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New Magimix 3200XL food processor
its been almost two since I posted something! So I have been saving a lot of food pictures for this and the next post! :D
I bought a nice Dutch raw food recipe book but most of the recipes needed a good food processor. So I did some searching and Magimix was highly recommended so I bought one :) I have been very pleased with it as you may see in the bellow pictures.
I was told the Magimix is easy to clean, this may be so… I have not used so many food processors before. But the Magimix contains three containers and I seem to end up cleaning at leased two of them every time, even when I have used only one container.. The food spills a bit during the mixing… It is definite more work to clean compared with my vita-mix blender.
I also mixed some yellow spices and now the white parts already look yellowish and giving it a old and long-used look :) The Magimix now stands beside the vita-mix blender and I use it every week.
What food processor do you use, and why did you buy that one?
Getting a new blender; vitamix or blendtec
Not so long ago my old blender died on me and I had to fall back on my hand blender. This will actually work for green smoothies!
But I wanted something better. So I started reading some reviews and asked around. A vita-mix or blendtec seemed a bit expensive and I wanted to blend green smoothies with lots of leafy vegetables.
So I bought myself a Tribest Personal Blender PB-250 with 475mL cups and some nice accessories. I used it for a while and it does work great. But 475mL is just to small for me and takes to much time to make larger batches.
So I made the investment to buy a vita-mix 5200!
Why I bought a vita-mix? After watching some video’s how people where using the vita-mix and its tamper on slow speeds I shifted towards vita-mix instead of blendtec. The 7 year warranty and reports of better after sales from vita-mix was an other shifter. I do like electronic buttons used by blendtec, but It seems more convenient to rotate a knob to control the variable speed of the blender, so an other shifter towards vita-mix.
Blendtec does seem easer to clean and since its now available with a larger canister this may be a downside for vita-mix.
So far no regrets about the vitia-mix! A pleasant surprise where the recipes and information that came with the vita-mix. The tamper works really great, and I can do vegetable blending at the low speeds without adding water and make a large batch of almond milk on the highest.
Please share your experiences and links about your blender used for raw food and alike.
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