Speaking of food processors, what do you use yours for?

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mariadnoca

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The most thing I use it for is pie crusts, then maybe a large block of cheese if I'm using a lot, then maybe slaw...once. A couple times when I was deep into holiday baking I used it as a 2nd mixer.

As you can see I don't use it very often, so it made me wonder what you use yours for?

I find many things that once I'd *maybe* drag it out for I can do in the VitaMix, which is much easier to clean. The FP is a pain to clean IMHO and it limits me using it.

 
slicing partially frozen beef for stir-fry, ATK pizza dough, grating cheese, graham cracker crumbs

 
Parmesan Reggiano, slicing zucchini, bread crumbs, sometimes a load of onions,

celery, carrots, and more. I got the large mouth feed tube with my new one, and want to start using it for shredding cabbage, making doughs, and I am sure I will find lots of uses as I go along.

 
compound butter, hummus, dips in general, pizza dough....(more)

.... shredding zucchini and carrots, making pesto, bread crumbs from fresh bread, pasta dough, cauliflower "rice"

 
Oh wow. I use mine every single day.

Can hardly think of everything I use them (two) for- some of the things:
bread dough
pizza dough
chopping anything that needs chopping
grinding up herbs, spices
making Aioli (mayo)
making any kind of salad dressing or sauce
chopping up cheese
If I use a slicer or shredder blade I slice everything in sight.
dough for everything imaginable
pureeing hot soup ingredients
pie crust
Naan bread
Pita bread
emulsions of all types
cookie dough
chopping nuts, whatever
Hummus
Pesto

Can't think of all of the uses- too many! Could not do without a food processor. I have one that is a commercial machine and one that is a 4 qt Cuisenart.

 
Everything Cathy said plus chopping chocolate, making chicken salad or ham salad, pulsing chunks of

beef to make burgers (if feeling too lazy to get out meat grinder and then clean it which is a pain)
bread crumbs (fresh and dry)
other crumbs (crackers, cookies, nut brittles for ice cream topping)
shredding cabbage, carrots, potatoes, onions, etc.
fresh pasta dough
olive tapenades
nut butters

 
Everything for Thanksgiving, making coleslaw, grinding nuts, hummus, romesco sauce...

well, back when I could eat almonds and tahini! Now, it's mostly onions and parsley.

 
Pie dough, bread dough, hummus, anything purreed (except soup; I use a stick blender)

grinding nuts, tapenade, mayonnaise and aioli, pesto, slicing potatoes for a gratin, grating potatoes, carrots or any vegetable in quantity. Pasta dough, smooth pates, stuffings, etc. I tend to grate cheese by hand though, and if there is raw garlic in a recipe I puree it by hand first, but I use the processor a lot!

Between the processor and the stick blender, I don't have a regular blender anymore.

 
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