Received a cuisinart food processor for a wedding gift, a 7 cup model (came
with a second mini food processor as well).

http://www.cuisinart.com/catalog/product.php?product_id=30&item_id=59&cat_id=7

I've only had it 3 days but so far made a nice cheese dip and used to it
fine chop cabbage for chinese dumplings :-)

Is it worth my time in effort to grind my own meat with it? I was thinking
a coarser grind would be nicer compared to the usual store bought ground
meats for many dishes. Does anyone here do this regularly and can comment or
offer advice? I don't envision buying a proper meat grinder anytime soon.

How well does it work for bread kneading? Better to do by hand? Same for
for pasta. I *love* home made pasta and I do not have a pasta maker. I
usualy do it by hand every couple weeks and roll it out myself. Is it
possible to use this machine to mix my pasta for me or am I hoping for too
much? Rolling is the easy part IMHO, mixing is the annoying part :-)

On Oct 25, 3:24 pm, "Peter" email.com> wrote:

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Peter email.com> wrote:

This is secondhand, but according to Julia Child, a meat grinder works
better because you do not end up with chopped gristle in the meat.
Instead, the gristle stays in the screen of the grinder, where
you can manually remove it from time to time.

Steve

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Nancy2 wrote:

Bob has a Cuisinart food processor as well. Just this last week we
wanted to attempt a small batch of pasta dough to run through a
little, manual Atlas Mercato pasta maker that I brought into the
marriage, but have never used. It was an unsual experiment, to say the
least. We have the big KitchenAid mixer (two, actually) that we have
always done dough in, but thought for this smaller quantity we would
try the Cuisinart.

Not sure if it was the flour or the processor or technique, but we
could never get the dough right. We even tried different blades. The
thickness of the pasta strips were inconsistent, and had small holes
and tears as we worked it. Just need to stick with our fail-safe
KitchenAid next time.

--Lin

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That makes sense. I would probably take care to properly cut out any
gristle and such first though.

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On Oct 25, 4:24?pm, "Peter" email.com> wrote:

A food processor is far better than mystery meat... but you really
ought to buy a meat grinder.

Sheldon

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