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Good safety features, a bit difficult to clean in all cracks but serves purpose

So I mainly got this to thinly slice meats specifically for hot pot. It was originally a failure for me because it would get stuck and not cleanly slice through the raw chunk of lamb or pork and the setting knob would just slowly get thicker. Slicing steaks of any meat is actually pretty good, but then I can just use a regular kitchen knife for that.

THE TRICK to thinly sliced hot pot meat is to first freeze the meat, I HAVEN'T tried it frozen as fear of breaking the blade (Think the instructions also Warns you not to use it on frozen, not 100% sure). Anyways, I let it thaw a little overnight in the fridge, when the meat is still semi frozen where you can kind push in the meat but it is still icy frozen. You can now set the slicer to near 0 and get perfectly thin slices where the slicer doesn't butcher the meat and actually cuts it cleanly through. Make sure to check the thickness while cutting, it may move on you especially when pushing down on the meat.

Sometimes the slices are still joined on the bottom and doesn't come off the chunk and I kind of just pull it off. Not sure if this is the machine or just the flimsy meat not contacting the blade enough.

This works great for deli meats. I sliced cooked turkey before and it gave me nice slices of thin turkey for sandwiches. It is not nearly as thin as those formed sandwich meats you buy off the shelf with all the additives. But definitely bologna thickness.

Not sure about the cleaning. I mean it is not super hard to clean but more of a hassle. The blade is removeable, but then the center on one side has grease lubricant on it so you don't want to wet or touch that. I have to carefully use a sponge to clean around it and careful of just rising the outside metal blade part and then setting it lube up on the table to dry itself. The meat holder is also removeable so it is easy to clean. The machine, I just use dawn power spray soap to spray it down and wipe it with a sponge, then I use water from the sponge to keep wiping it till the soap is gone and paper towels or a towel to dry it. There are a few crevices on the machine and in the middle of blade where the knob to twist and remove blade will have lots of meats stuck in it or whatever you cut, raw meat will suck.

Overall, worked for me but not sure if I am ecstatic about it. It is a bulky machine (pretty small for what it it does though) to keep on your counter, so plan on where you want to store it. Hopefully, it saves me some money from cutting my own meats for hot pot. Definitely a cool little appliance.

Overall I have used it to cut about 50 pounds of beef to make jerky and pemmican and it has served me well so far. Once you get used to a few quirks it is quite effective.

It has a tendency to go out of adjustment re. slice thickness. The adjustment dial is too easy to turn, needs more tension. The sliding platform can drag unless I dab the tube with a bit of grease. It has a tendency to leave a bit of meat uncut at the bottom when slicing uncooked beef. If you try to slice really thin and are pressing the guard too hard you will slice off the tips of the little teeth on the guard.

Not too hard to clean but there are nooks and crannies where you have to use a little more attention to detail.

Important! Make sure to get the blade on firmly and twist the latch to the LEFT to lock it, then close the latch flat. It feels mounted if you press the blade into place and close the latch, but it will wobble and come loose as soon as you start cutting.

Used the serrated blade to cut homemade whole grain bread, it cut the bread perfectly. I loved how I could adjust the thickness that I can't do on the loaf bread slicer that has fixed widths. I also used it cut 3 mm thick meat alternative chicken to make roll ups that I couldn't do on the mandolin slicer because the meat alternative is too soft to handle to slide over the blade, but the smooth blade on the Midone cut it flawlessly without any tearing. The blade does turn slowly but its sharpness cuts fine. It cleans up very easily and is far safer to use than a mandolin. I am looking forward to using this to cut beets and potatoes into very thin rounds to make beet and potato chips. The mandolin slicer doesn't give the range of thickness that this slicer does which is nice and has less waste since you can slice more of what you are slicing without the vegetable getting chewed up with the safety holder. It seems that if you push steadily and slowly that it cuts fine. For light duty home use and at this price point I think it is a good value.