cover, lift the blade out carefully and remove the wedged piece. Empty the bowl, reinsert the blade and lock the cover into place. Process smaller amounts of the food at one time.
Don't store food or liquids in the food processor work bowl.
CLEANING AND STORING YOUR POWERBLEND DUET™ FOOD PROCESSOR ATTACHMENT
Store the chopping blade and slicing/ shredding disc as you would sharp knives – out of the reach of children.
The work bowl, cover, pusher, chopping blade, and slicing/ shredding disc are top shelf
The gearbox collar is not immersible. To clean, just wipe with a damp cloth.
If you wash the blades and discs by hand, do it carefully. Avoid leaving them in soapy water where they may disappear from sight. To clean the metal blade, fill the work bowl with soapy water, hold the blade by its plastic center and move rapidly up and down on the center shaft of the bowl. Use of a spray hose is also effective. If necessary, use a brush.
The work bowl should not be placed in a microwave oven.
General Guidelines for Preparing Foods for Chopping
The Food | How to prepare it |
Fruits and vegetables | Peel and core if necessary. Remove large, hard |
| pits and seeds. Cut into ¾" pieces and process |
| up to 1 cup at a time. |
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Meat, poultry and fish | These should be very cold but not frozen. First, |
| cut into ¾" pieces. Put up to ½ pound in work |
| bowl. If you want to chop or purée more, do it |
| in batches of not more than ½ pound each. |
| Pulse/chop or run continuously until desired |
| consistency is reached. Check texture every 2 |
| or 3 seconds to avoid overprocessing. |
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Bread, crackers or cookies | Break into 1" pieces and process continuously |
| until texture for crumbs is fine. For seasoned |
| crumbs, chop with herbs. For buttered crumbs, |
| dribble melted butter through feed tube while |
| processing – 1 teaspoon melted butter for each |
| slice of bread. |
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Crumb crusts | Chop crackers or cookies as described in |
| preceding paragraph. Add sugar, spices and |
| butter and cut into pieces, as specified |
| by recipe. Pulse/chop until combined. |
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Hard cheese “grated” | If it’s too hard to cut with a knife, don’t try to |
| chop it – it may damage blade. First cut into ¾" |
| pieces. Pulse/chop until |
| process continuously. You can chop it as |
| coarse or as fine as you want. Simply run |
| machine longer for finer chop. Process up to 3 |
| ounces at one time. |
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|
Whipping cream | |
| purposes. It is excellent as a topping for |
| desserts or hot drinks. Cream must be at |
| refrigerator temperature. You can whip up to |
| 1 cup at a time. Do not use food processor |
| whipped cream to prepare soufflés or other |
| foods where volume is required. |
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Parsley and other fresh herbs | Work bowl and metal blade must be clean and |
| dry. Remove stems; use leaves only. Dry herbs |
| completely. The more herbs you chop at once, |
| the finer chop you can get. Chopped herbs |
| keep for several days in the refrigerator in |
| airtight bags, or can be frozen for months. |
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