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(PENMART01) wrote in
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> Wayne Boatwright writes:
>
>>PENMART01) wrote
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>>> There is nothing you can chop/slice quicker with a food processor
>>> that I can't do quicker and better with a knife.... remember, ya
>>> still gotta prep the food, make it fit that teensy hole, and clean
>>> up.
>>
>>Perhaps so, for you. I cannot do this more quickly by hand, and with
>>arthritis in my hands, it's a lot less painful to use the food
>>processor for large quantites.
>
> Not exposing te fact that you've a disibility right from the git-go is
> a foul... then you'd also be slower with a processor too.

Sorry, and yes, most tasks requiring a lot of hand use takes me longer.
Pulsing with a food processor, however, is less tiresome and less painful
than repetitive use of a knife. As I said before, I much prefer using a
knife and almost always do, when the appearance of the finished product
is important. Nothing beats a good knife for proper dicing and slicing.

>>>>Also, I've never found a better way to make
>>>>large quantities of fine bread crumbs than using the steel blade in
>>>>the FP.
>>>
>>> A meat grinder does a far superior job, also FASTER.
>>
>>That may be true for dried breadcrumbs, but I can't envision anything
>>but mush coming out of a meat grinder if using fresh bread - certainly
>>not fine crumbs. Next time I use my meat grinder, I'll give it a try.
>
> Use a large holed plate, and since grinders pass food but once the
> results will be very homogenous, so to produce ever finer crumbs
> simply pass the crumbs through again... but I've no idea what one does
> with fine fresh crumbs. I do know that to make fine crumbs a
> processer will produce a mixture of all size crumbs, but by the time
> there are no large crumbs there'll be mostly powder. Naturally I hope
> we're not talking Wonder here, I grind fresh bread crumbs all the
> time, from crusty breads.

Yes, always *good* bread, whether I make it myself or buy it from a
bakery. I haven't had a package of "loafbread" in my house in years.
Sometime when I have my grinder out for another purpose, I will
definitely try grinding fresh bread. Obviously, not having tried it, I
can only imagine the result. Unfortunately, I can't get the image of
something other than "crumbs" coming out of it.

Wayne