I gave in to the temptation, followed advice and bought the food processor,
so far am not thrilled with it... My bread machine makes much better bread
dough, it's easier to use and easier to clean. All the baloney about The
food processor making dough in so many minutes... humbug, dough needs to
rise and it needs a place to rise the bread machine fits the bill.

So far the only thing We've used the food processor for that we are happy
with is ham salad and hummus... how much of that stuff do you need.

I tried using the FP for cutting up veggies for soup... what a mess, all
sorts of size slices and bits of carrots as they slipped to the side... then
of course I had to clean the stupid thing! I'm much neater with my chefs
knife. I didn't like the look of my soups and stews with food processor
prepared veggies, they looked like I bought a bag of pre cut veggies at the
grocery store... I tried cookie dough, it was torture... I have the 11 cup
size food processor and it just isn't big enough to mix cookie dough, my KA
mixer does the job perfectly.

I tried hard to learn to use the food processor, I even bought "the food
Processor Bible" for ideas but I've finally admitted that I probably wasted
my money, I'm not getting much use out of it, it's not making my cooking
chores any easier, its just taken up another square foot of counter top
space.

My choice would be a mixer and a good set of knives over a food processor.

Rina




"Vox Humana" > wrote in message
...

>
> The recommendation to buy one appliance over the other is difficult to
> make.
> It depends a lot on what you bake, and how much you make. It depends on
> how
> much space you have and how much general cooking you do. Right now, if I
> had to choose only one, I would get a large food processor. A few years
> ago
> when I was making larger batches of cookies and baking wedding cakes, the
> stand mixer was a better choice. For people with little experience baking
> or
> cooking, it might be better to do it all by hand at first.
>
>