9 Tips For Food Processor April Fools
Full-Sized Food Processors
These kitchen workhorses typically have a capacity of 7 to 20 cups, and most come with Various blades
And discs to handle pretty much any food prep job. This includes shredding discs for grating carrots or shredding
Potatoes, cutting discs for slicing, hooks for mixing dough, and, of course, several different blades for
chopping, mincing, mixing and pureeing.
Mini Food Processors
accommodate slicing or shredding discs.
below), but they do more than just chop.
Food Choppers
However, many of the most popular are manual devices that you turn a crank to grind, or
"slap" with your hand to chop up your ingredients on a cutting board. They make short work of small
Quantities of nuts, herbs, peppers and other foods once you only need a cup or less to toss into a recipe or salad.
Casual cooks and those with poor knife skills love them for quickly and evenly dicing and mincing. They're
Particularly popular with people who don't like the tears that come from dealing with onions.
The December 2016 Cuisinart recall
As this report was being prepared, Cuisinart issued a voluntary recall of about 8 million food processors due to
a faulty blade. This followed reports of the blade cracking and breaking off into food. The recall includes only
some S-shaped blades with four rivets. Many models, even if they have riveted blades, aren't affected. If
You're buying a new Cuisinart food processor, you've got nothing to be worried about. If you have an older model,
You can check to determine if yours is part of the recall at the Cuisinart site. All of the Cuisinart food processors
We recommend within this report have the newer blade.
Do you require a food processor, or a different appliance?
Most of the complaints we found across the board about food processors are that they don't perform well in
Processing recipes that call for a good deal of liquids, like soups, salad dressings, milkshakes, drinks, etc.. They
splatter and leak, users say. We largely discount these types of user complaints when evaluating food processor
Feedback since they're not a fair criticism -- food processors aren't really made for those kinds of jobs. If you
Want an appliance that can puree soups and make milkshakes or thin sauces, you need a good blender, and we
cover those in our blender report. If you just need to process fairly small amounts of liquids, say, individual
cups of soup or a single shake, see our report on immersion blenders. And, if you want to make smoothies or
Juice drinks, you will love our report on juicers.
These kitchen workhorses typically have a capacity of 7 to 20 cups, and most come with Various blades
And discs to handle pretty much any food prep job. This includes shredding discs for grating carrots or shredding
Potatoes, cutting discs for slicing, hooks for mixing dough, and, of course, several different blades for
chopping, mincing, mixing and pureeing.
Mini Food Processors
accommodate slicing or shredding discs.
below), but they do more than just chop.
Food Choppers
However, many of the most popular are manual devices that you turn a crank to grind, or
"slap" with your hand to chop up your ingredients on a cutting board. They make short work of small
Quantities of nuts, herbs, peppers and other foods once you only need a cup or less to toss into a recipe or salad.
Casual cooks and those with poor knife skills love them for quickly and evenly dicing and mincing. They're
Particularly popular with people who don't like the tears that come from dealing with onions.
The December 2016 Cuisinart recall
As this report was being prepared, Cuisinart issued a voluntary recall of about 8 million food processors due to
a faulty blade. This followed reports of the blade cracking and breaking off into food. The recall includes only
some S-shaped blades with four rivets. Many models, even if they have riveted blades, aren't affected. If
You're buying a new Cuisinart food processor, you've got nothing to be worried about. If you have an older model,
You can check to determine if yours is part of the recall at the Cuisinart site. All of the Cuisinart food processors
We recommend within this report have the newer blade.
Do you require a food processor, or a different appliance?
Most of the complaints we found across the board about food processors are that they don't perform well in
Processing recipes that call for a good deal of liquids, like soups, salad dressings, milkshakes, drinks, etc.. They
splatter and leak, users say. We largely discount these types of user complaints when evaluating food processor
Feedback since they're not a fair criticism -- food processors aren't really made for those kinds of jobs. If you
Want an appliance that can puree soups and make milkshakes or thin sauces, you need a good blender, and we
cover those in our blender report. If you just need to process fairly small amounts of liquids, say, individual
cups of soup or a single shake, see our report on immersion blenders. And, if you want to make smoothies or
Juice drinks, you will love our report on juicers.
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