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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/3/2012 10:16:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Shortbread in a magic bullet. Hmm I wouldnt use it for that since I like the frozen butter, ice water and the not over mixing way of incorporating the flour and butter together, makes a divine pie crust or bottom for like lemon squares. The bullet is a good spice grinder as well.


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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/3/2012 10:46:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		I got a Cuisinart DLC-10S Pro Classic 7-cup last year to replace the one I got in 1986 which still worked fine if I held it down - a little plastic piece that enabled it to run without holding broke after 25 years and I found this irritating for long jobs such as making eggs whites. I keep my old one at my mother's. She loves how much easier it makes grating beets, etc. We used to have my brother do the big grating jobs.

I like that the new one also has a second smaller lid so that you don't have to wash the whole grating attachment when you are simply chopping.

I've never tried it for bread, but the dough blade works great for biscuits and dinner rolls.

The pusher has a small hole so you can trickle in oil for emulsifying.

I have a great recipe for gyros that involves mixing ground lamb with onions, garlic, and spices in the food processor, but cannot find it online but if you are interested I will type it out.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/3/2012 1:25:47 PM   
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I'm not really sure what/how could be getting overmixed in a cookie dough.

During creaming you watch for the right color of the butter sugar mixture. When you're adding the flour you should know that you want to mix only unitl the dough comes together. TBH I've found that my stand mixer makes chocolate chip cookies pretty fool proof.


I just had a small lightbulb moment about the 'overmixed' cookie dough.

The first time I made chocolate chip cookies with my Kitchenaid I started to add the chocolate chips using the mixer and quickly realized that might be a bad idea. The chips were getting mushed between the beater and the side of the bowl, almost pureeing them. I now fold them in by hand rather than with the mixer.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/3/2012 5:03:49 PM   
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quote:

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I'm not really sure what/how could be getting overmixed in a cookie dough.

During creaming you watch for the right color of the butter sugar mixture. When you're adding the flour you should know that you want to mix only unitl the dough comes together. TBH I've found that my stand mixer makes chocolate chip cookies pretty fool proof.


I just had a small lightbulb moment about the 'overmixed' cookie dough.

The first time I made chocolate chip cookies with my Kitchenaid I started to add the chocolate chips using the mixer and quickly realized that might be a bad idea. The chips were getting mushed between the beater and the side of the bowl, almost pureeing them. I now fold them in by hand rather than with the mixer.

I just turn the mixer to low and add them in at the end. But I'm not fussy about the look of the cookies. 

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/3/2012 5:31:13 PM   
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DO NOT DUMP YOUR MIXMASTER!!!!! Those things are fabulous.


I have an old Kitchenaid as well and like it for what it does well, but it's not a replacement for the Mixmaster. Purchase a good unit with the expectation of it supplementing what you have.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/4/2012 10:06:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Have had a kitchenaid stand for 20 years that came with grater, juicer, extruder, sausage stuffer & pasta maker. Agree with comment tat older are better, they are MUCH heavier to move around but parts hold up better. Grater is handy when large batches of fresh grated cheese are needed. Juicer I've honestly never used because its the old hold orange to the side & juice falls on counter type. Meat grinder/extruder works well...as good as my hand crank model & speed is an issue when sausage stuffing, too fast & you get air pockets. Pasta maker same issue occurs, too fast & you get bubbles that cause it to break off. Hand made ravioi is the best so I'm not sure I'd even want a mechanical ravioli maker unless the automated part is extruding the noodles. Have made breads, cookies (yes it handles frozen butter) & have even made multi-tier wedding cakes with my little counter top tank!

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/4/2012 11:41:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		About 8 or 10 years ago KA decided to build a new factory in China. At that time they also decided to save money by substituting plastic gears for the previous metal ones. As a result, people trying to make more than about a pound of bread dough at a time found their mixers burning out. And people stopped buying the KA, plus a hell of a lot of returns.

Since then, they have gone back to metal gears and the new ones are reputed to work as well as the old ones. Mine's 20 years old, maybe 25. I think it's older than my oldest child and despite her hints about how I should get a new one and give her mine, it's not happening.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/4/2012 1:14:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bo uses my KA pro that I got at Sears years ago for bread, Lizard uses it for cookies. If he wants to get rid of it, I will take it off his hands and let Mom have it.

Mom has a little 3 cup processor that she uses for chopping nuts and other things with. Special buy from Walmart and it does great.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/4/2012 4:30:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have a nice blender for making frozen drinks and a few other things but for food processing I use this $15.00 plastic thing they call a Super Slicer. You stab your veggie like a potato or something with this knob that has spikes on it and start sliding it back and forth on this 10 inch surface with the blade. You can set the blade for different thickness and there is a setting for making fries or really thin fries. It's easy to clean and quite compact. I also have this plastic thing called a Super Chopper. It has a hand crank with 2 blades. I use it to make guacamole and salsa. You can pick those up cheap at a flea market, you can process food quickly and I can't think of anything they can't do that an electric food processor can do except mixing. I also have a slap chopper. I'm looking at maybe picking up one of those magic bullets or a Ninja system.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/5/2012 4:59:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		lovmuffin, that sounds like a mandoline slicer. I just replaced one with a thingie from target that has a julienne blade, a crinkle cut blade, and a regular v-blade. not sure how it will work because it looked like it might have some issues (kept the receipt =p), but i'll know once I try it.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/5/2012 5:10:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		kalikshama - somehow i missed that you have the exact machine i was looking at. =p that's cool.
They really do save time; I don't mind doing stuff by hand because we mostly always did growing up. My grandma had a meat grinder, and we had blenders, but that's it. =p

I saw that Cuisinart also has a variety of different blades; do you mostly just use the standard ones it comes with? One friend who recommended it to me likes all the different accessories and uses them frequently. I guess some of it is stuff you just don't think of until you actually have one.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/5/2012 8:48:28 AM   
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(Yes, I've accidentally bought things that are a total bitch to clean).

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/5/2012 7:28:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		I rarely use my food processor. But a couple of times a year it is absolutely essential. Grinding nuts for a flourless torte. Grating 5 pounds of potatoes for kugel. Not things I want to do by hand.

Mine's old and not a great brand. A plastic piece broke off it a couple of years ago so I superglued it back in place. Still works like a charm.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/6/2012 4:22:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		There's a Hamilton Beach food processor that's at walmart, and also for sale on Amazon. It has a pretty GREAT review, from a guy who has also had a Braun, a pretty high end one. One of the things he liked about it was that it was really easy to clean.
It doesn't have as many different blades and accessories, but I wonder if I'd actually even need them and actually use them. The mandoline I got has a "julienne" blade that might make a-okay fries.

Plus the HB is cheaper than the Cuisinart one by leaps and bounds.

http://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-70610-500-Watt-Processor/dp/B000SAOF5S/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1352204466&sr=8-6&keywords=hamilton+beach+processor

He came back recently and said he still absolutely loves it even after 2 years.

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RE: Food processors and mixers, oh my! - 11/6/2012 4:56:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have very little experience with them myself, but I'd really like to start cooking for friends and having get togethers, and I think the FP would make that easier. I can definitely see it coming in handy around the holidays for chopping up all the holiday baking goodies. =p

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