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Home » Kitchenware » Cutters » Cucumber Slicers

Cucumber Slicers

Cucumber slicer / vegetable slicer from c. 1920

Cucumber slicer / vegetable slicer from c. 1920. EvaK / Wikimedia / 2006 / CC0 1.0

Cucumber slicers allow a cook to create very thin, uniform slices of cucumber to be used for sandwiches, salads or garnish. The name is a bit of a misnomer, as the devices are typically used for other similar firm types of produce such as carrots, zucchini, etc.

There are two different types of cucumber slicers.

One is a round device turned by crank. You clamp it to a table and press the cucumber through with a pusher. Original ones were made of cast iron.

Another type is a flat, rectangular surface that you drag the cucumber over. It looks like the bottom of a wood plane, or a mini-mandoline, in that it has a metal blade on an angle. Some have two blades on them. Antique ones were made of wood; more modern ones are made of metal or plastic. Metal ones may have the blade built into them, rising out of the metal. Older ones had adjustable-angle blades.

See also: Mandoline, V-Slicer

Substitutes

Mandoline; knife.

Sources

Erlanger, Steven. Unkindest cut over a humble cucumber slicer. New York, NY: The New York Times. 5 October 2002.

Other names

German: Gurkenhobel, Gemüsehobel

This page first published: May 25, 2005 · Updated: Jan 19, 2022.

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