EdgeCraft 610 Chef's Choice Premium Electric Food Slicer
by Edgecraft
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of EdgeCraft 610 Chef's Choice Premium Electric Food Slicer
Customer Review: Super great satisfaction, best slicer I ever bought!
Summary: 5 Stars
This slicer is great. The thickness dial is accurate, and the food tray slides smoothly, and even locks when not in use to keep little fingers from getting cut. Slicing with this slicer can be easily done by one person (the one I had before, I needed my wife to hold the on switch and the slicer, while I sliced, and the unit kept pushing away) This slicer cuts accurately, and smoothly. For the price, you get professional quality. I once had a small Mom & Pop grocery in Opal (Mena, Polk County) Arkansas with a commercial slicer that never worked as good as this one. The only thing that I want to mention, that wasn't a product problem, was that the blade it comes with is listed as being an all purpose blade, and on the same page is shown a serrated blade for it, which I purchased and when I received it, it was the exact same blade that came with the slicer. Also, there is a smooth blade available, but not on Amazon.com. It's worth getting and the supplier for it has no tax and free shipping and it's reasonably priced (google, Chefs Choice Model 610 Slicer Smooth Blade to find it.)
Personally I feel that if someone finds fault with this slicer, it may not be the slicers fault but the users perception, or they are slicing while not watching what they're doing. See I Peter 2:21-24
Customer Review: Excellent slicer for the money
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this slicer based on the 230+ positive reviews (4 or above). I also read some of the negative reviews and wanted to see if they were valid.
Well, the good news is that this slicer performs as well as all of the positive reviewers said it would. I can set the dial on 1 and it cuts meat (turkey, chicken, beef, ham, etc.) into paper-thin slices. My previous slicer (which quit after 6 years of daily use) could not slice meat thin without tearing it and causing it to crumble.
I was also able to cut cheddar cheese into paper thin slices without any problem. My preteen children love to eat the extra thin slices and now prefer them as snacks instead of junk food.
One of the best features of this slicer is the rocker switch that allows you to turn the motor on and keep it running. Or, by pressing it in the opposite direction, it allows you to "pulse" the blade as long as you hold the switch down. My previous slicer had an interlock system that required me to hold down two switches to start the motor.
The negative reviews insinuated that it was impossible to get thin slices from this machine and I found that these complaints were not valid. I agree with 91% of the reviewers who rated this product 4 or 5 and deem it to be a BEST BUY.
Customer Review: Better than expected
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very pleased with this product for the following reasons:
1. Sturdy construction: when slicing, none of the frame bends or deflects so I get a uniform thickness on all of the cuts, from thick to very thin.
2. Although there is an optional meat slicing blade, I have had no problems slicing ham on the #3 setting - very thin, but not paper thin.
3. Easy clean-up: It is easy to take apart for cleaning and easy to put back together. It is almost fool proof. The blade retaining device appears flimsy, but so far it has not been a problem.
4. The cord storage is really nice since you only need to retract the amount you need to reach the outlet. This keeps a long cord from being in the way. Also, the cord comes out of the back of the unit - completely out of the way.
5. It is fairly quite and the power switch is easy to reach and operate.
6. The slices fall onto an open area that is large enough for you to use a dinner plate and not the tray that comes with the unit.
7. I have only used one food slicer which was many years ago, so it is difficult to compare this unit to that unit, but I do consider the Chef's Choice 610 to be an excellent value for the price.
Customer Review: Pleased with food slicer
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought an Excalibur 3926T dehydrator a month ago and needed a food slicer to keep size of the food we were dehydrating uniform. This food slicer met our expectations on ease of use and cleaning. It's well built and should give us many years of constant use.
This is not a complicated piece of machinery that takes an advanced degree to use. Most of the unit is pretty intuitive. Select the size of the slice and slice. You still need to read all the instructions just to make sure you understand all the features.
Cleaning is easy. It takes a quarter to unscrew the blade from the unit instead of having to scrounge around for a tool. We wipe the parts that can't be immersed in water and wash the rest. We hand wash the blade since there is a grease line on the back of the blade we didn't want to wash off.
We move the food slicer to the table when we have a lot of food to slice for the dehydrator. I thought it would be bulky to move around the kitchen and was pleased to find just the opposite. It's easy to pick up and move.
Overall, we're pleased with this unit. It arrived earlier than expected and that was an added bonus.
Customer Review: A really nice unit
Summary: 5 Stars
I slice a roast beef every week or so for sandwiches, plus 4 or 5 loaves of homemade bread. This is a very nice unit for the price. Seems very well put together, and much more solid than I expected, even though lightweight enough to move around easily.
Other reviewers mentioned they didn't like the plastic screw that holds in the blade - - I see no problem at all, so long as you're reasonably careful assembling/disassembling the unit for cleaning (i.e., don't overtighten it).
As another reviewer mentioned, cleanup is a pain (for example, after a roast beef), but not bad as a home slicer goes. I don't really need to clean it up after bread, I just brush off the crumbs.
I also like the fact that the tray locks into position in front of the blade when not in use - a very nice safety feature if you leave the unit sitting out.
This is probably not a unit for a deli or any sort of production kitchen. But for a user like me, I would definitely recommend it.
The purchase was trouble-free, and the unit arrived on time.