Nuts in the Kitchen Aide are a No No
In article >,
Janet Wilder > wrote:
> Last night I was making a baklava and thought I'd grind up the
> store-chopped nuts in the meat grinder attachment of the KA Artisan. It
> stopped dead. No turning, just motor groaning. I shut it off and tried
> to open the ring on the front of the grinder attachment but it was stuck
> like it had been glued there.
>
> I kept running water through it and finally, DH, with the aid of one of
> those rubber gripper jar openers was able to get the ring loose. What I
> found inside was a form of concrete that was made from the nuts and nut
> oil solidifying into a cement.
I can see the physics of that.
> Got out the Cuisinart and did my chopping there.
I have an old, handheld nut chopper that I use. It has a glass jar with
a wierd piece on top. That piece has a handle sticking out the side. I
put the nuts in the top, turn the handle one way for coarse, the other
fir fine. Fingers grab the juts and bring them down onto thin strips of
metal, and then force the nut to try and go through, breaking it up as
it goes.
> Moral of the story: Don't put your nuts in the meat grinder.
Ouch.
jt
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