Brentwood TS-1010 Electric Carving Knife,7-inch,White

I see it was sold by USA Charter. It shipped very fast, no problems there.Brentwood TS-1010 Electric Carving Knife, 7-inch, WhitePer the sticker on the knife: Brentwood ITEM# TS-1010(HR0004) Date Code:0719I found this Electric knife pretty well built except for one major safety issue.It has a "Blade Eject Button" at the top, which is NOT supposed to be able to release the blades unless a second "Safety Button" release catch is pressed first. Unfortunately that is not how it actually works.The Trigger to turn it on is pretty hard to pull. You must first pull BACK, and then IN on that "Power Button", to start the knife. It requires a substantial amount of pressure to push, and then also to hold it in while cutting.You must have a very tight grip to do so. You can wrap hand around with thumb covering middle finger, and index finger on trigger, and that will work well. But you'd also be very tempted to place thumb on TOP, directly opposite the index finger, for better leverage. The THUMB on top then pushes against the Blade RELEASE button ("Blade Eject Button" in the manual). If it were working OK, this would be no problem.The problem is that with just that pressure on the the release button, it DOES depress enough that the blades CAN release. (it does NOT forcibly "eject" the blades, but it releases the catch that holds them so they may be pulled out.) (It also will press the release down even further if you put pressure on either the left edge, or the right edge of the release button. -- this is WITHOUT pushing the "Safety Button" AT ALL, which is what is supposed to release the Blade Eject Button.It might be very tempting to hold the handle in this manner, inadvertently releasing the knives from their mounting catch, while they are running. Depending on what and how you are cutting something, this could end badly.I examined the snap catch area looking in from the front. I can see the metal catch prongs depress some with only the push of the "Blade Eject Button" w/o the release "Safety Button" being pushed at all. (The metal catches do depress some more when the release button is pressed first, but the "Safety Button" does not prevent the "Blade Eject Button" from releasing the blade until the safety button is depressed.)The other thing that then concerned me was that in looking at the top of the metal catch prong it seemed to already be wearing down. (the blades have now only been inserted/removed maybe 8 times during testing.) It appears to be soft metal. The blades are hard metal, and the area of the blade bottom that engages the catch prong has a "rough/uneven/unfinished edge" (so it will wear the catch metal down just a bit every time it is inserted/removed, which might be a secondary release hazard over time.)In my case, understanding the hazard is hopefully preventing the hazard, and I will use this now in the shop for cutting foam/styrofoam, etc.. items infrequently. I will not trust this to the kitchen for whatever friend/relative might unknowingly use it in the future. (and for myself, I'll use an indelible marker to put a reminder note on it to myself.)Other than that, (sheesh), here's typical review details:Cord: 5-foot from rear of handle/motor to start of plug prongs. The cord is hard wired. (It does not detach from the handle portion.)Depending on your Electrical outlets placement, you may need an extension cord. (I did.)Blade: seemed to be harder steel, very sharp, cut bread with clean cut, and few crumbs.Blade tip to start of the blade guard: 6.75"Usable blade cutting length: is 6.5" to the start of blade guard.(The additional front ~1/4" edge of tip is "flat" on the blades sharp edge side)There is 2" of blade guard/mounting section of the blades that extends in front of the handle.The total length in front of handle assy is 8.75" (with blades inserted).Length of mounted "Blade-tip" to the end of handle (by cord): 18"Handle/Motor assy. Length: 9" long.The handle width is 2" wide in center and 2.25" tall.The handle Width tapers narrower to 1-3/8" at front and 1.5" at the rear.The working "circumference" at the area my hand gripped, to pull the trigger was 6" around.It sits well on a counter with blades sharp edge pointing down, with the blade edge elevated just over an inch above the counter top surface.It's pretty stable in that resting position.The draw back of this design is that you must have a raised cutting board, or one that extends to the edge of the counter to cut bread all the way down to the bottom of the bread, flush to the cutting board.(I've seen other designs that have the blade toward the bottom to make this type of cut easier, but their drawback is then: how to set it down between uses.I measured its power usage without a load applied (not cutting anything) at 65 to 70Watts, ~.53 Amps. at 118VAC at that moment. It would be higher current & wattage under load.The User manual and Label state: 120VAC/ 60Hz / 110W ) (120V/110W=~1.1Amp)(I did notice the knife speed change slightly as the AC power fluctuated from 117 to 120V, as house loads changed.)It does have a UL(underwriters laboratories) certification # on the sticker.The manual does not state anything about how long it can be used without a "break" to cool down. (As I've seen for some other electric knives) In my several minutes of testing, it did not seem to be getting warm at all, but I hadn't yet pushed it into harder use.-- and then I caught the issue with the blade release. (seriosly, no one has caught this design flaw? Why is there not a safety recall?)I did see one other review that said something about blades separating and coming out, but it had zero details, and had the sound of a fake review. Now I'm thinking it was probably legit.

WILL NOT thin slice (smaller than 1/4")3 buttons, none labeled. Better keep instructions with the knife forever.On button (once you find it) is very hard to hold down as is is surrounded by very sharp safety measures.Bladed removal is an accident waiting to happen.Of all the electric knives I have owned, this one is maddening. After 1 use it went in the trash. Decided to keep the old Cuisinart.

Terrible to hold and use the trigger to operate

Blades would not stay together, and popped out of handle.

Dislike power button