No, You pulse it a few times. It is very fast. I also use very cold (if not frozen) butter.
The FP is not an exact replacement for the blender, but you can do the things that you mentioned with it.
As I said, mine goes in the dishwasher.
...and I learned long ago to buy three workbowls.
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Absolutely! That is one reason I like my Braun FP. The parts are very inexpensive so you can have several bowls and lids without a major investment. I also have two bowls for the KA stand mixer.
Interesting. Since I don't have access to raw milk, I won't be trying that soon. There are directions with my FP on how to use milk and butter to make a substitute for cream. By varying the amount of unsalted butter added to the fixed amount of milk, you supposedly can make light, medium, and heavy cream. I haven't tried it so I don't know how well it works.
I think that'd be a near miss at best - there's a lot of whey protein left over in the liquid after you remove the fat from cream. They used to try to feed it to livestock and even use it as fertilizer (it's lousy fertilizer) but these days they put it in fad diet snack bars.
Dishwasher is fine, but I just got an AWFUL coffee Pot that says pieces can be washed in the dish washer... DUH... I only run my dishwasher once a day! and use the coffee pot a lot more than once. I would expect to do the same with a food processor.
BTW I'm sorry, I didn't intend to hijack the "pizza " thread... it just happened.
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I sometimes use the coffee maker more than once a day. I just rinse out the pot and dump the grounds. I don't wash it each time. There is nothing in it that will go rotten and no one has drunk out of the pot - at least not in my household. Therefore, I don't see any reason to wash it. Restaurants don't wash the coffee maker between pots.
As for the FP, if I have a series of foods to prep, I try to do it in some logical order to minimize washing the bowl. For instance, I might grind some bread for crumbs, then chop the onion and celery, then grind the meat if I am making meat loaf. There is no need to wash the bowl between jobs. If I am making bread and grinding meat, I just pop on a clean bowl. I have a Braun FP. It is very simple. There is a bowl, a lid, and pusher for the feed tube. The are no complex interlocking parts in the lid like you find on some models. If I need to do a quick wash between jobs, I simply put some water and detergent in the bowl and wash it. The lid rarely gets dirty as food doesn't tend to reach it. Again, if it needs a quick wash, I do it with the bowl. I always have a sink brush handy. I use it to scrub the sink and scrub dishes and pans. It is very useful and a good aid in scrubbing sharp or irregular items like knives and your food processor blade. I think you are over-thinking the hygiene aspect of this device. It isn't any harder to clean than the bowl and beater from the stand mixer. When it goes in the dishwasher, I use both the sani-clean and heated rinse setting, so it gets subjected to very hot water. The dishes are so hot when the cycle ends that I can't handle them. The Lexan bowl and lid easily stand-up to the heat and detergent in the dishwasher. If you are concerned about cleaning the bowl, make sure to find out how much additional bowls and lids cost. In my case, that is about $20. For some machines you might be looking at several times that amount for a second bowl.
I would buy another Braun FP if mine died, but since Gillette was bought by Proctor and Gamble recently, and Braun is a subsidiary of Gillette, I am a concerned about the future of Braun. As an alternative I would look at the Wolfgang Puck FP from HSN. It looks great and there are two version. There is a standard version and one that is a combination FP and blender. I would probably get the dedicated unit. Here is a link:
Vox Humana wrote on 05 May 2005 in rec.food.baking
My KA FP came with 2 blades a steel one and a plastic one. The Plastic blade is suppose to be used for making dough. The plastic blade is suppose to not get hot.
I think they give it all to "little Miss muffet"
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