On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:12:33 -0500, "J. Clarke"
> wrote:

>David Harmon wrote:
>> My food processor did not come with a plastic dough mixing blade.
>> Can I use the steel chopping blade for mixing dough?
>
>The steel blade will make dough fine. The gotcha is that the plastic blade
>is shorter and less likely to stall, or if the design of the machine is such
>that it will break before stalling, to break (and I did break my DLC-7 with
>some pumpernickel--shaft spun inside the hub).

That's sorta what happened to mine too. The plastic came off the
shaft. The motor was fine, but the housing gave out. That was a
great machine! It lived a long and useful life.

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Sometimes I even put it in the food.