Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 04:24:00 GMT, Debra Fritz >
> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:10:32 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Carol, if no one has weighed in about the KitchenAir Professional,
> >>lemme tell ya: It has two work bowls, plus a small prep bowl and all
> >>sorts of disks, blades and other accessories. Does a wonderful job on
> >>everything. My only complaint would be cleaning the top. It has a
> >>slight ridge inside the outter ridge that makes it hard to clean, say,
> >>grated cheese and such. Otherwise, I swear it's powerful enough to
> >>turn rocks into gravel.
> >>
> >
> >I've got the 12 Cup KitchenAid. 3 work bowls, 6 or 7 different blades
> >and an egg whipper gizmo. The thing really can turn rocks into gravel!
> >
> >I used it today to make almond paste, and it had the job done in about
> >60 seconds.
> >
> >Cleaning the top is easier if you use a baby bottle brush. Takes about
> >30 seconds with hot, soapy water and comes perfectly clean.
> >
> >Debra
>
> I just got a new KitchenAid food processor, cause I couldn't see
> lugging around my old Cuisinart, and the little Prep Cuisinart...they
> take up too much space on my counters when I am traveling. Most
> apartments these days don't have much counter space.
>
> Well..I invested in the newer Pro-line model, which is a huge one, and
> the workbowl, and the little prep bowl, which on this model is about
> as big as some regular food processor bowls. It is a heavy model,
> and about a 1000 watts of power.

Wattage is power consumed, NOT power produced... consumer protection
agencies should really step in and stop appliance manufacturers from
bamboozling the public by mislabeling with implications that higher
wattage means more usable power, NOT! If you buy a hundred watt
incandescent bulb but use it with a heavy lampshade you really don't
benefit by the potential lumens, you simply produce a lot of heat but
little useable light, and the same with small electrical appliances.
With small appliances most of that wattage is consumed to produce heat.
Your machine doesn't consume much wattage unless it's under load, then
as load increases wattage consumption rises rapidly as more and more
heat is produced, not useable power. High wattage ratings for small
electric motor appliances simply means it's an inefficient appliance,
consumes lots of electrical energy but produces relatively little
useable power. Looking at wattage ratings for small appliances is
tantamont to looking at miles per gallon with automobiles, but not
adressing shaft horsepower... a powerful engine may produce lots of
horsepower but with an ineficient transmission don't place a load on
it, then much will be spent in producing heat... with most small
applincesm most of those watts are used to heat your home, running a
food processor is a very expensive way to heat your home. You can
usually identify poor quality motorized electrical appliances, they
generally have built-in overload protection, either a reset button or
no button but either way you need to wait for the *overheated* machine
to cool down before it will restart... the overload protection is there
to protect the manufacturer, not the consumer... it's kinda like big
brother watching you, prevents your using the machine just before it's
about to burn up... these reset things generally last just long enough
for the warranty to run out. Real commercial motorized electrical
appliances will have their power rating listed on the unit tag in
Horsepower, not watts. Try to remember, your food processor and stand
mixer are not broilers. Just like heavily shaded light bulbs produce
"illusion", so do folks by displaying lots of the latest and greatest
kitchen appliances, creates the illusion they can cook, NOT! No one
needs a $300 1000W machine to dice an onion... and your new food
processeor can't even do that, can't dice anything... it's simply an
insinkerator without the kitchen sink... in fact your $300 would likely
have been much better spent if you treated yourself to a new kitchen
sink.

Sheldon