- BESWOOD 10" Electric Deli Meat Slicer, Cheese Food Slicer with Premium Chromium-plated Steel Blade, for Commercial and for Home Use 240W, BESWOOD250

I purchased this slicer mainly for slicing meat, cheese, and larger meal prep portions at home. The build quality feels heavier and more durable than expected compared to smaller slicers I looked at previously. Assembly and cleanup took some time initially, but operation became easier after the first few uses. The blade cuts evenly and produces consistent slices once adjusted properly. What stood out most was the motor strength. The slicer handled partially frozen meat better than expected and did not bog down during use. I also appreciated the stability during operation. The main downside is the size. This unit requires a decent amount of counter or storage space. Cleaning also takes patience because several parts need attention after slicing meat. After repeated use, the performance has remained consistent. Good choice for people who regularly prepare larger food portions at home.

I bought this Beswood slicer in 2019 for a friend that does catering. He puts this slicer through a lot of work mostly slicing roast beef, ham and other deli meats for his business. So far we haven't had to sharpen the blade. This monster slices meat paper thin like butter. I was concerned about the cleanup since I could see that as some reviewers mentioned the blade when taken off would be like a frisby from hell. But my friend found that once the blade thickness is set to 0 the edge hides and he can clean it without removing the blade. I bought a strong magnet in case we need to remove it. I believe the company actually sells a kit to remove the blade safely. One thing that chefs always say is that a sharp knife is safer than a dull one. The same goes for slicers. If you have to struggle with the meat to get the blade to cut it chances are you will slip and cut yourself. I have half a finger to prove it. This slicer is so sharp it cuts effortlessly so it is safer. As far as sturdy, this slicer has out performed the many slicers we purchased in the past by well over 100 times. We were buying smaller slicers and we're going through them at least one a year. The motors always burned out on us. The motor on this herculean slicer is going strong after all these years. It is not quiet but not overly loud either. Not that it would matter to us. As long as it is strong and puts up with the demand we put on it, we don't care if it sounds like a motorcycle with the muffler cut off. We are cutting meat not trying to get into a Zen moment. Just about all the parts are stainless steel. The hand guard is a thick plexiglass which did crack on us and we are ordering a new one from the manufacturer. The slicer is pricey but more than worth it. If I added up all the other ones we burned out we would be able to pay for two of these Beswood slicers easily. I highly recommend it to any one that is looking for a slicer.

Facing 50# of venison product needing to be sliced I went with this slicer based on a recommendation from a forum. It is much less that the comparable LEM product and has overall good reviews. Setup is an absolute breeze even with an initial cleaning and lubrication. I'm not sure the lubrication was absolutely needed right out of the box, but better safe than sorry. Time from unpacking to slicing: <30 minutes. Performance was better than expected. The belt drive results in a much quieter and smoother slicer than my previous slicer which was geared. Initial cuts were with venison bacon which is a ground/formed product. It was refrigerated prior to slicing and pretty firm. Slices at the 3 setting were perfect for thick cut style bacon and there was little to no tearing noted which indicates the blade was sharp upon arrival. At the other end of the spectrum, I set up for 1.5mm thick slices of venison mortadella. This was also refrigerated but much more prone to tearing. The slicer breezed through the mortadella without any tear out except for the final slice or two when the meat was not well supported by the tray. I gave block of smoked cheese, and two sticks of summer sausage a try as well. The slicer performed admirably on all foodstuffs I fed it. Cleanup was also easier than expected. 99% of the cleanup can be done by removing three (3) knobs. A few of mine came overly tight from the factory, but that is an easy remedy and I was able to remove everything without an overt struggle. Overall time to clean up the first time was between 15-20 minutes and I imagine it will go faster in the future. The only con/complaint I have with the entire unit is the stoke could be ideally 1" longer. It's just a bit too short for all the work I asked of it. An aftermarket longer tray would be a really nice accessory to offer as well. Overall it is well worth the cost and a 5-star rating. Expecting many years of service from this slicer.

I had a low-end Krups for a long time and decided it was time to up my game. The Krups served me well for a low-end machine but it had a number of shortcomings, which is to be expected given the price point. I did the requisite research... Google... Amazon... a few culinary web sites etc. Personally I find Amazon to be the most helpful with reviews. The many web sites out there usually have the disclaimer that we may get a commission bla bla bla. Say what you will about Amazon but the reviews are much more helpful. My decision came down to a couple of slicers but I went with this one and I'm very happy with my purchase. The directions are just ok, but there are enough 3rd party comments, YT videos, etc to help me through. The motor feels very powerful. It's quiet too which I like. The overall construction is very beefy! It's a heavy machine so be advised if you plan to lug it around the kitchen etc. The product table and slicing guards (flip down arm, two shields) feel very safe to me. I'm not at all concerned from a safety perspective when I'm slicing meat, cheese or bread. Finally, some reviews complained about cleaning difficulty. I'm kinda surprised because I thought tit was pretty easy and straightforward. Remove and wash the product table and center plate. Use the supplied brush to knock out the little bits of food under the blade. Wipe down the blade and machine surfaces with a warm sponge. Dry and put it back together. Kinda easy at least to me. I slow-cooked a rump roast on my Kamado Joe and then tossed it in the fridge overnight. I sliced it today to make deli-style roast beef. The thickness control knob provides plenty of control. I did some slices that were like the shaved/wafer-thin style from the deli. Cool! I thickened up a tiny bit to make thin-sliced roast beef. The cutting surfaces and blade all worked just perfectly. All in all, I am very happy with this machine!

