Mandolin. Friend or Foe?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Finger-shortener?

Vegetable-prettier?

You decide.

Oh yeah, and I'll bet you MAKE your children use while they whimper pathetically at you.

Actually, I think microplane may do one with a finger protector. Hang on.

I wouldn't, I couldn't, I need my fingers.

Foe to the unco-ordinated.

Ooh, that's the business.

A lethal weapon in my hands :(

Was given one and after one trial run scared myself I binned it. I pride myself on being a fab cook and don't care about cutting myself on newly sharpend knives but that bastard thing I won't ever get again

foe

vicious bastards, mandolins

Foe.

Used my grandad's, years ago. Never again.

Fingery carrots

my dad brought one back from Japan in the 1970s and my mother used it without the guard....

In my opinion using a mandolin is only one step away from denying your children sugar on their weetabix.

(not really here, on a break emoticon)

I expect Chaos is planning to use it to slice sugarcubes onto weetabix kurri

my mum had one. I used to treat it like a very small guitar and try and strum it. It sounded crap...

snurk

I have long hankered for one.

I was going to buy one, but have changed my mind, for some reason!

I love mine! They come with a cover that has secures what you're slicing so you don't slice your fingers. Chef's just use it free-hand to show off.