SC - Food processors

[maddie teller-kook]

Thanks for the clarification.  I forgot that 'cuisinart' was sold to an
American company. And yes, Robocoup is an excellent company.  This product
along with my Kitchen Aid K5 makes life in the kitchen wonderful.

Meadhbh
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From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: SC - Food processors


>maddie teller-kook wrote:
>>
>> I couldn't live without my food processor.  I have a cuisinart, it is
over
>> 10yrs old.  I would recommend this brand highly.  You can use it for a
large
>> number of period recipes. Chopping nuts, making pastry, slicing
vegetables,
>> mixing sauces, pureeing vegetables. The list goes on.  As for
attachments,
>> The ones i use the most are the metal chopping blade, the grating blade
(for
>> cheeses, carrots, etc) and a few of the slicing blades.   I recommend the
>> Cuisinart because it lasts for a long time.  There are other good brands
out
>> there.  I do recommend checking out Consumer Reports as well.
>>
>> Meadhbh
>
>I think the operative term is "over ten years old". Cuisinarts are still
>among the finest food processors money can buy, but a new Cuisinart has
>nowhere near the muscle and durability of a well-maintained older model.
>
>Cuisinart, BTW, was originally a product line made by a French company
>called RoboCoup, which invented the food processor as we know it, made
>several models for industrial use, and finally the Cuisinart for home
>use. They eventually licensed the Cuisinart to, I think it was, Hamilton
>Beach, and the Cuisinart began to be produced in the US.
>
>Now, for all of you waiting breathlessly for my point, it is this: the
>RoboCoup company is still, so far as I know, alive and well, and
>producing RoboCoup food processors in France. They're expensive and
>elitist, yes, but _they_ are indisputably the best food processors in
>the world. The R-2 is the big model, which probably holds 3 quarts of
>actual work space, as opposed to ones that hold 3 quarts and overflow
>when you turn them on. The R-301 probably holds 2 quarts, but has a
>stainless-steel bowl instead of a heavy, opaque plastic one.
>
>My illustration of the relative quality of different food processors is
>this: if David Letterman drops a Regal La Machine off a five-story
>building, it'll shatter into component hash. When he drops a new
>Cuisinart off the roof, it will probably break, and need repair. When he
>drops an old Cuisinart off, it'll be damaged but still work. A RoboCoup
>R-2 or an R-301 won't be scratched.
>
>Adamantius
>--
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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