Meat Slicer

[wallie]

I would like advice on Electric meat slicers for home use.
this would mainly for slicing home cured bacon etc.
Thanks
wallie

[clivmar]

I bought mine from Argos and is OK for home use. It�s easy to clean as well.

Clive

[dougal]

Hi wallie and welcome to the forum.

Bacon is relatively awkward to slice. (As you may have discovered, even by hand.)

Chilling it to almost frozen stiffens it, making slicing a good bit easier.

If you use the forum's Search facility, you'll see that the topic crops up quite frequently. I think most folk get a 'plastic' slicer first (I'm happy with my Lidl one), and some folk then get serious, (or lucky), and get a pro-type thing like a Berkel (good word to search for!)

[vinner]

I went to a used restaurant supply house, paid $300 US for a good used Hobart with a 12" blade, and paid my supply house (Allied Kanco in Houston) $50 to refurbish and sharpen blade. This unit new would run $2,500 USD. Works quite well on prosciutto, bresaola, bacon, brisket. I'll never have to buy another.

I did have to buy a dolly to wheel it around, though.