Electric mixer, blender, food processor, juicer or grinder?

As promised, here is a bit more information about the different kitchen gadgets:

Electric mixer, blender, food processor, juicer or grinder

Electric mixer,
Mixes ingredients and is mostly used when baking cakes
Meat mincer. Pushes food through a sieve to make minced meat or fruit.

Blender (liquidizer),
A blender mashes food into a pulp and is mostly used for making drinks or soups.
The stick blender.
This works the same way as the blender but you plunge the stick into the food instead of putting the food into the blender. blender.

Food processor,
A food processor is a gadget with sharp and blunt blades to chop food finely, make breadcrumbs or kneads dough.

Juicer

A juicer will extract fluid from food, mostly vegetables and leaves the non fluid portion of the food as a pulp which can be eaten separately.
A citrus juicer is a glorified lemon or orange squeezer.

Grinder
A grinder is used for grinding and spices and coffee beans. It is the most time saving device and replaces the old mortal and pestle.

I shall post more details about each gadget in due course.

Most two most useful items in thee kitchen are the stick blender and the humble hand whisk.
Every new housewife should have those.

Electric mixer, blender, food processor, juicer or grinder

Hubby recently bought me a electric juicer when I said that I needed another blender.
It came to my attention that some people did not know the difference between a mixer, blender, food processor, juicer and grinder.
They are all essential cooking aids with completely different jobs. If you are someone starting up your home kitchen then I would suggest that you get one of those conglomeration models that do a few of these tasks by just changing some of its components. Just remember you may need to. *juice, *blend, *mix, *grind and *chop (process) food.
If you have a separate gadget for each task, like me, you need a lot more packing space.
I decided to write a bit about these gadgets so that my readers know more than I did when I was kitting out m first kitchen.
Watch this space if you need to know more without too much research.