The title says most of it.
I’m not entirely sure yet if I’m looking for a small or a large: KitchenAid seems to have models that have smaller inner bowls, so that looks good. I know I want a small; I want a large for dough, but would I really use that? Definitely not until I get a real oven - and maybe not after that either.
I’ve searched through some of the department stores, and the websites of Hola and B&Q, but have found nothing. I suspect Costco is my best bet, but it’s pretty far for me and I don’t have a membership card. Does anyone know about food processors available there?
If I search for sites in the .tw domain, all I seem to find are individuals shipping from the USA.
Alternatively, I’m visiting Hong Kong in a couple of months. Shopping options there?
For that matter, is there a standard Chinese term for food processors? Asking for “切菜的電機” doesn’t quite cut it. (Hey, a pun!)
What I seem to be looking for, with Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KFP720OB-7-Cup-Processor-3-Cup/dp/B0007SXINQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1257940805&sr=1-6
Thanks!
Those look like they’re all spit out by the same low-quality PRC factory and sold under different name brands with the most minimal of cosmetic changes. A lot of the cheap kitchen appliances at places like RT Mart are like that, and the control knobs and such feel so cheap and crappy that I can’t imagine anyone trusting them enough to actually buy them.
Spend a few bucks more and get something with a known name brand that will last.
Braun hand mixer with a small mixing bowl attachment
shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=item … 0J&ROWNO=1
Thanks all.
The Braun mixer looks good… it’d certainly making pureeing hot soups a bit less dangerous.
That other Fisher Price thing: I’m not sure how much that’s really a food processor - isn’t it just a juicer/ blender? Would it work for dough? And, um, yeah - it scares me.
Dragonbones, I’m happy to spend more on a KitchenAid (seems best) or Cuisinart, but so far I’ve been unable to find anything like that in Taiwan, and Amazon won’t deliver. KitchenAid seems to sell mixers here - there was a big display at CitySuper the other week - but food processors? I don’t know.
I was searching the online auction sites for you a bit earlier, looking for some of the better-rated FPs, but the only hits I got were problematic (utterly ridiculous prices or shipping terms, for instance). But I’m sure there must be something at the better department stores or Hola.
These guys import stuff from the US as you order it, but it’s not cheap shopusa.com.tw/
Thanks - really appreciate the tips.
I’ve searched through a couple of the department stores and found nothing (but they sure do like their blenders here!); I guess I’d better head for the long line of Mitsukoshi in Xinyi and have a look through those.
Hola online doesn’t have anything, but I guess I should look in their store. I’m not sure why I’ve gone off Hola - I used to like their store quite a bit, but the past couple of times I’ve been there they’ve have had nothing I wanted.
This may finally get me a Costco membership as well - but their stores are so far from Danshui!
There isn’t like a “kitchen supply street” anywhere, is there? With lots of import stores? I’ve seen a few such stores in the Shida area.
Shop USA seems to have what you want
shopusa.com.tw/index.php?mai … dc1edad786
but once you’ve placed an order, they ship it from the US and it takes 8-14 days apparently…
Thanks for starting this thread I’ve been after one for a long time, and now I know. All I had to do was ask 
Someone’s selling a second hand one here taiwanted.com/viewlisting.php?view=12207
Progress report:
- Thanks LostSwede - I followed up on that, but the one on offer is smaller than I want. I’ve recently acquired Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything”, and that book has convinced me that I need a big food processor to mix dough for baking bread in my hypothetical oven. I’m currently hoping to find one of KitchenAid’s bigger models, many of which include a smaller inner bowl as well.
Still no success at department stores. The ones searched:
- The two Sogos above City Supers.
- The long string of stores leading to 101. (Man, that was an awful way to spend a day.)
Plus a number of high-end kitchen furnishing stores scattered around the city.
I’ve also gone the length of 環河路 (Huanhe Road), a street that backs on to Ximending - it is indeed a kitchen supply store street, but it’s not particularly high-end (not that I’d ever considered a food processor a luxury product), and is generally aimed at retailers. If you’ve always wanted to buy your very own night market stand, this is the place to look. There were plenty of KitchenAid stand mixers (mostly huge!), but no food processors.
There were however at least two stores that appeared to be entirely dedicated to kitchen scales. The wonders of capitalism never cease to amaze me.