I think it is important to note why this received four stars, and that I didn't rate it lower due to price, though I would consider this to be a big ticket item unless you are needing to slice foods professionally. I have a small beef jerky business on the side, but found I was either spending so much time and money out and about trying to source super-thin slices, or the thickness of the meat I sliced myself just wasn't consistent enough and took a very long time to cut. As my products are quite expensive, my customers expect a certain quality I simply wasn't able to deliver on a consistent basis. This machine is fast, quiet, smooth, and cuts beautiful slices of beef so thin they're nearly transparent. The sharpening and honing stones work great, and I am producing a higher quality product than ever before. What I don't like is just how difficult this thing is to clean. You can't immerse it or spray it with water, and to do this correctly, you'll need real tools. Unless you want decomposing meat in the machine, you need to take it almost completely apart, including taking the blade off, which is an accident waiting to happen. You literally will have to take every external moving part off, as well as the rear blade scraper/guard, or meat goop will hang out and get nasty. The included cleaning brush is far too wide to clean the gaps well. Most of the parts come off easily, but the blade will only come off after removing several other pieces, and then you'll need allen keys, as well as cut-resistant gloves. There is no easy way to lock the motor in place to remove the blade, so I had to hold it in place with pressure. Remember, this is made to cut through very cold, tough muscle with ease; your hands and clothes won't offer much, if any resistance to the blade. I sliced about 20 pounds of chilled/frozen beef with this in less than five minutes. I then spent the next half-hour cleaning the machine. If you are processing a ton of food, or have someone else that will clean this for you, go for it. Despite my criticism, I think this machine was worth it.

WOW and DOUBLE WOW!!! I had a little trouble getting it on time since Amazon obviously lost it for a while, but WOW, was it worth the wait. I finally got it on February 11th. I had to battle with the weather for a good smoking time, but I finally got some Pork Loin brined and smoked up into Back Bacon yesterday. Well, today I got the new Beswood slicer out and washed it up good and sliced my Canadian Bacon. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SLICER. I turned it on and it just had a little hum. The thickness dial is spot on too. The Chrome plated blade on this is razor sharp and nothing stick as it comes off the blade like a dream. For the price and how much I use it, I couldn't ask for anything more. I'm old and crippled up, so moving it around is a bit of an issue, but I got it done. It's about 38 lbs and awkward to carry....but I'll suffer I'm so happy. I just had the wife take out a pork belly for me to smoke up some regular bacon and the loin I just did was for a friend so I told her I need to also get another loin for us to have some Back Bacon (Canadian style bacon). Ahhhh. Clean up was a bit more of a job than my old cheapy slicer, but well worth the effort it takes. I had a little trouble getting the knobs loose since it was new and they must have a Gorilla cranking these things down for shipment. At 69 Y/O I don't have the grip I used to. The blade is also a bit of a pain to get off....The cheap allen style wrench they send is a pain so I'm going to use a T style wrench that I have next time. All I can tell you is if you want a fantastic home slicer, this is the one for you too. One other thing.....the last slice has to come out a little thick as the gap between the pusher and the blade is a little wider when slicing thin. Not a big deal though. Gotta have something to munch on when you just made PERFECTION!!!. And if you don't smoke your own meats and bacon....you don't know what you're missing. And I can't wait to use it to slice my smoked cheeses too. God Bless All!!!

