Food Processor - What you really use it for?

MaggieBaking

Going to use mine tonight for soup - how hot can the soup be when I blend it? Any advice??

lil_me

It makes the kitchen look like I use it

Potato ricer is better for mash, ends up watery if you bash it with a food processor (IMO)

Ben84

MaggieBaking wrote: »

We opened the box of our Magimix on Sunday - so very exciting!!! We bought a huge bag of Value carrots to blitz and had great fun! (We live a sad life.)

An interesting idea in the manual was to use the grater for boiled potatoes - theoretically giving you mash - going to try that one as I can't make mash! (Daft I know!) and blitzing them with the blender is supposed to be bad - but I can imagine the grating is similar to a potato ricer?

Not made any proper edible food in it yet, that's tomorrows job! Now I just need to decide what, I've borrowed Jamie's 30 minute meals to help me! I think I might make a proper bolognese.

I've never had a magimix, but I think it's somewhat similar to my kenwood chef? I use mine to make mashed potato with the k-beater (do you have something similar?) and it always comes out really well.

Ben84

frankiep wrote: »

I've recently invested in a Kenwood Chef as I found that due to deteriorating psoriatc arthritis I couldn't use my food processor and several other kitchen gadgets easily, and now am able to do many things I thought I'd never do again. It makes cakes, bread, pastry,blends, slices and grates, peels potatoes and other root veggies, and I'm considering buying the juicer/citus extrator attachment, and the ice cream maker. I find it much easier to use and clean than all the other seperate gadgets, and though a bit pricey I wish I'd bought it in the first place. I now have to find good homes for all my redundant kitchen aids and have freed up lots of cupboard space. I used to use my processor for many of these jobs but found cleaning it a a pain and almost lost several fingers using a mandolin! Lots of nice soups and salady things are back on the menu chez frankiep's now

This is a really good point and something I didn't mention earlier. I get tendonitis badly in both wrists (often at the same time), sometimes to the point where opening jam jars is impossible, which makes cooking very painful and frustrating. The kenwood chef however is pretty easy to assemble, you don't need really strong hands because everything clips together, then it's easy to just switch it on and put the food in.

It definitely makes cooking easier when I'm having a bad day and I now suspect it might be helping in general. I've had less problems since I bought it and that could be because I'm no longer making it worse by chopping food and mixing things.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I've only ever used my food processor for making breadcrumbs,nothing else and I've had it for years.
I bought a Kenwood chef last year and that does'nt get used much either as I tend to use my hand mixer and stick blender as they're much more convenient to use and I feel more in control.

MaggieBaking

lil_me, I'm going to try it with the grater attachment not the blender and see how it tastes

Kenwood Chef isn't like a food processor - ours whizzes and pur!es like a liquidiser and slices and grates and I think the Kenwood Chef is a big bowl with a mixer/whisker?

Jules__2-2

If you're making cheesecake then a food processor is particularly good for crushing the biscuits finely to make a good base

the_suns_is_out

Hi all,

I have been lurking on here for a while, and I've picked up loads of tips, thanks so much everyone!

Some of things I cook, and would like to cook, look to be so much easier and quicker with the aid of a food processor. I don't have one but have been contemplating buying one, but I'm not sure how much use I would get out of it.

So as the title really, how often do you use yours and have you got it's monies-worth?

kitschkitty

I was given a very nice one, for Christmas a few years ago and to my shame have never used it. I do however use the stick blender (with a whisk attachment too) that I got off my mum.

valk_scot

I've got a Kenwood Chef with lots of processing attachments. It lives out on the end of the kitchen table and I must use it most days. Today I used it to peel spuds (I hate peeling spuds by hand) and grating a couple of pounds of cheese. Tomorrow I have to make 12 eggs worth of chocolate sponge cakes so it will be in use again for sure.

I used to have an actual food processer gizmo though and hardly used it. I much prefer the Chef. I was given it after a relative died so it's certainly been worth the money! I've bought it a few more attachments for it over the years though, mostly second hand off Ebay. It's handy to be able to buy the exact things you need and be able to add to them over the years.