Small round fruits and vegetables
For large berries, radishes and mushrooms, trim the opposite ends
flat with a knife. Insert the food through the feed tube, standing each
piece on a flat end. You can fill the tube to about 1 inch (25.4mm)
from the top. The bottom layer gives you perfect slices for garnish. If
you want all the slices to be perfect, it’s best to process one layer at
a time.
Long fruits and vegetables
Trim foods like bananas, celery and courgettes by cutting them into
pieces a little shorter than the feed tube. Cut both ends flat. (Use a
ruler as a guide, or the pusher assembly with the pusher pulled out
as far as it will go.) Fill the feed tube with the pieces, standing them
vertically and adding enough pieces so they are solidly packed and
cannot tilt sideways as they are sliced.
Small amounts of food
Use the small feed tube and the small pusher. Remove the small
pusher from the pusher assembly. Slide the pusher assembly over
the feed tube and press the sleeve down to lock it into place. Cut the
food in lengths a little shorter than the feed tube. If you are slicing
one or two long, thin vegetables like carrots, push them against the
left. If you are slicing a few vegetables that are wide at one end and
narrow at the other (carrots, celery or scallions) cut them in half and
pack in pairs, one wide end up, one narrow end up.
French-cut green beans
Trim fresh green beans to feed-tube widths. Blanch them for 60
seconds in boiling salted water. Plunge them immediately into cold
water to stop the cooking. When they are cold to the touch, drain and
dry them. Stack them in the feed tube horizontally to about 1 inch
(25.4mm) from the top. Use the slicing disc. Be sure the small pusher
is locked. Apply light pressure to the pusher and press the OFF-
PULSE ( , ) lever until beans are sliced. To make long, horizontal
slices of raw courgettes or carrots, use the same procedure.
Matchsticks or julienne strips
Process the food twice – double-slice it. Insert any large fruit or
vegetable – potatoes, turnips, courgettes, apples – in the feed
tube horizontally. Apply pressure to the pusher while pressing the
OFF-PULSE ( , ) lever until the food is sliced. You will get long
slices. Remove the slices from the work bowl and reassemble them.
Reinsert them in the feed tube, wedging them in tightly. Slice them
again. You will obtain long julienne strips.
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