One of the kitchen fatalities (not as expensive as a dead refrigerator) last holiday season was our nearly 30-year-old Cuisinart. It failed to be revived right in the middle of Christmas baking/candy making. I managed by crumbing graham crackers and chopping nuts in the mini-processor that came with our blender, but did replace the big guy at Macy's January sale.
The new processor is made in China, like everything else we own, and is fancier and bigger than the old one. I watched the video, tried a few chores, then didn't use it at all. In February I started the Food Addicts in Recovery program and I simply don't cook those things any more.
Yesterday there was a Father's Day feast at the McCarrolls' and I volunteered to bring the veggies and the salad. I decided to get out that shiny new Cuisinart to grate carrots and slice radishes for the the salad. How efficient it would be to do all of this slicing and grating with my high-powered machine. I couldn't remember how to use the silly thing. Had to get the manual out before I could slice or grate anything. I would have been easier to do it by hand.
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Our Cuisinart (a Costco purchase, so most likely also made in China) got left behind when we moved to England. My mom and sister let it live at their house now.
Cami loved to watch the Cuisinart video. She would ask to watch it. So, I'd let her. And then I'd let her help me pulse the pie/pizza/ cookie dough together. But I also found it much easier to make salad by hand -- although the lack of dishwasher had a lot to do with that.
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