Because I recently got married, and it's well-known among people in my acquaintance that I love to cook and bake, my husband and I received a great many kitchen-oriented gifts for our wedding.
This week, Mark Bittman wrote up a lengthy piece about all that can be done with a food processor in the NYTimes, and it got me to thinking: which of my new gadgets is my favorite?
You can read Mark Bittman's piece here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/dining/15mini.html
I'm truly torn between my KitchenAid stand mixer and my Cuisinart SmartPower Duet blender/food processor. The Cuisinart gets a lot of use shredding cheese, making pesto, shredding zucchini, shredding apples for apple cake, making bruschetta topping, making tapenade, making vinaigrette, etc. The KitchenAid gets a lot of use making bread dough, pizza dough, mixing the aforementioned apple cake, making applesauce with the help of an attachment, making somebody's birthday cake, and even making pie dough (how well it did this was quite a surprise).
The KitchenAid:
The Cuisinart:
The KitchenAid might win this fight once I get some attachments for it that duplicate what the Cuisinart does, but right now, they're completely tied.
So how about you? What's your favorite thing to use in your kitchen?