Hand Cranked Food Processor?

I've got 3 and they are all different brands. I haven't found any of them to be of poor quality. I don't know the brand of the last one I got but I like that it had a different blade surface front to back of the blade. Clockwise made one kind of cut and counterclockwise made another. Look at your good hardware stores like Ace or TruValue. They carry them as a rule and where I get mine.

Sourdough Biscuits wrote:
Anyone have a favorite hand operated Food Processor? We camp off the grid a lot and nice to have appliances that don't need electric. Doesn't have to be too heavy duty. Will mostly be used for making hummus or salsa or "creaming" boiled cauliflower, etc.

I assume you can't go wrong with Pampered Chef, but they're a little spendy. But, would rather have one that works well, than one that is too cheap.

Thanks!

Bob

Have you considered getting a manual blender for your specific needs? It won't pass the "carrot test" (more on that later) but it does a lovely job of pureeing and the model I purchased (a Vortex) has 2 speeds.

Credible job making breakfast shakes, and adult drinks. It works best with irregularly shaped ice from an old fashioned ice house block or ice tray; not so great w/ mechanically made round ice. I think the ice machine product is too uniform in size.

So far I've never found a slap it or crank version veggie chopper that could chop carrots or other hard vegetables into regular and consistent easy to cook shapes:(.
To get around that problem I purchased a mandoline.

HTH.

As a child, I remember using a hand cranked model that attached to the kitchen table. I thought it was fun, dropping cut up veggies in the hopper and turning the crank that fed the veggies through one of several supplied disks with holes of various sizes. It was made of heavy metal.
You could grind meat(s) with it as well, but that took more power than I could supply at that age. But you had control over the meat/fat content for meatloaf, burgers or sausage. It even had a tube attachment that you could attach to force your meat/veggie mixture into casings (cleaned animal intestines) for sausages. Hence the name - forcemeat.
If I was looking for one, I'd check antique stores. Most younger folks wouldn't know what it was for.

http://www.saladmaster.com/Group/Everyone/SelfServe/L10089SA_MachineU_C_0209_lr.pdf

try this one, breaks down into 3 parts and should make a dent in your food processing

Lehmans Nonelectric Store has a food mill
https://www.lehmans.com/p-3102-the-foley-food-mill-2-quart.aspx

Or you can get a cordless immersion blender similar to this
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A1055398%2Ck%3Acordless%20immersion%20blender