Rehabbed store bought pie crust, Chicago, IL. 2013
I don't have a food processor. I keep going back and forth on whether I should buy one so I can make hummus, tapenades, and so many other things. Then this morning I had a run in with a broken up store bought pie crust and Susan mentioned a future solution employing the food processor that made me think a little more about adding this mechanized tool to my arsenal. I think in the past I would have considered it obvious, yeah just get a food processor, or one of those mini ones if your kitchen is small. But I'm trying to be a super thoughtful consumer these days, so I'm wondering what you guys think about the usability and versatility of the FP.
I am trying to keep my kitchen ultra minimalist (i.e. manual tools like a moka pot instead of an espresso machine etc), I'm doing this partly because my space is very tiny which I like for a lot of reasons, but mostly because I want to acquire as few material things as I possibly can so I can spend less, add less to landfills, and have a less cluttered/hopefully more efficient living space.
Obviously, if I want to make a large majority of my food at home though (which I do want), I'm probably going to have to make at least a few concessions. But before I make these concessions, I want to make sure I'm choosing tools that are super versatile and can get used often enough to justify the space they take up in my small cocoon of prep/storage space.
So my questions are: Do you use your food processor often? What could I make with an FP that I'm not even considering yet? If you could only have 1 or 2 mechanized kitchen tools, would you make the FP one of them?
4 comments:
My answer is VERY. I do eat gluten free and therefore do make a ton of things that normal ppl probably buy. I use my FP to make breadcrumbs, sauces, to shred cabbage, carrots, etc instead of using a box grater, and to cut down on clutter I got a combo blender/fp. :) I don't know what I would do without it. My mom makes her pie crust in hers and I think even pizza dough :)
I don't really use my food processor enough to warrant its presence in my kitchen. I used it more a few years ago, before I got an immersion blender. That thing takes up so little room and is such a hard worker, I don't often feel the need to heft the heavy food processor up onto the counter. I don't have a stand mixer, and don't miss it at all!
Thank you both so much for your thoughts! I really appreciate it.
I'm still thinking maybe immersion blender for the space saving advantage.
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