I think the plastic one could be "adjustable" if you cut using every other slicing groove. But it still looks like a piece of crap.

@bradasstv

10 ай бұрын

I did think that too 👍

@hamptom11

10 ай бұрын

So right. For 4.99 buy a cutting board. Hopefully someone has a good knife as well.

@CheaddakerT.Snodgrass

10 ай бұрын

Six sizes advertised as four.

@musicmaniac32

10 ай бұрын

I immediately had the same thought.

@Paradox-es3bl

10 ай бұрын

For $5 though now that $20 is what $5 got you in the 90s… I mean, what do you expect?

Best thing since sliced bread.

@Jennyofthesky

10 ай бұрын

better

@applegal3058

10 ай бұрын

Literally lol As someone who grew up eating homemade bread, and currently makes my own bread, I just use the knife and hope for the best that the slice is how I like it lol. I'm still alive and happily eating Imperfect sized slices. 😂

@joannager0469

10 ай бұрын

Hercules reference?

@brenthaymon280

10 ай бұрын

I don't slice my bread. I tear it apart like an animal. 🤣 🤣

@TheAndrwwJohnson

10 ай бұрын

Best sliced bread thing?

Your final conclusion was my initial reaction, for the vast majority of people these gadgets are unnecessary. Perhaps an electric slicer, one that slice different things, cooked meats, cheese, bread etcetera might be a better alternative if you really need help slicing bread

@pawelpapuga2807

10 ай бұрын

"unnecessary" ... that's a euphemism ... :)

@MrMega200

10 ай бұрын

Well these products are not for those who have perfect control over their hand movements. The point of the bread slicers is to give those people control. I personally cannot slice straight for my life. I would make great use of this.

@pawelpapuga2807

10 ай бұрын

​@@MrMega200 I see. Thanks for the info. Good to know.

We have the bamboo bread slicer, and the splinters are a thing. As for the uneven slices, the knife blade is thinner than the slots. You have to make sure you align the blade consistently on each cut; i.e., on the left or right side of each slot.

@CheaddakerT.Snodgrass

10 ай бұрын

Pro tip: Electric knife

@MrMega200

10 ай бұрын

You just got to slide some fine cut steel wool in the fingers to fix the splinters. Super easy solution.

We had a bamboo slicer, it wasn't that brand though. It was hard to keep clean, especially when used for quick breads that can be sticky, like chocolate chip, or glazed breads. And it soon cracked, and did splinter too. Frankly, it was worse than useless.

@lauranolastnamegiven3385

10 ай бұрын

I wondered about that, too, it's wood, how can you ever get it properly, food-safe, clean? (for the record, I feel the same way about wooden spoons & such)

@mst3kanita

10 ай бұрын

I've seen some well made plastic ones that originally came with 90s bread makers at the thrift store. That could be an option too.

@kimberdawn4424

10 ай бұрын

​@mst3kanita I have the thicker plastic one from the 90's and love to use it with an electric knife.

@MrMega200

10 ай бұрын

It just takes a piece of steel wool to smooth off the splinters and prevent it from happening again. It's likely to have cracked because you didn't treat the wood with food safe oil once a month. All wood fails when it loses the protective oils applied from the factory.

@juliebaker6969

10 ай бұрын

@@MrMega200 First, bamboo isn't wood. It is used like wood, but it is actually a grass, not a wood. Second, sanding doesn't help, since the splinters are caused by the knife used to cut the bread. You can sand them away, but more will form when you use the slicer again. The splintering is caused by the structure of the bamboo itself. Unlike wood, it's much more prone to splitting along the grain. It's the same property that allows flax stems to be separated into fibers to make linen. And the lack of oiling was not the cause of the crack, it was the result of the bamboo's natural tendency to split.

I bake my own bread in the winter and have never required anything to help me slice the bread consistently. Not to mention that with my serrated knife, I do not have to saw back and forth to cut a slice but simply use one full slicing motion that cuts from top to bottom without much effort. If I really want perfect slices, I will use my electric slicer that I use to slice ham and roasts, it gives me perfect slices of bread and I can slice up an entire loaf in seconds.

@66Renchan

10 ай бұрын

If you make the same bread as in the video, i'm sorry to say that is not bread.

@johnbennett1465

10 ай бұрын

​@@66Renchanyou are free to consider them to be low quality or weird types of bread. But they are definitely bread by any normal definition of bread.

@Bolero6879

10 ай бұрын

@@66Renchanhave you never had handmade bread?

