Five Uses For a Food Processor

Most of us have a food processor sitting on a shelf somewhere in our kitchen. Many have been conference dust for years because we are not quite sure how it is used. There are so many favorable uses for a food processor that once you have realised just how handy they can be, your appliance will take pride of place on your bench top.

Along with the multitude of inserts and parts you will consideration the huge booklet that commonly comes with one of these kitchen appliances. That is because there are so many private uses for this not so humble machine.

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Chop

This one is pretty obvious, you can use a food processor to chop things swiftly and into small pieces. However depending on the blade you use you can dice, slice and shred either finely or thickly and you can also julienne. This can apply to all sorts of vegetables and other hard foods like cheese for coleslaws, soups, stews, salads and baking. While it might not be favorable to go to the problem for a small meal, a food processor can save a lot of time if you are cooking for a crowd or preparation a lot of food.

Grind

Bet you didn't know your processor could grind things. Well it can. Base uses are for things like nuts and seeds, but how about spices or meat or dried fruit. A food processor is commonly built for pretty tough rehabilitation and grist could not be done in your blender or with a wand. A food processor would be the only kitchen appliance, aside from an actual mincer that could grind meat. And grist spices in a mortar and pestle is time interesting and often messy.

Puree

I think we all knew about this one, and frankly, our blender or wand can also puree things. However, the speed and cleanliness would most likely be a lot more impressive when using a food processor to puree your baby food, soups or fruit. If this engine can grind nuts and seeds, imagine how easy it would puree cooked fruits and vegetables.

Juice

Depending on your machine, most processors come with juice inserts these days. A straightforward part that looks like a general hand-operated juicer is fitted to the spinning tool and voila you have your own automatic juicer that not only juices lemons, oranges and grapefruits in a pinch but also has a strainer that removes pith and seeds from the juice.

Whipping

By fitting a special whipping insert to your food processor you can also whip cream in description time. Not only is whipping cream in a food processor highly quiet (if you have a quiet engine of course) but is also a lot less messy that using a bowl. Cream does not go flying off the beaters, it is kept nice and tidy in the container, ready to be spooned out when it's done.

So keep your food processor on the bench top, because it can be used for so many dissimilar kitchen duties.

Five Uses For a Food Processor