Several people asked me about ice cream makers after yesterday’s post. Ice cream makers unfortunately come in a dizzying array of shapes, sizes and materials. From the $25 Ice Cream maker ball, that makes ice cream by rolling around a frozen plastic ball, to the $2800 commercial batch ice cream makers that can make ice cream in as little as 20 minutes. Ultimately I settled on the Cuisinart Pure Indulgence 2qt model, I say settled because I couldn’t afford the Taylor 220 shown here used for $11,500. For $79 dollars though I think the Cuisinart was a close second. Keep reading to find out why I like it.
When you think of food processors do you think of Robot Coupe?
No? Yeah neither do I, I think of Cuisinart the iconic manufacturer of the Food Processor, so prolific in fact was Cuisinart that writer Eva Pomice of Forbes once commented that owning a Cuisinart “was tantamount to wearing a pair of Calvin Klein jeans. You could hardly boast of a gourmet kitchen if you didn’t own one of these.” So why mention Robot Coupe, because I noticed while watching various food shows that professional chefs where referring to food processors as a Robot Coupe (pronouncing it like “robo coup”) very much like people will call facial tissue, Kleenex or cola, Coke. This got me to thinking about how this seemingly obscure company could be the inventor of the food processor? How in the world of professional chefs is the name used in place of the device itself but in the home kitchen Cuisinart is the name of choice? Simple, they are French! I kid, I kid, for the real story of the food processor just hit the jump.
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