We have a nook in our pantry. It’s near the back. Where all good but useless items reside.
Today we decided to try out the food processor. Cuts, slices and dices on command! $59.99 at Sears a few years back – a Black and Decker special!
The salad was to be a coleslaw. All we needed was to mash (This is somewhere between slice and full pulverize) the carrots and cabbage.
The box opened real easy! “Smooth”. Of course, we hadn’t taped it up last time we used it (and upon reflection we probably should have). The instructions were near the top.
Jill looked them over and read them aloud. “Place the handle to the left and lock into place.” Somewhere around this point she made the observation that last time we had trouble with this part. I place the bowl down and locked it in place. Put the other pieces in place.
The machine would not start. There is an automatic shutoff if every piece is not properly installed. We rertraced our steps. I had been too handy! Beginning at placing the bowl on the left, I had found notches and forced the assembly into place. Another half turn and all would have been well.
Eventually the assembly began to look like the instruction picture.
We inserted the coleslaw. Most of it came out like mash. Some didn’t — Jill’s still trying to correct that faux pas! The carrots came out in round circles. Not in shredded pieces. I reinserted them. After three or four tries we were much closer.
By this time Jill is slightly agitated. OK, maybe a little more than slightly. Her rationale had been that a food processor would be done in seconds compared to manually using a grater. At around the 20 minute mark we repacked the individual parts (the whole is greater than the parts, but eventually they all fit in the box)!
Now, anyone want a slightly used (2 times that we remember — any more times and we would want to forget), still sharp (a whole cabbage or two and a few carrots are about all that this food processor has seen), and fully functional (depending on which function you want) food processor??
GOING FOR CHEAP!!