Chef'sChoice Electric Food Slicer (Discontinued by Manufacturer)

Have had this a couple months now.Used it to cut cheese, raw beef roast into steaks, cooked chicken, turkey, ham for deli.I have also cut a little bit of bread, but really just to clean the juices slightly between ham and cheese (and just to see how it did).I cut a store bought piece of pre-cut italian into about 3 or 4 melba-toast thin slices with east on the bread.Raw Beef - cut a couple small roasts down for simple steaks.Froze one about an hour (which did tidy up the juices a little), and one right out of the fridge.Not a huge difference in cutting really.Slightly tidier for juices on 'frozen' one.Don't know that I'd bother freezing again.Cutting fine on both.110% perfect with zero change in thickness anywhere on all pieces?No. But extremely, extremely acceptable.The roast was large enough that often at the end of the cut there was the slightest bit left connected which I had to sort-of manually tension against the blade to pull the cut piece completely free. This might sound bad but seemed a perfectly awesome acquiescence on my part as opposed to trying to hand-cut steaks out of fleshy, squirming raw roast.Ham - I am not sure everyone realizes, but many (most) city hams are completely pre-cooked and need nothing further. To prepare warm for dinner they really need nothing more than warming to about 100 deg F. typically.Just look on package for "fully cooked".For slicing for deli these need nothing more than to be boned (if needed) and sliced.I did a cheap on-sale, no-name brand butt end and it was very good actually.A lot better than what I buy on sale at the deli.A little pain to debone first but hey - life and all.Did a shank end too. I think I prefer the butt end for ease of processing.Turkey and Chicken breast - cooked and then chilled completely in fridge did surprisingly well to me. I really thought they'd just shred. For the most part they didn't.I found that sliced chicken in this way was very easy to do buying boneless/skinless and near as good to me as a turkey sandwich.I've never used chicken like that but I will be from now on.Cheese - like sharp as I can get. Even in large bulk the local place wanted $5/lb for sharp cheese. I can buy the same brand on regular sale in those much-more-easily managed 8oz bars for 1.5 lbs/$5 so did that instead. Also allowed me to get extra-sharp instead of just 'sharp'.I cut these on the face of the slab and it works quite well. Nice thickness for use on sandwich or cracker or grilled cheese. I cut fairly thin and double as desired in use.All-in-all extremely happy and agree with all others expressed here that it is not a pro unit at all but extremely capable and fairly described as an occasional use home unit.Easy to clean, in a realistic sense.Breaks down far and fast, which is great as others have said.Blade retentions screw - yes, it's plastic. Just be careful and I see no problems. It is reverse thread. Do it lightly by hand to be sure not cross threaded. Then just 'snug' at end with quarter is all that's needed. I imagine it would break if you torqued on it. I cannot imagine why anyone would torque on it though. That is not at all needed. I expect it to have a long life with reasonable care.Happy I got it.For our family will pay for itself within the year as we go through a bit of deli, probably within months actually.Wish I had bought it sooner.Only catch might be that even the better quality ham I used to get from the deli was only happily eaten by about half the house. An actual, even modest quality, ham cut on this thing everyone has loved and it seems to disappear fast. hahahhahahahaah.

