Rival 1050-C Professional Food Slicer

Rival 1050-C Professional Food Slicer
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Product Summary

Manufacturer: Rival
Brand: Rival
Model: 1050-C
Product features:

Precision electric food slicer; handsome gray and black housing for 130-watt motor
Tilt base for commercial-style slicing; serrated stainless steel blade
Extendable feeder platform for large items; stainless steel catch tray
Dual-button safety feature; surfaces include Microban antibacterial protection
Measures 14 by 10-1/2 by 10 inches

Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Rival 1050-C Professional Food Slicer

Customer Review: Okay for occasion home use, hard to clean, unsanitary
Summary: 1 Stars

My wife and I do a lot of volunteering catering for the local elementary school. We also direct our school PTA's hospitality services. That requires large amounts of food prep on a monthly basis for all the events requiring food.

This Rival slicer was relatively cheap and did a good first job, making quick work on items that need to be sliced thin. It's good for the less skilled cooks out there who aren't skilled with a knife, as well as for even good chefs that need to do large volume tasks with common items like luncheon meat, ham, or other cold cuts.

But it's certainly no commercial Hobart slicer, and it won't produce the same quality of results. The blade is quickly dulled if attempting to slice a semi-frozen roast to produce thin raw beef for say, Philly Cheese Steak or for Vietnamese Noodles. Also, the design catches meat underneath which festers unless you disassemble the entire under carriage and remove the gunk underneath and disenfect.

I debated whether to give this product 2 or 3 stars, and while it does come in handy for occasional home use, I'm experienced with a knife and have decent knives and professional sharpening equipment. In the time it takes to break this out and slice and do the clean up, I can out-produce this by hand about 2:1. But that still would warrant 3 stars in my book, but I had to lower the rating to 1-star because of the residue and trapped meat and sinews that the undercarriage causes. I don't know who designed it, but being a very highly trained in mechanical engineering, this seems like classic idiotic American slap-together design and get it out in the low-end marketplace to stupid comsumers who don't know any better. Rival is basically asking for a lawsuit, not because people will cut themselves in this case, but because the undercarriage traps stuff and to remove it, you really have to remove components that aren't user serviceable and even then, it's still hard to clean. Ever since the first use, I've diligently disassembled the under carriage, exposing some electrical wiring, and cleaned out the residue left by the slicing process.

And yes, the gears are plastic as another reviewer noticed. If you use your slicer often, the blade dulls quickly, and the motor will work harder and this will damage the gears sooner.

What happens if you're less mechanically inclined and don't clean the slicer like I do? Well, we had only one ant problem last summer in the house and it was because they found the mostly cleaned slicer boxed and placed on a rack, then found the residue and proceeded to invite a million sister ants to come in and feast on it. Try as we might to disassemble and clean it, more residue kept coming out and the ants would not relent and kept attacking the slicer. I ended up doing a nearly full disassembly and submersive cleaning of the slicer components (except for motor) and to repackage the slicer in knew plastic with Windex spray on the exterior of the box to neutralize the formic acid of the ants.

As a scientist, engineer and volunteer cook, I'd recommend that people stay away from this product, unless they like to disassemble the whole thing and then spend an hour wiping and disenfecting the thing after each use.

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Description of Rival 1050-C Professional Food Slicer

Rival Professional Series Food Slicer

With a professional-style food slicer at home, there's a lot less knife work to be done. Large portions of unsliced meats and cheeses stay fresher; just slice them as needed. Slice multiple onions or tomatoes at a time. This small, sturdy unit makes short work of what could otherwise be drawn-out tasks. Gray and black, with a shining steel blade, it is unobtrusively handsome. It's heavy enough so that it stays firmly planted on the counter top, and rubber skid-resistant feet help keep it steady.

The Feeder area tilts toward the back, and a heavy-duty clear plastic food press keeps fingers out of the way. The fully adjustable blade can make paper-thin slices or open up to cut thick slabs. A stainless steel catch tray can be placed in back to hold slices, and out front, there's an extendable section to the feeder area for larger food items. And a great safety feature is the dual-button set-up; you have to be holding the unlock button to be pressing the on button. This can be done with one hand, but it means that you can't walk away and leave the blade spinning, dangerously unsupervised.

As with anything that has a blade, be very careful when using and cleaning the Rival Professional Slicer. Unplug before cleaning, and adjust the thickness knob to zero. Do not was the blade in the dishwasher; carefully wash with hot soapy water, and preferably rinse in a weak bleach solution to sanitize. Dry blade immediately and return it to its housing. Slicer measures 14 by 10-1/2 by 10 inches. Rival provides a limited warranty against defects in material and workmanship under normal use conditions. --Garland Withers