Best deal ✨ Norpro Bread Slicer With Crumb Catcher Brown .5in/1.25cm 😀

4 reviews for Best deal ✨ Norpro Bread Slicer With Crumb Catcher Brown .5in/1.25cm 😀

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Rhonda Dodson – January 14, 2010

   I normally don’t purchase items with only a 3-star average rating, but I’m glad I purchased this bread slicer guide. Before I purchased this, I used a cutting board to cut my bread on. Crumbs ended up everywhere! I would have to clean up the widely scattered crumbs before chowing down on my delicious bread 🙁 With this the crumbs are kept in check & easy to dispose of. I rated it 4-stars for 2 reasons.1) The sides need to be about an inch taller to accomodate the height of a loaf of bread better (I make 2 lb. loaves.) Some have commented that the slicer guide is too wide. I too originally thought that it was too wide until I thought of turning the loaf on its side to cut. My 2 lb. loaves fit this way, & the side guides are just about right in height…just about, they still need to be a little taller.2) I also agree with other reviewers that the guide slots could be just a hair wider as well. I use an electric bread knife so length of my knif is not important as with other reviews. My problem here is that there is a little knob where my bread blades connect to each other. The guide slots are not wide enough to allow that little knob to go through. I must take care with the placement of the knife when I start to cut & its removal after cutting so that I do not hit the guides with the knob. This is minor for me.As other reviewers have stated, the wood is easily dug into with your bread knife. Personally, I would rather have the wood gouges rather than a harder material that might damage my knife as it would be cheaper to replace the slicer guide rather than my electric knife. This item is adequately sturdy for its intended purpose. I would not consider it to be “heavy-duty”, so do not be “heavy handed” with this thing, to include assembling it. I can see where it would be easy to strip out the holes for the screws & you can conceivably crack the clear plastic sides. Tighten the screws sufficiently tight to hold the sides on, but not as tight as you possibly can. Use common sense, an electric knife, & a gentle touch; it will work just fine.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   L. Rodgers – March 11, 2011

   It’s amazing that a simple, practical little product like this could generate such controversy! I almost didn’t buy it because of all the negative reviews, but was convinced by the balance of the good reviews, and I’m very happy that I did. I’ve only recently started baking bread after about 25 years. Used to roll and knead and let rise, etc., because my dearly departed grandmother (Bessie May) made white bread so good, it melted in your mouth, and I wanted that memory, and her recipe, to live forever. Eventually I stopped, because I was never going to keep it up too long for all the work it took. A week ago, though, I ordered a $60 Sunbeam bread machine from Amazon (I’m on a budget), found the Bushman honey wheat recipe from Outback on the Internet, and I’ve been living in heaven ever since. Something this delicious, this healthy, with so little effort or expense is just too good to be true. And to top it all off — I now have a nifty little bread slicer that makes the job that much easier!First, let me address some of the more common criticisms on this site: This tool is exactly as described: acrylic screwed into pine. You cannot manhandle, bang it around or otherwise mistreat it, or it will probably break. Second, the slice size is not adjustable, but you do get, in a matter of maybe 60 seconds, an entire loaf neatly divided into slices neither too thick nor too thin, ready to eat, freeze, or plan lunches a week ahead. As far as the platform being too wide, I presently have only a 9-inch serrated knife — that is to say, not long — and the board still accommodates it quite easily — though, again, I’m careful about what I’m doing. I intend to order a longer bread knife just because I want one, not because I have to have one with this slicer.Finally: extremely easy to assemble, cute (love the “Our Daily Bread” touch), handy, stress- and worry- and work-saving — inexpensive. Amazon has come through again, pretty much as always. Thanks Amazon, and Norpro, for such a convenient and serviceable little product for the average time-pressed, budget-conscious American housekeeper.*****One day after writing the above review, I really feel I should follow up with my experience with my second loaf of bread. My first use of the slicer was so easy, I was totally mystified at the 50 percent of reviews that were negative, but my second loaf was quite an effort to get through. It was not hot, but it was moist — freshly baked and placed in a ziplock bag for a little while. I had exactly the same experience as the negative reviewers — I had to struggle to get the knife through the bread without banging the point of my knife against the somewhat fragile acrylic. So this pretty much bears out the caveats in other (positive) reviews: make sure the bread is cool (and I would add, dry), and make sure you have a knife at least 10 inches long. These precautions should result in a really great experience with this slicer.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Katydid – May 27, 2020

   This is my third bread slicing guide. The first were foldable for easy storage which means they were not sturdy at all and frustrated me to no end. The first was plastic, moved everywhere and could only hold 1/4 of a loaf at a time. The second was bamboo that had three different width options which I didn’t need at all and meant I could only do 4 slices at a time. One of the folding sized stopped locking so it was floppy and the whole thing moved even put on a cutting board.I am very pleased with my new Norpro. Yes, it is mildly inconvenient to have to put it together but come on – it’s four screws and takes less than 5 min. Another downside is that it takes up storage space but personally, I’m so annoyed with the folding crap I’ve tried that I don’t mind this because it gets the job done perfectly. I plan on setting it upright against the wall/backsplash so it’s accessible but not in the way. I placed it on a cutting board and it did not travel across the counter as I sliced. It only has one width but I only use this for sandwich bread so the size is perfect for my needs and an entire 1.5 lb loaf from a large sized Pullman pan fits on the slicing guide, so no more cutting into pieces just to slice. The crumb catcher is super nice. All I had to do was dump it in the trashcan…no more crumby counter and floor sweeping!Oh, one negative that I took 1 star off for – one of the slats on the crumb catching tray was not glued on. I had wood glue handy though and it was fixed in a jiff.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   S. Alberts – May 9, 2022

   This is a handy little tool that can be shoved aside when not using. I have only two complaints. One the little bit at the end, meant to place your bread correctly in the jig, falls out when emptying the crumbs. Two, it is not stable on the counter top at all.I will be keeping this around because straight and even cuts are a good thing.I ordered silicone pads to go on the bottom to keep it stable while cutting. I may just glue the plastic “our Daily Bread” piece in place.