Jamie Oliver Food Processor
from Jamie Oliver
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Category: Kitchen & Home
Model No: DO250D34
Release Date: 01/08/2009
Availability: dispatched within 24 hours
Index: Kitchen & Housewares
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Kitchen Shopper Price: £56.99
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Product Description Jamie Olivers Food Processor, made by Tefal is a great small, lightweight and capable food processor. It comes with both a processor bowl, and also a liquidizer. The ample size of the 2.0 Litre processor means you can prepare a lot of food at once and the 1.25 Litre liquidizer ensures that you wont run out of sauces or mixtures too quickly. Key Features Jamie Oliver Processor with both a processor bowl and a liquidizer, the powerful 750W motor can tackle all kinds of tasks. Perfect Mix System blends and mixes soups, cocktails and more to perfection. Stainless Steel Multi Function Helix incredibly sharp, and ideal for chopping up fruits, vegetables and meats. Coarse Slicer perfect for creating salads, and other veg that needs to be repetitively sliced. Thin Slicer perfect for creating salads, and other veg that needs to be repetitively sliced. Coarse Shredder perfect for creating salads, and other veg that needs to be repetitively shredded. Thin Shredder perfect for creating salads, and other veg that needs to be repetitively shredded. Emulsifying Disc great for making mayonnaise and other dips. Storage the the helix blade, and 4 blade cartridges are all easily stored in the base of the processor. Spatula scraping out food from the processor is easier with this flexible spatula. Easy to Clean simple to wipe metalplastic casing and attachments. Space Saving design, allows for more function in less space saving worktop areas for other items, or a clutter free environment. 2 Speed + Pulse allows for either slow or fast chopping, and bursts of blending with the pulse function. Detachable Blades the blade cartridges detach from the cradle quickly for easy cleaning is quickly detached for easier cleaning. Full Safety Lock the processor will not function without being securely locked into place. Guarantee 1 year.
Good, but a flaw worth noting and an important safety issue Sent: 16 July 2010
To start off with some background info that's worth noting. This Jamie Oliver food processor (by Tefal) was an upgrade over my £15 Cookworths model picked up from a high street retailer, and purchased for about £80 six months ago, so much of this review compares this mid price range food processor to a budget one. Furthermore, I don't use any of the attachments to slice or grate anything as I personally find it fiddly swapping the attachments around, and I'm comfortable using a grater/knife anyway for those tasks. So this review is only concerned with the main big blade chopper, with the main vegetables I tend to chop/blitz being onions (for curries for example), carrots, and celery (for a fine mirepoix). Depending on what I'm cooking, or how many different items, I might process only a few vegetables (e.g. 2-3 onions), or I might do a bigger batch (10+ onions). If it's a small number of vegetables, I tend to just drop them down the little chute/chimney whilst the processor is running. If it's a bigger batch, I prefer to put them all in the jug, fit the jug onto the base, and then blitz awap.
Now, the budget food processor referred to earlier was a very simple one, very cheap, certainly not pleasing on the eye, but it did the job pretty well. I put vegetables and even meat in it, using the main big blade, and it chopped and mixed things into a pulp if left long enough. Everything was consistently chopped/pulverised as the blade was right up against the inside of the base jug, and that base jug had straight sides, which seemed to help ensure consitency.
The first criticism I have to make of this Jamie Oliver Tefal food processor therefore is that it simply won't consistently chop/pulverise the vegetables all over, especially if I'm using a larger number of vegetables (so not dropping them in one by one down the chute). There are two design flaws prevalent which I didn't notice in the shop that cause this failure to produce consistent chopping using the main large blade.
Firstly, the blades don't actually reach the very edge of the inside walls of the jug. There's a considerable gap between the plastic walls of the jug and the edge of the blade - it might only be half a centimetre, but it's enough to leave a small wall of roughly chopped vegetables that just seem to remain there without ever being brought back into the action so to speak.
Secondly, the jug isn't actually straight. It's slightly curved, with the jug getting slightly wider as you go up from the bottom (where the blades sit). What this results in is food that is being processed at the bottom, due to the mechanism of the chopping, actually rising slightly whilst it's being processed (it's normal in all food processors). However, because the jug gets wider as the food rises up, it results in a small top layer of larger chunks of the vegetable you're chopping just sitting on the sides, out of reach of the main body of pulp that is being continously chopped by the main blade. If the sides were straight, or curved inwards, than this problem might be solved, because as the main body of vegetables that is being chopped rises and falls back in, it would have dragged those pieces back in with it. But this doesn't happen on this model. Which means having to get a spatula, spoon the excess chunks back in to the main mixture, and blitzing again (or just living with having different sized chunks in your mixture, which is what I do now).
Now, that's the main flaw with the actual big blade. Beyond that, the chopper is pretty decent. It's very compact, the jug is strong, the blades could sit slightly better in the jug than it does but it's not a real issue for me. Overall, for the price paid, it looks very nice, and in the store the only ones that looked better were the Magimix ones which were three times the price and out of my budget. This is why I give this food processor 3 stars. If the price was more reasonable (let's say £30), it'd be a 4 star processor.
Regarding the important safety issue. Now, in all food processors (and as far as I'm aware, in blenders too), there is a saftey feature regarding the lids. I.e. to prevent you, or a kid, from turning your hands or anything else important into a pulp, the machine will refuse to turn on unless the lid is attached and locked in place. I have a seperate stand-alone cheapo blender, and it has this safety mechanism. Now, this safety feature is of course present with the main chopper jug, as you'd expect, so you can't turn it on unless the lid is already locked in place. However the lid safety mechanism is NOT present for the blender that comes with this package (in the picture this is the rectangular jug on the right). This blender has a small integrated blade/whisk sitting at the bottom, which is pretty sharp (it has to be of course to blend fruits/vegetables into a smooth liquid pulp). The lid has no mechanism at all for detecting whether it's in place or not, i.e. there's no snap 'n' lock at all, it's just a simple lid that sits on top, and as such you can use the blender jug without any lid at all (or at least you can on my model). Which might be very dangerous if you're going to leave it lying around for children to attach and play with. So just a word of caution regarding the blender, which I have tucked away in a draw as I'd rather use a stand alone blender with better safety features.
ok at first  Sent: 20 June 2010
This food processor initially seemed to be good value - it worked well, good design and seemed to do everything I needed it to. However the plastic cogs which connect the blender jug to the main unit started wearing down after only a few uses, so I returned it. I think it may be worth spending a bit more for a more robust machine.
success  Sent: 24 May 2010
bought this as a birthday gift for my aspiring chef partner, (not for me at all-I just get to use it if I'm lucky! ). Very easy to set up and get going. selection of blades were perfect and the juicer made perfect smoothies. The integral tray is an excellent design feature-no chance of misplacing the blades, the size is perfect for family use. It is robust, the rubber feet mean the machine wont move even on the highest setting, stylish and compact enough enough not to need this to be hidden away in a cupboard. We are really pleased with our purchase.
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Associated kitchen categories: Detachable, Stainless Steel, Food Processors, Jamie Oliver, Tefal, Food Processor, Small Appliances |
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