It still dices and slices.....

[poltr1]

One of the kitchen appliances I "inherited" from my parents was an old Veg-O-Matic manual food processor. This past month, it's been getting some use. Last week, I made lentil soup, and used the Veg-O-Matic to dice an onion and to slice the celery and carrots. Today, I have beef stew in the slow cooker (I believe "crock pot" is a registered trademark). I'm using a co-worker's recipe, which doesn't list exact amounts of most ingredients, so I had to guess at the amounts. Once again, the Veg-O-Matic came in handy in dicing the potato and onion, and cutting up the carrots and celery. (Oops. I didn't mean to include celery in my stew, but it's in there.)

The hardest part about cleanup is picking out the vegetable pieces from the top of the unit.

As far as I know, Ronco no longer makes the Veg-O-Matic.

The only thing I'd change would be to make the body and "hammer" of the unit out of high-impact plastic. Even though they may have used the best and strongest plastic at the time, I have a feeling that it may break someday. At least I can get another one on eBay.

Tell me about some of your favorite kitchen gadgets.

Comments

[dragon-pet.livejournal.com]

My little doo-dad thingy from pampered chef that holds an onion (or other veggies/fruits) so you can slice them easier.

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

45 years ago when my mom was first married her foster mother gave her a thing called a Kwik-Kut. We only use it for chopping up eggs for either egg salad or deviled eggs, but it's still the bomb. I spent time online and was so excited to see that the company that made it is still in buisness and still makes them.

Here's a link http://www.kwik-kut.com/choppers.html

[yourmommma.livejournal.com]

I have two favorite kitchen appliances: the refrigerator and the microwave oven.

Hmmmmm...that may be an overshare, LOL.