@Zardox2

10 ай бұрын

... can't believe y'all are throwing bread to the troll. Please don't feed the trolls. 🫤

@markbajek2541

10 ай бұрын

Have you tried slicing the bread upside down? Cutting through the bottom flat part of the loaf first?

That jalapeno bread looks good. In all my years, my parents and then my brothers and I have never used a slicing guide. We cut the Italian bread by hand. Sesame seeds go flying. Just part of the fun. I never even knew these things existed.

your timing couldn’t have been more perfect. I was just looking at bread slicing guides you just save me $$. I can’t tell you since I found your channel about 2-3 years ago and I’ve watched all your videos since then. How much money you save me. Thank you so much. Keep up the good work keep doing what you’re doing but I’m still waiting for you to do Debbie Myers green bags and boxes. I want to know if those really work.

@hectorg5809

10 ай бұрын

Never seen the boxes but the bags do work. However, i don't know if there are cheaper options or even a homemade option that works just as good

I tend to be a bit OCD about many things but the size of sliced bread isn’t one! Hand slicing works!!!

I'm so glad you do this, so I don't have to waste my low-income money!

I believe that when the cheap one says adjustable thickness, it means that you could cut in 0.5", 1", 1.5" and 2" thicknesses.

@Okusar

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, "adjustable thickness" as in, you can just skip over slots. They also claimed it was "beautifully designed", so we can already assume they're willing to stretch the truth a bit.

No splinters just microplastics😊

I like that you proved, it's not really necessary 😊 I was wondering, if the sound from the plastic could be eliminated with a spray of olive oil? Splinters=extra fibre 😂

@MrMega200

10 ай бұрын

Wouldn't want the plastic ones in any case. A little wood fiber would pass through you with no problems but plastics don't as easily and get stuck. Not to mention the effect of plastic particles in a human body is largely unknown.

Can you imagine making a sandwich for a little one and they get a splinter in their mouth?? Should be taken off the market!!!

A good knife is the best bread slicer, there´s no need for these products anywhere

Bamboo is not good in the kitchen unless it’s a steamer. You are better to just use a nice bread knife an a cutting board!

Take a shot of bread everytime James says the word "cheap" 🤣 Happy Labor Day, Happy Monday 😊

on the small one, couldn’t you just cut every other opening to make it thicker slices?

@heididahl439

10 ай бұрын

I think, that you are right

@ohionative5237

10 ай бұрын

You could but then every slice would be an inch thick. That is some really thick bread slices.

Woke up feeling extremely nauseous just now. Played your video and I feel a bit better, they always help me relax and calm down. Thank you !!🎉

Note, James, marks on cutting boards are normal, and every time you point out that the cutting board is getting marked up it bugs me, because the entire point of a cutting board is the knife cuts the cutting board instead of getting dulled. Marks on the cutting board are not a flaw to be pointed out. Splinters, on the other hand, ARE a problem. Cutting boards should acquire cut marks, not splinters.

I love Amazon's category system, #1 in the 14-16 inch bamboo bread slicer w/ knife included on Wednesdays.

I can't imagine a universe where i would be tempted to buy either of these. 😂 Great video as always!

@bigtee2000

10 ай бұрын

Agreed across the board!

splinters in bread is a deal breaker

Thank you, James, for testing those for me. I think the problem is that I'm quite short and I can only see about 3/4 of the loaf I'm trying to cut. I'm gonna have a go and prop a mirror behind the loaf. Maybe it will help me keep the knife straight😂 I also bought a longer knife, see where that gets me. But thank you for taking the time to test them. Glad I didn't buy the expensive one, because I was tempted

@NeitherSparky

10 ай бұрын

I’m short too so I prefer slicing bread on the kitchen table rather than the counter because it is lower

@W._Langman

10 ай бұрын

@@NeitherSparky I don't have one. My kitchen is too small for a table. Guess I could buy a stool. Ridiculous really🤣 as is my mirror. I'll probably end up buy an electric bread slicer. It'll take up room but will get used daily. Who'd have thought we are at such a disadvantage🤣

I agree, James, slicing the bread without the bread slicing gadgets is the way to go. I have a good bread slicing serated kniife and in some situations I use my electric kitchen knife. 😊

I have the bamboo one here and its ok...I have not had any splintering, but i think Bamboo, the nature of that wood, definitely causes large splinters along the length of the grain. So I can definitely see how it would be a problem if they arent doing proper QA for them. (Easy fix though, is to go through and sand it, or make use of Amazon's return policy and look for alternative options) I bake my own bread, and do "eyeball" it for slices, but if you want consistent and fast slices in the morning (if you are gettinf ready for work asap) these do come in handy for that, which really has been the best use for me.

