Mandolines

[naomikritzer]

Can you slice cooked meat with a mandoline, or just veggies? Ed and I are satisfied with our ability to cut thin slices of vegetables using a knife, but have occasionally wished for our own personal deli slicer when trying to cut paper-thin slices of pork roast for later use as twice-cooked pork.

Does anyone local have a mandoline we could borrow and try out?

Comments

[joxn.livejournal.com]

I use an electric carving knife when I want meat or bread sliced really thin. Not as good as the deli slicer, because you still have to control the width yourself, but better than a regular knife because you don't have to use your big muscles to generate power, which means you can use your small muscles for delicate control over where the knife is going.

My prediction is that a mandoline would not be very good for meat, because you really need side-to-side motion to get through the meat fibers, and the mandolines I've seen aren't very efficient at that.