And that's why I don't own a mandoline!\
Owie Owie!!
Linda C

Ah, yes, that would be my DH a few years ago. ;-o

I bought a Kevlar glove and do not touch the mandoline without the glove!! I don't trust myself at all!

Gloria

interestingly, just as I cut myself, I was thinking I ought to buy a Kevlar glove.

Gloria, what brand do you have? I've been looking online this morning, but the reviews confuse me. Some gloves seem more cut resistant than others. I would love a recommendation from a CF user!

Have a "low end" mandoline that I've had for YEARS. Only does 2 things... slices (2 settings)... and sticks (like french fries & match sticks). Has a guard-thingie with little nubs that hold food. Even after all this time I'm sure it could still do serious damage to fingers that got in the way.

Hope yours are felling better!

I had one, was a German make. Plastic with different blades. It had the guard that held the food. I wouldn't use it without the guard, the blades are killer-sharp. Ooops, I guess you know that already.

I couldn't figure it out, couldn't get it to do the matchsticks right. I would cut the carrot to fit, to do matchsticks then thought if I had to cut the carrot, I might as well cut the whole thing by hand.
It was probably just me, though. (For that reason I wouldn't buy a slap-chopper. Have to cut the veggie to fit in the chopper, so why not keep cutting.)

Anyway, I sold the mandoline, or gave it away or something.

Sort of like you thinking about the glove, as I was slicing off part of my thumb, I was thinking "wait a sec, wasn't I suppose to put the onion in the little holder-thingie?"

The good (?) thing about the mandoline is that the blade is so sharp it wasn't a painful cut as it happened. I had to sit down & put my head between my knees so I didn't pass out & called my Mom for help. She came over with her friend who is a nurse. Great. Except her friend has macular degeneration and limited vision. So I called a friend's husband, an ER doctor, and he told me how to treat it.

My Mom was kind enough to clean up & dispose of the onion.

The next day I decided I had to get it back out and try it again or I would be afraid of it forever. Getting back up on the horse so to speak.

Now I usually don't think of using it until I'm already half-way through whatever I'm slicing so I don't bother. I should probably put it in my give-away box since I so rarely remember to use it.

I don't know the brand of my Kevlar glove, but I think I got it on Amazon. Since I'm not afraid of cutting my fingers off, I use the mandoline a lot. Especially now that the garden is producing. Pickles are almost work free and even in the winter scalloped potatoes take no time at all.

Gloria

I know I know winner winner,I cut the tip off my finger skinned a few times.I got a good one and boy does it slice..

Owie, it took off your thumb AND hurt your finger too????

I had a mandoline once. Then it tasted my blood.

Once they taste blood, y'know, it's all over.

Elery brought me his, I never use it. It's one of the good expensive ones, the brand escapes me. It has a thickness adjustment on the blades and it has one of those guard/holder things, but I can't get anything to stay on the guard, it's a PIA. It also has "non-slip_ feet and it just collapses on itself whenever I try to use it so I just went back to a knife.

Annie

I have an electric slicer....with a safety feature that it won't work unless the lid is closed and locked.....his name is Cuisin-Art :-) I have to change the blade to make Art slick thick or thin but so far Art hasn't cut me, except in dish water.
His friend Mandy Lynn is a nasty one....so I banished her!

Sooz, too funny. I guess it does look like my thumb is missing. I'm happy and relieved to report that it was merely hiding behind my hand.

I'm not giving up, but Mandy Lynn may be given a vacay until I purchase a Kevlar glove! Although I only sliced one potato before I got hurt, I found Mandy Lynn much easier to use than her Cousin Art.

I have a nice little oblong scar on my thumb that reminds me to be careful around anything sharp. It wasn't left by a mandoline but an industrial slicer I was using to slice a block of cheese. I was using the guard, but got distracted and my hand slipped. Goodbye fingertip.

Just when the pain of that accident was fading in my mind, I had a mandoline accident. It was bloodless - my thumb was saved by my fingernail - but I put the thing away and decided not to use it until I have acquired a butcher's glove. Until then I am simply going to have to continue using and honing my knife skills.

I took off a chunk of thumb on mine..while slicing oranges and lemons for drying...Talk about PAIN..

Darn shame. I use our cheap one, but only with the guard. It doesn't give me much trouble, except that I have to press pretty hard on those last couple of passes to get the guard to let it cut all the way down on something. I'm cheap and hate to lose a quarter inch of potato or something. LOL. My processor is an antique Regal La Machine II and that baby has been though some serious workouts and is still going so, no fancy two or three slicing blades and such. Poor thing is so old the off white color is soooo far off white that it's bordering on it's cousin golden brown.