Microwave Potato Chip Maker with Slicer

About this piece

A small kitchen tool built around the motion it is actually used with, so it does not fight your wrist. It is deliberately straightforward. There is one obvious way to use it, it works the way you expect, and it does not need to be handled carefully to survive normal life.

Materials and build

Built from parts that each do one job, with the fastenings sized to the load rather than to the price. There is no glue in the joints that matters, nothing is torqued past what the material wants, and the piece can be taken apart if it ever has to be stored flat.

Sizing, fixings and what you get

Working surfaces are smooth and continuous, with no lip or recess where dough and crumbs can lodge. Edges that meet food are radiused rather than knife-sharp, and the whole piece is shaped so it can be rinsed and stood on edge to dry.

Shaped for wet hands and a small drawer

A counter tool that does one job properly and stores in a drawer afterwards. What actually decides whether you still like this in a year is not the finish — it is whether the moving parts still move and whether the surface still looks like it did. Both come down to tolerances you cannot see from a listing photo. Most of the cost of a piece like this sits in the parts that do not show. We put the budget there rather than into a heavier box or a bigger logo, because that is the version of the product you still have in two years.

Living with it in the kitchen

Nothing about it requires a manual. The obvious way to use it is the correct way, and the only choice you have to make is where it goes — which is a decision made easier by the fact that it does not need to be anchored to a wall to stay put. First use is the honest test, and this one passes it: it does what the photographs suggest it does, without an accessories list you have to go and buy first. Everything we can state as fact is in the table below. Where we cannot, we have said nothing rather than something approximate, which is the more useful kind of honesty in a product page.

Specifications

Type	Microwave Potato Chip Maker with Slicer
Materials	Mixed materials, fixings matched to the load
Colours	As shown in the gallery photographs
What you get	1 x Microwave Potato Chip Maker with Slicer

How we would wear it

1. Within reach of the hob

   Where the tool is actually used, not where it looks tidy.

2. Stored flat in a drawer

   No dedicated cupboard space required.

3. Rinsed and stood on edge

   Dries without leaving water in a recess.

4. Used with wet hands

   The grip is shaped to work when your hands are slippery.

In the box

• 1 x Microwave Potato Chip Maker with Slicer

Care

Wipe it down, check the fastenings once a season and tighten anything that has worked loose. That is the entire maintenance schedule — there is nothing that needs oiling, sealing or replacing on a timer.

Questions we get asked