Process up your bits with a Kenwood

Advantages: Small, easy to store and good for those small jobs in the kitchen
Disadvantages: Will struggle with larger items

...I tend to spend quite some time in the kitchen these days but I don?t really mind as I do like cooking, I suppose that stems back to when I was ?cheffing? for a living. Anyway, back when I was ?cheffing? you had to do most things by hand, cooking wise that is, so it was a little more work back then. These days life in the kitchen is so much easier, what with all the mod-cons that are on the market to give chefs a little helping hand. One of them items, which I am the owner of and have been for some time, is the kenwood Multi Pro food processor/liquidiser. ** Brief specs? * White food processor. * Separate liquidizer. * 1.2 litre mixer capacity * 2.1 litre bowl capacity * 750 watt power * 2 speed and ?pulse? button * Safety interlock to prevent accidental start without lid. * Detachable blades for easy cleaning...

blissman70 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood FP 220

My favourite Kenwood Chef - A701A

Advantages: retro appearance - best food mixer for cakes, pastry and dough
Disadvantages: size and weight often need to store it away

...Over the years I have had several Kenwood Chef food mixers and I still have two of them a 701A and an 901A but my favourite one is the oldest one - the 701A. I think it dates from the 1970s, is retro in appearance and it is still in amazingly good condition and the motor works well and quietly. I prefer the older model because it is really heavy so it does not bounce around when you run it fast. It is blue and white in colour and I think it is becoming very collectable as well as excellent to use. The original Kenwood Chef was developed by Ken Wood and was launched in 1950 . It was originally made in the UK but now it is made in the Far East. The basic shape of it has stayed very similar over the years and today there are six different chef models made with different power outputs but I personally would prefer to find another 701...

laveyri 26.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood Chef A701A Food Mixer

My Kenwood Chef - we couldn't live without it

Advantages: Makes great cakes, drinks, pastry, biscuits, you name it, it does it
Disadvantages: Takes up lot of space

...This may not be the most modern of food mixers but I inherited mine from my mum and it?s still working perfectly. Yes they are cumbersome, yes they take up space, but compared to my food processor, my kenwood chef is brilliant for many things, especially meringues, which, try as I might, I had never been able to master in my 39 years!!!! I remember days spent as a child, in the kitchen with my mum on a Sunday, making delights such as bourbon biscuits and shortbread in her kenwood chef. After she died in 1995, the chef was given to my grandmother, as at that time I had my food processor and was happy with that. A few months ago my grandmother handed the chef over and boy am I glad she did. My meringues are better than Sara Lees and the kids are so impressed when I make any sort of meringue with it!!! My daughter and I have...

Lizard_Lover 01.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood Chef A701A Food Mixer

For this Chef, its a Kenwood

Advantages: loads of attachments, large bowls, planetary mixing leaves items thoroughly mixed
Disadvantages: have to make counterspace but well worth it

...I love to cook. I like making homemade cakes, pies, yogurts, you name it. Generally I try to avoid feeding my family processed foods. Making everything from scratch is not only cheaper, but healthier as you control what goes in it. The down side is that when trying to do it all by hand, it is a lot of hard work and time consuming. Enter the Kenwood Chef. With its large capacity bowls, I can make large quantities of biscuit dough, large sponges, etc. without tiring my arms and constantly having to mix yet another batch. This means I can make enough biscuit dough in one go to actually bake enough biccies to fill our tin. Result: I only have to bake biccies once a week now, meaning loads of time saved with little ones about. The unique planetary action to the mixing mechanism means that there are no unmixed ingredients left in...

Shroud 07.02.2003 (13.02.2003) · Read review
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Review of Kenwood KM300 Fixed Stand Food Processors

Kenwood Kettle comes to stay and stay and stay

Advantages: An efficient attractive kettle
Disadvantages: Hubby's fingers are a little big for under the handle

... Kenwood SJM270 Kettle I'll start off by saying that this is likely to be a pretty boring review!! It's a kettle for goodness sake - and don't we just take them for granted!! The kettle is probably my least used kitchen appliance now. My family are predominantly coffee drinkers (a cup of tea has not passed my lips for 38 years!!) and since I purchased my indispensable Senseo Coffee Machine it is VERY rare that I make a cup of instant coffee. But, of course, I do need a kettle for other things apart from tea and coffee and when my old one went to the big kettle skip in the sky I needed to go and look for a new one. My previous kettle had been brushed stainless steel, and to be honest I wasn't that keen, I found that it took a fair bit of cleaning to keep it looking decent. It is twelve months now since...

