[Sca-cooks] mixers

[Diana Skaggs]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks SCA-Cooks maillist" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] mixers


> Olwen replied to me with:
> > Stefan, it sounds like you are putting too much product into the
> > processor.
> > Try adding less and using the pulse mode and you should find a happy
> > way of getting a more desireabe consistency.
> Okay. Thanks. Yes, using the pulse mode did seem to help, but sometimes
> the larger stuff just floated on top of the ground up stuff.

I have a small rubber scraper I use to push the larger stuff down to where
the blades will chop it up.

> Can you actually get, say, quarter inch cubes of onions or green
> peppers with the food processor?

I've used my food processor for over 20 years and have never been able to
get the same exact results as using a cutting board and knife. Of course, I
don't think the final dish tastes any different whether the onions are
*precisely* quarter inch cubes or chopped in the food processor. Time cost
vrs. taste benefit.

> Or just smaller stuff? Of course I can't always
> get the consistantly small size I want with a knife, either. Not unless
> I want to risk cutting my fingers.

> For isntance, my mom was complaining about the amount of peppers and
> onions she had to chop up when she was cutting the stuff up for the
> Southwestern Dressing I was making for Thanksgiving. Chopping a bunch
> of vegetables up is not a favorite chore of mine, either. I considered
> trying to use the mandolin but couldn't figure out how to do the green
> peppers with it since they are hollow.

Here's an example of time cost vrs taste benefit. Use the food processor,
just don't process until the peppers and onions are mush. Put in some onion
pieces, pulse a few times, take out the larger bits, dump the smaller stuff
out of the processor. Put in more onion pieces, and finally put in all the
larger bits you've saved back. I only have to do this when I'm making large
quantities of salsa. I save using knives for uncooked dishes like salads,
where food-processed vegetables would be too watery.

Liadan

> Stefan
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