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However your plunger may have a secret: Depending on the make and design of your food mill, your food tube plunger might have a small hole in the center, which often-overlooked hole is very useful when making emulsified sauces.
I call it “the dribbler” even though it does not rather dribble. With the dribbler, you can gradually include oil, melted butter, or any liquid to the bowl of your food processor in the thinnest, most constant stream, without have to fret if you are adding it gradually enough, rapidly enough, or mistakenly sprinkling too much in.
Using the dribbler is simple: With the food mill running (and other active ingredients already blended in the bowl), set the plunger in the food tube and pour your oil, melted butter, or whatever other liquid you require to incorporate in a gradual nature. Then go back and watch the dribbler do its thing, without needing to fret about adding too much, too bit, or getting a hand cramp.
If you have a food processor– or even if you do not– youre most likely aware that it includes numerous parts. The bowl and the lid are the greatest ones, then there are the blades, shredders, slicers, the little arm thing that the slicers and shredders rest on (that I am constantly losing), and finally theres the plunger– the tube of plastic that helps you shove carrots, cheese, zucchini, or anything else you want to shred or slice into and through the feeding tube.
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