Food Processor?
I read today’s installment of Grannymars Monday recipes. It is a celery and apple soup. It sounds like a great soup. I may have to try it. There is one bit in the recipe that struck me as odd. In her post was this line. ”Bring to the boil reduce heat and simmer for another 30 minutes transfer the soup to a food processor and blend until smooth”
Ok, so I get the boiling and simmering parts but I’m not so sure about this whole food processor thing. I have a whole bunch of food processors. I have a 10” chefs knife and a 12” one too. I have mashers and smashers and both plastic and wooden spoons. I have great big long fork things and even a bread knife. These tools were all meant to process food. Well heck I even have a tomato coring tool. (Imagine a saw toothed melon baller but smaller)
Now I’ll admit I do have some kitchen gadgets. I have a rice cooker and two crock pots and a really nice electrical meat slicer but that’s about it. Oh wait I have an expresso machine too even though I haven’t used it in years. I don’t drink coffee anymore.
A couple of months ago my friend Jim and I went to the restaurant supply store cleverly called, “The Restaurant Supply Store”. It’s a great big store dedicated to all things cooking. It’s a bit on the expensive side but all pretty top notch items. He needed a new potato smasher because his wife broke theirs. While there I was amazed at all the electrical thing-a-ma-jigs for use in the kitchen. I kinda’ wonder if anyone uses knives, forks and spoons anymore. They even had machines that make bread for ya’! What kind of high tech laziness is that?
I have a sister than makes the BEST bread I have ever eaten. She has a breadmaker although she calls it two hands and an oven. I can’t imagine how this machine thing even works. Apparently you put flour, salt, water and yeast into it and it does everything else. Doesn’t make any sense to me.
I’ll just stick to hand tools. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
You’re kidding me, right?
check this out: http://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KFP750OB-700-Watt-12-Cup-Processor/dp/B0002
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You can have the soup chunky without putting it in a food processor or blender.
Grannymar, I know what they are but for $129 I can buy an awful lot of groceries and I can mush up the celery and apples by hand. Your post just made me think of all the electrical gadgets I saw at this store and how utterly useless and expensive they appeared to me.
Brian I actually agree with you. All the expensive gadgets in the world will not make a cook any better.
I know someone with a great big new build stand alone house. The kitchen has all the whistles, bells and gadgets available on the market. The range style cooker has eight gas rings on top with oil fired double ovens – it is used for heating supermarket prepared food only! What a waste.
You have a point Brian . . but a blender or food processor is the only way to get things super smooth without all the fuss of pushing it through a sieve so a blender is definitely one of my gadgets, plus a pasta maker and a massive fruit/veggie juice extractor and a sandwich press (which was a gift). Apart from that the only necessary tools are an egg slice, wooden spoons, proper measuring spoons and good quality chef’s knives. Doing things the old fashioned way is OK if you have time so I understand why people do go for the gadgets. Bread takes a long time . . a breadmaker you set and forget! (but I haven’t got one)