Got a perfect chance to use my little slicer; the other night we had a 6lb rump roast for dinner and had about half of it left. We were late fixing dinner, it was about 8pm and I got the slicer out and plopped the chunk of roast on it and quickly sliced it up into thin roast beef slices for sandwiches. However, the wife was reconstituting the leftover gravy and added 8-10 slices into it, warmed up the leftover mashed potatoes and a vegetable and we had a great meal with sliced roast beef and gravy over the mashed potatoes with corn and some crusty bread.
First time I'd ever had the chance to use the slicer on roast beef and I was amazed at how it easily sliced it into nice, even slices! I had to flip it once to cut off some trailings, but that's normal on any slicer. For an entry level slicer, it does a great job! And I've used commercial slicers; Hobart, Globe, Universal, Berkley, etc. all my life as a meatcutter, weighing hundreds of pounds apiece. This little 15lb slicer can hold its own and get the job done!
That's what's left of the roast beef; you can see the trailings on a slice when I flipped over the piece, that's not bad at all, I've seen commercial slicers leave a lot worse!
The slicer is known as "Nesco Professional 150 Slicer", and is around $100, more or less depending on where you shop. (I've seen it at $79 to $119). For an entry level 7½" blade slicer it does a great job for occasional use! Daily hard use you'd need the ruggedness of a commercial slicer, but for home use, I'd definitely recommend this one! It sounds like a jet engine warming up to speed, lol, but does the job!
There's definitely better slicers, but for a good little one this works well!
First time I'd ever had the chance to use the slicer on roast beef and I was amazed at how it easily sliced it into nice, even slices! I had to flip it once to cut off some trailings, but that's normal on any slicer. For an entry level slicer, it does a great job! And I've used commercial slicers; Hobart, Globe, Universal, Berkley, etc. all my life as a meatcutter, weighing hundreds of pounds apiece. This little 15lb slicer can hold its own and get the job done!
That's what's left of the roast beef; you can see the trailings on a slice when I flipped over the piece, that's not bad at all, I've seen commercial slicers leave a lot worse!
The slicer is known as "Nesco Professional 150 Slicer", and is around $100, more or less depending on where you shop. (I've seen it at $79 to $119). For an entry level 7½" blade slicer it does a great job for occasional use! Daily hard use you'd need the ruggedness of a commercial slicer, but for home use, I'd definitely recommend this one! It sounds like a jet engine warming up to speed, lol, but does the job!
There's definitely better slicers, but for a good little one this works well!
