Professional Series Pro Series Meat Slicer, 7.5, Stainless Steel Import To Shop ×Product customization General Description

Amazingly Fast Shipping (“The Nerds”)I bought this slicer on a Wednesday morning. It was delivered Friday by 11:30am. Granted, it ships from Florida, and it only had to go to Georgia, but that is impressive regardless for standard shipping. My estimated delivery was late next week at the earliest. I actually got the package before amazon updated the status of my order to shipped. Anyway, I have not used the slicer yet. I have kept low expectations as per the recommendations of the other 83 before me who have reviewed this slicer.The slicer looks very much like the picture but is a little different. If you want to know what the slicer looks like, home depot currently carries this slicer for $80 and is model number PS77711. You can also search for “professional series slicer”. The main differences from the picture that I can see is that the blade is not serrated, and the suction cups are clear instead of black. Also, the frame of the slicer isn’t rounded off to be flush with the blade at the top right side as shown in the picture on amazon. Mine extends a little beyond the blade and is black in color, so it appears that there is a little black triangular piece outside the blade at the top right. This doesn’t impact the performance of the device, I’m just pointing out that the device in the picture on amazon is slightly different.All in all, I’m excited to give it a try tonight. I’ll try to post an update this weekend.UPDATE: Ok, I cooked a sirloin tip roast and couldn’t wait till the morning to cut it. My plan was to chill the meat like everyone said, but I was too excited. The meat was firm enough though to get decent cuts. Alright, here’s my review. The rotational speed of the blade is fine, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. The blade is super sharp and I think people think they can just zip right through it like they see the people at the deli do. This is not the same machine. my cuts took about 1 second per pass. “onethousand one” is not a slow cut. Next, my backstop that the meat rests against when you slide the meat into the blade was not 100% aligned with the blade. It did not take much to bend it back slightly, leaving a little bit of lean to compensate for the pressure used when pushing the meat towards the blade. I read on one review that it only takes a couple slices to learn the little tricks to slicing consistently with this slicer. They were somewhat correct. I was not able to make consistent cuts every pass with this slicer and the warm meat I was using on my first try. When I say “consistent”, I mean exactly the same. Sometimes my cuts were 1/16″ and sometimes they were 1/8″ depending on the pressure I used when pressing the meat through the blade. After a while the meat shifts with the spin of the blade, and you will notice that some cuts will be appropriately thick at the start, but shave down to nothing on the trailing end. This triangular type cut I’ve noticed happens even at the deli though, and I believe is hard to avoid with any slicer. I’ve seen them on every meat slicer review on youtube that attempts to make very thin cuts, which is all that I was interested in doing with my meat slicer. I can do everything else with a knife but make these 1/16″ cuts.All in all, I’m very satisfied. I’m not doing cart-wheels, but I bought this slicer to do a job, and it did it. I didn’t want to pay $100+ for the small convenience of cutting meat thin, and I’m happy that I took a chance on affordable model. Do I believe that my experience would have been better with a more expensive model, yes. Would it have been worth the extra $40+?…no. This slicer is a bargain for it’s price. If money is a significant factor in your purchasing of a slicer, I would highly recommend this model. It’s my humble opinion that your experience won’t be better enough to justify the additional cost, unless you are willing to spend $500+ on a professional type model that is close to the slicers they have in grocery stores. This slicer does have it’s flaws, but they are minor, and I argue that they would most likely be present in the other models meant for home use. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. Cleanup, wasn’t that hard. Yes, turn the circle screw clockwise to unscrew it, and everything comes off fine. There was some little pieces of meat and blood that got behind the blade. Nothing I couldn’t get with a rag. Cleaning this device isn’t just a simple wipe down and you’re done. You do have to take some car to get in the little corners, but maximum time I would estimate at 3-4 minutes to have it clean. Anyway. I don’t regret purchasing this machine. I don’t believe you will either.

