OK - I'm officially baffled by this OXO mandoline

[OldLeftieLawyer]

I finally got around to opening the box. Nice packaging. Took everything out, read the little instruction booklet, and then started fooling with it, seeing how the parts come out.

Simple, pure design. I'm happy.

But, I get to the "thickness cylinder," and I turn the knob to see what the julienne things look like, and when I try to turn it back to the thickness setting, it doesn't go. I take it out, put it back in, and, for the life of me, cannot see how this thing works.



The knob doesn't turn. It did, once - just enough to bring up the two sets of spacers - but now I can't get it to turn back.

Am I doing something wrong, or did I get a dud?

Fortunately, Bloodbath and Beyond has an absolute return policy, so that's no big deal, but this is just dumb.

What am I missing?

On edit: What I was missing - and there's no instruction for this - is pushing IN on the padded knob, which then allows it to be turned.

It works fine.

Ignore me.

Aaaaaaaaaaaargh......................

[Stinky The Clown]

1. The knob only turns clockwise. On the julienne setting you need to ......

press in on the rim of the knob to unlock it and then turn it.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Thank you, kind sir

I finally figured that out. They tell you NOTHING about it, those OXO bastards.

One nick so far, on my thumb, but it didn't break the skin.

Am I still an OXO virgin?

[Stinky The Clown]

3. You remain a virgin until such time as a part of your finger .....

..... is actually ingested .... or at least gets close to being so.

[Warpy]

4. In my case, it was one side of my right thumb

that I had to pick out of the coleslaw.

Moral: use that veggie holder!