Who Invented the Food Processor?
Food processors have made cooking a variety of foods much, much easier. A quicker alternative to manually chopping foods, the food processor was created to lessen the amount of time taken to prepare certain dishes. Thanks to Pierre Verdon, since the 1970s, some cooks and chefs have prepared cuisine in just a fraction of the time it would otherwise take. Does this Spark an idea?
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History
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French catering company salesman Pierre Verdon invented the food processor as a smaller incarnation of his restaurant-sized Robot-Coupe. The Le Magi-Mix, as it was called, was later refined by the American inventor Carl Sonthemier and named the Cuisinart.
Time Frame
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After introducing the Robot Coupe in 1960, it wasn't until Paris in 1971 that Verdon first debuted the Le Magi-Mix, however Sontheimer exhibited the Cuisinart in 1973. Competing manufacturers followed with their own designs, leading to the sale of hundreds of thousands of food processor sales in the late 1970s and onward.
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Function
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Food processors are used to prepare various foods that require chopping, grinding, shredding, blending, pulverizing and kneading.
Significance
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Although similar to the blender, the design of the food processor is a more appropriate shape for solid foods. The food processor also rarely requires liquid to work, where blenders often require some amount of liquid to help move the ingredients around the blade.
Types
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There are two major types of food processors. The first, most simple type involves a single bowl and flat blade, whereas the second type come fitted with a variety of attachments for different types of food processing.
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