sf wrote:
> 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.

I tried the same recipe in stand mixer and it stalled. Finally pushed me
off center to get a bread machine, which kneads it with no problem.