We all love crispy and fried potatoes, cut into small slices and given a golden crust in sunflower oil. It’s not difficult to guess that such a potato is called nothing but chips, I wrote earlier how to make chips. But to cut neatly potatoes, not everyone can do it; smooth and thin slices of potatoes can only be sliced by a professional or a special grater for chips, which we will make in home conditions.
Here's how to do it in the video:
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We will need:
- blades for stationery knife;
- 4 screws;
- a small board, preferably made of solid wood. The board should be perfectly smooth. A piece of laminate is also suitable.
- a small piece of plank 13.5 centimeters long;
- 2 whetstones 3 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide;
- a hacksaw that will make cuts.
In the largest draw we make 4 holes: 2 at the top and two at the bottom. The distance between the upper holes we have is 8 centimeters, the distance between the lower holes is 10 centimeters.
Then we prepare 2 cubes. In them we also have to make one small hole and a hacksaw for metal, we make a small cut on the sticks. The main thing is that this cut is not more than 1 millimeter.
We begin to assemble our design. On the board we put two bars with cuts up, from the package we take out the clerical blade and insert it into the bars where we had cuts.
We fasten the bars with a blade to the post with screws. We should get a tight-fitting blade from a clerical knife to a wooden surface.
We cut off the ends of the self-tapping screws with nippers, so that during operation we could not injure ourselves with them.
To the bottom of the flange, we fasten the leg 13.5 centimeters long. Just as in the version with the first two self-tapping screws, we bite the protruding edges with nippers.
Cons graters
The clerical blade flexes slightly, and the potato slices may be 1 mm thick, or 2 mm may come out. The second minus is the size of the opening with the blade, it is only 6 cm. If you take large varieties of potatoes, then it simply will not fit here.
The advantages of this design are obvious: a simple design that does not require large expenses and special efforts.