[net.cooks] Processor-unique task

upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve Upstill) (02/24/84)

    Grinding.  Admittedly, you can turn beef into hamburger with a pair
of knives and patience, but ever try pulverizing nuts (say for a gateau)
with knives?  I can't even get almonds down to raisin size before running
out of patience at all the nut fragments flying all over the kitchen.  I'd
rather clean to processor.

Steve

andrew@inmet.UUCP (03/01/84)

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inmet!andrew    Feb 29 00:08:00 1984

Procesors don't work all that well for a gateau, either.  They produce a
mealy-textured result (perhaps caused by oil leaching out) and will turn
most nuts to butter before turning them to a usable flour.  One of the
ultra-expensive mail-order cookware places sells a device to turn nuts
into the appropriate flour; it runs about $70 though.

If you are making a gateau with almonds as the "flour", it does help to
start off with slivered ones; the smaller the processor input, the more
uniform the result.