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When I was looking for the dishwasher manual the other day, I found the food processor documents (including a DVD!). In the food processor documents, I learned that the hole in the pusher has a purpose: to drizzle oil for making mayo. Who knew! R. knew, that’s who. He’d seen it on a TV show.
So I had to revisit the immersion blender vs. food processor question, but this time making use of the hole.
I parked a funnel on top of the pusher so I could avoid making an enormous mess pouring out of the measuring cup (should I have used a liquid measuring cup with a spout? Yes! Yes I should! I may poke around the cabinets and see what we already own along those lines next). If I did this a lot, I would just pour out of the jug of oil and know about when to stop. But that doesn’t matter right now.
This _does_ make making mayo in the food processor much more idiot proof. However, that pusher is white, so it’s really kinda tricky to see what the level is in that. I still think the immersion blender is a better choice. Also, the immersion blender is still far easier to clean up than the food processor.
R. commented that maybe if you were making a _lot_ of mayo the food processor would be better, but I’m not going to experiment with that, because I don’t need a lot of mayo. However, there are hard batch size limits with the food processor bowl, and not with the immersion blender, so probably even on batch size, the immersion blender wins.
Also, I understand what you can do with the food processor much better now, having read the manual. I’ll be doing some experimentation with the slicer wheel, which currently _still_ has on it the sticker it shipped with to keep the person opening the box from also opening up a vein.
So I had to revisit the immersion blender vs. food processor question, but this time making use of the hole.
I parked a funnel on top of the pusher so I could avoid making an enormous mess pouring out of the measuring cup (should I have used a liquid measuring cup with a spout? Yes! Yes I should! I may poke around the cabinets and see what we already own along those lines next). If I did this a lot, I would just pour out of the jug of oil and know about when to stop. But that doesn’t matter right now.
This _does_ make making mayo in the food processor much more idiot proof. However, that pusher is white, so it’s really kinda tricky to see what the level is in that. I still think the immersion blender is a better choice. Also, the immersion blender is still far easier to clean up than the food processor.
R. commented that maybe if you were making a _lot_ of mayo the food processor would be better, but I’m not going to experiment with that, because I don’t need a lot of mayo. However, there are hard batch size limits with the food processor bowl, and not with the immersion blender, so probably even on batch size, the immersion blender wins.
Also, I understand what you can do with the food processor much better now, having read the manual. I’ll be doing some experimentation with the slicer wheel, which currently _still_ has on it the sticker it shipped with to keep the person opening the box from also opening up a vein.