Fine slicing - mandoline or similar recommendations?

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I love salad with fine sliced cabbage, carrots, onions etc - I can never slice these things fine enough.

Can anyone recommend a mandoline or similar that slices cabbage easily, but won't remove my fingers?

Get a mandoline but also get a butcher's steel mesh glove. These should be sold as a set in my opinion.

I have one of the V slicers that I bought at an Ideal Homes Show maybe 20 yrs ago, I use if for all sorts but never without using the bit that sticks into the vegetable to protect your hand. Not as easy with cabbage and you do lose a few bits but if you quarter it and leave the stalk for sticking the yoke into it works.

For large amounts I use an electric slicer, it gets a lot of use, good for home made bread as well and of course meat but it is really good for making large quantities of coleslaw or just thinly sliced cabbage for cooking.

I have a Benriner mandolin and I love it. It can go so fine that it doesn’t cut any more. It comes with a hand guard, and I have (sold separately I think, but not entirely sure as it was gift) a cut proof glove. I find the glove more useful as the hand guard doesn’t work for everything I want to cut, but double up where possible. I also wash it up with the glove and but it straight back in the box because I’m terrified of the blade!

I’d really recommend. I use it more often than I thought it would, it works beautifully and I couldn’t get the results I get by hand. It also has attachments to julienne as well.