Mandoline

[slinkette]

 So there's a kitchen utensil I would really like even though it is very limited in its purpose. A mandoline. If you don't know, a mandoline slices things really thinly and really evenly. I would use it ALL THE TIME to slice up my cucumbers for salad, since I am a fan of paper thin peeled cucumber slices, and I would probably use it for onions to

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[squinting_kitty]

There's a lot I'd change about that salad, like the tomatoes and the cucumbers, for starters. :P

However! I must say though that I would possibly like thinly sliced cucumbers. I ate some cucumbers awhile back at a German restaurant not realizing what they were, and they were actually okay-tasting. Not my favorite, but bearable. They were very thinly sliced. (Card stock, I'd say.) And there was some sort of dressing/marinade involved.

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[hotfingers]

We have a mandoline (was Reed's) but I haven't used it yet, though I totally should have tried for that cucumber salad I made (Thanks for the recipe! It was awesome!). I really like this other thing I have though and use it all the time:
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/cw369/index.cfm

I use it to chop up peppers for salads -- I'm not a big green pepper fan, but I love some orange or yellow pepper IF it's chopped up nice and small. And then sometimes I'll just chop up everything with it (like the cucumber and carrots) and have a nice little chopped salad type thing. Also good for chopping onions, slicing mushrooms (if I ate them), finely chopping garlic. I exchanged a Williams-Sonoma gift of cookie mix for this.