Best Handheld Mandoline Slicers of 2026

Our top pick moves in three clicks; the Benriner Japanese moves in a continuous screw. Turn the dials on either side of the blade and you get everything from a translucent onion slice up to 6.3 mm, and the difference shows up when a recipe asks for a thickness rather than a setting. Paper-thin cucumber for a salad, a heavier slice for pickles — same tool, a quarter turn apart.

The three julienne blades are the other half of the case. Fine, medium, and coarse combs drop into the groove for matchsticks and slaw, and a pile of carrots takes a couple of minutes rather than a box grater and a scraped knuckle. Swapping them takes practice: the blade lifts out, the next one seats in its groove, and you want to be paying attention while your fingers are in there.

What it gives up is convenience. It's hand wash only, the 3.5-inch deck is narrow next to the Super Slicer, and the plastic body is light enough that a hard push sends it sliding, so it wants a damp towel underneath. None of that has kept it out of reach, because for paper-thin onion, radish, and cucumber work it is the most precise slicer here.

The Joseph Joseph's deck is about as wide as a vegetable peeler, and we like it for exactly that reason: it's the slicer for jobs too small to justify getting out a bigger one. Radishes for a salad, a garlic clove, a lime, the last of a zucchini. Three thickness settings click into place, and at 0.2 kg the whole thing feels like an extension of your hand rather than a piece of equipment.

The reason to choose it over a plain flat slicer is the food grip, which has three modes: pinch for small items, center for round slices, flat for longer ones. Pinch is the one that earns its keep, holding a cherry tomato or a garlic clove where a standard finger guard gives up. On a firm carrot the grip can lose its bite, and the flat mode on a halved piece works better there.

It's dishwasher safe, it stores in the slot a wooden spoon leaves empty, and it's the least expensive of the handhelds here. For a garnish-heavy kitchen, or for one or two people who resent hauling out a full-size slicer for six radishes, that adds up to a tool you'll actually use.

The Fullstar gives you four thickness settings — 1, 2, 3, and 4 mm — plus a julienne blade that lives on the tool. That combination is why it costs less than our top pick and still does something the OXO can't, and it's the slicer we point to for matchsticks without a second blade set to keep track of.

The guard is better than the price suggests. It's stainless-tipped rather than plain plastic, and it holds a half zucchini or a piece of potato with less wobble than most. The built-in julienne is the feature we came back to, though: flip to it, run a carrot through, flip back, no blade to find and nothing to lose at the bottom of a drawer.

The catch is the blade. It's the part of this slicer we trust least over the long haul, and we treat it as a wear item rather than something you hand down. What you get in return is a lot: four thicknesses and julienne in a 12-ounce tool that fits the drawer slot a bread knife leaves empty.

Nearly six inches of deck is the number that matters here. A halved cabbage, a whole russet, a length of daikon — they go across in one pass instead of being trimmed to fit a 3.5-inch groove. On a batch of slaw or a tray of chips, that width is the difference between ten minutes and half an hour.

The adjuster is a friction dial rather than a click stop, so you get every thickness in the range, and four blades cover straight slicing plus coarse, medium, and fine julienne. Wide blades also give you long, even strips instead of short stubs, which is most of what makes a slaw look like slaw.

The Super Slicer is the only Benriner here that goes in the dishwasher, top rack, and it comes apart for it. That matters more than the spec suggests: the reason a mandoline ends up at the back of a cupboard is the careful washing at the end of the night.

The trade is size. At 525 grams and over 14 inches long, it lives on a cupboard shelf rather than in a drawer, and it's a real step up in price from the compact model. We keep reaching for it when there's an actual pile of vegetables to get through, because it behaves like a small piece of equipment rather than a gadget.

At 1.5 inches thick, the PrepSolutions is the slicer that slides under the cutting board and vanishes, and on storage it's the best of this set. It's also five inches wide — wider than our top pick — it holds steady over a bowl, and it has a locked zero position that parks the blade out of the way while it's rattling around in a drawer.

Three thickness settings click in and stay put, the deck is dishwasher safe, and for a pile of cucumbers for pickles or potato rounds for a sheet pan it does the job without drama.

For soft vegetables and drawer storage it earns its place, and the five-inch deck takes a whole beet or a fat cucumber without trimming. It's the slicer we point at when the drawer is already full.

This isn't a handheld, and that's the first thing to know. You set it on the counter, drop food into a chute, and press a pusher down; the blade sits under the deck where fingers can't reach it. If you've ever finished a mandoline session reaching for a bandage, that difference is the entire product.

The ONCE FOR ALL is four tools in one housing — julienne, matchstick, slicing, and dicing — with thickness set anywhere from 0.1 to 8 mm and no blade to swap. The 8 mm top end produces real french-fry planks and thick chips, which the fixed-setting slicers here can't do at all, and the whole unit folds down around its own catch container, the tidiest storage story on this page.

What it costs is a footprint. At two pounds and 14 inches tall in use, it's a counter tool you put away rather than one you hold, and the chute only takes what fits it — a whole cabbage needs wedging and long carrots go in end-first. This is the one for a household cooking with kids, or for anyone who wants dicing and matchsticks without owning four separate tools.