Akra broke my food processor on Tuesday.
Well, okay, I’d broken the catch on the locking mechanism a few months before and it had just been limping along the best it could, but the bowl did shatter rather spectacularly when Akra dropped it while washing up.
I half-heartedly looked for spare parts resellers, as I had done when the catch had broken, but hardly anyone seemed to stock them for that particular model and the few places that did were absurdly expensive. It made much more sense just to replace the whole thing.
I had two criteria: it had to be at least a 3L bowl, and I had to be able to chop, make pastry and grate/slice stuff.
After picking myself up off the floor in shock at how expensive some food processors can be, I quickly discovered that buying a white processor over a stainless steel finish one saved me about £60 (why?! That has to be a con, surely?). I got a mid-range model that did everything I wanted it to and had good reviews on Amazon.
It arrived this morning and I have a couple of thoughts about it. Firstly, the box it came in was HUGE! Bit of a shock when I was expecting a fairly compact model that would live on the kitchen counter. Fortunately, most of it was polystyrene packing. There was still a big box of accessories to find a home for in my kitchen cupboards, though.
Secondly, the recipe book that comes with it looks really good. I found myself flipping through the pages (fantasy cooking, as you do) and then started to really regret not having bought the all-singing all-dancing posher model (which, of course, the recipe book also catered for). If only, I’d spent more money and got one with the juicer, the chocolate grater and all the extra fancy blades!
Then I remembered that I’d had all those extra accessories on my old food processor and they’d gathered dust in the back of a cupboard for years. I only ever used the dough blade, the chopping blade, a grating disk and a slicing disk. That was it.
I’ve put the recipe book safely away on my cookery book shelf, now. I probably won’t look at that ever again, either.
3 responses so far ↓
1 GoodTwin // 6th Mar 2009 at 10:55 am
My husband bought me a food processor (in fact, it was before we were married). I used it quite a bit to start with, as I liked to make cakes/biscuits for family and the office, but not being very interesting in ‘real’ cooking most of the other chopping/grating tools were tucked away in the cupboard. As things got more hectic in life, all cooking went west and for most of the last 15 years (if not slightly longer) the food processor has simply been taking up space on the worksurface.
Until the back end of last year, when the only way I could get my rabbit with teeth problems to eat was to grate everything. Out came the grating disk and chopping blade and now it gets used twice a day, and I’m so glad I have it!
2 Ys // 6th Mar 2009 at 3:00 pm
I’ve never worked with one of those machines before. I know exactly what you mean about having the fancy parts shoved in the back of the cupboard somemplace… that happens all the time hehe
3 anabels // 6th Mar 2009 at 11:33 pm
LOL I use the blender goblet and the main blade and bowl and that is it. I keep thinknig I should find the mini bowl and figure out how to set it up but I never quite get round to it!
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