Electric Food Processors

i need to finely crush biscuits and butter together to make cheesecake
i have a blender but im not sure if that would do the job

We need to purchase a food processor but we can not afford an expensive high quality item at this time.

Specifically I want to make Humus. The beans seem to be quite hard. The last time I made it, it burnt up my blender. I dumped them straight from the can (rinsed) and it took quite a bit for the initial puree and I had difficulty mantaining cavitation until the puree was very smooth.

Will an inexpensive hand held blender/mixer do the job? Will I get more than three uses out of it? How much should I plan to spend for a cheapy that I can use more than once? .00? .00? Will boiling the beans to a sweet pea consistency help?

I liked What we made with light garlic and heavy roasted red peppers. Any other single ingredients that taste good?

Thanks

Frank Pytel

After shredding it some of the seeds are still whole.What should I do?Do they bake well in the bread or does it mean my food processor I just bought tonight isn’t doing the job?

I ‘d like to start making food for my 8 month old son .It will save money and most important I will be alble to control the quolity of food that goes into my babys tamy.But there are a lot of baby food prosessrors ant food mills out there .I don’t want to waste money baying some thing that will not do the job.Does any one have an expireince preparing baby food at home?Thank you .

From time to time I have to finely chop large amounts of rosemary at work. The job is tedious and time consuming but I haven’t figured out any way other than just a knife. A food processor just turns the leaves brown and mushy. Anybody got any tips or tricks?

Once again a question about blenders and food processors, question below:

Let’s say I wanted to process a lot of solid vegetables — cabbage, broccoli, carrots and other hard, crunchy vegetables — what would I want, a food processor or a blender? When you’re speaking of "purees" how pureed will a food processor make of broccoli, cabbage, carrots, etc? I want it to be sort of smooth, so it can easily be digested by my weak digestive system.

Chopping, slicing are not what I want, I just want to know that if I puree a food long enough (please also indicate times for pureeing in a food processor!) in a food processor, that it will be processed enough so that I won’t see the individual ingredients.

Thanks so much again!!!

Ben
Okay, the concern with how "pureed" a food will be has to do with an eating disorder — my digestive "problem" is really a devastation — inflicted on me after a lot of self-abuse.

The food processor or blender of my choice will have to be with me for awhile to come, as my financial situation is in dire straits. I have no job, no income and rely on my mother for support. She decided that it was worthwhile to invest in me getting better so she bought me a 12-cup Kitchen Aid for 9.99 (way overpriced, but for Canadian pricing this is above and beyond what you’d get elsewhere).

Yeah, when it came down to it, I chose the food processor over the xbox 360 because my health (and my mothers) is deteriorating rapidly. Without something to bring my food within "digestive reach" of my stomach, I am doomed.

So, will this food processor last me long, will it stand the test of time and heavy abuse? That’s what it’ll be going through if I am to get any better, so help me out please! Thanks

I think my mom said years ago that she wanted a mandolin. She never bought one (I dunno why) but we have a food processor. Can a food processor do the same job as a mandolin? I kinda thought about getting her a mandolin as a gift but at the same time, it’d be pointless if it does the same thing as a food processor.

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=15938390

Our food processor has a slicer/grater attachment.