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)
#R:ucbvax:-14700:inmet:3500028:000:507 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.