How to Look Like You Know What You're Doing in the Kitchen
Written: Jan 04 '00
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Pros: Suddenly slicing and dicing are fun
Cons: "When are you going to make another strawberry-rhubarb pie?"
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| margomargo's Full Review: Cuisinart DFP-11 Deluxe 11 Cups Food Processor |
This user-friendly food processor can transform the sorriest excuse for a cook into Martha Stewart with the push of a button. Open the helpful instruction/recipe book to a recipe that sounds good (of which there are many) and you're on your way. Get familiar with the basic functions and you're ready to start experimenting. Four interchangeable blades - that's not too intimidating or scary, is it? - will handle any food prep you can imagine. No more standing there in the kitchen chopping and dicing while everyone else is in the living room having fun without you.
I used to have a La Cuisine, which I used once. (A year or so later I was going to give it away to someone but I couldn't find it. Nuff said?) I got my Cuisinart three years ago and at first I was pretty much intimidated by it. The second time I used it I thought I had already broken it (appliances don't usually like me) but it was just that I had set the work bowl on backwards (the handle goes to the front - duh!) and the pusher assembly wasn't locked into place. The buttons don't work unless you have it put together right. I kept using it, though, because it's fun and clean-up is easy, and pretty soon I was very comfortable with it.
Well, here I am three years later and I'm way too cool. For Christmas I made four strawberry-rhubarb pies from scratch - two for our Christmas dinner and two to give away. Slice the strawberries, zip zip, chop the rhubarb, zip zip, make the pie dough, zip zip (the pie dough recipe is right in the instruction book - it's delicious and ridiculously easy!) All Christmas week my dubious friends and loved ones kept saying, "YOU made this?" Tee hee.
Another favorite around here is homemade carrot cake. Fat chance I ever would have considered making carrot cake from scratch without my Cuisinart - I'd rather sit through "Ishtar" again than stand at my kitchen counter shredding ten carrots. But with the Cuisinart you poke the carrots down the hole and swoosh! - instamatic shredded carrots.
Listen - people have to eat, and if you're reading this it's probably your responsibility to figure out how your people are gonna do that. You're gonna be cooking for a long time - do yourself a big favor, save yourself a lot of drudgery, and get yourself a Cuisinart. This size has served me well (for a family of five and up to ten on holidays).
I mentioned appliances don't like me. The life expectancy of, say, a toaster, in my house is maybe six months. Appliances get banged around or improperly cleaned or just lose the will to live, I don't know. But my Cuisinart still looks and operates like new. Throw the blade, work bowl and pusher assembly into the dishwasher, wipe down the base (and the base has a beautiful gleaming finish) and you're good to go.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: L.T. Fawkes
Location: northeastern Ohio
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