NESCO 8.7 Food Slicer, 180W

Well packaged, fast delivery. I have sliced raw meats as well as cooked meats with no problem. Works great for veggies and hard cheeses as well. This motor will not bog down with any job I've put to it so far. Clean up is easy, no tools needed! The blade is VERY sharp so be careful. Suggest you read and follow the safety directions! Cuts the best jerky slices, and my family loves their jerky. It does not have a catch tray, but a plate at the rear works great. I've had many slicers over the years and this one is right up at the top. Best price I found was at Walmart, saved over 80.00 buying here over other on-line sites for the same slicer. I am very pleased with this purchase. You won't be disappointed!

A previous reviewer suggested this model for its slightly higher power with specific reference to cheese and its natural drag. This worked beautifully. Slices homemade bread like a charm. In case it helps, I’ll be using the setting at .5 for cheese slices and 9 for bread.

The nesco fs 250 slicer works great. I worked in many restaurants in my day, and this slicer ranks among the slicers that i used. Very easy to use, the blade can definitely cut thru meat, cheese, and anything to help you prepare any meal or salad. Comes apart very easily to clean components, but be very cautious removing the blade, cleaning the blade, and installing the blade after cleaning very sharp as it should be. Awesome

We partial froze the meat we were making jerky with, so we could cut it 1/4 thick. This went right thru the meat and gave very uniform slices. We haven't used it for anything else yet. But we sure have made a lot of jerky. Even did some deer jerky for a hunter friend.

I was looking for something to slice top or bottom round beef roast, i/l/o paying $12 per pound at the deli, this is perfect. Had to play around with slice thickness no big deal. Clean up was easy. Looking forward to slicing cheeses & veggies. I did buy the 2 year extended warranty (how do you rate that Wal-Mart, seemed silly that you asked me to rate that as well)

I've had this slicer for a few weeks and have cut sausage, cheese and roast beef. Slows down a bit with cheese, but does a great job. Also great on everything else I've tried. Cleaning is a good news/bad news thing. The parts come off so I can clean them in the sink, but they are a bit cumbersome. Despite what some others have said, I had no problem removing, cleaning and resetting the blade. They may have improved that aspect since the other comments. It says to turn it off for an hour after 10 minutes of use. I sliced three different cheeses and a 1 pound summer sausage, and only turned it off between jobs. No problem. Overall, this is a great slicer for home use.

Like every slicer I can afford, I wish it had a longer throw so I could slice my bacon full length and I wish it ran at a higher speed but this slicer does exactly what it is supposed to do and it does it well. I like the ease of cleaning also. Simple to take apart and put back together

Never got a chance to use this slicer. Took it out of the box, plugged it in, turned it on and the motor started changing speed randomly on its own and was laboring immediately. As well very apparent the slice guide plate is not properly aligned with the cutting blade.....overall is just poor quality....will be returning for refund. Zero Stars

Pretty sure this one is going back. I should have just bought the "Professional" slicer for the $270 and been happier. I figured that this was one of the "better" low end slicers but I was wrong. Not worth the money even though it's fairly cheap. So I bought this because we are always buying deli meats. I figured I can get the meat in bulk for half the cost and slice at home. In principle it should work. I got this in, and sliced some hard salami. The motor bogged down, started to smell "hot". When it was all done, I started to clean it and found some unknown black residue. It has a 180Watt power supply. THIS SHOULD SLICE HARD STUFF without any problem. The handle that holds the food in place only backs away from the slicer about 5 to 7 inches (not enough for a lot of the stuff being sliced on this). Seems very clunky to use. Blade looks warped, its a serrated edge blade so it's "chewing" food as you slice it. Right up until I started to use it I was very impressed with this unit. Then I turned it on. The thickness adjustment may as well just be an "on slice" or "off slice" mode as it is useless as far as selecting how thick you want something. I had it set between "P or Park 0 clearance" and 1 and it was still very thick. I WANTED IT SHAVED... Slices are inconsistent. There is no way to sharpen this blade like with more expensive models. Slicing something that is not stiff or ridged is probably best as the shoot is very narrow and won't allow for hard items to fall without being snapped. Pros: It's cheap. Easy to clean

Despite the good reviews, this was not a good purchase for me. I bought this for my husband for Christmas. A couple days later he tried to use it to slice beef for jerky and the blade was warped and not secure. My husband almost cut off his finger. I would not recommend this slicer.