10 Reasons to Love Your Food Processor

If you don’t already have a food processor, get one. Get one today! It is my favorite appliance. Seriously, if you don’t already have a food processor, really consider getting one. I use a mini sized processor for quickly chopping up onion or herbs when I am cooking. I use my big 14-cup processor so often that I never store it away.

Here are my top ten favorite things to make that require using a food processor.

1. Peanut butter cookies, the easiest recipe in the world: 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup peanut butter, and a teaspoon of vanilla if desired. Toss them into your processor; give it a whirl for a few seconds until well mixed. Scoop out a tablespoon of dough and scrap it on the side of the bowl to even the spoon, drop onto a cookie sheet and smash it down with a fork to make the cross hatch design. Bake at 350 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes and you have fabulous, gluten free peanut butter cookies.

2. You can make your own peanut butter or any other nut butter that you like in your processor. Cashews make wonderful nut butter too.

3. Make steak sandwiches by chilling, but not freezing, leftover steak in the freezer until firm but not frozen. Slice with your processor and then add to a skillet in which you have been sautéing bell peppers and onions. Put it all on a sandwich bun, top with jack cheese, and enjoy. I know, who has leftover steak? Plan for this and throw an extra steak or two on the grill next time.

4. I always use my processor to make pie dough. I even chill the bowl and blade in the freezer to help keep my dough chilled and flaky.

5. Slice up some grapes and put them in chicken salad for an amazing delightful lunch.

6. Puree unsalted and lightly seasoned foods for your baby and save on the cost of canned or bottled baby food. On the flip side of life, you can puree foods for the elderly who have denture issues.

7. I make dips and spreads with my processor; my favorite is a pureed cucumber and cream cheese dip. Sorry, secret family recipe.

8. I needed bread crumbs, so I grabbed the giant bag of croutons that I buy at a warehouse store and had tasty bread crumbs in seconds.

9. To chop nuts, I use the shredding disc which makes the pieces more uniform in size and doesn’t make the texture too fine or risk turning the nuts to butter.

10. My 14 cup processor will hold an 18.5 ounce cake mix. I can have the cake ready to bake in less time than it takes me to haul my big mixer out and find the correct beater.

There you have it, my list of favorites. Keep your processor accessible and you will be amazed how fast your list of uses grows.

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As a chef, Rodger Haroar has used many different kitchen appliances. And, as it happens with most constantly used equipment, replacement restaurant equipment parts like meat grinder parts and mixer parts are often needed. Rodger shops for replacement parts at National Band Saw, knowing that he can get Hobart meat saw parts, Globe parts, and Berkel slicer parts for less.

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