Green leafy veggie cutter

[Galya]

Dear all, Non of the appliances that are available do a
reasonable (not even close) job of slicing green leafy
veggies. After extensive web searching I found the ideal
machine but unfortunately it fits the need and aims at
restaurants and commercial food processing companies only and
there is not such family-kitchen version that I am aware of.
Please take a look at: http://www.dsl-limited.com/acatalog/Pr-
oducts_Menu__Eillert_91.html Also at:
http://www.alard-equipment.com/a-f/z6603.htm

[Needless to say that I have no-affiliation with any of theses
selling companies or the manufacturer at: http://www.worldfoo-
dnet.com/exhibit/booth.asp?vendorID=4077&resultID=33 ]

I am aware of many people who would be interested to buy
appliance like this because non of the food-processors or
vegetable-slicers that are available can satisfactorily cut a
load of green leafy type veggies. With all the myriad kitchen
appliances available, one has to seriously wonder why no one
has come up with a similar appliance especially now that many
people try to eat healthier. If you know an engineer/inventor
in the field of kitchen appliances please let him/her know;-)

What is your experience?

Regards, galya

[Tim Tyler]

galya <galya@volcanomail.com> wrote or quoted:

> Non of the appliances that are available do a reasonable
> (not even close) job of slicing green leafy veggies. After
> extensive web searching I found the ideal machine but
> unfortunately it fits the need and aims at restaurants and
> commercial food processing companies only and there is not
> such family-kitchen version that I am aware of. Please take
> a look at: http://www.dsl-limited.com/acatalog/Products_Men-
> u__Eillert_91.html Also at:
> http://www.alard-equipment.com/a-f/z6603.htm

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> I am aware of many people who would be interested to buy
> appliance like this because non of the food-processors or
> vegetable-slicers that are available can satisfactorily cut
> a load of green leafy type veggies. With all the myriad
> kitchen appliances available, one has to seriously wonder
> why no one has come up with a similar appliance especially
> now that many people try to eat healthier. If you know an
> engineer/inventor in the field of kitchen appliances please
> let him/her know;-)
>
> What is your experience?

My experience:

http://timtyler.org/kitchen/magimix_food_processor/

http://timtyler.org/kitchen/magimix_food_processor/gallery/

...has photos of the results under the section marked "salad".

It shows very green leafy salads before and after processing
with the machine's various blades.
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[Galya]

Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote in message
news:<I0IxF5.8pG@bath.ac.uk>...
> My experience:
>
> http://timtyler.org/kitchen/magimix_food_processor/
>
> http://timtyler.org/kitchen/magimix_food_processor/ga-
> llery/
>
> ...has photos of the results under the section marked
> "salad".
>
> It shows very green leafy salads before and after processing
> with the machine's various blades.

Tim, As always- your pictures are delightful! Thank you for
sharing them. I have gotten the same mushy results (using
Cuisinart food processor)that fit the description of baby food
;-). The specialized leaves' cutter (see pics in the original
post) spares the already cut leaves from being cut – to mush
that happens in a Food processor bowl.

It shouldn't be complicated to design a counter-top green
leaves cutter (I have a mechanical and a manual models in mind
if someone in interested;-).

Regards,

galya

[Tim Tyler]

galya <galya@volcanomail.com> wrote or quoted:
> Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote in message
> news:<I0IxF5.8pG@bath.ac.uk>...

> > My experience:
> >
> > http://timtyler.org/kitchen/magimix_food_processor/
> >
> > http://timtyler.org/kitchen/magimix_food_processor/gall-
> > ery/
> >
> > ...has photos of the results under the section marked
> > "salad".
> >
> > It shows very green leafy salads before and after
> > processing with the machine's various blades.
>
> As always- your pictures are delightful! Thank you for
> sharing them. I have gotten the same mushy results (using
> Cuisinart food processor)that fit the description of baby
> food ;-). The specialized leaves' cutter (see pics in the
> original post) spares the already cut leaves from being cut
> ? to mush that happens in a Food processor bowl.

That's the idea of the slicing disc on the device above. The
produce is forced downwards onto the slicing disc - and is
then forced through it into the bowl.

The produce is *only* processed repeatedly if you use the
bowl knife.

That totally pulverises the produce - treating it much like a
liquidizer would.

If you don't use that - and use the slicing disc - then leaves
only get cut once.

The basic design of a horizontal spinning disc, with a cutting
disc and a collection bowl seems fairly sound to me. I tried a
drum-based produce cutter - and it was not so effective.
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[Galya]

Tim Tyler <tim@tt1lock.org> wrote:

> That's the idea of the slicing disc on the device above. The
> produce is forced downwards onto the slicing disc - and is
> then forced through it into the bowl.

I have tried the slicing disk for cabbage- a constant
ingredient in my huge daily salad in addition to many other
green leaves veggies. Fitting and pushing the chunks through
the feeding tube was tedious to say the least. If I can't cut
cabbage efficiently then dealing with food processor only for
the greens doesn't save me any time over doing it manually.
Generally speaking, I find the feeding tube to be the problem.
I am aware that many folks keep cut veggies for up to a week,
but I like mine cut daily. From all my salad ingredients (95%
are leafy veggies) cut cabbage is the only veggie that I
wouldn't mind keep for few days, and the reason to why I tried
the slicing disk for it in the past.

> The basic design of a horizontal spinning disc, with a
> cutting disc and a collection bowl seems fairly sound to me.

Yes, which is why commercial operations use it. But then, they
have the need and the space for specialized machines while the
trend in kitchen small appliances is of multi-utility
appliances that compromise some functions.

>I tried a drum-based produce cutter - and it was not so
>effective.

What is a drum-based produce cutter?

galya

[Tim Tyler]

galya <galya@volcanomail.com> wrote or quoted:

> I have tried the slicing disk for cabbage- a constant
> ingredient in my huge daily salad in addition to many other
> green leaves veggies. Fitting and pushing the chunks through
> the feeding tube was tedious to say the least. If I can't
> cut cabbage efficiently then dealing with food processor
> only for the greens doesn't save me any time over doing it
> manually. Generally speaking, I find the feeding tube to be
> the problem.

My experience is also that the devices don't wind up saving
much time. They do chop salad up pretty effectively, though.

> >I tried a drum-based produce cutter - and it was not so
> >effective.
>
> What is a drum-based produce cutter?

The one I tried:

http://timtyler.org/kitchen/kenwood_food_cutter/
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