Börner 'V' Slicer
THE ULTIMATE FOOD PROCESSOR
Since my mother took me to the Press Day at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, now called 'Show' when I four years old, I have been a regular visitor. The Kitchen Gadgets section was always my favourite part and I can remember my mother buying a 'Nut Brown' brand sandwich toaster, with two round metal shells, which when closed sealed the sandwich inside while you heated it over a gas ring.
I actually bought my first Börner Slicer forty years ago, at the Sussex Industries Fair in Brighton, where it was being demonstrated by a young man called Marek who worked for the distributor, William E Selkin. I was impressed and when the show closed Marek joined us for a drink. The slicer he sold me then had a single blade angled across the slicer, but Marek said, he preferred the 'V' Slicer Levenes used to sell, but could not obtain at that time, but a couple of years later I bought a 'V' slicer from him at the Ideal Home Exhibition. Over the years since, my wife and I met up with him every time we visited the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Devised by a Mr. A. Börner in Germany fifty years ago, the Börner 'V' slicer is essentially a simplified chef's 'mandolin' slicing in two thicknesses, the thinner of the two, Marek always claimed, allowed a certain Brighton landlady to make one cucumber last a whole summer! In addition there is a blade for producing perfect 'Pommes Frites' or Chips to you and me and another finer blade for 'Pommes Julienne' or matchstick chips. This is ideal for making coleslaw or finely slicing vegetables such as carrots, celeriac, white radish, kohlrabi etc. I use it to produce the popular french starter, 'Assiette de Crudities.' Also included is a vegetable holder, so you can use it without shredding the tips of your fingers.
The U.K. distributor of the Börner Slicer is William E. Selkin Ltd. who have kindly given us a number of these useful slicers to give away to the first ten readers who e-mail me the correct answers to the four questions below.
1. Which vegetarian Peer born in 1872 received a Nobel Prize for Literature?
2. Name a vegetarian alternative to gelatine?
3. Which vegetarian athlete won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon?
4. This well known vegetarian British actor was never an 'Amateur' and is now seen more as a Judge. (If this one really is too hard for you, e-mail me for an extra cryptic clue!)
4a. Alternatively for our American readers, Which vegetarian actor split the infinitive every week?
Once you have worked out the answers send them to me in an E-Mail, Administrator@Vegetarian-Gourmet.com with your answers, your name, postal address and phone number. If you are one of the first ten to get all four right, I will post your Börner 'V' Slicer to you in about a weeks time. The Competition will close as soon as we have our ten winners.
If you are not one of the lucky winners you can always buy a Börner Slicer from:
William E Selkin Ltd.
Selray House
Ludlow Hill Road
Nottingham
NG2 6HF
U.K.
Tel Int + 44 115 923 2286
Fax Int + 44 115 9233816
Web: www.selkin.co.uk or visit their stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Please be sure to mention the Vegetarian Gourmet when you place your order.
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Last updated 13 April 2007