Are Mandolins Worth It?

With a mandoline, you can create paper thin slices of vegetables that make for a very quick and elegant salad. A mandolin can turn cabbage into thinly sliced slaw for fish tacos and can make raw fennel bulb and red onion slices delicious and less "bitey" when eaten raw.

Do professional chefs use Mandolines?

Most chefs can dazzle home cooks with their knife skills, but even they cannot perform such precision on yams and apples. Their secret, the tool that no chef would live without, is the mandoline. With this slicing tool, they can cut carrots on an angle into exactly one-sixteenth-inch slices.

What are mandolins good for?

A mandoline is designed to cut vegetables and fruit into even, and often very thin, slices. You can choose either a simple handheld model for straight cuts or a mandoline with interchangeable blades that allow for julienne (matchstick), dicing, french-fry, and even waffle cuts.