FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - anyone here who loves their food processor?

On Wed, 04 May 2005 21:46:56 GMT, (Curly
Sue) wrote:

>On Wed, 04 May 2005 03:13:48 GMT, Hope >
>wrote:
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>>Even with teh blender. I tried to puree some cooked
>>chickpeas/garbanzos in the blender (there's a blender as well as a
>>food processor bit) and it was really hard! They kept kind of
>>avoiding the blade. Then there's the tiny little blender for small
>>quantities- that didn't work for the garbanzos either. I'm sure that
>>it's me that's the problem. I feel like a new computer user saying "I
>>can't get it to do anything!" about a new PC.
>>
>>Anyone who can help I'd be really grateful.
>
>With a blender, you need liquid. It's a different beast than a food
>processor; something has to drag the blended stuff down to the blades.
>So add some water and oil to the garbanzos and you can puree them in
>the blender. Same thing goes for making pesto in the blender. It
>will do a finer job than the food processor (which is great for
>chopping leaves) but you need the liquid.
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>Sue(tm)
>Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Thanks for all the replies. I think part of the problem is that I
didn't know that a blender was functionally different to a food
processor! I just thought the blender was smaller (at least around
the bottom). Silly me. I think the day I tried to make hommus, I
ended up dirtying all three of the bowls, and at least 2 of the sets
of blades. I thought "labour saving?!" :-) and felt *really* stupid..

SO what do you do in the blender besides smoothies? Would you do
batter like pancake batter in there? What about cake batter? Or
would the food processor part be better? It has a whisk looking
attachment which I haven't decoded yet.

Thanks to those who confirmed that the left-over slice of whatever was
normal when grating. That made sense since I guess usually you'd
only haul the FP out if doing large quantities.

Thanks again

Hope