You've heard me complain about my current food processor before. In short, I had a Cuisinart DC-5 that I loved, and after nearly 30 years, I had to get rid of it because the plastic bowl had cracked in several places and was no long usable, and I couldn't find any replacement bowls online.
Replaced it with a new KitchenAid 7 (or possibly 9) cup one, and the intervening years saw a real drop in food processor quality, because it's a piece of
. It's so bad, I sent it back and they sent me a replacement, and it's just as bad. Weak, weak, weak. Won't do even the smallest about of bread dough, which is what actually what I use my food processor for more than anything else (pizza dough, to be more specific).
Oh, where is the quality of the 1970's when you need it?!
Well, visiting my parents yesterday, and my mom's house is like a combination junk store and museum, and what did I see sitting in a corner of their screened-in porch?...this little beauty:
That's either a late-70's food processor or a warp drive capacitor alignment unit from Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.
Mom didn't know how or when she got it, but she knows she never used it because (her words), "I'm too old for that newfangled stuff." It has been used, I can see evidence of that, but it's in excellent like-new shape, so I grabbed it right up.
The bowl is heavy-duty plastic...very thick and substantial - not flimsy at all like my new one. It has a good weight overall (though not as heavy as my Cuisinart was), and best of all, when I turn it on, it sounds like a freight train and a jet plane are making love - it's wonderfully noisy, which I hope bodes well for its dough-handling ability.
I'm about to make a loaf of whole wheat bread, using the recipe in the included manual, and my first test of this "Marvel From Yesteryear (...yesteryear...esteryear...teryear...)!"
Replaced it with a new KitchenAid 7 (or possibly 9) cup one, and the intervening years saw a real drop in food processor quality, because it's a piece of
. It's so bad, I sent it back and they sent me a replacement, and it's just as bad. Weak, weak, weak. Won't do even the smallest about of bread dough, which is what actually what I use my food processor for more than anything else (pizza dough, to be more specific).Oh, where is the quality of the 1970's when you need it?!
Well, visiting my parents yesterday, and my mom's house is like a combination junk store and museum, and what did I see sitting in a corner of their screened-in porch?...this little beauty:
That's either a late-70's food processor or a warp drive capacitor alignment unit from Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.
Mom didn't know how or when she got it, but she knows she never used it because (her words), "I'm too old for that newfangled stuff." It has been used, I can see evidence of that, but it's in excellent like-new shape, so I grabbed it right up.
The bowl is heavy-duty plastic...very thick and substantial - not flimsy at all like my new one. It has a good weight overall (though not as heavy as my Cuisinart was), and best of all, when I turn it on, it sounds like a freight train and a jet plane are making love - it's wonderfully noisy, which I hope bodes well for its dough-handling ability.
I'm about to make a loaf of whole wheat bread, using the recipe in the included manual, and my first test of this "Marvel From Yesteryear (...yesteryear...esteryear...teryear...)!"
