Vidalia slice it review5/18/2023 ![]() I can’t and won’t speculate about what was happening in her heart and mind in the days leading up to her death. I’ve thought a lot over the last few days about what I knew of Sarah-Jane’s life in the time we were together and what I know about my own life. She shared with me that my friend - who I always knew to be upbeat, positive, engaging and entertaining - had been suffering from depression, something that I suspected but didn’t know for certain until now. I learned of her death early Monday morning from one of her distant family members. She was warm, friendly, fun and as southern as a butter bean (a phrase I use with absolute endearment as a fellow southerner.) Sarah-Jane Bedwell was a registered dietitian I came to know over many years of attending meetings, conferences and press trips together. The nutrition communications community of which I consider myself to be a longtime member lost a sweet soul over the weekend. I’d strongly recommend limiting that to fruits and veggies.Turn sweet Vidalia onions into a rich jam with this quick and easy Grilled Cheese with Vidalia Onion Jam recipe. The Vidalia Slice Wizard does a pretty good job of cutting anything that gets in its path. ![]() But should you accidentally nudge the Slice Wizard off the edge of the counter, you might want to suppress the instinct to grab wildly at the contraption to keep it from falling to the floor. Though I’m wary of another gadget in our crowded pantry, the Slice Wizard fits in a bread loaf-sized box, and I think it will get enough use to justify its shelf space.Īs for the thumb: It’s nothing serious. That might make sense for a restaurant or other professional kitchen, but for occasional use in the home, the Vidalia Slice Wizard works well and is worth its modest price. Though for most slicing jobs, I now can’t imagine hauling out that big machine, and that ease of use is a major selling point for the Slice Wizard.Ī French company makes a fancy stainless-steel V-shaped slicer that will set you back a couple hundred bucks. The Slice Wizard will do it - quickly and efficiently - but you’ll have to hold the vegetables in your hand, without the safety benefit of the food holder.įor that task, a Cuisinart is a safer choice. For oversized foods, like potatoes and zucchini, the six-pronged holder felt a little unsteady.Īnd in the infomercial, you won’t see long, thin vegetables, such as carrots and celery, being chopped into traditional small slices. The Slice Wizard is also a bit awkward with odd-sized food. We tried making French-fry sized strips of potato, but found that the Slice Wizard did not always cut completely through the food, requiring us to break apart some of the strips by hand. The thin julienne blade also worked well, although there seemed to be a slight miscalibration with the thicker blade. The product is not dishwasher-safe, and I wouldn’t want to do a whole lot of scrubbing around the sharp blades. But I wouldn’t be inclined to use the Slice Wizard for messier foods, such as soft cheese. In home tests, we found it fast and simple, with a welcome choice of slice thicknesses.Ĭleanup was also quite simple, requiring just a quick rinse under water. Overall, it works, particularly for slicing generally round fruits and vegetables, like apples, oranges, tomatoes, peppers and onions. Two more inserts have ridges of small blades that look like sharks’ teeth, which create large and small julienne strips.Īnd to keep things like my left thumb out of the path of the blade, the set comes with a metal-pronged food holder for safely sliding food up and down the gadget. The Slice Wizard comes with thick, thin and “ultra-thin” V-shaped plastic inserts that alter the size of the gap under the blade the thinner the gap, the thinner the slice.
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