@johnnymoses5450

5 ай бұрын

I have the bamboo one and there are splinters all over the place which is bad.

Who needs bread slices with perfectly parallel sides anyway? Cut it by hand!

The thing about most kitchen gadgets is that, as long as you have two working hands, _you never need them._

As a tip: Flip your bread upside down and you're going to get better bread slices. The top of breads are typically crusty and you'll smush the bread when you start your cut. the bottoms are softer and your cut can start without you crushing the bread.

You definitely did better without either one of them!

An electric knife is the best thing ever for cutting bread! I have a Presto slicing guide (the one with the high-low prongs) that I've owned and used several times a week for over 20 years now, and can't say enough good things about that slicing guide - it holds the bread at an angle, which makes for more even slicing.

Regardless of the results the main takeaway I got from this is that I want some bread

Glad you did this. I'd be sending back the wooden one. No need for an update lol. Splinters are a no go for me

@EmeraldHill-vo1cs

10 ай бұрын

So its not the best thing since sliced bread.!

So glad you did this episode, I was just looking at the bamboo one. You've helped me out more than once, I appreciate it!

I only use the bamboo one for white bread from the bread maker. That bread comes out very tall and is difficult to cut it without the guides since it will wobble. I wouldn't use it for Italian bread or any on the breads you tested with.

The reviews keep coming! Well done

The reason for the different width slices is simply because of the space between the slats. If you had your knife up against one side then cut the next one with the blade against the same slat on other side it will only be the width that slat as opposed if you were in middle each time. Think of it when you cut a slab or ribs into individual ribs. If you're not in center of each rib than thickness will vary.

I have bamboo bread board and the major problem is all the bamboo products are compressed pieces glued into whatever shape. So if you wash them ,you cant soak or the bamboo sucks up the water, retains it, and after awhile it splits and seperates. Its only good for a cheap short term. It will fall apart on you, not like a decent piece of wood.

This review couldn't have come at a better time since I was considering these two after just getting a bread maker.

We have a version of the bamboo slicer... we don't have splinters, but I think ours is a different brand. Also, we use it for bread we make in the bread machine. It definitely helps

Right on time again 🤘🤘😎 when are you going to collaborate with jacey and Brandon and are you willing to review desks gadgets? Plus when can we get to see your setup and behind the scenes. Sorry for the long comments but your videos are amazing!

My mind has been corrupted by the internet. Bambusi made me giggle too much 😂🤭

Cutting board, sharp knife, and keen eyes is all I need. Just another gadget to create more clutter that I don't need. Thanks for the review!

@notamanstudios4408

10 ай бұрын

for you maybe, I have terrible coordination and can't make straight cuts in my bread even with an electric slicer lmao

love your videos so much! keep up the good stuff man

I have a bread cutting board without the slicer guides. There’s a slatted oak “board” with attached cross slats beneath and the crumbs fall into the metal tray it sits in. Yes, there are cut marks on the wood (because it’s a *cutting* board!), but no splinters. I really don’t need guides. Sometimes a longer knife helps. I happen to have a longer serrated knife meant for cutting large melons, and that works well for large round loaves.

Hand-slicing bread is fine when the loaf is new, but as it gets towards the end and there is less to grip hand slicing can become difficult when the loaf is tall.

The beauty of an uncut, artisan loaf of bread is that it's NOT uniform and industrially cut and perfect like white sandwich bread. There's a joy in taking something wholesome and good and cutting it with your own hand and just enjoying the process. Tear it with your hands if you want, it's good bread!

Bro is going to be mad when he finds out you can buy bread that is already sliced... 😂

I've been using the Bambusi one for two years now. I love it! Yes, you do make cuts in the bottom if you cut down too far. Bamboo is soft. But mine does not show any signs of giving out. I've never had splinters.

I am very glad I watched this. Splinters, especially BAMBO splinters, are something that make this a deal breaker.

