I tend to agree with you. However it is for the challenge of making my own.
BTW I do have an Henckels Chef's knife. I wonder why you are using a poly
cutting board instead of
wood? The problem I have is to slice the cabbage very thin like shavings.
Anyway I have asked my wife to get me some commercially made sauerkrauts for
this week or until I can make my own slicer.

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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It's called a mandolin.

Unless you plan to do at least 8-10 heads of cabbage at a time a mandolin
is a complete waste of time that will inflict some cuts in you fingers as
part of the process.

Give me my 10", Henkels Chef's knife and a poly cutting board.

Can trim, quarter, core and slice a head of cabbage in less than 5
minutes, and I'm not a chef, don't even play one on TV.

Lew