Side by Side Comparison of: Weston vs McGlaughlin Oil vs G & F

Great buy. works wonderful. I mostly use it to slice roast beef. Slices thin without tearing the meat.

I have had no problems with the unit whatsoever. I have been cutting London broils and bottom round roast to make jerky and also cutting boneless hams to make ham jerky I wish I bought a slicer like this 25 years ago. What took me 2 hours two hand slice 10 pounds of jerky last week took me 15 minutes with the slicer and that was being very cautious due to it being new to me. The unit runs very smooth it has no quirks whatsoever that I can find the surfaces are very smooth and clean up very well. I have not tried anything hard like she's where some people say they have problems with that but I don't expect that a slicer price that this budget would cut through a gummy products like cheese effortlessly. The hands that I did cut up or semi Frozen and I did that on purpose so they would not leak water or the juices I should say, all over the place it sliced through the hams send me Frozen effortlessly. I would recommend this for any amateur cook to add to their kitchen collection

Gave this to my husband for Christmas! He was very happy because I found one even bigger than he could find when he was looking! ;0) Men like powerful tools, even power tools/appliances for the kitchen! :0) He said with wide eyes, "That's practically a commercial meat cutter!" Lol It is heavy duty! We haven't used it yet. I,'ll update when we do. I see LOTS of beef jerky in our future! Lol

I love this food slicer, it has a 9 inch blade that is large enough to slice large roasts. It is very easy to clean, and has a powerful motor to go through hard cheese. I have used this on so many things from roast beef to sliced eggplant. It goes through everything like butter.I am actually thinking of ordering another one for my sister. I think a food slicer is a must for any kitchen that cooks for a family. I have tried to slice roast beef with a regular electric knife, and I can never get it as thin as this food slicer could. There are so many other ones out there that don't have as large as a blade as this one, or as strong as a motor. So I think this one is good for the money.

Great quality slicer. We smoke all of our own lunch meat and this was perfect for what we needed to slice thin meat. Would recommend!

I'ts been more than a year that i own this machine, at first i was skeptical about it because of bad reviews, i'm glad i decided to buy it, i use it every 2 weeks mostly on ham blocks for sandwich,stills runing smooth as the day i first used it, cannot be easier to clean just twist remove the blade locking center cap with a coin and carefully pull the blade out, as for the back and forth movement base just tilt to clean the bottom and back, i always put a little cooking oil on the rod where it is attached before using,and it just goes smooth smooth smooth, i have never pushed it more than the 15 min continuos operation cause the manual says so, but other than that it is a well built sturdy kitchen appliance, if you just want a self cleaning machine or if you want to run a meat deli business on it is a different story, but for the home......is more than perfect!!

works well! excellent for size and performance in home. Works smooth made well and does not have a serrated slicing wheel nice clean slicing! Besides easy to clean and store away.

I bought this to use mostly for processing my big game animals during hunting season. I have used it to slice lunch meat a few times but mostly jerky from venison. I wasn't expecting commercial quality, so for the price I paid it does a decent enough job. One issue with the design is the slide that rides on the bar is a little loose or sloppy, so it binds up a little here and there. Not that big of a deal for me, I can work through it. Never tried cheese or bread so can't comment on that. For my use it does what I need it to do.

Worked good, but I think a serrated blade would work better trying to cut semifroze meat for jerky.Strips were straight to a certain point then the tapered blade would thin it out. Hope they have a serrated blade.

I use this unit for slicing homemade Canadian Bacon, Corned beef and beef Brisket. It does everything I need it too.It will not produce razor thin slices but when your feeding hungry people who needs razor thin.This unit is very easy to clean. The plastic locking plug that releases the blade looks to be the only part that will wear out before its time.

This is my first slicer so I don't have a lot to compare it to, but it does exactly what I wanted, it slices meats and is easy to clean.

I use the slicer to slice cooked briskets. I researched many of these lower priced non-commercial slicers. I can not afford to buy the commercial Hobarts, etc that typically cost $1,500.00 - $3.000.00 (~$700.00 used). After reading a ton of reviews on the under $200.00 slicers I found this one to have the best reviews so I purchased the Weston. I use it to slice brisket for a mobile catering unit and catering jobs. The motor is a bit slow but strong enough to cut more than the deli meats and cheese that others have reported having problems when using non-Weston units priced in the same <$200.00 range. I typically cut about 4 x 15lbs briskets every 3 to 4 days and I have had no problems. I just wish it would come apart better for easier cleaning of all the fat left from the briskets. The cleaning would be much easier on deli meats and cheese. It's worth the money.

I bought it to slice bacon, it does not have enough throw to fit bacon between the blade and slider. I never used it but it looked OK, bought it specifically for bacon.

I used this to cater a wedding reception and it did help speed up food preparation but the blade grabs the meat or cheese that you're slicing and spins it around quite often. I think the blade doesn't spin quite fast enough and the spikes used to hold the food in place are too short and too dull to hold the food securely.

We like this food slicer just fine. It is pretty easy to use and to clean. Our only complaint is that it doesn't really slice the meat thin. Once you try it gums up pretty quickly. The thinnest slice we do is about 1/8"... and we do that seldom. We probably should have made a bigger investment so that we could get the thin sandwich cuts, but for the cost this slicer is not bad.

