/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17822722
no

>>17822722
>food processor
>square cuts
I need one of these holy shit....

>>17822722
No, it'll turn part of it into puree, whilst the rest is still very large pieces.
Just cut them by hand.

>>17822722
I use mine for onions, garlic, celery, and carrots at least once a week

>>17822738
>girl
>smiles and waves at me
I need one of these holy shit....

Just get a vegetable chopper.

Chop a few times and chuck it in dishwasher. Dead simple.

Chopper chads rise up

https://www.williams-sonoma.com/m/products/oxo-vegetable-chopper/?pkey=cchoppers

>>17822722
Finally bought one recently and I think it's great friendo. Only issue is uneven cutting but it's not a dealbreaker

>>17822730
somebody slap it I baked this for the whole family

>garlic
Get a garlic press
>onion
Just learn how to do it better. Really not that hard.

>>17822862
I prefer the slap chop.

https://youtu.be/iIgEWRb61IQ

>>17822722
I have one but it turned out I hated cleaning food processors more

>>17822722
You know they diced those onions before putting them in the food processor, r-right?

>>17822862
These work great the first 2-3 times you use them, and then they're dull and impossible to sharpen. The fact that people still buy them and give them good reviews shows how little people who buy gimmick crap like this actually cook.

>>17822722
I dunno, they're kinda... dicey.

>>17822722
If you hate doing prep work like chopping onions and garlic, maybe find recipes that don't use them.

>>17822840
It happened to me once and seriously there was figurative (not literal, obviously) spaghetti everywhere.

>>17822722
Absolutely not.
First of all there's a reason you aren't supposed to crush onions, but instead are meant to slice them - the crushing makes the quercetin from within the cells get out, making them bitter. It's a subtle flavor difference, but noticeable. You also won't get nice even pieces, it'll be weirdly uneven, which for some dishes can matter, though for most it admittedly doesn't. For garlic most food processors make no sense unless you want to process a lot of garlic at once, so a press is better there.
But either way, it's not really much faster than chopping with a knife if you have semi decent skills. The most time consuming part of chopping an onion is the peeling anyways and you still need to do that with a food processor. The time it takes to clean the processor is about equal to the time it takes to chop the onion unless you are, again, making large amounts of onion (I'd guess that around 3 onions the food processor might be able to catch up and be more time efficient).

If you want to save time and effort, just change your chopping technique a bit. The french way to chop onions is the best for high quality dishes and uniformity, but if you are okay with slightly less uniform pieces (but still miles better than a food processor), you can cut down on a lot of time. Instead of a normal chefs knife, use a knife with a flat edge. Angle the blade so that the front of the blade hits your cutting board, while the end doesn't completely cut off the onion. Then do a slicing motion with your dominant hand, while guiding the blade with your non dominant hand. You don't need to take care where to cut, because the angle makes sure you cut correctly. Then using normal technique and a parralel edge to the board, cut perpendicular into cubes. No need for horizontal cuts either. You will easily reach twice the speed that proper french technique would give you with minor losses in quality.

Bruno is always using his. Not sure if it's really neccesary if you don't bake though

I didnt have one until my wife brought a cheap walmart one home from a work secret Santa and I actually really enjoyed it. It was great for stuff like garlic bread, whole garlic into the processor, then parsley, then soft butter, then parmesan cheese, all at the perfect consistency for spreading. Eventually I broke the plastic bowl and threw it out. I do miss it, but I guess not enough to spend ten dollars on a replacement. I broke the damn thing a week after the old leader a few doors down had her "moving into assisted living" sale and I decided to pass on a solid lightly used older processor for 15 bucks because I already had one.

>>17822722
You will hate washing these bulky machines way more.

>>17823001
>>17825065
I wash the body of the processor, the lid, and the blade, which the only parts that get dirty
It's easy and takes very little time

>>17822722
if you hate chopping something, you will also hate cleaning it out of a shitty blender bowl

>>17824713
I love it when people repost the pasta I wrote

>>17825540
for 2 onions, a bunch of celery, 2 large carrots, and a head of garlic, my processor takes less time to use and clean than if I chopped everything manually
and the carrots and celery come out better
I also throw tomatoes in there to puree so I don't have to worry about the skins

>>17824725
We don't talk about Bruno-no-no.

>>17822990
i played so much team fortress 2

I've taken to cutting shit with scissors when I'm in a hurry. 90% of the time it does an okay job.