food processors

I have a Kenwood Chef (and a fairly basic one at that!), I was going to say mine is quite new but I have just realised how old I am and in actual fact mine is about 15 years old 

I bought my mum one for Christmas (her's is dishwasher proof!!).

I chose a Kenwood partly because they are cheaper and perfectly good, and I get fed up of people saying how wonderfull a Kitchen Aid is and how is it better than anything else on the planet (you'd think it didn the vacummind and ironing as well) - when I mention I have a Kenwood and it's just as good I get snubbed (or just ignored as I'm not part of the "gang")!  So I'm sticking to my Kenwood with pride!

Disclaimer: (there is nothing of course wrong with a KitchenAid... or those who own them)

Hannah

Years ago I had a food processor and I chucked it out because it took up a lot of space, I rarely used it and it was a pain to clean. However, my Panasonic breadmaker needs a new bread pan because it's no longer non-stick and I'm fed up of peeling the dough off it. I no longer bake the bread in the machine but just use it to make the dough. Given the price of a new bread pan and the huge size of the machine  on my worktop, I'm now wondering whether it wouldn't be better to put that money toward a new food processor and chuck out the breadmaker. No way would I be tempted to spend in excess of £500 for a food processor, but one of the cheaper ones, if it had a dough hook, would take up less space and do other jobs besides kneading the dough for me. It would probably cost less than 2hrs 20min of electricity to make the dough too

If a food processor can knead my bread and pizza dough, make pastry, grate cheese and carrots and chop onions and other veg without blitzing them to liquid and with reasonable control of chopped size, then it would get rid of some of my least liked kitchen jobs. I've got a good little hand blender I use for making soup, so I wouldn't use it for that. And if I can chuck the bits in the dishwasher that would make it a lot more appealing. And that FP920 can be bought for not much more than a new bread pan. Could it do all those jobs?

I can knead dough but I just don't have to time to do it every day, and nor can I count on being around to move things on when it needs to be proved or rested. Chucking the ingredients into a machine is a lot faster and I can just leave it working while I get back to work. It does seem silly that they make dough hooks for the processors if they're not sturdy enough to cope with the workload of doing it. But that being the case, I can pick up a small breadmaking machine for less than the price of replacing the Panasonic bread pan, and when you're only using it to knead the dough I guess any breadmaker is as good as another.

the fp920 has a 1kw motor so hoping it would be powerful enough to cope with the demands of a crazed baking frenzy! lol

Do remember to keep us informed of how it goes.

mmm quite impressed really...knocked up a loaf of bread quite easily followed by some short crust pastry for cheese and onion pie tonight. Its slightly on the noisy side but I can put up with that. Its very stable on the worktop with no moving about at all.

Just need some nice recipes now....anyone got any?

also just realised this has a 3 year guarantee with it, I think thats a good buy.