For those who’ve already received a blender, stand mixer, or juicer, you could really feel such as you’re all set for prepping for meals, however—as the most effective cooks will agree—no kitchen must be with no first rate meals processor. The right multitasking software for slicing, dicing, chopping, and extra, with a very good meals processor you’ll at all times really feel such as you’ve received an additional pair of arms serving to you within the kitchen.

The most recent home equipment can chop, shred, slice, grind, grate, cube, knead, and puree on the contact of a button. A meals processor is especially good for shredding greens to boost salads and for smoothing do-it-yourself sauces resembling pesto or hummus. You may also use it to puree components for no matter stage you’re at in life—be it for weaning a 6-month-old child or making champagne Bellinis for a Friday evening.

In our choose, we’ve included a variety of tall and small designs to swimsuit each massive and petite kitchen cabinets. To evaluate the efficiency of every meals processor, we used them to organize hummus with chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, cumin, tahini, and sea salt. We additionally used them to cut carrots evenly to cover in Jamie Oliver’s Versatile Meat Ragu recipe, which is scrumptious in pies or served with pasta and rice. We’ve additionally rated every meals processor on versatility, design, and what number of helpful attachments the set consists of.

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