A Gem of a Machine. (Kenwood Food Processor)

Member Name: Glasgow Girl

Product:	Kenwood Food Processor
Date:	02/01/01 (1273 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Little Machine That has Done Everthing I've Asked of it.

Disadvantages: No 'Proper' Operating Instructions . . . or is it 'Just Me' ?

Kenwood Food Processor
model number FP101T

This great little processor is a gem of a machine.

I must have been working my old food processor
(a Moulinex)
too hard as shortly before Christmas the bowl disintegrated before my disbelieving eyes.
Then again, it was umpteen years old and should have been replaced ages ago.

Over Christmas I managed to do the day-to-day chores that I had carried out using my old food processor switching between a mixing bowl and a hand grater . . .Oooch

but, when I was in my local Argos
(see Argos opinion for details)
I decided it was time to replace the grater,
before my fingers totally wore out
(or should that be ‘wore through’?)

The Kenwood FP 101T was included in the Argos Sale catalogue and in next to no time I had it home.

(it took a little longer than that, but you will have to read my other opinion to see the details involved)

I unwrapped it with thinly veiled anticipation and was delighted to see that there was a ‘citrus juicer’ included ‘free’ (my favourite word).

I assembled the food processor and within minutes
I was grating and blending like never before,
- well, not for a few years, -
my old processor must have been even further gone than I had thought.

In addition to the free juicer my Kenwood FP 101T has:

* a maxi-blend canopy
I’m not too sure why it’s there,
but when I find out I’ll let you know

* an egg white whisk
I can’t remember the last time I made meringues

* a plate carrier and spacer
I certainly hope so, if this was not there the *.* thing would not operate and as for the spacer - it is the smallest most useless looking little thing I’ve seen in years, - but I better not loose it as the *.* thing would not operate without it . . . (is there an echo in here?)


* a slicing plate
should be handy for the sandwiches when I go back to college

* a shredding plate
better know (to yours truly that is) as a grater.
I wish it had more than a one size grating blade and I’m sure Ihave seen some somewhere that have more than one size of hole.
Again, if I find one I’ll update this opinion

* a spatula
I’ll probably use this more than anything else in the whole set!

* ‘user instructions’
I’m glad I’m not new to this game . . . the large leaflet that passes for the ‘user instructions’ is almost useless.


The Kenwood FP 101T is small but powerful and is quite ample for the small amounts which I work with. (it only holds 0.8 litres or 0.8K. ‘dry-weight’ )
However, there are just the two of us at home and the wee beauty has already done everything I have asked of it.

If you live alone or there are just say, two of you,
then this is the model for you.

I find you don’t really need a multi-speed, multi-function machine when all you really need to do is make soup and the odd cake.
Even if you want to do more, there are attachments that have been carefully thought out by the people at Kenwood, who say that their aim is to supply innovative and useful items at a reasonable price.

This is not a ‘direct quote’ as I do not have the Internet site’s url immediately to hand.

I did access it and sent an e-mail to ask for more instructions for the machine.

However, I had to use the “order-on-line" e-mail
and I’m not sure that they will reply.

If they doo I’ll add the results to this opinion at some future date.

The Internet site is, as yet unfinished and they seem to have omitted a universal e-mail facility and I had to hunt around really hard to find the one I did.


Other than the fine detail, the site is complete enough for the "order on line" facility to be in operation,
but if a modern company like Kenwood have not got their Internet act together properly then what hope is there for the rest of us? ;-(
GG

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