Weston 83-0750-W 7.5 Inch Food Slicer

This is a replacement for an old Rival slicer owned for many years that finaly stripped a drive gear. If I could have gotten a new one of those, I would have, but it is no longer made.

I only need a slicer occasionally, but when I do, it is to slice something difficult, like heavy, dense Virginia country ham. I just got this slicer and put it to the test right away, slicing up about 10 lb of that ham.

The first thing I noticed was that the blade speed seemed a little slow, although the blade is larger in diameter than my old slicer. The other thing you notice right away is that it is NOISY! This thing sounds more like the big saw in a sawmill than a meat slicer.

Now, how does it slice? It slices just fine! It powered through this very dense ham with little effort and I was through all 10 lb in no time. At one point I hit a small knuckle bone I had missed in the deboning, and apart from laboring a bit, it cut through that as well, and that is with a non-serrated blade!

The frame and backplate are made of lightweight metal and the adjustable back support flexes easily when you apply too much pressure. That can make the slice thickness less than uniform, although it will slice very thin slices if you are patient and don't push too hard. The motor is rated at 200 watts, which is much more powerful that of most other home slicers. Cleanup is relatively easy, although the motor is internal and the unit cannot be submerged in water. Wipe it down with a wet cloth and dish-washing liquid, follow with a wipe using a plain wet cloth and then dry it. The way it is made, nothing ever gets into the area behind the blade, so there is no need to remove it during cleanup.

If the backplate was more rigid and it was less noisy, I would give it 5 stars. Those little niggles made me drop off one star, but this is a very good meat slicer and really excellent for less than $80 including shipping. For comparison, used versions of my old (25-year-old) Rival slicer now go for over $200.

This is my first slicer so I don't have a lot to compare it to, but it does exactly what I wanted, it slices meats and is easy to clean.

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The slicer does a good job. A better design, like a detachable motor, would have made the clean-up easier but being stainless steel helps a great deal. The back gives if you push against it so unless you are careful with that the slices vary in thickness. Overall it is a very good slicer for the money. I am glad I bought it.

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I knew I wasn't buying a Caddilac, but I thought it would have been a little better quality than it is. The sliding tray cannot be removed for cleaning unless you take two screws out of the rail and remove it. The area behind the cutting blade is not well shielded from small scraps of meat, which makes clean up a bummer. It turns at a very slow RPM, so it takes a great deal of care and effort to get a good cut on each pass. All in all, it's not a bad appliance for the price, but I wish now that I had spent a little more. I purchased this to cut my own sandwich meat from baked turkey breast and roast beef. It gets the job done, but takes longer than I'd like.

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Great quality slicer. We smoke all of our own lunch meat and this was perfect for what we needed to slice thin meat. Would recommend!

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