OXO Good Grips Easy-Clean Bladed Meat Tenderizer, White

Perfect and easy to use.I’ve bought tough meat and regretted buying it, but the tenderizes it beautifully. It’s easy to press into the meat and easy to wash. Plus there’s no mess like using the mallet.

I used it for the first time on a top-round beef steak, marinated the steak over night, then grilled it over high heat to develop a good sear and it turned out great, we could even chew the steak with our own teeth, and our Chihuahua loved it! highly recommend! OXO is a trusted brand in our family, this is quality made, easy to use and clean.

This replaces one that finally broke after many years. It is a different brand but a well known one. We have used it several times on steaks and it works just fine.Restaurants often use these things as well although they have bigger versions.This is easy to hold and has decent quality.I would recommend it.

Blades are sharp and product is solid to use. Not bad to clean.

super sharp. You could do the same tenderizing with two forks but this is very fast and dishwasher safe. It works great.

This is a wonderful little tool. It really does tenderize your meats! A++++++

It truly does make the steak more tender but the spring in the knife guard is too strong. The strong spring ends up smashing down the steak. My 3/4" steak ended up being a 3/8" steak after I was done tenderizing. And with such a thin steak it is not really possible to get a good sear while keeping the inside to a medium rare.I am going to try to cut off some of the spring. This probably won't work. I may be able to replace it with a hardware store generic spring if I can find one that fits and isn't too strong. Too bad OXO's testing didn't uncover this issue and design a solution. They are usually very good at design. :-(UPDATE: I bought a replacement spring at a very well stocked hardware store. I had to increase the diameter of the spring a little to match the old spring. A tedious hour long activity with two pliers, ugh. Now the knife guard presses down about 1/3 as hard as original. Haven't tried it on a steak yet. Stay tuned.UPDATE 2: After replacing the original spring with one having about 1/3 the force I have solved one problem and created another. Now the knife guard doesn't smash the steak like crazy but, instead, removing the knife array from the steak is a real chore. (I use this tool on a USDA Choice Top Round, 1.67 lb, no dry brining or marinade or whatever, nothing, and it came out very tender. This tool did work well. But...) Even when holding the steak down with large tongs, I have to struggle, rocking the device back and forth, for 5 or 10 seconds to get the blades free of the steak. Not good. There are 5 rows of blades with each row having 10 blades (50 blades in total). I'm going to see if there is a way to remove some of the rows or columns of knives. (Maybe this is way Jaccard sells a model with only one row of 16 blades!)UPDATE 3: Yep, if you completely disassemble the device you can unstack the blade sets. I replaced four of the five sets with similarly thick washers, just to maintain the same overall fit of the blade block when placed back into the molded alignments of the case. That leaves one, easy to clean, row of blades that should not be difficult to pull out of the meat (fingers crossed). See the photos, before and after. Now to see if this works! Stay tuned.FINAL UPDATE: The single row of blades works fine. The knife guard hardly does anything (ignoring the safety aspects of it) so I removed it. Now, with one row of blades and no guard I can quickly make progress on a steak without impediment. I'm done "optimizing" this thing. I think OXO got caught up in a blade count arms race (50 blades, fooey!) and compromised on real usability. So that's my story. YMMV.

Works very well but hard to clean.Must use the dishwasher for this.And even then it’s questionable.However the thing works perfectly on meat.Watch out for the sharp ends if you try to clean this by hand. They will cut.