Size matters: Why the jumbo Benriner is the heavyweight kitchen champ of thin slicing

While a $300 hand-forged Japanese chef’s knife is a beautiful thing to behold, when you have forty pounds of fennel to shave before a dinner party (or even a few veggies to slice for family dinner), you’re not going to reach for the blade. You’re going to reach for the Benriner. It is the industry’s worst-kept secret, a plastic and stainless steel workhorse of a mandolin that produces surgical precision with a speed that no human hand can...