using a mandoline

I have a grater like that. I daren't use it - razor-sharp...

For me, no! Sharp knives, mandolines etc, always end up with cuts to fingers. Sometimes stabbing the food to be cut with a fork can help (fingers are well away from the blade) but them you do catch the fork tines. I now leave it to DH!

Could you not return it from where you bought it explaining that finger transplants are not readily available just yet? Good Grips is a good company- they have not trialed their own product very well. I will not use one for that reason, they are razor sharp and hit the wrong spots such as your fingers.

The reviews for the finger slicer mandoline were good. It seems to be just me that has had a problem with it so I don't think taking it back is really an option Charleygirl. And it only cost a tenner so it wouldn't really be cost effective to drive to the shops and pay for parking.

It was quite cathartic throwing it away.

Snap. I sliced the tip of my finger off many years ago so I'm very wary of using such lethal tools. I now have a magimix mixer with a range of attachments including several slicer attachments and absolutely no danger of cutting off any digits. Perfect!

I'd love a mandolin for the lovely thin slices you can do but fear of slicing finger tips stops me buying one....bad enough when I get a paper cut lol...

I've got a mandolin which I used yesterday. I've had it for years and no longer slice my fingers but, then again I really only use it for potatoes. I've also got a slicing attachment for my kenwood. I rarely use that either.

My mandolin is a zizzi (or something like that) and I would recommend it if you really want one!!

Zyliss!!

I've got one - no idea what make - but rarely use it unless we need a lot if grated carrot or coleslaw. It's the second one I've had and both were presents as I wouldn't bother to buy one. I find that the only way I can avoid injury is to not use the guard/veg holder bit and waste more of the end bit.

Years ago I had a cheap one I bought from a market stall, the guard thing was large and very effective but sadly it snapped and using the mandolin without it proved to be a painful and messy business! I've never seen another that looked as safe so haven't replaced it, shame it was a useful gadget.

I have one purchased from Lakeland a few years ago, but to be honest I can't recall ever using it. My son who is a pub chef, tells me that mandolins have been removed from all their kitchens due to the infamous 'Elf and Safety reasons.

You could try what I do - I have long nails so I don't cut my fingers, but I do sometimes have to sort through the food to remove the bits of nail.

I had the same problem with graters etc until I bought a marvellous "metal" glove made by Microplane so my fingers are now safe!

use your palm to push the veg & don't go all the way to the top

Yes, they can be dangerous, but we invested in a horrendously expensive one which I don't use, relying on DH. He swears by it and amazingly hasn't ever done himself an injury using it.

Never could get a decent tune out of one

Had one as a wedding present many moons ago .Gave it away after slicing fingers a few times ...Invention of the devil

Friend took the top off her finger last year (coincidentally at the same time as either Ant or Dec, can't remember which, managed it too!) She said it took ages to heal and was sooo painful, and this put me right off getting one - in fact I had the shudders every time I thought about it following her graphic description of putting the piece back on and sticky plastering it into place. She still has no feeling in the top of her finger.

Oh this is me me me! I have a vegetable peeler that you pull and I still managed to take a chunk out of my thumb knuckle the week before having to the Christmas meal. Terrible place to get healing to start.

I do have a pair of those silicone oven gloves and they work when I remember to put them on! Grating nutmeg even on a mini-grater or other wee bits are a challenge, so I just use a pair of cotton gloves for those. But the silicone ones are good for mandolins.

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I agree Grannynise if you only paid a tenner for it, the cost of petrol,car park charges and not forgetting defrosting your car, it really is not worth it. Put it down to experience.

Following a rather bloody incident using a mandolin husband got me some "metal " gloves which are great but going rusty.

I use the same method as goose 1964. I have a cheap Chinese one and it's really efficient. The hand guard is effective and the results are good. Before I had my mothers old mandolin which was very good but just got too old. Sounds like me some mornings !

I ended up with a badly infected finger after slicing it on a mandolin. It was excruciating. My doctor had no idea what a mandolin was. His advice,"Bin it" which I did. I am always seduced by these demos you get in dept. stores for these "all singing, all dancing" pieces of kit. They usually end up in the back of a cupboard.

I worked in a charity shop and have worked in a couple and we often had sharp implements in, still boxed, barely used..people find fingers more important than thin sliced anything.