Which food processor type thing?

[LaDiDaDi]

Dp and I are keen to but some sort of food processor thing so that we can make sauces more easily and so thatwhen weaning dd we can mix and puree stuff. Maybe something that does juices too? Any recommendations?

We are also keen to BUY a food processor..

Depends on the budget - the Magimix 5100 is all singing all-dancing, and it's the one Nigella uses on TV, but it's about £250 (and the price is pretty much the same everywhere - couldn't save more than a tenner on the internet, occasionally you may get an offer for a couple of free extra slicing discs with it). It does have a juicer included in that price - it's the same mechanism as the Le Duo juicer that gets good reviews - you take out the blades and put the juicer inside the bowl.

£250 is waaay over budget! Any cheaper ideas?

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I have a Kenwood multi pro and it does everything I can think of, incuding juicing and kneeding dough. But, for pureeing baby food I use a little Kenwood chopper. It comes with only one blad and is very small -- just the right size for a single portion for my 1 year old, and much easier to clean up later.

If you do get a big food processor one thing I would look for is stainless steel blades. I would never buy one with plastic blades.

we have a Kenwood Multi thing too and it's fab - also on special offer in Argos at the moment.

If you really only want to do small quantities though, a cheaper option might be a hand blender type thing - you can use it in a bowl or pan for a sauce, or use the choppy bowl thing to puree a little bit of something. No good for juicing though!

Yep, that's the one I have, too. But I think I spent more like £100 something at John Lewis about a year ana half ago.

I really recommend a hand blender, as MrsBadger says. If you get one with a metal wand, you can use it in pots on the stove.

We had a food processor and a blender, and now we just have a hand blender, which has a little choppy thing, and a whisk. Lots cheaper than a food processor, and takes up much less room, too.

Food processors are annoying to clean and irritating. I don't think any of them do juicing. (We do have a juicer. We use it maybe once a month.)

Oh, and it's off-topic, but you don't actually need to mix or puree anything especially for your baby, if you don't want to. You can go straight to finger food aka table scraps. Much less work, and better for everyone. Lots of threads on here about baby-led weaning (aka BLW) if you want more info.

We have a Cuisinart classic that has been indispensible in the kitchen. SO much easier to eat loads of veg when you don't have to spend ages chopping it all.

I use a mandoline for serious chopping, but I like to live dangerously ...

Thankyou ladies you have given me lots to think about, esp what I will actually want to use it for. I have read a bit about baby led weaning, I read a link to ?Gill Ramsay the other night and it was interesting but I still think that we will want a processor for some stuff, for us as well as dd.