Should I Buy a Food Processor?

Rosa_Damascena

bouicca21 said:

I promised @Rosa_Damascena a smell test when I next used my soup maker.  Mine has a sauté function but, bearing in mind that Rosa doesn’t like the smell of fried onions, I didn’t use it, just chunked an onion and chucked it in with carrots, coriander, a couple of stock cubes, and water, then left it to do its thing.  When I went back into the kitchen, there was definitely a waft of soup.  No worse than the smell from the soup when it’s in the dish ready to be eaten. Whether that’s acceptable to Rosa is of course impossible to judge.

What a superstar, @bouicca21 . I am sold!

YoungBlueEyes

Or maybe a souper-star

bouicca21

I feel the weight of responsibility. Crossing my fingers that it will work for @Rosa_Damascena …

Rosa_Damascena

bouicca21 said:

I feel the weight of responsibility. Crossing my fingers that it will work for @Rosa_Damascena …

Well I hope the burden doesn't weigh too heavily as I am waiting to find a pre-loved version second hand. My price point is around £20 (£25 for the Tefal sealed version).

Rosa_Damascena

Posting this article for those who share my fascination with soup makers: https://apple.news/A-_lF8HcJTIKZhLi6WVJ50w

Rosa_Damascena

Rosa_Damascena said:

Siebrie said:

Now this is a real selling point! Is it energy efficient? And does it largely contain the smell of the soup whilst cooking? (I would soup far more often if I could stand the smell of frying onions - I can't).

I don’t always want to bother frying onions, so I regularly chuck in ready-fried and dried onions.

I've now got it into my head that I want a soup maker! There are loads available second hand, which makes me wonder why people give up on them. Soup is one of the rare things I do cook. I bought ingredients for ratatouille over a week ago but can't psyche myself up to actually make it because of the cooking smell - repulsive!!

I finally got round to making that ratatouille yesterday, which involved frying off the veg first in sunflower oil - a simple task albeit a smelly one. The kitchen is big and I shut off the doors and opened all 5 windows (not the French door - local foxes know no boundaries) for a couple of hours afterwards. I then went out and left the extractor fan on, and burned unscented tealights when I came home. It got another 2 hours airing first thing in the morning. I walk back in in the evening and the place still smells of frying. Is this normal?

gt568

Rosa_Damascena said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Siebrie said:

Now this is a real selling point! Is it energy efficient? And does it largely contain the smell of the soup whilst cooking? (I would soup far more often if I could stand the smell of frying onions - I can't).

I don’t always want to bother frying onions, so I regularly chuck in ready-fried and dried onions.

I've now got it into my head that I want a soup maker! There are loads available second hand, which makes me wonder why people give up on them. Soup is one of the rare things I do cook. I bought ingredients for ratatouille over a week ago but can't psyche myself up to actually make it because of the cooking smell - repulsive!!

I finally got round to making that ratatouille yesterday, which involved frying off the veg first in sunflower oil - a simple task albeit a smelly one. The kitchen is big and I shut off the doors and opened all 5 windows (not the French door - local foxes know no boundaries) for a couple of hours afterwards. I then went out and left the extractor fan on, and burned unscented tealights when I came home. It got another 2 hours airing first thing in the morning. I walk back in in the evening and the place still smells of frying. Is this normal?

No.

I have an incredibly overwheling sensitive sense of smell and have never had this happpen.

-taff

I'd expect it of sausages or onion bhajis, but not veg. Are you frying over a low heat? Are you browning the edges of anything?

To be honest though, the only thing I semi fry for a ratatouille is the onions ot begin with and that's only to take the edge off them being raw, not to cook them. The peppers, zucchine and aubegines [ if they're in there]  all go in at different times in the tomatoes, I don't pre fry them. 

Rosa_Damascena

-taff said:

I'd expect it of sausages or onion bhajis, but not veg. Are you frying over a low heat? Are you browning the edges of anything?

To be honest though, the only thing I semi fry for a ratatouille is the onions ot begin with and that's only to take the edge off them being raw, not to cook them. The peppers, zucchine and aubegines [ if they're in there]  all go in at different times in the tomatoes, I don't pre fry them. 

This is the recipe I go by - gentle browning was all that was required. The dish had the added advantage of allowing me to strip down my basil plant which was on its last legs.

@gt568 - it was far worse in my previous home (much smaller). If I cooked anything - usually a stockpot of soup - the smell would disperse around the whole house and last for a week. I  would cook far more (and have a healthier diet) if I did cook at least once a week, I've got a dream kitchen and lots of kit, but I have to force myself to because I dread the smell so much! I was hoping to get over myself in 2024 but it is the hyperosmia that is the limiting factor.

bouicca21

I would never describe myself as super sensitive to smells but there are some that I dislike so much that even the slightest trace is unpleasant. I can’t bear being anywhere near cigarette smoke, even if it’s been days since the smoker did the dirty deed.  When I cook fish I have to open the windows, take the bones out to the outdoors food waste bin and wash the pan and the plate straight away and can sometimes  still smell fish for a day or two.  And of course smells can get embedded in soft furnishings, so if I’m cooking something smelly I keep the kitchen door closed, open windows and put the extractor fan on.

I’m sort of glad that @Rosa_Damascena can’t open the patio doors for fear of the foxes because I can’t either.  People simply don’t  believe me when I tell them that twice before the cold weather set in a young fox come in and stole the fat balls that I keep for feeding the birds.  I feel vindicated that I’m not alone!