Use a quality bread knife! Also, make certain your bread has cooled completely. I have this bamboo slicing guide with knife and the nice bag. I don’t make as much bread in the summer months because I have to crank up the AC. The fall & winter months are a whole other story. The bamboo bread slicing guide I have was a gift from my daughters. The first thing I did was wash it using Howard brand cutting board, butcher block countertops, & other food utensils that are wood. I also took a few minutes after it dried completely to add a bit of Boos brand Mystery oil on it. I let it sit for about 20-30mins then wiped it down, buffed in what remained. I have a top notch bread knife. I bought it a couple months after our youngest left for college. Any & everyone who knows me could tell I had some serious empty nest syndrome going on. I filled my time making lots more bread than usual. The tomatoes from my garden were turned into bruschetta. I made lots of garlic bread, focaccia, bagels with Everything Essentials seasoning & others with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, etc. I made stuffed manicotti, pasta salads, anti pestos, etc… Timing wasn’t great since hubby was trying to stay on a diet after our daughter went to college. It didn’t last long… well, that’s not true because he was placed on a diet without realizing it was a diet. Yes, I made lots of breads, but I made lots of vegetable pairings. Many worked well with red wine, which is said to be good for the heart. The bamboo slicing guide worked extremely well when I made French toast with thicker cut slices, which were left out to go stale, as this makes the absolute best French toast bread. The bamboo slicer works wonders for keeping even slices, esp so for Texas toast, garlic bread, French toast, & even slices for sandwiches, tho the sideways or top cuts if cutting bread for subs (think Philly cheese steaks, meatball, combos, etc). Perhaps my pre-treatment helped make my experience better along with having a quality bread knife & overall time. I hope my story & usage helps someone else.

I guess four sizes means you can cut the bread to single slot thickness, double slot (use the second slot from the end), etc

I used to have a plastic one (not as cheap as the one you have here) that I used to cut fresh bread evenly, it worked pretty good. after it broke I just started cutting it using a Victorinox bread knife and eyeballing it.

We have a different bread slicing guide. It folds up compactly and helps with slicing bread machine bread. Instead of multiple guide rails, it only has one. The thickness of the slice is dependent on where the end plate is placed. You push your bread to the end plate and saw your knife through the very narrow guide, no room for knife to wobble. Push the bread forward to slice the next slice. So one slice at a time. It has rubber feet so it doesn’t move too much but crumbs are still the issue. It’s plastic so you still mark-up the base. It seems to do the job.

Thanks as always for the video!!

6:37, only James White would use a chef's knife on a bread loaf, lmao. The serrated knife on bread is the way to go.

You need to pair this with a test of various bread knives. I use a much longer bread knife, like 18 inches, allows for long soft pulls that don't tug on the bread.

@vegangelist

Ай бұрын

Which knife do you use?

Best thing since a sliced bread Freakin' Reviews video. 😄

So, my choices are: Micro plastic particles in my sammich. OR Splinters in my sammich. Hmmmm NO thank you! Great review!!!!

I don't eat bread anymore since cutting out grains/carbs but when I did slice bread I cut it by hand.

Yeah, when the $30 model comes with a knife and a crumb tray and all that, you can't really expect that it's actually high quality. The knife is probably $10-15 of the price, and just the fact that it's _bigger_ is enough to make up much of the rest of the difference, not to mention it being bamboo vs plastic, but that doesn't mean that it is sealed properly, or even very well put together bamboo, which it clearly isn't. If I absolutely needed a gadget for helping cut bread slices for whatever reason, I'd go with the cheapo plastic one, maybe get something to put under it to help it grip to the counter better, and replace it if it starts to get damaged, and still be able to go through 4-6 before hitting the cost of one of those bamboo ones, and never have to risk getting splinters in my bread. But yeah, just eyeballing it is probably fine for the majority of people, although I do certainly know that there are people out there with disabilities or impairments that would make these relatively useful, so it's worth knowing which one is better value, at least.

@hectorg5809

10 ай бұрын

I think sometimes we forget that these silly gadgets are usually made for people with disabilities and any extras they sell to "regular" people is just icing on the cake

@R0D3R1CKV10L3NC3

10 ай бұрын

@@hectorg5809 that's one thing I appreciate about Barry Lewis' kitchen gadget videos, he always makes sure to bring up that some of the gadgets may be made to help people with disabilities and other such issues before he starts.

I have the bamboo one, but mine didn't come with knife. I've never had splinters because I align the knife with the edge of the guide and take my time.

As someone who loves to cook, I once tried out a bamboo cutting board. It promptly went into the trash after easily cutting and splintering. I have 2 plastic ones that are good quality, and have been used for years without any issues. I personally eyeball my slices and I'm still alive lol I wonder if a stainless steel cutting guide would be better, with a plastic board base?

Yay! A new video, I'm excited. Lol ❤

Both are better used with an electric knife. The plastic one seems to have 6 sizes; just choose how many lines to move over.

