Norpro Bread Slicer with Crumb Catcher
by Norpro
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Norpro Bread Slicer with Crumb Catcher
Customer Review: Manual bread slicer
Summary: 2 Stars
plastic side broke within weeks of delivery. Still using it, but disappointed in quality of unit. Would not purchase again.Customer Review: Product Review
Summary: 5 Stars
Great gadget!! I use it more as a guide for holding the bread in place rather than using their preset slice guide size. I move the bread to the size I want, lining it up between the plastic grooves, then slice through it. I now cut perfect homemade bread slices and am able to cut the whole loaf of bread neatly. I am extremely happy with this product. Customer Review: Nice Bread Slicer
Summary: 4 Stars
This bread slicer works very well. The slices may be a bit thick for some people. I like the wood base versus the old plastic base. Overall, I'd advise shoppers to try it. I couldn't fine anything like it in the stores.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: Don't waste your money
Summary: 1 Stars
I was enticed to buy this (when buying a bread knife) by its low price.
However, even that cost was too high.
It doesn't work very well, is flimsy (after about 10 uses I have numerous broken guides), and uses a great deal of storage space between attempted uses.
I don't think I've ever seen a loaf of bread that is as wide as this device and those from my breadmaker (Breadman) leave 1-2 inches free on either side. On the other hand, it's too short to slice the (already short) loaves from end to end. Because of this, I must hold the loaf by hand anyway and focus on keeping the knife from contacting the super-fragile guides.
The only reason this device is not in the trash is so I can use it enough times to be thoroughly aggravated. Then the cost of it will be worth the relief I feel as I drop it into the bin. That day is a few loaves away.