oldchem 29.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood SJM270

My Kenwood, My Friend

Advantages: Inexpensive and practical
Disadvantages: Rather noisy

... KENWOOD WHITE COMPACT FOOD PROCESSOR INTRODUCTION The food processor is probably my most used kitchen appliance (next to my trusty Senseo coffee machine!!) This review is about my current food processor, which is the Kenwood White Compact Food Processor that I bought from Argos about six years ago. I paid around £25 for the machine but on checking today I see that it is on sale in Argos (code number 420/0442) for £27.99, I have also seen them on Amazon for less than £20. I have, in the past, owned far more expensive and intricate food processors. But this machine is perfectly adequate for me, and I do a lot of cooking. Six years on it is still working well, making my pastry, whisking my eggs shredding my vegetables etc. I have been a Kenwood customer for forty years since my mum bought me my first Kenwood...

oldchem 22.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood FP 108 White Compact

Kenwood KM010 - royalty in the kitchen

Advantages: It's simply the most powerful and majestic Kenwood
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

...If I was totally honest it would be fair to say that I needed a new Kenwood like a hole in the head - after all how many virtually retired batchelors really need a food processor? But over the decades I collected unpteen very usefull accessories and no less than four Kenwood mixers of mixed vintage, all of which were excellent for one task or another. However none were compatable with all the tools I owned, and visa versa! In a fit of enthusiasm last Christmas I hunted the Internet and decided to treat myself to a new Kenwood. Days of deliberation [and umpteen special deal offers later] I plumped for a Kenwood KM 010 Titanium. When it arrived, in a positively huge box, I really enjoyed myself unpacking every item and comparing the impressive new machine with its stainless steel accessories to the many "antique" versions in my...

Bilgescraper 06.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood KM 010 Titanium CHEF

A toast to Kenwood

Advantages: Good price, nice toast, looks good
Disadvantages: None yet

...Debenhams. We had £100 worth as a wedding present and still had £25 left - the fact that it is our third wedding anniversary on 16th April is immaterial! We're not shopaholics then! I thought that it would be expensive at Debenhams but figured that it was worth a look; however I was in for a nice surprise. They had a Kenwood TTP103 four slice toaster in white for £20! So know you know why we needed a toaster, how and why we chose it and where we got it from I'm guessing you'd like to know a bit about it! Features It has a crumb tray into which will drop the crumbs from the toast. It slides out of the base of the toaster so that it can be emptied - I always put the resulting crumbs out for the birds. I also usually turn the toaster upside down and give it a bit of a shake to get the crumbs out that don't fall into the crumb tray...

SusanLesley 15.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood TTP 103

Kenwood Major - A major success

Advantages: Large bowl, pulse capability, bowl cover
Disadvantages: Bowl cover is not very strong.

...Q: Kenwood Major or Kenwood Chef? A: It depends on your needs! Advantages of the Major over the Chef: - Larger bowl makes large mixing possible, less messy and easier (6.7L over 4.6L) - Flexible beater included Although that may seem like a very small difference for such a difference in price, for me, it is well worth it. When baking or mixing something for large quantities the Major gives me the capacity that the Chef would struggle with. As with the Chef, the Kenwood Major is a very high quality appliance. With the flexibility of being able to attach the most amazing attachments, from sausage makers to food processors the Major flexes its dynamism. This is a very robust machine that in my experience does not scratch easily. If you are toying up whether to get a Kenwood over another brand I would suggest the Kenwood for a number...

marktatton44 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood KM 020 Titanium Major

A Toast to Kenwood!

Advantages: Simple controls, easy enough to use, toasts 4 slices in one go!
Disadvantages: Struggles on home baked bread, body doesn't always stay cool in use, availability

...and Using I find the TT920 does a good job on shop bought bread, thick and medium sliced managing to give a good uniform browning on either side. Incase noone knows what browning means, it is when the bread turns brown as it cooks and toasts in a toaster. However with home made bread the Kenwood sometimes struggles to put browning on either side in a uniform fashion. That is the downside but at least it can manage virtually any slice thanks to the thick and thin springs which hold the bread in from the start. Another surprise is the fact that this toaster has a built in bun warmer which is simply an extra pair of arms which, when activated pops up to provide a simple grill in which food such as croissants can be warmed up. Now this is really handy for me because previously I've either had to wait an age for my old convector cooker grill...

sarab20 02.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Kenwood TT920