A food processor is a kitchen appliance used to facilitate various repetitive tasks in the process of preparation of food. Today, the term almost always refers to an electric-motor-driven appliance, although there are some manual devices also referred to as "food processors".Food processors are similar to blenders in many ways. The primary difference is that food processors use swappable blades and disks (attachments) instead of a fixed blade. Also, their bowls are wider and shorter, a more appropriate shape for the solid or semi-solid foods usually worked in a food processor. Usually little or no liquid is required in the operation of the food processor unlike a blender, which requires some amount of liquid to move the particles around its blade.Its functions normally consist of:Slicing/chopping vegetablesGrinding items such as nuts, meat, or dried fruitShredding or grating cheese or vegetablesPureeingMixing and kneading doughs

There are no conveyor belts or giant industrial mixers in this industrial kitchen. Aside from a few food processors for mixing flavorings, the seven-day process is done by hand.

By Christopher Doering WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the biggest U.S. meat processors on Tuesday defended a packaging technique designed to keep meat looking fresh at grocery stores even as U.S. lawmakers criticized it as unsafe and misleading. Pac...

AFS Technologies, Inc. (“AFS”), the leading provider of food and beverage enterprise software solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Astra Information Systems, Inc, a Weston, FL-based provider of software solutions to distributors, processors and importers, primarily in the Seafood industry.

The chicken houses have cropped up like weeds since Tyson Foods, the world's largest processor of pork, beef and poultry, brought its industrial farming system to Owensboro in the 1990s.

"The government has new rules for preventing food poisoning in fresh-cut produce, but companies don't have to follow them...fruit and vegetable processors are urged to adopt food safety plans similar to those in the meat industry. The difference is that controls in the meat industry are mandatory."I'm sure the growers will get right on this.