My wife and I finally broke down and bought a slicer. With meat prices soaring, we thought it might save us a buck or two and still hope so. We shopped around and looked at cheaper versions, but after reading reviews about loud, cheap, plastic burning, inconsistent cutting, and generally less appealing cutters, we bought this one. I worked in a deli for several years while going to college, so I've used good slicers and right out of the box this one took me back to my deli days. It's a bit lighter than those and has a feature or two I'm not ecstatic about, but in generally I am very please and excited to have this in my life. First, the slicer is beautifully built and fairly streamlined for easy cleaning (though my meticulous first cleaning took at least 20 min if not more, but it was my first time disassembling everything). The instructions didn't really show how to assemble, but the only thing(s) you need to attach are the guards/deflectors so that wasn't bad. I did have one problem in that one deflector screw wouldn't fully tighten. It just sits and spins, and since the side with the screw doesn't have anyway to hold it firm once it is inset, I just couldn't do it. Not a deal breaker as it is tight enough not to wobble, but it would have been nice if the screw set properly. We hooked it up, did all the safety checks and then ran a test run of 2-3 min as suggested in the instructions. It turns on/off easily and was super quiet. I think I expected it to turn the blade a bit faster, but then I am used to professional grade. It made me worry that it wouldn't do the job adequately, but we had a turkey breast we had purchased for just this occasion and it cut through it beautifully! My favorite feature, after reading reviews to the contrary on other models, is the dial for setting thickness. Many don't have a dial with numbers and this does. We tried a 2, just for starters and it did beautifully. Then a 1 to see how thin it would go, and it still performed well. Then we tired a .5 (yes it has half markings) and it "shaved" the turkey just as the professional one would. Since it was turkey, it started to fall apart at this thickness, but that is what I would have expected. The ONLY complaint I have so far, is that the meat holding table/handle isn't quite big enough for large jobs, and the spikes that hold the meat are a bit short. They eventually started tearing through the turkey which made consistent slicing near the end almost impossible, but that is not unexpected on a smaller machine like this. It has been a while since I worked in the deli (20+ years), but I seem to recall we weren't able to cut to the very last tidbit either, but I might be wrong. Either way, it was a bit of a disappointment, but not unexpected. It does have a set of spikes on the side of the handle instead of just the bottom that allowed me to connect it to the meat when it wouldn't initially fit the whole breast, which was nice. I still held it with my thumb though, just to make it a bit more stable and that seemed to work until the meat was able to go completely under the bottom spikes. (Should have taken pictures, but we were having too much fun slicing!) We then cut a few slices of cheddar just to see what it would do. It performed well, and despite what appears to be slow rotation, it cut beautifully, so maybe it's not as slow as I think. The meat was directly out of the fridge, as was the cheese so they cut well. We wondered about frozen cutting, but haven't tried yet as we just got this last night and I couldn't wait to review. Clean up was not difficult. Do remove all the suggested parts as little bits of meat and cheese kind of go everywhere especially with a turkey breast that wasn't pressed. They also provided a brush that you can use to get in the nooks and crannies to get everything out. A nice and welcome touch. Came with lubricant as well so it can continue to slide smoothly for years to come, I hope. Overall, this product is great. I know it's pricey, but so well worth it. I am the kind of man who likes to save up and buy "the good stuff" if I can, and this one was worth it. I would highly recommend to friends. It is a bit heavy and if you don't have a large kitchen, hard to store because of it's size. Ours is in the basement and I worry about that as we get older, but for now, it's totally worth it! Highly recommend this machine. If I find any issues or problems, I'll come back, but if you don't see a return, trust that I am still very satisfied.

Shipment received only a few days after ordering. Slicer was as expected and met or exceeded all expectations....Used last night for beef jerky...was just a little messy - splattered beef a bit (it wasn't fully frozen). But, sliced like I was doing butter - effortless & smooth. Motor was fairly quiet too. Cleanup took about 30 minutes start to finish, but not bad at all. When re-attaching the blade it did 'scrape' a bit when I turned it on, but by adjusting it a couple times was able to eliminate that. The thickness was very consistent - just like a commercial/deli slicer. Quality of this slicer is exceptional - very heavy duty. Glad I purchased. If there was anything I'd want to improve it would be the instructions. But, even with that it was easy & simple to figure out how to clean with what was provided. The instructions did not include how to clean the blade (3 screws using provided allen wrench & food-grade oil - also provided)...that is heavy and do have to be careful you don't drop it while taking off or putting on as it could do some major damage - to blade, toes, whatever....but simple to figure out and do. Screws locking the plastic guard to the left bracket of the feed station didn't want to fit well - they would not screw in all the way leaving about 1/4" of play after being mostly tight...and, with no slot on the locking screws once in (see pic) and tightened you will likely never get them out...so, I did not tighten fully and decided to purchase a couple replacement screws with slots so I could remove or replace if needed for cleaning, etc. Compared to my old slicer which was noisy, flimsy, did not cut well/consistent (Krups) & took longer to clean, this is a great piece of equipment and with the included sharpeners I expect to last for many trouble-free years.

Believe the reviews! The quality of this surpasses my previous 10" slicer that was branded and sold by a big outdoor store. Don't waste your money going that route first, just jump ahead and buy this one. I had named my other slicer Dexter due to having to tent off an area with plastic when I used it. It would fling meat everywhere. This one, little to none is being flung anywhere. Very easy to use. Clean-up is as expected and not all that difficult. Just use caution and clean it well when done. The quality of the Beswood is definitely worth the price as it feels industrial in construction and should last a long time. My only issue, the box I received had been opened already. Didn't appear to have anything missing or broken. A little disheartening when spending this much and having it opened already.

Funciona muy bien

This slicer has saved my family so much money and made meal prep a lot more fun! It’s super easy to use, and I absolutely love using it. Cleaning is mostly fine, though I wish the blade was a bit easier to access (maybe I could ask AI for some tips! 😉). I had a smaller meat slicer before, but this one is definitely next level! Highly recommend!

Worked amazingly well.

I was hesitant at first as there are cheaper options but reviewers always recommend not cheaping out. As a kitchen enthusiast I know the importance of good material for blade and with sufficiently sized motor, it cuts through meat well. I usually use it for portioning large cuts from Costco, and making hot pot meat at home and after more than 6 months of use, I can confidently say I got my moneys worth!