Food Processor Recommendations!

[Mrs Dobby]

We've taken the plunge recently and got ourselves a decent Food Processor as our Yule prezzie to each other! After asking for everyones advice we were looking at a Magimix 3200, but eventually went for the 4200, and mightily impressed we are too!

Lovely solid build, looks good and works a treat! Never realized just how much use it was going to be, but we seem to be using it daily, anything from mixing a cake mix, making pizza dough, chopping veg, making chips, mashing tatties through to making a sandwich filling, its all soo easy and quick!

Ok, the Magimix isnt cheap, but after years of buying cheap things only to have to replace them again after a few years we've boht reached a point where we wanted something thats built to last!

Anyone else any recommendations they'd like to share?

[pigletwillie]

I went to the good food show to buy a stick blender and a food processor. I bought a Bamix which does everything a processor does bar kneed bread which I do by hand anyway. The upshot of it is as follows

1) it cost £120 rather than £200 plus for a decent processor.

2) Its footprint is much smaller and as its likely to be used most days its kept on the worktop.

3) It takes seconds to clean.

Having now made a cake with it, blended soup, made ice cream and today made fabulous ice cream I wont now bother with the processor. It truely is amazing. I have had it three days and wouldnt be without it.

[Mrs Dobby]

Wow! I'm impressed PW!! I'm going to be looking for a hand blender in the future, and from what I hear thats the one to go for! Having said that, I'm very happy with the Magimix, fortunately our kitchen has plenty of worktop, so it lives on the worktop at one end, so no problems with hiding it away and not using it!

[valmarg]

Glad you're pleased with the Bamix Piglet. We bought our's from the Good Food Show about three years ago, and it is used most days. I've never bought mayonnaise since.

I lost the chopper blade, turned out the wheelie bin and went through the contents with a fine tooth comb. In the end, I rang the number in the cook book provided. They do replacements (at the time I rang) £7.00 each post paid.

[pigletwillie]

Cheers Val,

I have just made baileys and galaxy ice cream for tonights pudding. Grand.

[HANGINGAROUND]

We've taken the plunge recently and got ourselves a decent Food Processor as our Yule prezzie to each other! After asking for everyones advice we were looking at a Magimix 3200, but eventually went for the 4200, and mightily impressed we are too!

Lovely solid build, looks good and works a treat! Never realized just how much use it was going to be, but we seem to be using it daily, anything from mixing a cake mix, making pizza dough, chopping veg, making chips, mashing tatties through to making a sandwich filling, its all soo easy and quick!

Ok, the Magimix isnt cheap, but after years of buying cheap things only to have to replace them again after a few years we've boht reached a point where we wanted something thats built to last!

Anyone else any recommendations they'd like to share?

Couldn't agree more I got the 5200XL and you are right you get what you pay for and Magimix can't be beaten!

[lynda66]

i've got my mums nearly 30 year old kenwood chef ....... still going strong and does everything

[coomber]

My OH is in switzerland at the mo - with orders to come back with a Bamix
My current stick blender is dead. I have a small food prosseser but never use it (hence the Bamix). If however I was going to buy one i'd get a Kitchenaid, I already have the stand mixer and burr coffee grinder and I LOVE them (my precious)

[BrideXIII]

OK,well, food processors, i have a morphy richards can't have been expensive cos i am always short of cash, well i say i have a morphy richards, i have half a one, the food processor bit is bust, the mixing bit ( luckily wired seprately) still works.
me mam, rings me earlier, as reported in another post from the depths of the cupboard under the stairs and has founf her old ( scuse spelling) moulynex (sp?) been under tyhere for years, after years of use and STILL WORKS when plugged in!
it arrives in the morning with the demijohns and beer thingy, i'll let you know.