Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I already have an OXO mandolin slicer set that I like and use quite a bit. However, the set is limited as to the thickness of the slices so I got this because of good reviews and because it was small (didn’t give me more than what I needed which was the adjustable thickness slicer only). Unfortunately, there seems to be two design flaws in the thing. First, is that the mandolin has a lip at the very end so that anything you slice that is a large vegetable or fruit hits against the lip. Think sweet potatoes or cucumbers that you’re slicing lengthwise. Basically you can at most get an slice that’s 4-5 inches in length and then it starts to butt up against the lip of the mandolin and that’s as far as you can slice. With softer large fruits/veggies this may not be a problem as they’ll just curl and perhaps you can keep slicing but I tried it with sweet potatoes and it was a struggle. Ended up with many broken pieces. The second flaw is that the adjustability mechanism for the thickness creates a sort of wedge shape that makes it so that the trailing edge of the fruit/veggie gets caught at that wedge. So even with an apple (!) which is nowhere near as hard as a potato, I would slice once and then grab the slice from underneath the mandolin me to free it from where it was stuck in between the blade and the adjustable plastic plate. Very frustrating. Obviously this is going back. Even with a standard Fuji Apple, I couldn’t do lengthwise cuts (on a quartered Apple) without the fruit getting stuck after each slice. I finally had to to do cross slices which was stupidly smaller than what I needed. Shouldn’t be this hard. Returned.