Norpro White French Bean Slicer 5.25in/13.5cm

We grow many of our own vegetables in our garden, and one of our favorites is green beans. I blanch and freeze them at the end of the season. In addition to packaging them whole and cut, one of my favorites is french cut. Before finding the Norpro French Bean Slicer, I had been cutting each bean by hand. It wasn't difficult to cut the beans with a knife, but after a while, it does get tiresome. I happened to come across this tool on a web site showing how to French cut beans, and then found it on Amazon. So I decided to give it a try. You wouldn't think something like this would save much time, but it really does. It also eliminates the chance of cutting yourself when slicing the beans with a knife. I wish I had found this handy tool a long time ago.UPDATE 08/10/22:I bought the French cut bean cutter 12 years ago, and it still works fine. I French cut a couple pounds of bean today, and it still works well.I have noticed there are a lot of poor reviews lately on this cutter, but I can't say whether it is the cutter or the user that has the problem. Since I have been using this cutter for so long, I decided to offer a few tips on how to use it. 1) If your beans are not fresh, or at all limp, this cutter won't work well on them. Cutting fresh, crisp beans is important. 2) To cut each bean, put the wider end into the cutter and push it through gradually until you have most of the cut bean hanging out the other end of the cutter. Then take hold of the cut part of the bean and pull the rest through. 3) The best beans to cut are younger beans that are not tough and the beans inside are barely showing through the pods. 4) If you are working with older beans, push the larger end of the bean through gradually until you can grab the cut part on the other side to pull the rest of the bean through.If your beans are limp or overly developed, it will be difficult to cut them with this cutter. If your beans are limp, it sometimes help to put them in a baggie overnight to stiffen them.I hope this review was helpful for you.

Very useful tool and very tiny size. Recommended!

This is not my 1st string beaner, but it's my 1st that does not work. The blades are not sharp, you have to force each bean thru 1/2", then pull through from the other side. What a mess. Waste of money.

Flimsy feel, blades were not sharp enough to cut the beans, could not use as intended.

Works well for snipping the ends. Works well for removing strings on the side of the bean. Then french slices the beans. Works quickly. Very sharp. Only way to french slice scarlet runner beans.

Useable, but not great. I’ve had 2 before this one that worked great! The first one was my mom’s from the 1980’s. The last one got lost when moving. This one sometimes cuts off the strings but sometimes doesn’t. And the slices are uneven…very large slices and then paper thin slices. The good ones I’ve had before cut evenly, with small slices (not paper thin, though.) I must say, I bought a much worse, cheaper one from Amazon. It was so cheap that the metal broke almost immediately after I bought it! This one, isn’t so cheaply constructed; it’s useable. But I still want to find a better one than this, which cuts the strings and cuts even slices.

I love this , I had an old one for 25 years. I use once a week.

It does not work as well as ones I received a few years ago. Many of the beans did not go through easily. The beans seemed fresh but still jammed in the slicer.