New Toy

[CMBright]

I asked Spouse to get me a new toy a bit over a month ago. Turns out the email got deleted. So I looked in my sent folder and resent it yesterday.

To my shock, my new mandolin came in today. I'm quite happy.

 

[alexp336]

I am prematurely terrified for your fingers.

 

[CMBright]

I am prematurely terrified for your fingers.

I've had mandolins before, I'm very careful with my fingers/palm when I slice. Unlike those TV chefs on cooking competitions.

 

[alexp336]

I've had mandolins before, I'm very careful with my fingers/palm when I slice. Unlike those TV chefs on cooking competitions.

Oh, I'm sure. My terror here is a deep-rooted one, that bubbles up regardless of proficiency or care

 

[Maryn]

I bought my son-in-law a mandolin. He thought he was being careful, but learned quickly there's careful and then there's careful.

 

[mrsmig]

I have one, but don't use it often. It's not that I'm scared of using it, it's the washing of the thing that terrifies me. So many ways to get sliced.

 

[Unimportant]

Ooooh, wonderful!

I've got my grandmother's ancient all-metal one. Still sharp as. I don't so much wash it as just hold it under running water, sometimes with a bit of soap squirted on it.

 

[Alessandra Kelley]

We have a very well-engineered German mandoline (from the era of "Made in West Germany"). It is metal and some very high-quality plastic and goes together for storage in a pretty much slice-proof configuration.

 

[Lime-Yay]

We have a mandolin but find ourselves using a dicing contraption more frequently. Simple way to add diced veggies to everything. Annoying to clean though. I think I always end up with a toothpick for crevices but still faster overall than dicing by hand.

Good luck with the mandolin!

And the fingers.

 

[frimble3]

Apparently this model comes with safety gloves. Take the hint, wear the gloves!

 

[CMBright]

Apparently this model comes with safety gloves. Take the hint, wear the gloves!

I did. It was part of the appeal of that particular model.

 

[Maggie Maxwell]

Very nice! I got my own sometime last year. I've used it once and loved it, but I will admit is does frighten me, even with a glove and a guard, and also, like, I just really like chopping stuff with a normal knife. It's meditative. I want to make homemade chips though, so...mandolin.

 

[Janine R]

That was a shock, I was picturing a musical instrument.

 

[frimble3]

That was a shock, I was picturing a musical instrument.

Same here, at first! I'm reading about finger-slicing and thinking that if a mandolin (lute) will do that, how do modern guitarists, with steel strings, ever survive?

 

[Unimportant]

I just really like chopping stuff with a normal knife. It's meditative.

Me too!

Today I'll be hand-cubing about a gallon of chokos to freeze down for stews -- all of which got frosted and damaged last night. We lost the entire crop and all the vines.