The Super Benriner Mandoline Slicer meets
the OXO Good Grips Handheld Mandoline Slicer
ATK's best overall mandoline and Wirecutter's top pick, with a razor-sharp Japanese blade and a 95 mm runway. We tested it head-to-head against the OXO Good Grips Handheld Mandoline Slicer across 6 key dimensions.
Super Benriner Mandoline Slicer
“ATK's best overall mandoline and Wirecutter's top pick, with a razor-sharp Japanese blade and a 95 mm runway”
OXO Good Grips Handheld Mandoline Slicer
“The budget pick at Food Network, Taste of Home, The Spruce Eats and Food & Wine, and it stores in a utensil drawer”
Head-to-Head Breakdown
Strengths & Weaknesses
Super Benriner Mandoline Slicer
- America's Test Kitchen found it had the sharpest blade of the nine mandolines it tested, slicing and julienning tough produce with ease
- Wirecutter's top pick, with a double-bevel blade that handled soft tomatoes, tough lemons, tiny radishes and hard sweet potatoes
- The 95 mm runway fits produce the narrow original can't, and a stepless dial runs from 0.5 to 8 mm
- ATK called the hand guard pretty much useless, so budget for a cut-resistant glove
- The thickness dial has no markings, which Wirecutter says means you can't set an exact measurement
- Serious Eats found it duller than the standard Benriner, and Reviewed saw it mangle a ripe tomato at the thinnest setting
OXO Good Grips Handheld Mandoline Slicer
- Food Network, Taste of Home, The Spruce Eats and Food & Wine all named it their budget or value pick
- Taste of Home's test kitchen found it did extremely well on carrots, cucumbers and sweet potatoes, and The Spruce Eats sliced a full cucumber in about 30 seconds
- Fully dishwasher safe and 11.5 inches long, so it goes in the dishwasher and then a drawer
- Food Network, Taste of Home and Wirecutter all saw it struggle with tomatoes or lemons
- Three fixed settings top out at 4 mm, and there is no julienne or crinkle blade
- Wirecutter found the blade dull and the platform prone to tilting, and Serious Eats picked the Joseph Joseph handheld over it
The Verdict
Our Bottom Line
America's Test Kitchen ran nine mandolines through a fixed list of produce. Tomatoes went through at the thinnest setting, beets and fennel at 1/16 inch, potatoes at 1/8 inch and eggplant at 1/4 inch, and then carrots, daikon and celeriac were julienned. The Super Benriner had the sharpest blade in the group and took Best Overall. Miye Bromberg wrote that its razor-sharp blades can handle even the toughest produce.
Super Benriner Mandoline Slicer
America's Test Kitchen ran nine mandolines through a fixed list of produce. Tomatoes went through at the thinnest setting, beets and fennel at 1/16 inch, potatoes at 1/8 inch and eggplant at 1/4 inch, and then carrots, daikon and celeriac were julienned. The Super Benriner had the sharpest blade in the group and took Best Overall. Miye Bromberg wrote that its razor-sharp blades can handle even the toughest produce.
- Cooks who slice paper-thin potatoes, fennel or radishes every week
- Anyone who wants julienne from the same tool
- Home cooks willing to wear a cut-resistant glove
- Kitchens that need a wider runway than the original Benriner's 2.5 inches
- Buyers who want the pick ATK and Wirecutter agree on
OXO Good Grips Handheld Mandoline Slicer
Four outlets tested the OXO Good Grips Handheld and named it their budget or value pick: Food Network, Taste of Home, The Spruce Eats and Food & Wine. Food & Wine's Jennifer Zyman called it a very simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-use mandoline. Taste of Home judged durability through ongoing daily use in its test kitchen and found it did extremely well on carrots, cucumbers and sweet potatoes.
- Occasional slicers making cucumber salads, potato chips or slaw
- Small kitchens where a mandoline has to fit in a drawer
- Anyone who wants every part to go in the dishwasher
- First-time buyers trying a mandoline for about $20
- Cooks who mostly slice firm vegetables rather than tomatoes and citrus