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1274 of 1283 persons found the following review helpful.
Cuisinart Vs. KitchenAid Mini Choppers
By S. Burch
When I starting searching for a mini-chopper I was amazed by the big rating divergence amid the Cuisinart DLC2 and the KitchenAid KFC3100, so I purchased both and did a side-by-side comparison. The only comprehensible statement I may give for the ratings divergence is that Cuisinart buyers must have higher expectations. For most operations they have closely identical performance and for a good deal of operations the Cuisinart is the clear winner.
174 of 175 persons found the following review helpful.
I love my MiniPrep, it’s a great help!
By Vyshtia
I got this as a gift from my boyfriend and have been using it regularly. This is one of those things that you don’t think you ever need (and I did give this topic spacious thought), but once you have it, you would actually miss it.
The good is that it is actually good at FINELY chopping things.
The bad is that it is in truth good at FINELY chopping things.
Keeping this in mind, I’ve learnt when to use and when to just use my knife. For instance, when chopping walnuts for banana bread, I put a cup of walnuts into the processor and hit “Chop” – it without delay chopped the walnuts into good sized chunks, but there was a couple of walnuts that didn’t get cut yet, so I hit the “Chop” button a couple more times, but that turned the rest of the walnuts to a very little closely “powder” consistency. I tried it again, with when it comes to the same results. I guess I could try putting in less walnuts at a time, but then that would defeat the intention of “less work” since I’d have to put in a little amount, chop, dump out the introductory batch, repeat. It’s much having little impact in this case to do a coarse chop with knife. Chopping Mushrooms in this device also was lacking, it kind of made a mushroom puree.
Where it shines though is in my daily meals where I’m making a great deal of kind of pan sauce. Just with regards to all my pan sauces or pan meals begin with butter/oil, then saute’ing numerous garlic and onions. I’ll just peel a few cloves of garlic, coarse chop an onion, dump it all into the MiniPrep, and presto, it’s done! When I’m ready to dump it into my pan, just remove the co, remove the blade and use a mini-silicone spatula to dump the contents directly into the pan. A quick rinse of the lid, blade, and work bowl, and the processor may be put away. That can’t be any easier.
For more prominent meals and more ingredients, it’s great to just coarsely chop your items, dump into the processor, let it do it’s work, and then fill up your prep bowls with the dissimilar ingredients – making everything more comfortable once you’re cooking.
I find the “Chop” and “Grind” feature to be finelooking much the same thing, just in opposite directions. The opposite direction thing is helpful to get the feed to drop down to the blade. If you don’t put too much in the processor, once the piece is chopped, it gets flung to the sides of the work bowl and sticks there, creating empty space for the unchopped foods to drop into the blade. Everything gets chopped evenly…it just gets chopped very finely too.
The entire unit is very easy to use and clean. The blades are exceedingly sharp, so be careful when washing those. The clear plastic work bowl does get a little scratched up and not so clear anymore after a bit of use…but then, it’s a work bowl. The buttons are under a protective plastic, sealed – so no chance of anything getting underneath the buttons, just a quick wipe and it’s clean!
Overall, the unit is small, solid, quiet, easy to use, and easy to clean. It’s outstanding for fine chops to puree, not so outstanding for coarse chops/dice. Perfect size for meals for 2 people. For making more spectacular meals you may want to look at the larger cup sized processors, or just make a couple of batches.
159 of 164 persons found the following review helpful.
so… you want a feed processor?
By S. Rasco
I have the Mini-Prep and I have the big guy version, but I use the MP 10x as much. It does everything! Want chopped garlic? peel a couple heads, add 2-3T of olive oil and when it comes to a 1/4-1/2tsp. of salt. It keeps in a jar in the fridge and tastes a heck of a lot better than the store kind! Fresh herbs, nuts, peppers without burning hands…it’s great! When I’m done, I just rinse it out. This is my bestloved appliance after my blender, and if this made smoothies and margaritas, it would be my favorite!
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