Made in Germany

My wife found this wonderful item at the annual spring yard sale at one of the churches up the road. It says "Edelstahl Rost Frei" on the blade so is probably a German unit that I would say is 30 to 50 years old, and looks like it could have just as much use left in it. The body is extremely well engineered cast aluminum, with a stainless steel blade, and a few plastic parts that given how long they've clearly already held up, my money is on them lasting a good time longer still.

We'd actually been looking at meat slicers but the only good ones seem to be hundreds of dollars. The lower end models have a lot of plastic on them and look fairly shoddy. I will give this a good cleaning and try it out soon on one of the ham roasts I'd brined up recently. I bet it would also work fantastically on my home made bacon! My wife says this is what she immediately thought of.