Food Processors
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Food processors as we know them today are electric motor driven kitchen appliances used to accomplish certain tedious tasks in the process of food preparation that consume more time than the busy housewife or any other kitchen worker is willing to spare. Food processors, as their names infer, process foods according to any one of the following specific functions their operators select and they perform these tiresome aspects of meal creation quite efficiently and amazingly well:
- Food processors can slice and chop vegetables.
- Food processors can grind foods such as nuts, seeds, spices, meats and fresh or dried fruit.
- Food processors can puree just about any kind of food.
- Food processors can mix and knead dough.
In reality, food processors and blenders are quite comparable. Nevertheless, each of these electric kitchen appliances has several important features differing from one another. Food processors use exchangeable blades and disks which are considered attachments while blenders have permanent blades. Due to the fact that food processors are utilized for more solid foods, they use bowls that are wider and more shallow than those used by blenders. In addition, food processors require no liquids to carry out the task ascribed them while blenders would be unable to move bits of food around their blades without at least some liquids.
The idea of having a piece of equipment doing part of the work in the kitchen was conceived by Pierre Verdan, a French catering company salesman who was perturbed to see how much time his clients spend on chopping, shredding and mixing. He constructed a bowl with rotating blades at its bottom which proved to be quite a workable solution. In the 1960s Verdan’s simple device then evolved and developed into the first commercial food processor for the catering industry. It was not until 1972 when food processors made their way into the domestic kitchen market in the United States with a food processing appliance branded as the Cuisinart. Housewives in the United Kingdom had to wait until 1974 before a domestic food processing appliance named Magimix was available for their enjoyment.
We are now in the twenty first century and food processors are readily available in a wide variety of brands, styles and sizes and it could become challenging to decide on one out of the entire mix. As we have seen earlier in this article, all food processors are designed to handle multiple jobs on just about any food product. Therefore the issue to be addressed is to match the amount of work anticipated to the size or capacity of the food processor. If small jobs such as chopping nuts and mincing garlic for a single person are all that would be expected of a food processor, a small and light-weight appliance should be sufficient. If, on the other hand, heavier duties and larger quantities of food will be assigned to the appliance, a heavy-duty food processor would be in order. Many households find that working with two food processors, one large and one small, is the best solution.
Further evolvement of food processors led a handful of manufacturers to develop a food processor that can be turned into a blander by merely exchanging attachments on its sturdy motorized base. Other manufacturers have come up with a viable solution that replaces the need for owning a small food processor for small jobs along with a large one for the large jobs.
As you can see the choices for food processors are as many as are the hours saved by using one.
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