How the Five Compare on the Numbers
Seven live pages already rank this pool by blade architecture, by thickness range, by counter footprint, by weight, by dishwasher permission, by the steel in the blade and by what arrives in the box. A shallow cabinet asks a different question. It does not care how long a mandoline is, only how much of the shelf gap it needs once the door is shut.
So the figure that decides this page is the lowest of each triple. OXO publishes 0.5, Vollum 1.0, Benriner 2.0, ONCE FOR ALL 3.5 and SupMaKin 5.0 inches. Two of these five lie down as they are. Two of them fold or collapse, and neither publishes a folded figure. One publishes no third figure at all in its own words.
What the table does not tell you is which figure is which. These listings publish a length, a width and a height and do not say which dimension sits where, so the only safe reading is the set of three numbers. On a shelf, the number that matters is whichever one you can turn downwards, and none of these makers says whether the tool will stand on its side.
How Flat Each One Actually Lies
The Two That Lie Down Already
OXO’s handheld publishes 0.5 by 3.75 by 11.5 inches, which is a slicer with a handle rather than a frame with legs. It adjusts to 1 mm, 2.5 mm or 4 mm, has a window to see the volume sliced, and is stated to hook over a bowl or slice straight onto a plate. At 0.35 pounds it is the lightest of these five.
Vollum publishes the flat plank version of the same idea, and it publishes it twice. Its last bullet gives 5.5 by 13.5 by 1.25 inches high, and the dimension fields for the same product read 5.4 by 13.5 by 1.0. Three interchangeable blades arrive with it, described as fine, medium and coarse serration, and the body is stated as non-BPA food-grade plastic with stainless steel.
The Two That Have to Be Folded
SupMaKin publishes 6 by 5 by 13 inches standing and states a foldable, compact design that takes up little cabinet space. What it never publishes is the folded size. ONCE FOR ALL publishes 4.33 by 6.89 by 3.5 inches and states a collapsible design and a small size that takes up little counter or cupboard space, and it does not publish a collapsed figure either.
That is the central problem with both of them on this page. A folding claim is exactly the claim a shallow cabinet needs, and it is the one claim neither maker turns into a number. Their standing figures are the only measurements available, and on those two the standing figures are the ones you would have to plan the shelf around.
What the Maker Says About the Cabinet
Two Listings Name the Cupboard
Only two of these five mention storage at all. SupMaKin’s cleaning bullet ends with the words takes up little cabinet space. ONCE FOR ALL’s cleaning bullet ends with little counter or cupboard space. Both sentences are about the tool after it is washed, which is the right place for them, and both stop short of a figure. The other three never mention a cupboard.
The three that say nothing about storage are the three that need to say least. OXO’s 0.5 inch figure and Vollum’s 1.0 inch figure answer the question without a sentence. Benriner’s case is different: it states that the slicer disassembles for easy cleaning, which is a storage fact by accident, and then publishes no figure for the parts it comes apart into.
The Figure Nobody Publishes
Not one of these five publishes a stored dimension, a folded dimension or a packed dimension. Two of them fold, one disassembles, and the only figures any of them give are for the tool assembled and open. For a reader measuring the gap under a shelf, that is the single most useful number in the category and it does not exist in any of the five listings.
Nor does any listing say whether the tool can be stored on its edge. OXO’s handheld has a stable foot and a large non-slip handle, Vollum’s is a frame with a protective design over the blade, and Benriner has a non-skid rubber base. Whether any of those will sit safely on a narrow side is not addressed by any of the five makers.
Where the Published Triples Disagree
Vollum Publishes Two Heights
Vollum’s own sentence reads: size of wide mandoline 5.5 by 13.5 by 1.25 high. The dimension fields read 5.4 by 13.5 by 1.0. The middle figure is identical, the first differs by a rounding, and the last does not agree at all: 1.25 against 1.0. On a page about shelf gaps, that is the figure you would most want the maker to be right about.
Following the maker’s own words, this page uses 1.25 inches for Vollum and flags the 1.0 field. The difference is small in absolute terms and it is the whole question on a shallow shelf. Nothing in the listing explains which figure includes the blade carrier and which does not, and the listing publishes no separate figure for the blades that travel with it.
Benriner Publishes Only Two Figures
Benriner’s bullet states that the Jumbo measures 13 by 6.5 inches with a 5 inch wide slicing surface. Two figures and a surface width, and no third dimension anywhere in the listing. The dimension fields fill it in at 4.7 by 12.2 by 2.0, which is a different pair of numbers as well as an extra one, and the maker never reconciles them.
For a shallow cabinet that leaves Benriner as the one pick whose flat figure comes only from a field. It is a real figure and it is the only one there is, so this page quotes 2.0 and says where it came from. Benriner does publish a thickness dial from 0.5 to 10 millimeters, the widest range on this page, and a Japanese stainless steel blade.
Which One Fits Your Kitchen
A gap measured in fractions of an inch. OXO’s handheld publishes 0.5 by 3.75 by 11.5 inches and 0.35 pounds, the lightest of these five, with settings at 1 mm, 2.5 mm and 4 mm and a hook that lets it work over a bowl.
A wide slice from a flat plank. Vollum’s own bullet publishes 5.5 by 13.5 by 1.25 inches high, with three interchangeable blades in fine, medium and coarse, a non-BPA food-grade plastic body and rustproof dishwasher safe stainless steel. It publishes 0.95 pounds.
A cook who wants a frame and will fold it away. SupMaKin publishes 6 by 5 by 13 inches, a 0.1 to 8 mm thickness range, a 3 inch feeding port and a foldable design its own bullet says takes up little cabinet space. The folded size is not published.
Someone who wants it to collapse rather than fold. ONCE FOR ALL publishes 4.33 by 6.89 by 3.5 inches, four modes without changing a blade, 420 stainless blades and a 0.1 to 8 mm range. At 1.98 pounds it is the heaviest of these five.
Cabbage, melon and anything too big for a handheld. Benriner publishes 13 by 6.5 inches with a 5 inch wide slicing surface and a dial from 0.5 to 10 millimeters, and it is the only pick here that publishes no third dimension of its own.
What We Could Not Verify
Everything above comes from the five listings. These are the things they do not say.
- Not one of the five publishes a folded, collapsed or stored size, including the two that state they fold.
- No listing says whether the tool can be stored standing on its edge rather than lying down.
- Benriner publishes only two of its three dimensions, so its flat figure comes from a field and not from the maker.
- Vollum publishes 1.25 inches high in a bullet and 1.0 in the field, and never explains which includes what.
- Neither SupMaKin nor ONCE FOR ALL publishes a figure behind its cabinet or cupboard claim.
- No listing publishes the size or count of the loose blades that have to be stored with the slicer.
