16 Food Processor Hacks You Need to Know (Nicole’s Best Tips & Tricks!) | Allrecipes
Ever feel like your food processor is just taking up counter space? In this video, Nicole shares 16 smart food processor hacks, tips, and techniques that go way beyond basic chopping. From making homemade butter and sausage to mixing big batches of dough and whipping up silky emulsified sauces, these practical ideas will help you save time, reduce prep work, and get more out of one of the most powerful tools in your kitchen.
Discover game-changing tricks like shredding and slicing in seconds, using your processor as a coffee grinder, turning stale bread into fresh breadcrumbs, and making powdered sugar at home. Nicole also walks through essentials like foolproof pie dough, creamy nut butters, bulk garlic prep, cauliflower rice, and even shaved ice for cocktails. Plus, learn clever cleaning hacks — including how to safely spin sauces off the blade and the easiest washing method for a spotless bowl. Watch to the end for simple techniques that will completely change the way you use your food processor.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Food Processor Hacks, Tips & Tricks
0:06 – Make Homemade Butter
1:25 – DIY Sausage
3:38 – Slicing & Shredding
5:33 – Big Batch Mixing
6:55 – Dips & Salsa
8:31 – Shaved Ice & Cocktails
9:02 – Emulsified Sauces
10:24 – Use It as a Coffee Grinder
11:22 – Fresh Bread Crumbs
12:25 – Homemade Powdered Sugar
13:13 – Perfect Pie Dough
15:07 – Nut Butters
16:55 – Bulk Garlic Prep
17:54 – Cauliflower Rice
18:56 – Spin the Blades Clean
19:33 – Easy Wash Cycle
Get the recipes here:
Homemade Butter: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/42264/homemade-butter/
DIY Sausage: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/228080/homemade-paleo-style-breakfast-sausage/
Fresh Salsa: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/284607/fresh-restaurant-style-salsa/
Homemade Mayonnaise: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/making-mayonnaise/
Powdered Sugar: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/242092/confectioners-sugar/
Flaky Pie Dough: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12360/flaky-food-processor-pie-crust/
Cauliflower Rice: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/238987/paleo-cauliflower-rice/
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Thank goodness Ninja and Costco paid you for the advertisements so you're inspired. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been thought how easy butter is made but instead how easy we can go to a certain brand shop and buy certain brand butter.
Don't waste your coffee with a food processor. I really don't know if this was rage bait or ignorance. Coffee grinds need to be much finder and even, so you can extract more coffee and expose the particles to the same intensity of extraction. I hope that my coffee grinder from ebay will be a long term investment.
A blender will do powdered sugar just like you buy.😊
Going to try pecans! Yum! Do you need to add oil for nut butter?
Cauliflower makes great substitute for mashed potatoes.
You are my go to girl for tips, tricks and recipes. Quick and to the point. No nonsense fluff. You're my kinda gal!
Thank you
Thank you! I’ve had one of these babies for 25 years. My husband gave it to me thinking I’d be over joyed. I never used it. 😮 I’ll be digging it out and using it a lot now thanks to you. My husband will be the over joyed one now. 😂
does the buttermilk have the acidic level to work with baking powder/soda to give lift to biscuits or pancakes, et al?
if you add cornstarch to the sugar, it'll come out exactly like powdered sugar
Brilliant! Thanks for all your handy tips. Now ive got to go buy a food processor & start putting it to good use. God bless you & your loved ones.❤ maria, Australia 🇦🇺
You have inspired me to order the replacement blade for my food processor 😂
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You are amazing. 5🌟s
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This is so helpful and now I can clean the dust off of my food processor😉
I really enjoyed that. love your humour and your accent, and a whole new respect for the food processor that I seldom use. Thank you from the UK.
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Pre grounded coffee has sawdust inside of it
Thanks, Nicole! The tip for cleaning 🤯😂
You should wash it ( the butter) in cold water to avoid it getting rancid.
But not rinsing the buttermilk out several times with water makes the butter spoil quickly. Kneading salt into the clean butter also preserves it.
Can you do some hacks like these with a immersion blender
What storage containers are you using?
You HAVE to rinse the butter
You need to rinse the butter in ice cold water till it runs cleas BEFORE you add salt…if you dont rinse it in ice water it will turn rancid…
You are my hero!!!
Very interesting and useful information. I only have my doubts regarding butter from cream. The ingredients in the store bought 33% cream are not very healthy, so only if you buy real organic cream it can be beaten into butter.
A coffee grinder doesn't take up that much space, you can grind a days worth to the proper grind in about 30 seconds, and you can use it to grind other spices too.
Wow! 🤯❤️ 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Make any cooked meat into shredded meat for sandwiches. Chicken salad, i make roast beef and pork "salad" the same way. Mayo, onion, celery, salt.
In the 80s I used to make powdered sugar or caster sugar in a coffee grinder.
I have processor, mixer, meat grinder 😮 so i can just use my processor!!! I make my own sausage too!!
I just make turkey croquets. I have half gal og heavy cream to make my butter!!
Tell me more about this fictious thing you call 'leftover steak'.
garlic: I bought a $19 big bag of garlic at Costco, and spent an hour with my dad peeling it, used the food processor, stored it in the freezer. It lasted 8 months and I'm pretty sure I saved like $19 on garlic.
Awesome!
Don’t have a single twin sister do ya. One preferably with a food processor
I hate you! YOU have two stoves! 😊❤
You should always wash your butter in water and couple of time. Because if you don't do it your butter will good bad pretty fast.
I've made organic butter out of organic heavy cream and the cost was the same
Nicole, you are a treasure. The best food YouTuber. One question. You have these containers where you put your coffee. It looks like they have a wooden lid. Where can we get them?
Thank you Nicole!! I used your pork sausage hack and bought a big bag of coffee beans at Costco for $20 since ground coffee is close to $20 a small bag here in Ontario, Canada.
Great video! No ads here just great content even though you were using a hoss of a machine you never mentioned the brand, yes, I am wanting one just like it now!
Been watchin' this channel for awhile…Nicole, you are one fine lady…🥰 and I have tried some of your tips too😅