made out of so you know you're not buying gloves made of steel weaker than the blade it's guarding against
>>21783981wtf captcha is gay nigger AIDS now. I got a scroll bar
>>21784088theres genuinely next to no way to actually cause an amputation worthy injury with a mandolin unless you open it up the entire way and then fist it as hard as you canif she said deli slicer, then i might believe it
>>21784358severe avulsion into the nailbed can require partial amputation to just below where the nail would have beenextremely common, at least compared to the various whacky ways people get amputated. 1/3 is surely an exaggeration but it's probably one of the only repeatable, exact-same-scenario case to be statistically significant enough to even think about
>>21784092>Stone Cold Steve Autism
>>21784104Are you by chance the only one in the kitchen that isn't a druggie or alcoholic? Low skill jobs do tend to attract those types. Seen the same in factories.
>>21784142lol htf are there that many ppl putting their children on their shoulders and walking them into ceiling fans? Could a cf even cut fingers off? bait.
>>21784532yeahhhhh i tend to forget that part. same reason i don't work in kitchens anymoremaybe one day i'll move to a big city with a real culinary scene and work in a restaurant that doesn't hire fuckups and have passion for living againone can dream
>>21783718kek
I have a Benriner like in the OP which is a very good Japanese mandoline. I've never cut myself in the six years I've had it and I used it drunk and high many times and I never used the stupid glove. The key to not cutting yourself is paying complete attention to what you're doing and not trying to slice your ingredients down to the very edge. A little bit of food waste is a lot better than a mandoline injury.
I was circumsized with a Benriner mandolin. It took them awhile to get the depth correct. But there were gristles for the moyle.
>>21783290*makes that obsolete and saves your finger*
>>21783290Mandolin?
>>21784527Triple H chromosome
>>21783325So do americans and jews
I got a cheap ass mandolin, my knife skills are pretty good so I didn't really expect much. Oh boy. All my rough chopping I do in half the time, the real advantage is that you don't dirty a chopping board or work space. I also prices bulk ingredients like pickles. >what about prep-mate, the electric spinning cutting wheelYea that's a step up, I have one. But the $10 mandolin i have is so easy to wash that anything over three onions, less then 15 onions, the mandolin wins out There are some tricks to using it, firstly if you're not using the slide, there's no way to hold your hand which won't see the end shaved off. So go fast, go slow, go fast, go slow. It's a dangerous tool. If you can use the slide , use it, it's faster.
>>21785127I'd rather risk a finger than clean those hunks of shit.
Wait do you guys just hold the onion over the dish while you slice it? My mandolin came with a bowl that i can put it over and i have this pronged thing that holds the onion. I could be retarded.
>>21785389>take blade and bowl off mount>put in dishwasherwow hard
>>21785541The like the case for your cassette or DVD, most people are too dumb not to lose those almost immediately.
>>21784139I wear a pair of cut resistant gloves and then a chainmail glove on top of that when I use my mandolin, on both hands. I'm not fucking around with that fucking thing.
>>21783676The point of using one isn't to be fast, it's to get extremely consistent very thin slices which is much easier on a mandolin than with a knife for most things.
>>21786766skill issue
>>21783290wtf why did you slice my fingers and my hands off
