Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsg!patel From: patel@uicsg.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: 'Food Processor' vs. Electric Mixer - (nf) Message-ID: <5855@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 22:48:23 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5855 Posted: Fri Feb 24 22:48:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 00:48:45 EST Lines: 26 #R:fortune:-261300:uicsg:4400015:000:972 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.