I have never used a slicer before, or seen one other than at a Deli, where I never paid attention. So I was surprised at how slow the blade spun (maybe 90 or so RPM).Unit feels pretty solid, the parts all move easily where they should, and the adjustment dial on the back has a nice ratcheted feel to it. Disassembly is about as easy as it could get, rotate the knob to the "remove" position and the guide comes out, the slider has a switch with three positions, locked, normal, and remove, so that comes out with a single slide of the switch. Blade comes out easily with a coin or something similar. So cleanup is just as easy as everyone says.I was using a 6.5lb ham for my first test, and it started out really well at the beginning when the end was narrow. I started out with some pretty thin slices, nothing you could read through but thinner than normal oscar meyer lunchmeat would be cut. Did a few thicker pieces too, just to see how it worked, and had no problems. But as I got closer to the widest part of the ham, I started having issues with pieces not falling "behind" after they were cut and despite running the slider the full distance, i kept having to stop and pull a piece out manually every once in a while.But I have to say, that was my only negative part of the whole experience (thus the one star taken off). Other than that, it worked great. Sounds more like a grinder than a circular saw sound I was expecting, but with the slow revolution, that makes sense.Came with an extra fuse as well in case you blow one.When looking at some of the other more expensive models, I was surprised to find most of them had a maximum cut thickness that was actually less than this one. So it certainly has a wide range of settings.The on/off switch also has a "pulse" setting that has it spinning only when you press the button.Item was well packaged against damage, nice sturdy box with well designed styrofoam inserts.All in all I'm happy with the unit, although my first foray into purchasing meat was a bit of sticker shock, grabbed the small ham i mentioned, fully cooked from the deli, 6.5 lbs, and was in the low $40 range... I thought I'd save some cash over buying packaged pseudo meat, but I guess not. Fortunately, that wasn't the primary reason I purchased it, and I have to say the ham was worth every penny, some of the best I ever had...

This slicer is fantastic. It's not perfect so only 4 stars out of 5.First the good.I did a lot of research and decided it was worth the small extra cost of this slicer. You can run it continuously without worry.A lot of the cheaper ones actually tell you in the manual not to run it more then 10 minutes. Frankly it takes less than 10 minutes anyway to do a big chunk of deli meat with this. The first use though I wanted to do 3 chunks of different deli meat to freeze and this slicer performed the same from start to finish. However you must not push too hard. Just slight pressure and the blade cuts great.When I bake bread I use this to slice it and wow, it cuts bread like it's nothing. Wait for the next day though with bread, when it's too fresh it gets a bit mangled, maybe I just need practice.As for weight it's not that heavy to lift it but it's heavy enough to sit still when using it. The rubber feet probably help too.The manual suggests Vaseline for the behind the blade and sewing machine oil for the tracks on the bottom. I suggest getting some cut resistant gloves for handling the blade. I got the nocry ones.So why only 4 stars? The plastic tray for catching the sliced food seems a bit clumsy. Maybe all slicers are like that though.

This is the one. We had a different one from sears, way more expensive and s***y to clean and at the end it last only 2 years.So this time we took our time and did lots of reviews. We even watched a home-made u-tube movie.Thanks to this guy who provided the movie we could see that thing in action and that actually made our decision. We have it now for 6 month and we still like it. And easy to clean as well. Some guys complain about the noise. Let me tell you, you have no idea about noise until you would have had our old one.So to us, it is as silent as possible for a food slicer in this price category. I definitely would by this one again.

it arrive in 2 days. works great , it does the job. I cut Pstrami meat and cheese work very good and don't press or push the meat hard as it'll cause the cut to get thick . easy to slice with the tray came with it . very good. recommended itI guess the price is high because it feel durable and good made.

Our butcher couldn’t slice our pork loin paper thin like we wanted it for Shabu shabu, so we decided to get a sliver and donor ourselves. This slicer is perfect for that. Easy to use, paper thin slices (if you want), and we are saving tons of cash too as we can buy the big pork loins at Costco and use them for a long time. Great purchase

So it's a slicer, and it slices... rather slowly. The motor isn't beefy at all. The blade.. where to start. It's terrible, because it's not circular at the edge, it's got a ripple pattern, which means you can never sharpen it. If you remove the blade to clean it you'll find the other side covered in lubricant, which MUST be there or the unit won't work, so if you want to properly clean the blade you better own a can of food safe lubricant. The tray that holds the food is quite small, and not well made, and also nearly impossible to properly clean (lots of nooks and crevices on the underside).Would not recommend unless you basically want a toy level slicer for small things and your knife skills aren't up to slicing things properly.