Next step I suppose is Tianmu, but I’m starting to give up hope. I also should write to Cuisinart and KitchenAid, but I’ve had little luck in the past writing to companies and asking about Taiwan dealers.
And there’s always Hong Kong in late January. Just what my wife wants - a vacation watching me shop for white goods. I would never again be allowed to complain about how she spends all her time shopping.
How to Cook Everything: an interesting book.
I don’t think you will ever find a food processor big enough to cook everything at once You’d have to do it in several batches, and then you’re still stuck with the logical problem of cooking the actual food processor itself.
Forget about Hong Kong, they’re 220V and use UK plugs, so it’s a no go for Taiwan (especially as the 220V here is not the same as in Europe/Hong Kong)
Your best bet imho is to order from shopusa.com.tw/
shopusa.com.tw/index.php?mai … 97eb4d6ab1
That seems to be the biggest one they offer though, at least from what I can find.
[quote=“TheLostSwede”]Forget about Hong Kong, they’re 220V and use UK plugs, so it’s a no go for Taiwan (especially as the 220V here is not the same as in Europe/Hong Kong)
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Oops! Oh yeah, I should have thought of that. I like to think I’d have noticed the silly plug somewhere between the department store and arriving with my new food processor back in Taipei, but maybe not. Once again, you’re really helpful - thanks.
I’ll be thinking about ShopUSA. Heck of a mark up - that food processor sells for $200US/ NTD6,400 on Amazon, vs NTD11,200 on ShopUSA. Oh, and that ShopUSA one is plenty big, perhaps even too big. It’s just that the model available secondhand was only around 3-4 cups - good for small chopping and blending only.
I did write to Cuisinart and KitchenAid. After using Cuisinart’s online form to submit the question, I then got back an e-mail telling me that security policies didn’t allow the e-mail to be sent. Sigh.
(“How to Cook Everything” is indeed a silly name for a cookbook, which is what kept me away from it for a while, but it’s actually an excellent book. Really good at not just providing recipes, but teaching the reader how to mix and match and create their own dishes.)
Well, if you do a search on shopusa you can find smaller models as well.
I’m not familiar with either brand as such (as I’m not from north america), I would’ve gone for a Braun or Electrolux or something, but same problem there…
<- sadly not on sale here, despite Electrolux having a wide range of other things on sale in Taiwan
The thing with shopusa is that they have someone in the US that gets what you order from them and have it shipped here, so yeah, they’ll charge you whatever they can for it I guess…
There’s of course the option to get a power inverter here, but you’ll need a 1000W inverter (110 to 220V) and that’ll cost you at least NT$2-3k for a good one I’d say and it might still burn out. It’s of course also a waste of electricity, as they’re not very efficient. But at least that’d be a way around the HK power issue…
Hi, lostinasia, did you ever get that food processor?
I am now in the market too. And looking for Kitchenaid, but smaller than you want. I’d like a 7-cup model.
Chinese for food processor seems to be 食物調理機.
Here’s someone selling a French brand (MagicMix) of FPs:
tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!jTbceRuCG … le?mid=525
Prices NT$21,000~22,000. Delivery time is 21 to 24 days after ordering.
Last weekend I saw a FP in NeiHu at 日湖生活百貨 內湖區成功路四段180號6F。
Price: NT$7980. Brand: Wendec; model: KF-198. 300watts, usual set of blades. Origin: Taiwan I think. Overall impression: unimpressive. Did not buy.
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Last weekend I saw a FP in Neihu at 日湖生活百貨 內湖區成功路四段180號6F。
Price: NT$7980. Brand: Wendec; model: KF-198. 300watts, usual set of blades. Origin: Taiwan I think. Overall impression: unimpressive. Did not buy.[/quote]
This thing?
[quote=“TheLostSwede”][quote=“MilesFromNeihu”]
Last weekend I saw a FP in Neihu at 日湖生活百貨 內湖區成功路四段180號6F。
Price: NT$7980. Brand: Wendec; model: KF-198. 300watts, usual set of blades. Origin: Taiwan I think. Overall impression: unimpressive. Did not buy.[/quote]
This thing?
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Yes; that looks like it.
Lots of hits from searching for
食物調理機
on
ruten.com.tw/