Food processor.

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I want some sort of gadget to replace an ageing blender with a smelly plastic problem (smells like tramps feet, no amount of cleaning can make it smell normal). It's also no good at blending chick peas, but its the only tool we have.

Full scale food processor is probably out on cost grounds unless it can also perform as a juicer (i.e. fruit juice one way, inedible crud the other way). I don't really care about grinding spices or chopping veg, I can do that with old school tools. The most useful things will be making breadcrumbs, chopping nuts, making smoothies, pureeing baby food and of course the hummus.

I reckon a mini-chopper with a blender bowl alongside the standard bowl would do the trick but it's not very easy to search for on the google!

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Arun_D said:

I have one of these little processors by Cuisinart. Performs well, largely for the same duties you're asking for.

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet...

Cheers, that's what I've been looking at but the mrs is skeptical about its blending performance.

Hand mixer is a fair call but that tends to spray the contents all over the shop unless in a very tall vessel, and is also useless at chick peas - they tend to get pushed out of the way rather than annihilated.