Starfrit Deli Slicer - Slices Meat, Cheese, Bread - 6.5" Stainless Steel Blade - Adjustable Thickness Knob - Nestable for Easy Storage | 2-in-1 Fruit and Vegetable

This slicer is a well designed marvel --- someone did an exquisite job designing and engineering this bargain priced machine. I'm using it to make uniform slices of my baking-machine bread. It effortlessly does the job and afterwards is easy to rinse & clean in the sink and then I just put it into the dish rack to air dry. Blade is wickedly sharp, so use care in removing for cleaning. It all folds up in a minute for storage with a snap-in place for the handle and sliding food pusher accessories to take up minimal storage space between slicing usage. The slicing thickness is easily adjustable with the turn of a knob - I'm using position 5 1/2 for my bread slices. I have a smooth granite kitchen counter so the suction cup mounting keeps it from slipping. I imagine this would also hold well on Formica or any smooth non-porous surface.

I've been baking bread weekly for over 7 years now and have always been frustrated with my inability to cut thin, even slices for sandwiches. I have gone through a couple of excellent, sharp Japanese-made bread knives searching for the perfect tool, but it wasn't the knives afterall, it was my technique, which I was never able to master.While in a deli recently, watching them cut meat thinly and evenly, I thought maybe this was the key to bread slicing, so I started looking online at electric meat slicers. The downsides of electric slicers were price and size. I have limited storage space in my apartment and really don't plan on slicing anything other than bread, so electric seemed like overkill.But, while searching Amazon for meat slicers I ran across this manually operated Starfrit Deli Slicer. It looks like a toy, so I was hesitant to buy it, but at this price-point, it was worth the risk. I love this machine. Yes, it's all plastic, except the blade, and the colors really make it appear toy-like, but it is well made, the user experience is top notch, it folds up neatly, easily and takes up very little space.It took a couple of loaves to get used to the ratio between the speed of the blade (hand cranked), and the speed at which I need to push the loaf to get the cut. What I determined was to let the blade do the cutting and guide, rather than push the loaf, and now I get a nice even, thin (you adjust the thickness to your liking) slice. After the bread has cooled a few hours, I get the slicer out, assemble it (takes about 2 minutes), and slice away. I would estimate that it takes maybe 15 minutes, tops, from the time I get the slicer off the shelf, to the time I'm putting a sliced loaf into the bag and getting the slicer back on the shelf. I haven't done meat yet. I don't expect to. This is an excellent bread slicer and I recommend it highly, especially at this price.

My husband hates slicing our homemade sourdough bread or any meats we get that need trimming down or bricks of cheese. I clearly love to tortue him. haha. BUT with his now he is more okay with it and sometimes enjoys it a little to much.Super easy to use and put together.Sticks to the counter a little to well.Slices like its no ones business.The handle moves smoothly which makes the blade move easy.We've had no issues with slicing things. Its made it through meat, cheese, bread.Easy to cleanStores within itself.

The media could not be loaded. I recently started making sourdough bread, love it, but I was not liking the knife I was using. I tried a regular knife, a bread, knife, and even bought the bow bread knife, but neither of them cut the bread evenly or easily. I just purchased this deli slicer which also works for the bread. Wow this is the best thing I have bought on Amazon it slices the bread, beautifully and easily. The slicer is not electronic but used with a crank. I have arthritis and I have no issue using it. It is very easy to use. The unit folds in half so it makes it very easy to put away in your pantry and does not take up a lot of space.

I was first impressed with how well this product was able to slice while having to move the meat with one hand and rotate the blade handle with the other. Cut were effortless. However the product fails in consistency. The thickness adjustment doesn’t hold fast, making thin, uniform cuts impossible as the blade adjustment moves making every subsequent cut thicker and thicker.

I just used this slicer to make 1/2 inch slices of sourdough sandwich bread from a home made loaf. It worked great! I also like the way it folds up for storage. Best value for slicing breads. I can't speak for slicing other foods. The blade is sharp but not razor sharp and could be sharper (in my opinion); I'll be sharpening it myself.

I had a feeling it would be bad I just didn't realize it would be this bad. It's not that small so you're not saving space. The suction cup is very temperamental unless you have a perfectly perfectly flat countertop. Without the suction cup working it's unusable. To be fully honest you're not getting a better slice than a knife and it's just taking longer. Just use a bread knife or a chef's knife to cut whatever you're trying to cut.