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The 5 Best Mandoline Slicers, According to the Best Experts

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If you are great with a knife in your hand, a good mandoline will still probably speed things up. And if you’re less than great with a knife in your hand, a good mandoline can help you make perfect slices — even paper-thin ones! There are a lot of mandolines on the market, though. For example, there are handheld ones, which can be used over a cutting board or right over a bowl. There are sturdy tabletop ones that take up almost as much room as your toaster (some will even make waffle cuts!). And there are a few options in between (like the handheld one above with a little kickstand of sorts). So how do you know which one is best? You just read this story!

We’ve rounded up the top picks from some of the best websites out there. And then we added our own two cents at the bottom. Luckily, you can’t go wrong with any of these options.

5 of the Best Mandolines for Home Cooks

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Super Benriner

The Best Mandoline, According to Wirecutter

If you’ve never heard of this brand before, all you really need to know is that its slicers often appear in restaurant kitchens. Translation: If this mandoline is good enough for professionals who use it day in and day out, it’s good enough for a home cook, too. Wirecutter liked this recently updated model for a few reasons: It’s sturdy (but not bulky), has a double-bevel blade (for soft tomatoes and hard sweet potatoes), and the hand guard has been reworked to grip the produce nice and tight.

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OXO Good Grips Chef’s Mandoline Slicer 2.0

The Best Mandoline, According to Cook’s Illustrated

This slightly-more-expensive mandoline got a near-perfect score from Cook’s Illustrated for sharpness, ease of use, stability, performance, and versatility. (It was named co-winners along with this Benriner .) This OXO model was the easiest to use of all the mandolines they tried and the editors of Cook’s Illustrated found it to be super-stable and capable of making nice, even slices in a wide array of thicknesses.

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Kyocera Advanced Ceramic Double-Edged Mandoline

The Best Mandoline, According to Epicurious

We love that Epicurious picked an inexpensive handheld option! It’s entirely frills-free (the editors say that the “transformer-like parts” of other mandolines just get in the way) and just makes straight cuts in four thicknesses (.5mm, 1.3mm, 3mm, and 2mm). It’s totally uncomplicated, works well (over a bowl or a cutting board), and won’t take up a ton of space in your kitchen. And despite what the price tag would lead you to think, the stainless steel blade stays sharp for years.

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Swissmar Borner V-Slicer Plus Mandoline 5 Piece Set

The Best Mandoline, According to Good Housekeeping

The Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Technology Lab sliced up hundreds of pounds of produce to come up with this list , which named this Swissmar Borner mandoline the best overall. This model has blades in a V-shape, which many say helps to guide the produce and can better tackle softer foods. This mandoline also has grippy feet, to secure its base, and comes with a storage caddy.

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Mueller Austria V-Pro Multi Blade Adjustable Mandoline

The Bestselling Mandoline on Amazon

Wanna know what most people are buying on Amazon? This mega setup, which comes with five blades that can help you slice, grate, shred, and more. The slice thicknesses can be adjusted from 1 millimeter up to 9 millimeters. And it has a 4.6-star rating and more than 2,780 reviews.

Kitchn’s Thoughts on the Best Mandolines

A few Kitchn editors have this cheaper OXO model and have no complaints. Best of all, it’s super easy to change out the blades and adjust the thickness of the cuts.

That said, the Benriner is basically the Vitamix of mandolines — and yet not nearly as expensive as you’d expect after reading a statement like that. (It’s less easy to change the blades on this one, compared to the OXO and others in this story — but we’ll chalk that up to the chefy-ness of the product.) If you’re going to buy a mandoline, you want one with a sharp blade that will stay sharp and that’s exactly what you get with a Benriner. Just one word of caution: Be careful . Mandoline accidents are far too common in the kitchen and, again, the Benriner blades are sharp, sharp, sharp.

Do you have a favorite mandoline? Tell us about it in the comments!

Lisa Freedman

Lifestyle Director

Lisa Freedman is the Lifestyle Director at The Kitchn. She has never met a cheese or a washi tape she didn't like. She lives in New York state with her husband and their pup, Millie.

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