How to choose a food processor?
A food processor is an indispensable assistant tomodern kitchen. With it, you can easily make minced or mashed potatoes, cut vegetables and squeeze juice, whip cream or mousse, knead the dough. A food processor usually consists of a motor block, one or two working bowls and a special set of replaceable attachments. About, how to choose a food processor, tells the Land of Soviets.
Kitchen combines combine functionsblender, vegetable cutter, mixer, meat grinder, kneader and at the same time they occupy a useful space much less than all of the listed devices together. That is why kitchen combines are very popular and always in great demand among housewives.
Food processors are different: some more and more powerful, with a large set of functions, others - compact, with a small capacity and minimal functionality. When choosing a food processor, you should consider such basic parameters as its configuration and type of management, power, performance, overall dimensions and weight.
Components of food processors can vary in different models. Most often the food processor includes one bowl, in which the products are cut or whipped, as well as one bowl for mixing or scraping food. A set of attachments for food processors can include knives for grinding and cutting food products, disk knives, nozzles-graters, nozzles-blenders, nozzles-kneaders, as well as nozzles-corollas.
Food processors with a large number ofa variety of attachments are more expensive, so with a small purchase budget, you can choose the models that have only those attachments and bowls that will really be useful in the operation. For example, there is no need to purchase an expensive food processor with twenty different nozzles, if used out of them there will be a maximum of 5.
Management type in food processors can beelectromechanical or electronic. With electromechanical control, you can use the rotary dial to set the speed of rotation of the nozzles - combines with this type of control are cheaper, but they do not allow smooth operation of the device. Electronic (touch) control is more flexible and allows very fine tuning of the rotation mode of nozzles for processing certain products.
Capacity of food processors Is a very important indicator. Power is closely interrelated with the volume of the working bowl (or bowls) of the combine, as well as its productivity. So, a compact food processor with a bowl volume of 1 or 1.5 liters does not need much power and performance, because for processing such a small amount of food, "modest" power will suffice on average from 300 to 700 W. Combines with large bowls (3-4 liters) need already power is more impressive - about 1000-1500 watts.
The more weight and overall dimensions of a food processor, the more difficult it is to find a place for him in the kitchen. Therefore, to choose a food processor, it is necessary to pay attention to such parameters. For example, the weight of powerful combines with bowls of 5-7 liters can reach 10 kg, and their dimensions can be more than 35х25х40 cm. For compact models, the weight can reach 2-4 kg with dimensions of about 17x40x17 cm.
When choosing food processors, in addition to those named, the value has also such parameters as case material and bowls, the availability of various additional functions anddesign of a food processor. Models of combines with a simple design, plastic body and bowls without additional functions are the cheapest. But for "gadgets" like protection from splashing or blocking mechanism, as well as storage compartments for nozzles and cord, you will have to pay more.
To date, presented in stores andsupermarkets of household appliances models of kitchen blenders can be very much and it is not so easy to immediately understand their differences and advantages. Therefore, it will be useful in advance choose a food processor, correlating for themselves the indicators of different models fornamed characteristics in accordance with their personal priorities - then the chances to buy a quality and reliable food processor will increase significantly.