Cuts goodTouch goods but I wish a king or the normal blade

LOVE IT!I did a lot of research and review reading before I decided to order this slicer.Until now I have been using a long, sharp knife and a cutting board with depth rails to cut my jerky. I could never get it even, not to mention that my arms and arthritic hands got tired slicing through the frozen middle while trying to keep the thawed sides from compacting and being cut thicker.It is NOT a commercial slicer as to speed, but it is perfect for me. I am not needing to slice 5 pounds of meat in two minutes. I actually get a “zen” type of pleasure watching the slices come off this machine. A slow and steady pressure-no need to push the meat into the blade. Let the blade do what it was designed to do without manhandling the food being sliced. I was hoping to get the non-serrated blade, but it came with a serrated blade. It worked just fine.I have done veggies, zucchini for chips, Swiss cheese from the fridge (not freezer) and 5 lbs of top round roast (raw) for jerky. The roast was semi frozen and sliced beautifully. My first few slices were too thin! I could have made carpaccio. I am marinating the lovely even, just right, slices now. I anticipate that they will dry very nicely since there are no thick and thin pieces or pieces with both thick and thin parts.Once the meat was marinating the break-down and cleaning of the slicer went quickly, easily, and I feel confident that it is clean.Of course, if it stops working after a few work-outs, as one or two reviewers reported, I will add to my review.With possibilities of contamination in stores, either unclean equipment or poor employee hygiene, I prefer to get my meat and cheese in uncut chunks and do the cutting myself. I have worked in commercial kitchens here in CA and understand and follow good sanitation practices in my home.9/24/14 I still love this slicer. My grandson stayed with me and he loves jerky big time. I made some ground beef jerky, froze it in small loaf shape, let partially thaw and then used the slicer. Cuts as beautiful and uniform as the roast. I also just did a block of Kerrygold cheese without issues. Don’t be impatient and try going as fast as at the deli. Slow and easy is still a LOT faster and way more uniform than by hand with a sharp knife.Apples, pears, zucchini, salami. Just about anything I slice for drying or freezing that is firm enough has been done so far.It has only a minimal number of nooks and crsnnies to clean. I am scupulous about kitchen cleanliness and this takes no more than a couple of minutes to clean. Much less time than my juicer!

Let the meat slicing begin!!!!!!!Just got the Continental Professional Series Deli Slicer (model PS77711) delivered (YEA for Prime!). Anticipating the delivery, I already had a slab of meat (about a 5lb oblong in shape roast) trimmed (absolutely no bones) in the fridge ready to cut to make jerky. Excited, I quickly began to tear open the box and was super easy to set up. Did a quick wipe down, reviewed the equipment to make sure everything was set up correctly, adjusted the blade several ways (very easy) to gage the thickness I was wanting and then… ahhhhhhhhhh….. let the cutting begin. I went fairly slow based on other reviews and if you have have watched someone slice meat a smooth semi slow motion worked great. It also is much easier when the meat was very cold (not frozen), keep in mind I was slicing the meat for jerky, so a ham or such already cold would work great. I could see where cheese or certain types of cheese would not work as well. The blade is 7 1/4″ in diameter, so obviously you can’t slice (smoothly) anything higher than the height of the blade. It cut the meat smoothly and even. Once I was done, I went ahead and took the blade off just to see for myself how easy or not it would be. VERY easy to remove the blade but could see the constant unscrewing and screwing back on the screws becoming striped (but easily replaceable) just take your time and don’t over tighten. Lightly soaped it down with warm water (unplugged of course), wiped dry,so clean up was real easy. I could see where you didn’t have to take it apart to clean it up everytime (to each his own). Don’t get hung up on the “professional” series description, I wouldn’t go to that level in my opinion, but for the price and what I would use it for was a heck of a deal and would recommend it. Hope this helps. Enjoy and happy slicing.

I wonder if I got the same slicer everyone is bashingThis is a darned good slicer for the $60 I paid for it.Yeah, the motor is a little loud and it doesn’t sound like it’s running right but I’ve sliced up 4 pounds of meat for making jerky, a pound of hog jowl bacon, and a few heads of cabbage. I had no troubles with slicing any of that.As others have mentioned, the key is to go slow. Not crazy slow, like a second and a half per slice. And if you’re slicing meat do what the pros do – throw the meat in the freezer for a few hours to firm it up. Not frozen solid, just partially frozen.It’s wickedly easy to clean and I’m not sure what other reviewers mean by “meat gets all up inside the slicer.” There’s nowhere to get up into. Sure, some gets behind the blade but that’s it. Speaking of the blade, I’m at a loss for why folks are removing screws to remove the blade. The center of it has a thing you turn with your fingers and the blade pops right off for easy cleaning.I haven’t tried to make any paper thin slices of anything so I don’t know how well it does that but if you want to slice things about 1/8 of an inch or thicker this will do it. The only thing I don’t like about the slicer is that you can’t slice long things – for instance, when slicing meat for jerky I would have preferred cutting the meat on the long side but this slicer just isn’t big enough for that. I can’;t really knock the slicer for that because hey, it’s a small slicer.I’m very satisfied with it.