will it slice thinner carrots? How do you insure good contact with the blades with a vegetable thinner than the cone? I cannot get this to work.
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I cannot answer your question, as I have had terrible results from this particular slicer. Needless to say I am disappointed with the slicer, I could not get it to work either. The images display multiple strands coming from the slicer at one time, I only ever had one strand come from mine.
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I have had luck w thicker carrots, peel them then boil them for a bit. once they are a bit more pliable try again.
1612035
I use mine for slicing apples. It does flex a bit if I push down to hard so I end up with wedge shapes. But I like it and use it all the time. I also use it for carrots, it slices right thru them, no problem. The one feature I really like is that you can lock the blade down for safety. If you buy it, order a Kevlar glove or similar to protect yourself from the blade.
1692128
Yes. This cuts carrots and they are much harder than sweet potatoes. It cuts a veggie platter quickly but wont cut green peppers. It does cucumbers and carrots beautifully and any kind of potatoes! I love my cutter!
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I haven't used it for that. I guess if you had chunks of very firm cabbage that you could keep together long enough for the purposes of sliding against the blade, it would work. It has different blades for different purposes.
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Up to 1.5 inches it doesn't really help make thinner slices, which was the reason I bought it. I then bought a deli slicer knife that has an adjustable blade that can slice very thin slices. Neither one is as good as a machine of course. The deli slicer's blade is not as sharp though and the wooden one looks nicer if that matters to you.
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Yes, you just move the slicer blade out of the way. I did this with potatoes and it worked great.
1671189
My experience was pretty bad. I ended up throwing mine away. The blade wouldn't cut through any vegetable with a skin (e.g. eggplant, zucchini, etc) without tearing the vegetable. Even after I got the blade professionally sharpened. I would suggest a mandoline with a blade set at an angle.
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No, I dont believe it would work for that. I use it to cut fondant for cakes and it works wonderful. I dont believe that you would have any luck trying to use it on vegetables.
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Hey Lisa, After my a few tried with beets, it works for us. We have some experience you might like to know regard to how to use our Envy slicer for best results: - Regarding getting a better experience with carrots, zucchini, beets...I remember that the first time we used carrots ourselves, the strips didn't come out from the blade as long strips. Because carrots are hard, often their strips won't be as long as with soft vegetables such as summer squash, zucchini, eggplant, beets, etc. I practiced with zucchini (as you can see on the package) and were quickly able to get nice, long strips with our carrots. Be sure to use fresh carrots, zucchini that are thick enough to fully utilize your slicer blades. - Strongly recommend using fresh and thick veggies enough for best results. If it doesn't work, it might be due to very rarely item which defective during shipping processing. Although this product is very easy to use which is designed for "no-brainer" to use, it might need a little practice depend on various people's desire. Hope this help! -Jessica
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If you didn't get an instruction booklet go to http://norpro.com/uploads/pdf/860_866r-instructionbook.pdf. Hope that will help you. Machine will peel, core and slice all at one time or pare only, core/slice only. See booklet. Don't think it will slice thicker or thinner if that is what you are after.
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this is a strong good machine and works great. but i don't know how the shape of the potato will look like or is it going to be very small for chips. it will shred the potato no problem bc it does the carrots very well. hope this helps :)
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Yes, unless you like enormous pieces of carrot. This will make little tiny shreds. I've only used it with parmesan but it made nice shreds of that so should do the same with carrot.
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Nothing it won't cut. Carrots are easy. The blade is sharp enough to slice the tough skin on peppers. It works well for chopping salads and hard boiled eggs. You will be pleased. Much better choice than the duplex blade cutters.
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I'm not sure. I have shredded carrots and cheese only.It will probably get the job done if you tried shredding the cabbage.M!
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Could you please tell me if it does carrot or zucchini "pasta" ? if it could shred these two veggies like a noodle or pasta thickness?Thank you
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The thin slicer disc slices pretty thinly. I suppose you could although Ive never done it.
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I have used mine to cut 'paper' thin for meats. I have not tried vegetables yet.