StarfritDeli 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 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.

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.

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.

I've recently started baking bread, having tired of the terrible breads on American shelves and being spoiled by breads when living in Germany. I've been pretty unimpressed by the bread slicing options though. While a knife certainly works, it's difficult to get a consistent thickness and cut. I got a couple of the adjustable bread slicers with cutting guides - they just didn't work that well. So then I tried this deli slicer. It works great. I can slice with very high consistency through breads of different densities without problems. I can select the thickness through any useful setting. The single large clamp on the bottom holds the slicer firmly on my granite countertop which I operate the handle. For christmas, we had a vegan breaded roast, which I've historically cut with a large knife, and the slices were much superior - nice edges, consistent thickness.Cleaning is pretty easy. The blade comes off with a simple motion and all except the blade is dish washer safe. It folds up conveniently if you don't want to leave it out.Rotary slicers can be expensive, but this one is very inexpensive. I highly recommend it

This is a terrible slicer. The suction to the surface (granite countertop) doesn't work at all - so the whole thing moves as you try to slice the bread. The crank is very squeaky and it is hard to move. The only positive is the sharpness of the blade, but it might actually be a hazard with the whole instability of the slicer. Overall a total junk. I do NOT recommend.

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.

This is a great little slicer!! Works really nicely slicing up salami and cheese! Folds up nicely for storage keeps me from having to haul out my big electric slicer for smaller jobs!