Okuzeka
Culinary Arts & Cooking vocabulary · Kitchen Equipment

Food processor

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, food processor means: An electric kitchen machine with a bowl and interchangeable blades for processing food.

In Turkish: mutfak robotu

How it is used

Used for chopping, slicing and mixing; the fitted blade determines the task.

Example sentences

  1. The food processor chopped the nuts for the filling.

    The machine performs repeated cutting inside its bowl.

  2. Fit the slicing disc to the food processor for the cabbage.

    An attachment adapts the machine from chopping to slicing.

Common collocations

  • food processor bowl
  • slicing disc
  • chopTo cut food into pieces with a knife, usually quickly and without needing every piece to be exactly the same size.
  • sliceTo cut something into thin, flat pieces. As a noun, a slice is one of these pieces, such as a slice of bread or lemon.

More terms: Kitchen Equipment

Practise with graded reading

Reading at the right level is the fastest way to make new words stick. Pick free English books by level: