Hey All,
That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day. (No, I
did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in the oven I
started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries, apples and
oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.
It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.

Marc

marc rosen wrote:
Hey All,
That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day. (No, I
did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in the oven I
started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries, apples and
oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.
It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.

Marc

I know what I'd avoid - Cuisinart. Pure glitzy looking crap. Had
trouble with their blender, under warranty the blade fell apart.
Customer service told me to send it in on my dime. After a month of
waiting, I bought a Kitchenaid. Its not exactly built like a tablesaw
or anything, but it is pretty beefy and works 100% better than
Cuisinart's. We had a problem with a Kitchenaid food processor (bubble
switch quit working) and called their customer service. What a
difference. They apologized for the problem, sent me a new unit
immediately, and inclosed a paid sticker for the return of the old one,
told me to put it on the front door and it would be picked up. I
promptly took the cuisinart (after eventually getting it back) and gave
to someone. Braun also seems to make some reasonable stuff. The only
issue with the Kitchenaid blender is that the glass part is pretty
round and the stuff inside gets going so fast it doesn't blend as well
as those more clover looking containers.

Scott

"marc rosen" wrote in message
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Hey All,
That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day. (No, I
did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in the oven I
started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries, apples and
oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.
It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.

Well, Mekon had one one here recently that requires a bandsaw and materials
to make you very own home built wrench to take it apart for cleaning.

marc rosen wrote:

Hey All,
That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day. (No, I
did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in the oven I
started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries, apples and
oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.
It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.

Marc

Just chuck one of those paint stirrer thingies into your router and go
for it. Don't I remember someone here doing something like that some
years ago?
aging...
jo4hn

marc rosen wrote:
Hey All,
That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day. (No, I
did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in the oven I
started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries, apples and
oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.
It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.

Marc

Well, that depends. Will you be happy to quietly stir your stuff in
the kitchen, or do you want a go-anywhere Hummer that will be the envy
of every party? If it's the latter, then you want this gasoline
powered model here.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...5249_200325249

DonkeyHody
"It only costs another nickle to go first class."

For the last 40 years, we have made the cranberry relish using a hand-cranked
meat grinder something like:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category= 983
For the oranges - use the fine grinder plate, for the berries and apples - the
medium one. Since the fruit is really juicy, if the grinder is of the design
where two halves are hinged together - look for one that has a channel to catch
any juices running out the bottom. I think the grinder was my grandmother's...
it'll outlast a whole string of blenders!
--
JeffB
remove no.spam. to email

We have an Oster Beehive blender, and it works great. Metal drive
shaft and metal shaft on the glass pitcher make me feel better about
its potential for longevity. And it actually blends! (Unlike our old
Hamilton Beach, which made noise and produced that electrical burning
smell, but didn't ever really blend). Only 2 speeds, but that's all
you really need anyway.
Available at Target in stainless or red for a little under $50, last I
saw.
Andy

On Dec 11, 9:16 pm, "marc rosen" wrote:

It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?

Well, Marc, you asked the right newsgroup. Have I got a suggestion for
you: Blendtec. Most incredible piece of gear you'll see. AND, it is for
real.
It will blend golf-balls, hockey-pucks, glass marbles.. I kid you not.

Go take a look:

http://www.willitblend.com/

Enjoy the show. Meanwhile I remain,

sincerely yours,

r

In article . com, "marc rosen" wrote:
Hey All,
That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day. (No, I
did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in the oven I
started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries, apples and
oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.
It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.

I'll tell you another one to avoid: Black & Decker. We received one as a gift
a couple years ago. It just died -- no fault of B&D's, though: tree limb
dropped on our power lines last week in a windstorm and we lost the neutral
feeder, roasting the blender and several other appliances.

It worked fine for the two years we had it. The only real complaint I had, up
until last week, is that the damn thing is noisy as hell. But it worked fine.

So why do I say avoid B&D? Simple -- NO REPAIR PARTS. Zip. Zilch. Nada. While
Googling for repair parts, I stumbled across a review of the same blender on
epinions.com, ripping it for exactly the same thing. The person submitting the
review had dropped the (glass) carafe, and can't get a replacement. Well, mine
has a burned-up transformer, and apparently nothing else wrong -- but not only
does B&D not sell parts, the daggone transformer isn't marked to indicate its
output voltage, so I can't even take it to Radio Shack for a replacement.
GRRRRR. Next blender will probably be a KitchenAid. For sure it won't be B&D.

On the bright side, if I can track down the person who submitted that review,
I have a carafe to sell her...

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

marc rosen wrote:
Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.

I bought a commercial Waring blender. Stainless container, epoxy
powder-coated zinc base, and instead of a bunch of push buttons it has a
single steel toggle switch with three positions: Off/Low/High.

Also available with a glass jar if you prefer that route.

http://www.waringproducts.com/com/ca...id=19&cat_id=8


Chris

marc rosen wrote:
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.


Marc

Marc

Only one way to go. KitchenAid Mixer et al. K4.5 or 5.0 or bigger. We
have one. 35 years and still going strong. Daughter has one and mixes
100 pounds of special diet for dogs weekly. 5 years and still good as
new.

Bob AZ

marc rosen (in )
said:

| That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day.
| (No, I did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in
| the oven I started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries,
| apples and oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt
| electronics smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here
| now asking some fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor
| they would recommend.

Kitchen-Aid food processor!

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto

"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
...

(snip)

Well, Mekon had one one here recently that requires a bandsaw and
materials
to make you very own home built wrench to take it apart for cleaning.


That is a Sunbeam.

Mekon

Hey Group,
Thanks for the suggestions and I think I will take the simple way out.
I have a hand crank meat grinder with varying size grates so it is
coming out of the cabinet next week for a trial run of my next batch of
cranberry relish. Don't know why I did not think of that last time but
I guess I've become too accustomed to power tools.
Contrasted to that comment, we use a hand crank apple "lathe" for pies
and cooked apples and I only use one of those hand crank poppper churns
(on my woodstove) to make popcorn . Still, I never gave any thought to
the meat grinder for the berry sauce.
Thanks too for the links to the various blenders. Some of those looked
like they'd be fun to use.
Marc

jo4hn wrote in news:12ns5r9hf539l70
@news.supernews.com:

Just chuck one of those paint stirrer thingies into your router and go
for it. Don't I remember someone here doing something like that some
years ago?
aging...
jo4hn

I've been known to put marshmallows on the end of a portable
screwdriver... ;-) They don't work as well as the fondue forks, though,
something about too much rotational velocity and not enough heat build
up...

Puckdropper
--
Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

Here's my recommendation for a blender. You can even use it
during power failures:
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200325249_200325249


marc rosen wrote:
Hey All,
That earlier food post made me think back to Thanksgiving day. (No, I
did not have the spicy shrimp). After setting the bird in the oven I
started making the cranberry relish from fresh berries, apples and
oranges. Our old blender began to make that awful burnt electronics
smell and I knew its time was about up. So, I'm here now asking some
fellow tool junkies what blender or food processor they would
recommend.
It's a tool after all, and who should I trust more- you guys , or some
stranger at the appliance store?
Thanks in advance and you're all invited to my house for turkey and
stuffing next Thanksgiving.

Marc