"The General" Deli Slicer

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frigilux

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This big boy doesn't get daily use in my kitchen, but I'm sure glad to have it whenever it's time to make meat/cheese platters for parties, and to produce hundreds of thin slices of hearty appetizer breads. When my days as a licensed caterer were over I nearly sold it, but a little voice told me to hang on to it. Good call, little voice!

I'm co-hosting the "4th Annual Christmas Bash" today with a friend. I take care of the food; she provides the venue; we split the cost. The event has grown steadily since we gathered together a dozen friends in 2009. We're expecting at least 50, today.

This is also one of those times having 150 wine glasses comes in handy, LOL!

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Yours seems to me much more of a pro machine than the one we have.

We have a Krups collapsible slicer. We use it when we cook a beef roast to slice up the remainder so we can have roast beef sandwiches. We have also used it to cut up cheese and even tomatoes. We've had ours for at least 16-18 years or so and believe it or not it's still a current model.

I am kind of paranoid when I use it. The blade is very, very sharp. And it cuts surprisingly well for what it is. I guess the reason I am paranoid is that when I was in high school a woman at the local deli hit the blade on the huge Hobart slicer they had right in the middle of her thumb. Not only did she scream, but there was blood everywhere. But so far since we treat this machine with great respect we haven't had any accidents.

Another nice thing about it is that all pieces except for the motor unit and blade can go in the dishwasher for cleanup. Nice.

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I have a very similar consumer slicer like Allen's. I think it's an Oster or something like that - basically a generic design by now, I think.

It does quite well with small quantities and sizes. I've also used it to slice roasted meats for later sandwiches. Not so much for cheese. Tomatoes sound like a good idea, since the Cuisinart tends to spin too fast to give a ripe tomato a fighting chance of not being turned into juice instead of slices.

I'd use the slicer more often but find the clean up to be a bit of a pain.

The local Costco business center usually has a commercial style slicer, similar to The General pictured in the OP. The price - something like $350 - has put me off for now, plus I just don't think I'd use it enough to warrant its purchase. And probably the last thing I need is another kitchen gadget of large size.
 
I'm also reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer acquires a big slicer like the General and Elaine borrows it to slice meat to slide under the door of a out of town neighbor so the cat inside won't starve because she and Kramer shorted out the power to the neighbor's apartment to shut off a radio but that also shut off the automatic cat feeding device.

Then Elaine has some sort of problem with her shoes and uses the slicer to slice off some of the shoe sole. The shoe gets stuck and bends the blade, and of course Kramer does a double take when she gives the appliance back to him.

And so ends Kramer's career as a deli man.
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Perhaps, until the blade hit a nail, lol.

BTW, the brand of the small home slicer I have is Toastmaster. It's not collapsible like the Krups, but looks to be about the same blade size.

I've recently gotten back into baking bread (machine) and will have to try using the slicer for making more uniform sandwich bread (and also for the roast meats to go inside!).
 

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