Norpro 370 Bread Slicerand Guide with Crumb Catcher
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Norpro 370 Bread Slicerand Guide with Crumb Catcher
Customer Review: Norpro 370 Bread Slicer Guide
Summary: 3 Stars
I received this along with my bread machine about a month ago. It works fairly well at keeping the slices uniform. The one thing I would caution users about is to make sure you have a bread knife with at least a 10-inch blade. Shorter blades do not allow for the back and forth sawing action needed without getting out of the slot on the far side of the guide. When that happens you must find the proper groove and reinsert the knife blade in the groove to continue slicing. It is a minor inconvenience, perhaps, but it slows down the bread slicing process. Knowing what I know now, I would still purchase this slicer guide, but I would also purchase a bread knife with a long blade.Customer Review: Works Great, But Not Durable
Summary: 3 Stars
This bread slicer guide works great, but is not durable. The guide looks nice and functions pretty well as long as your loaf of bread is small or medium in size from the oven or bread maker. If your loaf is wider than typical it will not fit. The bread guide is easy to clean, just lift the top and dump out the crumbs. Unfortunately it is not durable at all. If you by accident are cutting the bread at a slant, which is very easy to do, or slip when cutting after a few misses the plastic guides break off. This is the third time we have bought this bread guide, its cheapest and they are all the same basically, in eighteen months because we have by accident cut off the plastic guides.Customer Review: It Works Great But...
Summary: 5 Stars
Make sure you have a 10 inch bread knife for this slicer. I ordered one at the same time I ordered the slicer, after viewing other people's complaints about their bread knife not being long enough. I also ordered an acrylic bread keeper that has a small cutting board that fits perfectly in the slicer, so there are no issues with the knife cutting into the wood.
I did have a problem with the bread slices being thicker than I wanted, and now I just move the bread slightly back from the guide to make them thinner. No problems at all and I love having nice, even, slices for sandwiches. Great product...it does the job, just get the right knife for it.
Customer Review: Awful, awful, awful
Summary: 1 Stars
First time I used it, the wooden frame fell apart. Seems the glue used to hold it together was dried out and brittle. Reglued it myself.
Bread from my breadmaker fits just fine but acrylic guides are not sturdy enough to slice uniformly, every slice. I, too, have the wooden crumb catcher grid deeply scarred from cutting, especially when using my serrated knife.
Guess I could buy an electric knife but I'm making my own bread to try to save money (and control salt intake) so spending more money doesn't make much sense. It's put away in a closet. I'd return it but it isn't worth the cost of shipping plus the gasoline to drive into town.
Customer Review: Does What it Says
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, what can I say? It's a guide for slicing bread. That's what it does. How hard can that be? I give it four stars. With a couple of changes I would give it five stars...
It would be nice if the slots were closer together so you could slice the bread thinner. If you wanted thick slices you could always use every other slot. As it is, you don't have a choice. The acrylic guides attach to the wood base with screws, which makes it difficult to clean. It also takes up a lot of space when storing.
Even without those changes it does what it's supposed to do... hold the bread and guide the knife while you slice.