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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Serendipity!
By AnitaRL
I happened to find this feed processor on sale at Target. I have owned only 3 feed processors in the 18 years of my marriage, this one being my third. The basi was a hand-me-down, a Cuisinart that was in all likelihood from the 1980′s. I didn’t use it each and each and everyday because I found it not very reliable. Things would get caught in the blade when chopping, or stuff would leak over the middle part beneath the bowl, or cheese would cause the shredder appliance to stop all together, and it was hard to clean. The second one was a cheap loss-leader Black Friday buy that wasn’t even worth the $20 I remunerated for it. So, I was accustomed to not even using a feed processor for each day cooking when I purchased this Hamilton Beach processor. Several things made me buy it: the sale price ($39), the Hamilton Beach brand (my mother used this brand for mixers when I was growing up in the ’60′s,) and the fact that it had a simple, not-too-complicated interface. (I think too a good deal of features leads to repair needs.) Well, I could not be more pleased with my purchase. First of all, it has an easy to store design, with all three extras (center chopping blade, chute pusher, shredder appliance) fitting neatly into the processor body and lid. One thing I failed to observe when I purchased it but now consider a HUGE plus is that the center chopping blade body is rather high, so this means that you may procedure rather a lot of stuff without having it leak out of the bowl in the center. Also, this machine is FAST. This means that when I use the top shredder/slicer, it doesn’t come to a halt with stuff jamming beneath the lid, like the old Cuisinart did. Of course, the speed of this machine may be typical of innovative feed processors, but after looking at the prices of others, this one can’t be beat. I like the fact that this one has two speed options: on and pulse. Simple! Finally, clean up is real easy. There is only one little crevice at the top of the lid where I need to take a knife to dislodge stuff. The old Cuisinart had various deep crevices that were hard to clean. I couldn’t be more pleased with my purchase. This machine has cut my feed prep time to closely nothing. I am glad that Target had this machine on sale that day. As I said, serendipity!
8 of 8 persons found the following review helpful.
Performs just as I’d hope
By Steve T.
This past summer I purchased the Hamilton Beach 10-Cup Food Processor for making home made salsa. I make it in very huge batches, almost one gallon per batch, giving away a good deal of of it to friends or family. I like that the switch is on/off/pulse only, it works so speedily that I wouldn’t want to set it to running and then walk away from it, only to find that my chopped onions or bell peppers are now liquefied- I only use it in pulse mode. The motor is very powerful and the chopping blade very aggressive; I have not had it bog down at all even when chopping onion and other dense vegetables. A friend purchased the same machine on my recommendation and he’s been very happy with it as well.
7 of 7 persons found the following review helpful.
Great tool!
By Alice B. Fulton
We got this yesterday and in that short time, we have employed it for minced parsley for paella (better than anything I ever did), sliced dandelion greens for a lentil salad (again, beats me), all the constituents for a szechuan hot garlic sauce, the shredded carrots and chopped onions and lettuce for a big batch of potstickers – everything worked like a charm. I have made big batches of pesto in the past to freeze but it has been painful. I foresee a much happier basil harvest and a good deal of more vegetables in our future. Lovely machine.
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