The Weston Slicer is a great manual hand powered jerky slicer that will give you perfectly even strips of meat ideal for making jerky. If hand cutting is getting tiresome and you want to up your jerky game, then this is the perfect benchtop unit. First just cut your meat into manageable pieces and then drop them in the top of the slicer. A few cranks of the handle and ta-da, perfect even slices of meat ready to marinate.
The slicer is made from stainless steel so will last a long time and the blades can easily be removed for cleaning! This is something that you should really consider, as many other slicers can be a pain to clean. The blades can also be swapped out for a different set which will allow you to cube your meat for other purposes – in case you want to make a nice chunky beef stew or curry.
Overall, a step up from using a knife, but not quite as quick and time saving as an electric slicer.