Has a weak motor which causes the blade to slow significantly as soon as anything but soft lunch meat hits it.

I knew that this meat slicer would not be like the commercial slicer I used in the deli. However, I was hoping that it would be a bit more user friendly. I almost returned the item after trying to slice meat from the refrigerator. The meat holder is a useless piece of plastic. The teeth that are supposed to hold the meat in place are not long enough to hold anything. I ended up using my hand (even though I don't recommend this practice as the blade is extremely sharp and you may cut yourself). I decided to give it a second try with partially frozen meat and this time the slicer did a better job of slicing down to the last portion. It made uniform slices for the jerky I was making. The clean up is quick and easy. I was able to get to all of the areas that were exposed to the meat. I wouldn't try cutting cheese on this unless you have the muscles to hold it in place. Once I got the hang of it, slicing slower and pushing the meat toward the blade it worked for my purposes and the cost was within my budget. I will continue to use the slicer.

Slicer is slow & noisy. Blade is heavy and dangerous to clean. (I use a potholder to grab the blade. It comes with a small rubber/plastic slide that you can grab it from, but it would be too easy for it to fall off while handling). The clear plastic food holder has little spikes/nubs that don't hold meat real well. Slicer motor gets hot quickly. I got through about four apples, and had to turn it off for a few minutes to cool. We have had our slicer for about a month. We have sliced apples, corned beef, and a beef brisket. Kinda afraid to try anything else. I guess it is an okay slicer for occassional usage. If you plan to do a lot of slicing like me...anticipating lots of veggies and stuff from the garden this year..you might want to look over a few others. I know that is what I will be doing. I would have been a bit happier paying about half or less, of what I paid for this model.

Will not cut cheese it makes the motor skip the cogs. Sounds like it is breaking. Cutting meat is really a messy job.

this doesn't cut evenly. and the guide fence moves too much so it produces uneven cuts. this was my first one though. i'll upgrade in the future.

I bought this to slice home cured bacon and to make jerky. Not a good product for that. Maybe good for veggies? The motor is loud and the blade doesn't cut meat very well. I sliced around 50lbs of meat over three different uses before the motor burnt up.

If you're slicing old bread maybe this would work. If you're slicing 3/4" ham slices, very very very slowly, this may work. If you're trying to use this to do any butchering (slicing home smoked meats for freezing, slicing pieces of loins for steaks). The blade moces/flexes. The backplate flexes, the holder lets everything slip. Pretty poor set up, but you really do get what you pay for.

the blade is not sharp, no guard over the slicer blade, never again, dangerous!

Took it out of the box ... put it immediately back in the box and returned it.I was optimistic about this product because of the (mostly) good reviews. From a design perspective, the feed tray will not accept a piece of meat over 4 inches ... maybe closer to 3 inches ... that can be overcome by using a knife to make shorter pieces ... I don't like that. This is due to its insufficient depth. In addition, the pusher does not secure to the machine and adds to the limitation on meat length (another reviewer faulted this and I should have listened). IMO, this renders the machine unusable and unsafe.Lastly, the blade was dull. This could have been a manufacturing QA oversight, but in my opinion, the Chinese do not know how to put a good cutting edge on any kitchen utensil. The cheap Rival folding slicer (purchased 15 years ago at a discount store) that this Weston was replacing had an excellent (RE. very sharp) Solingen blade ... excellent blade on a junk slicer! How times have changed.I should have known better than to expect something useable for $95 and will save my pennies for a German-made Chef's Choice ... no doubt with a (sharp) Solingen blade.

Do not like this slicer. The meat tray does not come off for cleaning. The meat keeps getting hung up on bottom corner of blade/body of slicer due to poor design. This causes meat to slip amd cut uneven. The plastic meat holder/safety guard is to short. Anything 'll her than guard has no pressure and blade pushes it upward.Bacon was first thing I cut and it would shoot the bacon out the car side. So I had to cut bacon down to 4 inch length to cut. Then had roast and same problem happened. So to cut reasonable slices it cannot be thin and much wider than about 4 inches.Easy to clean, belt driven but does not cut how I need it.

Received item was factory flaw motor drive gear is stripped and out of alignment with the belt and slave pulley belt broken before rotated it with motor.

This is not a meat cutter/slicer, since it has never successfully been able to cut meat. It failed mildly the first time I used it, and by the third attempt, it can't even spin the blade. I have cleaned it and lubricated it based on best practices. I will never buy another Weston product, and would suggest you avoid them too!

Slicer did not perform well at all. Blade did not spin fast enough to cut simple american cheese. the cut was rough and the blade would skip towards the end of the slice. Great price but not a great machine. I sent it back for a better more powerful one.

I used it just 3 times. And it's motor was gone.It isn't useful molten meet, ham, some kind of cheese.. etc. It can cut just soft things (For example, vegetable or meet)If you want to use this one, please buy good slicer. That's better.

Blade grabs whatever you slice! On this unit the grinding of the blade is so rough it grabs and flings what you slice to the end of the slicer very dangerous