si dawson

I'm see­ing more & more recipes that need a food proces­sor — but my kitchen is only big enough for midgets (or two reg­u­lar peo­ple if one of them stands on the bench)

I already have a juicer & blender (that both see a lot of use). Between them they already take up half my bench space. I have room for a chop­ping block, and that's it. So what's a guy to do?

Well there's always a solu­tion if you look hard enough, so how about this:

It's a cof­fee grinder (not that I drink cof­fee, but hey). There's a drink­ing coconut next to it for scale. It's TINY. Amus­ingly, once I got it home, the instruc­tions explic­itly said "Do NOT use this for nuts".. but hey, yah gotta try, right?

I fig­ured cashews would be ok — they're softer than cof­fee beans. Sure enough, here's the result on a coarse grind:

That looks pretty damn good to me! Bet­ter yet was the result:

Melon, pas­sion­fruit, and cashew nut cream (cashew nuts + some chopped dates + water -> blender).

YUM!

Now true, it's really only going to work for small recipes — but I'm gen­er­ally only uncook­ing for one, so it's pretty much the per­fect com­pro­mise — at a fifth of the cost, and a tiny frac­tion of the space.

[Update: ha ha! So much for that clever idea. I blew the damn thing up the 4th time I used it *laugh* Got a bunch of nuts stuck under­neath the blade, and all the magic blue smoke escaped. Doh!]