Food processor advice ASAP, please.
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7 years ago
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Info and Advice on Food Allergies? (and a shoulder:)
Comments (16)I'm sorry you are going through this....but for a Dr to decide to do an allergy screening because of a single hive on her chin, AND to tell you that she is allergic to all thses things seems way WAY too out there. Please get a second opinion...I suspect that a certified allergist will pooh pooh the whole thing when you tell him why and how the testing was conducted. I am an "allergic person"...have...had all sorts of allergies. I have tested positive and negative to all sorts of things like corn, ragweed, certain foods etc....and periodically I will get a few idiopathic hives...mostly when there are other stressors like a sinus infection...or a lot of mosquito bites.I have a friend who is an allergy cripple....she looks normal, but spends a week at a time at an allergy clinic and avoids all sorts of things like beer, freshly made bread ( but day old bread is good as is wine!) etc etc etc... Someone told her she was highly allergic to "something" and she has searched until she found someone who will corroborate those findings. Get a second opinion....and perhaps a third opinion. Allergies are very scary, I am allergic to Penicillin to a dangerous degree and my Son in Law to fish....once! he ahd a reaction needing a trip to the ER...but has managed to eat small amounts since...(what a dummy to even try it!)...allergies come and go. Get at least one more opinion....probably 2 more. No need to make Grace an "allergic kid" because one doctor found a bump on her chin! Linda C...See MoreFood Processors
Comments (31)I do spend a lot of time in the kitchen baking pies and although I have used my FP often to cut in the fat, I never add the water in the FP. Tried it and didn't like it. I prefer to finish the pastry dough by feel. And more often then not when I want to make a pastry dough I just cut the fat in using the old fashion pastry cutter. Quicker than getting out the big FP. Gardenlad. I make all my own breads and four cups of flour nets me two nice size loaves. Most of the breads I make the French or Italian artisan types, and last year I got into making sour dough as well. Since my FP will handle 6 to 7 cups of flour easily I usually end up with 3 large loaves. Check out Julia Child's simple French Bread recipe in her "The Way to Cook" book. The recipe calls for 3 1/2 cups of flour and will make three 18 inch baguettes or two fat long loaves. Or a couple of large rounds. Since my stone is only 16 inches wide I make slightly smaller baguettes and a third loaf or two larger loaves. I do agree with you though that the dough blade has limited use and unless you do use your FP to make bread dough then you could do without it. Ann...See Moreyour opinions on food processors please
Comments (12)I find I use my little (approx. 2-cup capacity) Hamilton Beach Food Chopper more than my 7-cup Quisinart (2-person household). I usually use the small food chopper for grinding nuts into nut meal and finely minced onion. As well as other foods I only need a small amount chopped. I remember when my mother first got her food processor and she made potato pancakes (raw potatoes) the first time. A formerly tedious chore that included scraped knuckles on the grater. She was the happiest person in the world. I have a friend who lost her arm in a farm accident when she was a child and she uses her food processor for making bread dough and pastry (Martha Stewart's recipe). As with many such kitchen "toys", you just determine you are going to figure out as many ways as possible to use it. I have several cookbooks dedicated to the Food Processor. I agree with Annie when it comes to chopping cabbage for sauerkraut - a food processor is the BEST tool for the job. -Grainlady...See MoreFood Processor recommendations
Comments (21)My last food processor was great while it lasted (which was for about a year after I purchased it) at a thrift store for a song. It was one of the "newer" models which I got at a thrift store back when you could find such things at thrift stores. My contention is that so many people now shop thrift stores to resell things that things like good food processors disappear off those shelves faster than ever. And since I rarely am able to get over to the thrift store, I must buy from the resellers on eBay. A while back (a long while back) I did a lot of research on Cuisinarts online. I don't know where all that information is now, because it is nowhere to be found -- but I can tell you that back then (over ten years ago) I ran into a LOT of people very unhappy with Cuisinart food processors since the company was sold (back in the late '80s, I believe) and their #1 complaint was that the newer blades broke so easily. That always stuck in my mind, so this time around since I had to go to eBay anyhow I did a lot of research to figure out what to get. I learned that I am NOT a typical food processor user, in that I am not buying it primarily for shredding, grating or even making bread or pie crusts. For me it is mostly for making my own tahini (just put the sesame seeds in with about a TBL of sesame or olive oil for every cup or two of seeds and let it whir for a while -- maybe 10 min). The tahini is out-of-this world and soooo much better than anything I could buy. Now store-bought tahini tastes rancid to me! And then of course I make hummus using the food processor. Another thing I love to make is "coconut butter" using organic flaked coconut. This take about 12 minutes with the S-blade and doesn't really need any oil added. WAY cheaper than buying coconut butter in the jar, and so good for you! Last but not least, I think it is awful good fun to make my own butter (and buttermilk) using some grass-fed organic heavy cream. I haven't done this yet but have seen a couple videos of it on YouTube. Anyhow, the fp I am getting is the Cuisinart cfp-5A. Thanks for all the reviews you have done on that model, John Liu, in past years -- helped a lot! It was also good to know that this model is NOT good for making bread, and I was able to buy it with my eyes wide open about that. It will be a drag to have to turn the lid left and right in order to "pulse," but I can live with that. I was able to get the cfp-5A with the S-blade and with the basket and lid having sustained zero chips or cracks for just a little over $70 including shipping, so I'm a happy camper (or will be when it gets here). And in time I may spring for a blade that grates, shreds or slices. Unfortunately I have not been able to find a manual for the cfp5 or cfp5A. If anyone knows where I can get the pdf of that manual please let me know! Maybe it does not exist, since I cannot even find it on the Cuisinart manuals page which has manuals for 66 different models of food processors! By the way, what IS the difference between a shredder and a grater in these discs? Would either of these work well to very finely grate ginger? Also, can anyone tell me the serial numbers I would need for the discs that go with the cfp-5 series? I am surprised how little information I can really find on the Cuisinart cfp-5 series. My goodness, I could not even find a YouTube video demonstrating it. Surprising!...See Moredonna_loomis
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