
The best food processors make light work of chopping, grating, blending, shredding and emulsifying. Even if you’ve got Gordon Ramsay-level chopping skills, a food processor will outperform you by using its speedy specialist blades to hack through ingredients in an impressive amount of time.
While some people forgo a food processor in favour of the best blender, they do a lot more than you might expect and much more than a blender offers, too. Other than chopping and pulsing, food processors can make baby food, cake mix, dips and even butter! But, as I’ve found in my extensive ‘foods you should never cook / put’ series, there are some foods that should steer clear from your food processor.