Whenever I make homemade bread, I use my Presto bread slicing guide. It's an older model, but it's always worked well for me. You choose the size by skipping grooves

im sure you also get tons of plastic bits ground off of the plastic one too, theyre just not as noticable

I have the bamboo one and honestly have not noticed the splinters. Maybe there are and I haven't noticed! Ahhh I will definitely pay more attention. I don't use the knife that came with it because it is too short. I bought a longer, thinner one and it works great.

This was very helpful, thank you.

The number of slots is the number of slice sizes. Thin is one slot, then two slots for thicker and so on.

If you have an electric carving knife, it works really well for slicing bread and especially well with slicing guides because you don't have to push down hard on it.

I can just imagine the microplastics that 'bread slicer' sheds as the knife is going between the slats.

I am on "Team Just-Use-My Hands and Bread Knife" 😊

You should try either the Eezi-Slice Breadboard or a more expensive option the Zassenhaus Manual Bread Slicer.

@vegangelist

Ай бұрын

If the zassenhaus is anything like their manual coffee grinders (which we have), then it is very pricey but beautiful and designed to last a lifetime.

I have the plastic model. The sides snap into the base to stabilize them. The "adjustable" width is cutting every slot, every other slot, or every third slot. I use a very long bread knife so I don't have to saw back and forth too much.

As always i love watching your videos, theyre always so well produced and its so entertaining how you alwayscome up with ideas on how to test every different gadget to the core. I gotta say i'm shocked that there really is a market for bread slicing devices xD Cant people just slice a bread "freestyle"? I mean i'd rather slice my bread without a device thats gonna cost me money and take the hit of the slices not being accurately perfect than to wake up the whole house with screeching noises or have Splinters in my bread wtf xD

Love the videos bro

Bamboo is not a hard wood, but is very trendy. Oak or maple might work better.

@trublgrl

10 ай бұрын

It's trendy because it's cheap. In fact, Bamboo is not even really wood, it's a thick grass. It's super sustainable, because it grows really quick, but it doesn't have many of the properties that make real wood so versatile and durable.

If you really *REALLY* need super even slices of bread, the best home gadget I've found is a rotary slicer. Only step up I can think of would be to actually buy a bread slicing machine.

Just have your grocery store slice your bread. You can also buy pre-sliced bread since 1928.

I think I'll just save 30 bucks and EYEBALL the cuts 😂

A bread knife is what you need.

The expensive cutter is what you use when you have guests, the cheap one is what you use for yourself lol

Need a bread guillotine with a conveyer. On either a hand crank or a tiny motor that moves it forward at set intervals. I’m thinking roughly 1/4”, 1/2”, 3/4”, 1”. Edit: to clarify, each would be an interval setting. So you could choose if it would slice every quarter inch, half inch, 3/4 inch, or 1 inch.

You should treat the bamboo like a cutting board and oil it before use. It will stop it from splintering and it will help seal the wood

With the plastic one, you're probably getting plastic shavings and you just don't notice them. Don't think a bread slicer is necessary. Just use a good bread knife and if you do want a bread slicer, I'd suggest metal.

Had a wooden bagel cutter, did the same thing, splinters and cuts the wood. I opted for a plastic one works fine and the noise is just that.

Moving your hands like Billy Mays on the Bambusi Bread Slicer box 😉

I have both plastic and bamboo. Both gave splinters and marred the bottom. Just get a good sharp bread knife and practice. FB groups have folks use electric knife, or a deli slicer if they aren’t just bread knife.

I have the bamboo one myself and have the same complaints about it. In general it is just ok. I think it needs a removable board in it to keep it from getting too damaged.

Thanks James, I am going to be hearing you sawing with the cheap white one in my nightmares tonight, that screech..omg 😂 still better than free toothpicks with the bamboo one

I was looking for a slicer but not now . Great video thanks. I will stick to free handing it.

Cut marks are normal, but the splinters are going to happen with pressed bamboo.

I got this this one for my husband( the more expensive one) it has worked great no issues!

Love this video.... Helps me out a lot. Are there any more expensive bread slicers ?

I recently started baking sandwich bread what a convenient suprise 😊😊

Hey James, did you make that loaf of zucchini bread?because it sure looks good

The one situation I can see a guide for cutting bread useful is for people who has light essential tremors, and even then I think it'd just be better to have something more automatic rather than just a guide like that.... but perhaps there is some other application I'm not seeing? xD

That’s a cool poster in the background! 👍🏻

I feel that the bamboo slicer could be a great product if made with an actual wood, but bamboo is not the best material for this application. Bamboo products are made by pressing a bunch of bamboo fibers together to make a wooden plank, so splintering it is super easy as the only thing holding the fibers together is glue, they are not attached together like they would be if it was pine or some other actual wood.