Lifestyle Dynamics Mandoline Product Review

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I opened this mandoline and immediately noticed that it comes with five interchangeable blades. It also came with a cool rack to store the blades and keep them together. These blades come in quite handy for any Paleo practitioner who cooks. Generally speaking, a mandoline is a paleo kitchen essential, as it makes slicing & dicing fresh fruit & vegetables fast and efficient.

So once my Lifestyle Dynamics mandoline arived in the mail, I decided to create some zucchini chips to test out my new gadget. The different blades allowed me to slice my zucchini from thick all the way to paper-thin. I was happy that is took me less than 5 minutes to slice 7 zucchini. Talk about a time saver.

I was off to a good start with this mandoline. By the way here is the recipe that I used for my delicious zucchini chips:

Photo Credit: Ina Todoran

Ingredients:

2 medium zucchinis
Sea salt to taste
4 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 250 degrees
Slice zucchinis
Place in a bowl and toss with olive oil and set aside
Brush your baking pan or parchment paper with olive oil
Arrange a single layer of your sliced zucchini on the baking pan or parchment paper
Use the sea salt, pepper and paprika to season the chips
Place in the oven for 45 minutes
Turn off the oven and leave chips inside the cooling oven until crispy and crunchy (approximately 1 hour)

The mandoline can take the place of any cutting knife. Be sure, however, that you attach the top holder and use it each time you slice. If you do not, you will run the risk of slicing your fingers with the quick motion of the side-to-side movement of the food that you are trying to cut.

So how does it work??

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This mandoline also worked great cutting a bunch of other vegetables. I tried sweet potatoes, cucumbers, carrots & celery.

The Lifestyle Dynamics mandoline has a fairly small storage footprint. It will take an approximate one and a half feet of space in your counter top. I would suggest that you keep it stored away from children because it is, actually, a fun product to use, but may cause cuts. It naturally contains blades that are not easy to spot by a youngster. All is quite compacted, therefore, if a child gets a hold of the mandoline and decides to play with it, a disaster may ensue. Just be sure to store it properly and away from curious little fingers.

Another good point is that the mandoline comes with a blade warranty if they ever become dull. I do not see it happening easily as this is a product that you may use exclusively to cut large vegetables, or large amounts of them.

It was pretty easy to clean-up, which made the entire veggie slicing process super fast. It only took a few minutes to slice up any particular vegetable and a couple of additional minutes to cleanup.