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Subject: Re: 'Food Processor' vs. Electric Mixer - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 22:48:23 EST
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uicsg!patel    Feb 24 13:06:00 1984

"Whether having a Food Processor (FP) eliminates the need for an
electric mixer?"

Absolutely not.  FP does not aerate (introduce air bubbles) the food being
processed.  Egg beaters/ Hand mixers are specifically designed to aerate
the food.  From my experience the following is the application list.
I think for most part the applications are mutually exclusive.

Food Processor: Bread dough, pastry dough, slicing vegetables and fruits,
		Chopping, grinding nuts and seeds, making nut butters,
		Grating cheese, mayo and mustard spreads, humus, chutneys etc.

Hand Mixer: Egg beating, Egg whites, Whipped cream, cake and pancake batters,
            Mashed Potatoes.

Blender: Totally useless except for Milk Shakes.

Fruit and Vegetable Juicer: Carrots, Cukes, Celery, Tomatoes, apple,
                       	    pineapple etc.  But NOT oranges and grapefruit.

Orange Juicer: Orange and Grapefruit

   -Janak Patel, Coordinated Science Lab, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana.