Domestic Food/Meat Slicers - any good?

nik0510

Hi, we also make our own bread, but also useless at cutting, for Christmas my hubby got me an Andrew James slicer from Amazon, it is brilliant, easy to clean, you can change the size of your slices. It comes with a meat blade, my word it is brilliant for roast dinners, you can feed an army, good for beef and gammon.
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Hope you find one that suits you.
Best wishes
Nik

good_advice

If it is still available try the Argos value slicer. It slices bread, cheese and meat. I can recommend it.

Pink.

This is the one I have. Great for bread, meat and anything else really.

I'll add this to our existing thread on slicers later:

Domestic Food/Meat Slicers - any good?

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marmitepotato

Thanks guys. Looks like my doorstep days are over!

Quackers1

We use an electric carving knife that was originally given to us for meat cutting but the bread needs to be cool. If we try to cut it warm it just crumbles.

joedenise

I'll second the Andrew James slicer. I've had mine a few years now, it's brilliant.

Denise

LandyAndy

I just use my, very sharp, chef's knife. Gives a much cleaner cut than a bread knife and I can get really thin slices with it

Badrick

good_advice wrote: »

If it is still available try the Argos value slicer. It slices bread, cheese and meat. I can recommend it.

Cookworks Food Slicer

That's the one we have, apart from slicing bread, we sometimes cure our own bacon and slice into rashers with it.
If you're not desperate, Argos have reduced this to half price a couple of times a year for the past few years. :money:

marmitepotato

Just a quick update. I got the cheapy Argos cookworks slicer, it was eighteen odd quid and I reasoned that at that price, if it was rubbish I hadn't wasted too much cash.

Well, I have just used it on my bread, and it's blooming wonderful! Where I would normally get about eleven uneven slices by using a bread knife, I got eighteen lovely even slices. Once the cookworks slicer dies I will upgrade to the Andew James one. Thank you to all that recommended.

Jazzy_B

I got a cheapie from Tesco a couple of years ago, and I dropped and broke the pusher thing ,making it pretty unsafe. As I knew I would use it, I went for the Andrew James one.
Although it's sturdy,and slice width is more accurate, it's difficult to clean as easily as the cheapies, as a lot of parts that need to be washed cannot be removed, and there are nooks and crannies which are only accesible with a paint brush or cotton buds. It doesn't matter too much if you just use it for bread,but with meat it's a bit of a pain to clean. Also, with the cheap one, you had to hold the switch down all the time,which meant you couldn't get fingers trapped while blade rotating. Once you turn on the switch on the Andrew James, you're free to chop your fingers off if you so choose.
I too chose the AJ one based on reviews, but I think it has serious design flaws, compared to the Tesco one