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My wife has asked me to ask you. She's considering buying a Magimix Compact. Can you recommend another good make/model?
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A good food processor ?
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My mother works retail and highly recommends the Cusinart models. Find the size that fits your needs and enjoy. Their blades are sharper and their motors are better. I use a Kitchenaide stand mixer for bread dough but, the Cusinart brand is one of the few slicer/dicers that has a motor that you won't burn out with that task. The blade will actually slice soft tissue vegatables and fruit without the "smashing" effect seen with many other food processors.
Mith,
I took a look at the vita-mix website. It appears that the vita-mix machine is a very good heavy duty blender. Am I wrong?
When I think of a food processor, I generally imagine sliced potatoes, shreaded cheese, and other slice and dice type operations.
Steven,
What type of service is your wife looking for? My mother burned up several cheaper food processors that my dad bought and always had trouble with hand mixers. I bought her a Kitchenaide stand mixer and, she finally got a Cusinart food processor. It's been about 5 years now and she still has that original Cuisinart and, combined with the Kitchenaide stand mixer, makes things that she never would have considered before because she has good tools for the job and they take a significant amount of the effort out of the tasks.
Sid
I took a look at the vita-mix website. It appears that the vita-mix machine is a very good heavy duty blender. Am I wrong?
When I think of a food processor, I generally imagine sliced potatoes, shreaded cheese, and other slice and dice type operations.
Steven,
What type of service is your wife looking for? My mother burned up several cheaper food processors that my dad bought and always had trouble with hand mixers. I bought her a Kitchenaide stand mixer and, she finally got a Cusinart food processor. It's been about 5 years now and she still has that original Cuisinart and, combined with the Kitchenaide stand mixer, makes things that she never would have considered before because she has good tools for the job and they take a significant amount of the effort out of the tasks.
Sid
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Thank you all,
Cuisinart are dificult to get here in the UK. I think we'll probably go for the Magimix.
Cuisinart are dificult to get here in the UK. I think we'll probably go for the Magimix.
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If slicing/dicing or blender-like tasks are the main tasks I guess you want the food-processor.
I've got the littlest Cuisinart which is simply like a mini-blendor but works better. No feed tube or slicing. It's taken a lot of abuse. I've pureed all kinds of tough stuff in it like nuts or dried fruit, and it is still going. If the bigger ones are similar, they should last.
If I were to add an appliance it would be a kitchen aid mixer. Strong enough to knead bread dough properly, and attachments for grinding meat, grinding grain, grating cheese, stuffing sausage, and the like are available. From what I've seen the Kitchen Aid is more versatile and does about everything better except it may not be as flexible for slicing or shredding, though attachments are avalable for that purpose.
If I want to slice and dice I use.....KNIVES!
Or sometimes a mandoline slicer. Mine's an inexpensive mostly plastic one, but it works fine. I think it does all the cutting tasks a food processor can do except cube/dice. But it's easy to line up the vegetable sticks and cut them crossways with a knife. This won't mash and crush instead of cutting like food processors can. But if the idea is to avoid using knives or related hand tools, I guess a mandoline isn't suitable.
Here's a nice mandoline:
A couple of other examples here:
http://www.cutleryandmore.com/shop/cat.asp?family=37
I've got the littlest Cuisinart which is simply like a mini-blendor but works better. No feed tube or slicing. It's taken a lot of abuse. I've pureed all kinds of tough stuff in it like nuts or dried fruit, and it is still going. If the bigger ones are similar, they should last.
If I were to add an appliance it would be a kitchen aid mixer. Strong enough to knead bread dough properly, and attachments for grinding meat, grinding grain, grating cheese, stuffing sausage, and the like are available. From what I've seen the Kitchen Aid is more versatile and does about everything better except it may not be as flexible for slicing or shredding, though attachments are avalable for that purpose.
If I want to slice and dice I use.....KNIVES!
Or sometimes a mandoline slicer. Mine's an inexpensive mostly plastic one, but it works fine. I think it does all the cutting tasks a food processor can do except cube/dice. But it's easy to line up the vegetable sticks and cut them crossways with a knife. This won't mash and crush instead of cutting like food processors can. But if the idea is to avoid using knives or related hand tools, I guess a mandoline isn't suitable.
Here's a nice mandoline:
A couple of other examples here:
http://www.cutleryandmore.com/shop/cat.asp?family=37