Vegetable slicer Borner (Germany): types, prices

It is difficult to imagine a modern kitchen without a set of graters, although it seems that if you have a knife and a food processor, then everything else is a loss of money and clutter of drawers. Vegetable slicer Borner (Germany) made a revolution in the conservative world of kitchen utensils, becoming one of the most popular cutting devices for food in Europe and in Russia.

Features

Manual cutting is not only quick and convenient, but also economical in terms of not only energy costs, but also time for cleaning and cleaning. The result fully justifies the time and money spent - neat cubes and pieces can not be compared with the result of the work of circular knives in the mixer and blunt graters of the Soviet model and Chinese craftsmen.

Vegetable slicer Borner (Germany) includes branded, patented knives manufactured at the Borner GmbH factory, produced with consistently high quality for more than 55 years. Despite the apparent simplicity of vegetable cutters, the company continues to delight customers with more and more modern solutions that make cooking a pleasure.

Design

Vegetable slicer is represented by a standard set, which includes the most frequently used combination of knives.

• The canvas of the board has a rectangular shape. Color depends on the model and does not affect the quality of the material, there are models of orange, steel, raspberry, black.
• V-shaped knife for installing nozzles.
• Nozzles on the central knife, 3 pcs.
• Protective holder.

Standard nozzles and their purpose:

• An ordinary V-knife, cutting is similar to working with an ordinary knife. The product should move along the blade up / down. The result of cutting cabbage is a long straw, zucchini, onions and similar products in shape - rings.
• Nozzle with knives 3.5 mm. The result is straw, the size depends on the processing side of the product. The length of the resulting cubes depends on the side of application of the product to the working surface of the knife.
• 7 mm nozzle, cutting into large cubes, ideal for frying potatoes and shredding cabbage for salad.

Vegetable slicer Borner (Germany) has an additional container for storage and drying; a nozzle having two rows of knives with a distance of 1.6 mm is used to cut vegetables into a Korean salad; nozzle for a very large shredder with 10 mm distance.

Vegetable cutter-grater, types and features

Table setting is a separate art. Each time inviting guests, I want to surprise them with something. The acquisition of additional graters will help diversify the cutting, giving it a special decorative look.

The most popular types of vegetable cutters:

• Roco, Korean carrot, also for chopping cabbage and onions.
• "Salad" option: corrugated shavings for preservation and "curly", as the knives are cut in two directions, the hard cabbage leaf is dissolved into thinner layers.
• Spiral-waffle: radishes and cucumbers will acquire a waffle-like wavy structure, potatoes can be turned into a spiral, and lemon, onions - into corrugated rings.
• Baby grater: for fine grinding, eliminating additional chewing. Ideal for cooking for children and the elderly.
• Pizza Greater: for cooked vegetables and cheese, very convenient for slicing traditional puff salads such as a fur coat. Noodle shavings.
• Combisleiser, oblique straight knife, ideal for shredding cabbage. Sharpening is bilateral. Adjusting the thickness of the slices with screws. The reverse side for working with onions. Use only with protective holder.
• “Combichipser”: for cutting potatoes for frying. Large blades + additional small, for straws 3.5 mm.

Tray - an auxiliary element to the graters, sold separately.

Borner range of kits

Vegetable slicer Borner (Germany) for sale is represented by six sets: "Classic" - a standard set, produced from the day the company was founded, "Optima"; “Design” (white and black plastic bases), “Exclusive”, Vip have not been produced since 2010; Prima in the domestic market since 2010, Profi.

Materials for the manufacture of the housing are shockproof:

• Polystyrene is used for "Classics".
• For newer models, starting with Optima, an ABS alloy (a combination of butadiene, acrylonitrile, styrene copolymer) was used.
• “Profi” is distinguished by a combination of high-quality ABS plastic with expensive and high-quality alloy steel.
• Trays and supports are made using polyethylene.

The knife part of the "Classics" and "Prima" is the same, the difference in configuration and ease of use.

Vegetable slicer Borner Classic: features, equipment

Options: standard V-frame for inserts, knifeless part of the insert, nozzles with knives 3.5 and 7 mm, holder for the product.

Slicing with an insert of 3.5 mm has its own characteristics. For example, if you need to process onions, it is advisable to cut the root crop first with a knife into perpendicular strips, which after shredding turn into neat cubes.

The inserts do not have a hard mount in the frame, which can lead to unwanted cuts for novice owners. There is also no handle on the case. When fastening knives, rivets are used that require careful handling when cleaning the device. The fruit holder is not particularly convenient and versatile.

Vegetable slicer Borner Prima: features, equipment

A more advanced model compared to the Classic. The Prima vegetable cutter manufactured by Borner includes: a frame with a V-knife connected to a knifeless insert, inserts with knives 3.5 and 7 mm, a fruit holder, a container for nozzles.

The main knife is made of a thicker blade. For fixing, continuous casting without rivets is used. The knifeless insert has 5 positions: 1 - safety, the rest regulate the size of the cut. Inserts 3.5 and 7 have two fixed positions, allowing you to get a cut of 3.5 x 3.5, as well as 3.5 x 2 mm and 7 x 3.5 mm.

The cost of the main types of products

It is proposed to purchase vegetable cutters on the Borner company website taking into account delivery and a minimum order of 2500 rubles at such a price:

High-quality products produced in Germany cannot be cheap; according to this rule, vegetable cutting is also evaluated. The price is fully consistent with the quality of the product. The knives have a ten-year guarantee, excluding additional sharpening, taking into account the cutting of no more than 1 kg of products per day.