MuellerLiving Mandoline Slicer for Kitchen, Adjustable Vegetable Chopper, Fruit, Cheese Grater, Potato Chips Slicer - Black

My first impression on seeing the product package was, “Wow, this thing is smaller than I thought.” After taking it out of the package it was, “Yep, pretty small, not going to do much onions with this.” I have now processed over 50 lbs. of onions over the last few days. So, I think I have enough experience to do a review worth something. My first recommendation is that if you are going to chop up a couple of onions for a meal, not to use this. While cleaning is not that hard, by the time you get it cleaned up, you could have simply chopped the onions with a good knife. The second thing is not to expect to chop a medium to large whole onion at one time. Won’t happen. I have a small garden and the reason I purchased this chopper was to process some onions to freeze. Before, I used a food processor and it pretty much just turned the onions to mush and they froze solid like a brick. I wanted something that would be more consistent and not create so much onion juice. I was not too sure this would work for me though. The finer blade seemed like it would cut the chunks a little too big. I definitely thought this was going to take a lot longer than expected because of how small it was. My first task was to figure out the best way to get the onions chopped and not just end up as long slices of onions. A little thought behind how an onion was laid out and how the device was going to push the onion through the blade I came up with my plan and stuck to it. You can see the results in the pictures I have attached to the review.Now for some details. Let’s take an onion. One of my typical onions is about 3-4 inches as in the pic with the ruler and onion. After the onion is peeled, you can see that it is a little large to go through the chopper whole. I cut the top and bottom off the onion, then cut down the middle. Laying the two ends flat I quartered each half. I found that placing a quarter chunk on the blades as shown would produce consistent chunks as can be seen by the pic with the chopped onion next to a ruler. The chunk size turns out to be just about the right size for cooking. Using this process, I peeled, cleaned, cut, and chopped about 20 lbs. of onions in about 3 hours this session. Cleanly cut the onions and extraordinarily little juice at all. Some onions are tougher than others. These may take a little more downward pressure than others. Do not try to use too big of chunks in the device. Keep them the size shown for best results. I quartered about 6-8 onions at a time and then used the device to chop them. The container that the onions fall in is small and does not take long to fill up. However, it was easy to just remove the top part and empty the onion into a bowl and continue. The bottom container is very clear and has 4 small rubber feet that does a good job of keeping it from sliding around on the table.I was not too sure how it would hold up. Except for the actual blades, it is all plastic. The blade and pusher part were easy to put in. The plastic seems to be very hard and showed no wear at all after all of these onions. Blade still seems to be sharp. It was easy to take apart to clean. The main section was easy to just rinse off. The blade section was also handled by just rinsing. The “pusher” section took a little more effort to clean. Even though they supplied a little brush to help get between the crevices, it was easier to simply soak it in water and then firmly tap the section against something solid to knock out all of the bit and pieces of onion that was lodge in between. Nothing to rust so I just dabbed off the excess water and packed away for the next time.Overall, it chopped consistent sized chunks. Onions were left in much better shape than a food processor. Even though it could not take too much onion at a time, it really did not take that long. I like the design and the functionality. Seemed durable and well made. I will use it again the next time. I now have peppers to do. I expect these will go just as well.I would love to see a larger stainless-steel device like this for those having to process a lot of onions. As a note, I am just about over a case of COVID-19. While I hope that it is temporary, it left me with literally no smelling capability at all – making doing all these onions a breeze :o)I would definitely recommend to others.

It is not a toy. Finally, a product that overachieves. Careful with your hands don't slice your fingers because it goes through vegetables QUICK! It almost handles industrial quantities in supersonic speed! I was blown away by it. The first time I used it, I don't think I used it aggressively enough, it was ok. But the second time slicing a big onion and a bunch of celery all together it did quick work of it incredibly fast. Totally impressed, would buy again, and would recommend highly!

Great use for chopping vegetables or under ripe fruit to get them in a uniform size. I especially like it for canning season. Blade is sharp and unit is durable. Smaller than what I expected but it works great.

awesome product! Very stable and secure. Also very sharp! Be careful.

The Mueller Living Mandoline Slicer is just what I was looking for. My old mandoline slicer was not adjustable for slices of different sizes. It sliced only thin slices, so when I used it, for example, on carrots for soup, they were sliced so thin that the carrots disintegrated into the soup. The Mueller Living Slicer has different sizes that can be easily adjusted for many sizes of slices. I was surprised to see how sturdy this slicer is and also how well it is made. I am very happy with this purchase, and now my soups & stews will have the best-looking vegetables ever!!

I like it

Best one I used so far.....sharp so be careful.

Pro's: It was sharp and easily cut soft veggies, such as onion, cucumber, etc., its legs were sturdy and the rubberized feet were great, (so it didn't slide around), and it had a wide cutting surface. There were 3 MAJOR Cons for me: 1- While slicing potatoes, (for homemade chips), the size selector would NOT stay on the 1mm setting and with each swipe of the potato, the selector incrementally increased in size and eventually stopped around the 3mm setting, which I consider too thick for chips. However, the 1mm setting didn't move when cutting softer veggies, such as onions. There is no lock feature on any of the 'slicing' sizes, but the 2 julienne settings stay locked in place. 2- Removing the slicer/julienne blade was easy but reinserting it after cleaning was a pain in the butt. At the far end of that removable piece, there's a small protruding nodule, and if you don't get that nodule precisely lined up with the hole on the side of the mandoline, or miss it altogether, (which I did the 1st time), then that piece gets stuck and can't be forcibly popped back out without damaging that part and/or cutting yourself. Also, if forced, that plastic part would probably break! Instead, remove the back cover, (on underside, which has 3 tiny Phillips head screws), and gently pry that piece out with a butter knife or something similar. Not getting that nodule properly aligned with the hole will probably be a problem for some people. 3- The vegetable 'pusher' is wide and does a good job covering the width of the mandoline, however the pusher leaves a good bit of leftover veggie waste at the end of the cutting process due to the gap between the end of the pusher & the base of mandoline. The amount of veggie waste ranged from a 1/4" to 1/2" in thickness. Minor annoyances were: Although the folding legs lock into the open position, they don't lock into the closed position and will flop open unless held closed. A simple latching mechanism would be nice. I can foresee newbies having problems with the 'orientation' of the veggie pusher. It's designed to only go 1 way but can easily be turned the wrong way, and novices might not realize this. Yes, the pusher has places for thumb/fingers, and there are flanges on the top & bottom to help protect fingers if they slip, and it also has directional arrows which are meant for the up & down direction. Mueller could help the newbies by adding the words top/bottom or up/down alongside the arrows, otherwise some folks may incorrectly place it in the wrong (left/right) position... which would cut the plastic side guards on the underside of plunger. It's not rocket science, but a little extra labeling and directions would help the beginners. Lastly, it would be more user friendly if the 'print' or 'labeling' on the removable sizer/slicing/julienne piece was written around the perimeter of the dial instead of on the end. Since it's on the end of dial, one must either pick up the mandoline to read the options/sizes -or- stoop down to counter level to see the print. That was only a minor annoyance, but could easily be remedied. A few simple redesigned fixes would turn this so-so mandoline into a pretty decent one and also be a major help for beginners.