How well does it slice potatoes for french fries?
1458547
Fairly well it works really well for making potato chips as well as french fries.
1458548
If you wanted to make chips this will do a great job. As for fries, these slicers do not have the blades as I have seen on other slicers to cut them into strips. I guess you could cut them into big chips and then cut them again into strips.
1540219
Depends on how thin you want the potato sliced. I find that about half an inch is left over. The guard has tines that you push forward as your vegetable gets smaller so there is not much waste.
301701
You can find descriptions of what each blade does on the Amazon page for the product. I my opinion, though, one would need to be processing a lot do food to make them worth the money. I only use them when we are having big family parties. The French fry cutter makes the potato pieces a nice size until they are cooked, then they shrink and are more like match sticks. The slicer is nice for even slices of things. Read the reviews, they have a lot of info in them. I am glad I bought them, but don't use them often.
261155
The cutting blades are about 3 1\4 inches square, so you can cut a pretty big potato with this unit. Overall it is a very nice heavy duty unit with four blade sizes. Keep in mind these type of slicers work great for potatoes or carrots but not really made to cut sweet potatoes. So I would say nearly all potatoes would fit this cutter just fine. If you had some really gigantic size potatoes you could cut them in half and run them through the slicer.
568864
The 2mm will slice them twice as thin as the 4mm (the one that comes w/Cuisinart) but I thought I read somewhere that it wasn't quite thin enough and the person was disappointed for making chips. It would definitely work though, just that the potato chips would be a little thicker, depends on your personal preference. The 2mm is wonderful for scalloped potatoes.
1907939
No, French Fries only. You can get a slicer attachment for your Kitchen Aid if you have one. Mine does a great job!
1997008
Hi. The blade is thin but certainly not as sharp as a knife. I think it would be good for things such as carrots, avocados, and asparagus. It would not be good for things like potatoes. I hope that helps.
341128
Not sure about potatoes but we regularly use it to shred carrots for salads and such and it works great for that.
577481
I just cut potatoes for fries...I use one attachment for cube potatoes for hash, burritos, etc....i like all the three you mentioned above cubed....if you want to cut fries you need another attachment and I do not think it is available with this unit.
1116403
This item is probably not the best for cutting french fries. This machine is most suited for dicing vegetables into small cubes (there are three different sizes of cube cuts available via the interchangeable blades), so it would be good for making hash browns if you didn't have a preference for the shoe string style hash browns. However, you would still have to cut the potato into smaller chunks at first though. This machine is made of plastic, so trying to dice a large potato all at once may result in the lever mechanism breaking. I have found that this machine is best at dicing vegetables with a certain consistency as well (not too gooey, otherwise chunks will not dice properly and/or will get stuck in the blades). Ideally, it would be used to dice onions, and this is primarily what I use it for.
916292
No. It's a straight fry cutter only. There are two sizes of blades included for thick and thin fries. I wouldn't recommend buying this to cut potatoes as it isn't strong enough.
898685
I believe at the answer would be no. I takes strength to cut the potato. We use it to cut jalapenos, onions and other smaller vegetables. Works fine for the smaller vegetables.
1845295
I assume you mean waffle fries, no, this is a French fry cutter, you need a mandolin for that
1878174
They can be sliced, however, "easy" is a term that depends on one's point of view. I will say this; the potatoes are fairly firm, so you will need a reasonably sharp knife to slice them.
104013
There are 2 different blades you can use. Both are 2 1/2" X 2 1/2". That is the largest potato you can French. One cuts 5x5= 25 fries and the other cuts 6x6=36 fries out of 1 potato.
1668828
No- though it could do something like a wavy potato chip, and you could adjust the thickness to be cloSer to a fry- however, the straight blade is really the best blade and other cuts can be messy/disappointing
936890
The cutter comes with two different cutting plates. regular plate cuts 25 fries and the small plate cuts 49. You may also be interested in that the size of potato that can be put into the cutter has to be under 4" x 2". Also getting the number of fries stated above will only be possible if you use a potato cut to fit the entire plate.