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FOOD PROCESSORS
A food processor is a kitchen appliance used to facilitate repetitive tasks in the preparation of food. Today, the term almost always refers to an electric-motor-driven appliance, although there are some manual devices also referred to as "food processors".
Food processors are similar to blenders in many forms. The primary difference is that food processors use interchangeable blades and disks (attachments) rather than a fixed blade. Also, their bowls are wider and shorter, a more appropriate shape for the solid or semi-solid foods usually worked in a food processor. Usually, little or no liquid is required in the operation of the food processor, unlike a blender, which requires a certain amount of liquid for the particles to move around the blade. Versatile and efficient, a good food processor will likely become indispensable in the kitchen.
TYPES OF FOOD PROCESSORS
Full-Sized Food Processors
These kitchen workhorses typically have a capacity of 7 to 20 cups, and most come with a variety of blades and discs to handle just about any food prep task. This includes shredding discs for grating carrots or shredding potatoes, cutting discs for slicing, hooks for mixing dough, and of course, several different blades for chopping, mincing, mixing and pureeing.
Mini Food Processors
Some of these food processors are usually about 2- to 5-cup capacity, can outperform their big brothers when it comes to chopping and mincing. However, they just don't hold as much, and the smallest of them won't accommodate slicing or shredding discs. Mini food processors are often lumped-in with food choppers, but they do more than just chop.
Food Choppers
Some food choppers are small electric appliances, not very powerful; just enough to dice up an onion or grind some nuts. However, many of the most popular are manual devices that you turn a crank to grind, or "slap" with your hand to chop up your ingredients on a cutting board. They make short work of small quantities of nuts, herbs, peppers and other foods when you just need a cup or less to toss into a recipe or salad. Casual cooks and those with poor knife skills love them for quickly and evenly dicing and mincing. They're particularly popular with people who don't like the tears that come from dealing with onions.
FEATURES
Most food processors only have one motor speed, and most have a small tube opening at the top that enables you to easily add other ingredients. They usually come with a "pusher" that fits into this tube and helps to feed larger items, keeps fingers safe, and acts as a lid. Make sure the machine you choose has a "pulse" button to give small bursts of power (good for rough chopping or quick dough kneading). You'll appreciate a smooth touch pad for the controls, which is easier to clean than raised buttons, as well as dishwasher-safe parts.
Power
Make sure the machine you choose is powerful enough to handle the tough jobs: kneading stiff doughs, chopping raw carrots, or shredding a hard cheese, for example, Otherwise, you run the risk of the processor not chopping or combining uniformly or worse yet, having the motor burn out. For a full-sized processor (9 cups or larger), I would recommend seeking out a motor that's at least 600 watts.
Size/Capacity
Food processors come in all sizes from tiny three-cup choppers to 20-cup versions that could function in a restaurant kitchen. What size is best for you depends on the number of people you typically cook for and what types of recipes you'll prepare with your machine. If you're usually cooking for a family of four or preparing single-batch doughs, an 11-cup size should suffice. If you're often chopping small amounts of herbs or nuts or making small quantities of sauces, seek out a processor that includes a small work bowl and blade, or consider also investing in a separate 3-cup "prep" processor for these tasks.
Attachments and Accessories
Some food processors come with an entire assortment of accessories intended to maximize your use of the machine. These can include different sized work bowls and blades, disks that slice and grate foods to varying degrees of thickness, and even attachments and speed settings that turn the processor into a citrus juicer or a bread dough kneader. Before you spend the extra money on a machine that includes all these bells and whistles, consider whether you'd actually use them.
Brand and Price
Ultimately, your decision comes down to your own personal preference, as well as your budget.
WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF FOOD PROCESSORS
Food processors can handle most of the prep tasks that ordinarily would be carried out with a knife and cutting board, blender, grater, stand mixer, pastry blender and mortar and pestle. Food processors come in many sizes, from machines used for large-scale cooking in professional kitchens to processors that prepare food for one portion, but they all carry out the same basic functions.
Chopping
The main blade of a food processor has an S-shape and is used for chopping. When you put items in the bowl of the food processor and turn it on, the blade spins around and chops them into small pieces. Control the size of the pieces by how long you run the processor, with longer times leading to smaller pieces. Items to chop in a food processor include onions, herbs, tomatoes and nuts. The chopping blade can even grind meat too.
Slicing
The slicing blade of a food processor slices foods as you drop them into the chute at the top of the processor. Some processors come with blades that slice foods to a few different thicknesses. Slice carrots, cucumbers, eggplant and other vegetables in the food processor. Use the food processor to slice apples when making apple pie or other desserts.
Grating
The grating disk of a food processor makes quick work of grating a block of cheese and saves cooks from risking grating their fingertips as well. Other foods to grate in a food processor include carrots, potatoes for hash browns and zucchini for making bread.
Pureeing
Food processors effectively puree all sorts of food, from chick peas to make hummus to tomatoes to make tomato sauce. You can also puree lumpy soups into smooth ones. One consideration when pureeing in a food processor is that many types of processors will leak if filled too high. You can typically only fill the work bowl about halfway when pureeing liquids, unless the processor is especially designed to be leak-proof when filled completely.
Making Doughs
The basic chopping blade on the food processor can incorporate butter into flour when making dough for a pie crust. This process only requires a few pulses of the processor and replaces the task of cutting butter in with a pastry blender. Some food processors also come with a dough blade that you can use to knead bread dough.
BENEFITS OF FOOD PROCESSORS
· It can quickly chop and grind food
· It saves time and effort
· They have got hands free to add things into the mixture
· Some can need bread or dough
· They can grate things because they have a special grating disk
· Multiple things can be added
· It makes the pieces the same size and consistency
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