The rasper (left) with the two grating and slicing discsThe grating and slicing discs have to be the most useful food processor attachments when I am doing things in bulk. There's not much point in getting out the machine and dirtying several parts to chop a solitary carrot, but the discs are great for turning out a large bowl of grated carrot for one of my favourite salads, making cole slaw or preparing soup.
Processing is pretty easy and slick. A quick peel, top and tail, and maybe some trimming so the ingredient will fit in the feed tube, and I am in business.
Soup-making is very easy because the grater blades can be flipped over - grater one side, slicer the other. I use these in conjunction with the standard processor blade, which I use for dicing the onions, and I can process a large bowl of vegetables in just three or four minutes.
The graters come fine or coarse and the slicers are thin for things like cutting cabbage for coleslaw, thicker for slicing potatoes, carrots, celery, leeks etc. There’s a chipping disc for… yes, making chips and chipping things julienne-style, and a rasper for grating Parmesan cheese and, the manual suggests, rasping potatoes for German dumplings - not that I am ever likely to be tempted to make those.
The discs make short work of grating a large quantity of cheese, slicing grapefruit for marmalade, chopping vegetables for pickles.
Carrot and cranberry salad - made with ease thanks to the grating disc
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Brill devices, these things...My only beef with them is how and where to store the blades when not in use. Hubs has the scars to prove that an instinctive reach to catch the blades as they tumble out of the cupboard can be deadly.
There's a caddy for storing the attachments, but my food processor seemed to come with some extras the caddy won't hold, including two of the four blades. At least having reversible blades means less clutter in the cupboard. The old machine had each blade set on a spindle and that did hog a lot of room.
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