On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:27:03 -0500, Brooklyn1
> wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:50:28 -0400, wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:47:05 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2016-11-23 3:26 PM, wrote:
>>>
>>>> A Happy Thanksgiving to you and I bet you totally enjoy the new food
>>>> processor. I'd give up my mixer before the fp.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I use my (hand) mixer once or twice a month. I use my FP one or twice a
>>>year. It has to be for something that is enough work to make it worth
>>>digging it out cleaning it and putting it away again. Those are the
>>>occasions where there really is no substitute. One of the chores I use
>>>it for is cutting Seville orange peels for marmalade. It would easily
>>>take 20 minutes or more to slice them all up fine enough to make
>>>marmalade. The FP can cut them up in a minute.
>>
>>YMMV but the mistake you make is having to 'dig it out' - mine stands
>>ready to go and nothing is quicker then dropping whatever into it,
>>with the added benefit it can all go into the dishwasher, a win/win
>>situation.
>
>A sharp chefs knife and a cutting board is doubly as fast as any home
>style food processor, does a FAR neater/precise job too, and takes
>under 15 seconds for clean up. Before you can prep a cabbage for cole
>slaw to fit your food processer I've shredded the cabbage with a chefs
>knife.... and nice long thin shreds.

Why aren't you using a scythe? I bet you could cut up your acreage in
half the time with your skills? And it would be no time at all to
clean up that tool
Things have changes since you last looked at a food processor 40 years
ago.
Janet US