The Neat Bread Slicer - a Slicing Guide which Easily cuts Even Slices from a loaf Using Any Bread Knife

When there are lots of products available as low a one tenth of the price of this and even an electric food slicer at half of the price - there has to be something that makes you want to spend that sort of money. The answer is that all of the reviews for the product were rated at 5* and 4*, and were consistent in what they said about the item. I've just got a Panasonic Breadmaker for my birthday, and it has consistently turned fantastic loaves of bread. The only thing is that it is difficult to get the perfect slice from that loaf. The Neat Bread Slicer fixes that problem. Simply line up the loaf against the end stop, and cut through the grid with a decent bread knife, and there you are - the perfect slice. It really is a simple design to fix a problem. It's well made and nice looking with good solid wooden base and a brushed stainless steel guide grid. Looking at the product and the designer/manufacturer it strikes as being one of those products which may have featured on Dragon's Den in the past. A couple of observations: Firstly the XL sized loaf from the Panasonic is quite tall, and just fits underneath the guide grid (which is of course better than just NOT fitting). Secondly the grid is fixed to the base with four stainless steel pins. Three of these had come out in transit (it warns about this in the enclosed leaflet). The removal of the pins is good idea for dis-assembly if necessary - but I did find it a little bit fiddly to line up the holes and re-locate the pins. All in all - this is an excellent, British designed and crated product, from what I guess to be a small company, which is at the end a superior product and worth the money.

A very practical and easy to use bread slicing guide which, as other reviewers have pointed out, is well made and looks good. Until I bought the Neat bread slicer, I had used a plastic Lakeland folding, variable thickness bread slicing guide, which I found could be a bit hit and miss. The Neat enables you to cut consistently thick slices and you don't need to put too much pressure on the loaf to keep it in one place whilst cutting. My one gripe with the neat is that although the base is made from a hard wood, over time it cuts deeply and so eventually, the bread knife will come into contact with the bottom of the metal guides, potentially damaging the knife and the metal guides. It would be helpful if the hard wood base was protected somehow, with perhaps a metal sheet, as is incorporated in the design of the plastic Lakeland slicing guide. That said, this is the best bread slicer I have ever used, it is employed most days and looks good sitting on the worktop, the additional fact that it is made in the UK is another great reason to buy one. Do it!

This item cuts well but we would have liked either option of thinner slice or at least to have option of way to change to either.

I couldnt use this item at all, it wasnt very strong, the bread slices were too thick or too thin. Total waste of money wouldnt recommend

I reviewed this slicer just after I bought it (see below), but I thought I would update my review after several months of use. I do not regret for one moment the amount I spent on this seemingly expensive product. I now cut bread within half an hour of taking it from the breadmaker, and provided I cut slowly with a good sharp bread knife the slices are perfect every time: no more the scrunched-up uneven chunks I used to have, just good, even slices. It may seem frightfully expensive for what it is, but it is worth every penny you will spend. Original review: I thought long and hard before spending over £50 on something which looks so simple and does not have a motor. However, I do not regret the purchase for one moment. It is a well-constructed and an unbelievably helpful piece of equipment. I have been using it now for about six weeks, and whereas my homemade bread needed to wait until the following day before I could cut anything resembling slices, I can now take a loaf from the breadmaker, leave it to rest for a short while and then cut the whole loaf into perfect slices. We now have tidy and fresher sandwiches, toast that does not get tangled up in the toaster and no waste! One little point, I so want not to mark the wooden base as I keep the slicer on the worktop, so I insert a spare piece of wood on top of the base before I cut my loaf, and then I remove it and hide it from view until the next time. Could I suggest that it might be a good idea if the slicer were sold with a spare piece of wood to take the saw marks?

It's a simple yet well thought out design. By far the best I have found. If it has one drawback it's that it doesn't last forever and the manufacturer could have helped out a bit. Your knife will cut into the base and eventually (five years in my case) it will need replacing. It would last ten years if the metal guide could be turned around but intentionally or otherwise it can't. I could drill holes for the pegs but there's a slot along the side that is harder to cut without proper tools and prevents you just moving the guide to the other end. Ah well. Five years isn't too bad :)

Review: The unit is limited just to pan sized for the UK market. Therefor THE NEAT BREAD SLICER is rather expensive. Considering the slow delivery the shipping cost too is rather high. K.-L. P B.

From a practical point of view this is a well made solidly designed product especially for use with home baked bread but it doesn't accommodate all sizes of bread, for example an extra large 600g loaf made with a Panasonic Bread Maker will probably be too large to fit into its container otherwise its a lot better than the plastic versions currently available and it looks good. I think that there is an issue that should be addressed. When the blade of a bread knife reaches the bottom of the cutting guide it will mark the wood and over time the wood will not look as clean as it did when new. Some form of protection to prevent marking ought to be considered especially since the makers went to so much trouble to make it look so perfect. I know that one reviewer said that he uses a piece of wood to fit over the bottom of the base to protect it from being scratched but many of us simply haven't got the time or resources to do the same. Over all this a very useful product and I think that its well worth having.