Breville Paradice 9

[lindag]

Try twisting?

Maybe hot tap water will help.

Sorry you're having trouble.

If nothing works,, try their Customer Service, I have and they're are very helpful.

[lindag]

Any luck yet?

[TdeV]

I'm on hold with Customer Service, but at least I reached a human!

[ElsieD]

Sorry I'm a bit late.  I have the dicing kit, not the paradice 9.

[TdeV]

We have learned how to separate the two caddies (it took two of us!).

 

All the parts have now been washed.

 

Now, what to do with it? 🙃

[lindag]

16 hours ago, TdeV said:

We have learned how to separate the two caddies (it took two of us!).

 

All the parts have now been washed.

 

Now, what to do with it? 🙃

Chop up a bunch of veg. to make some really good soup.

[ElsieD]

As mentioned, I don't have the Paradice but do have the dicing kit.  I've used it to dice vegetables before dehydrating them, such as squash, carrots, celery, etc.  I hate chopping onions so bought a 5 pound bag one day, diced them, packaged them in 1 cup amounts, and froze them flat.  That way, though admittedly I have to eyeball it, I  can break off 1/4 or a half cup.  

[TdeV]

Breville Support said they had not heard any hints of future availability of more dicing blades for the Paradice 9 (which has 1, Paradice 16 has 3).

 

Yesterday DH and I made clam-less chowder (the clams kept separately).

 

I used nearly every blade in the Paradice 9.

• S blade for finely cutting garlic
• Dicing blade for the onion
• Slicing blade for the celery
• Shredding blade for the carrot
• Dicing blade for the potato

Made a huge mess of the kitchen.

 

Last night I hand washed all the blades and stacked them in the dish tray in a way that hid the blades from accidental hands. This morning most parts (blades and bowl) leaked water.

 

Seems inefficient. If more dicing blades were available for the Paradice 9, these could have been used for most of the subsequent chopping. Grumble, grumble.

 

Perhaps the more I use the machine, the more efficient the usage will become!

[rotuts]

@TdeV

 

'''    stacked them in the dish tray in a way that hid the blades from accidental hands. This morning most parts (blades and bowl) leaked water.stacked them in the dish tray in a way that hid the blades from accidental hands. This morning most parts (blades and bowl) leaked water. '''

 

im a bit confused , which is on me  :

 

is the dish tray   1)  part of the dishwasher ?   

 

how does a bade lick water ?   did you damage the bowl ?

[TdeV]

@rotuts, I had 5 blades (2 for dicing grid) and their accoutrements (spindle, dicing gearbox, dicing cleaner) as well as the bowl and its parts. After washing, I stacked them at the rear of the topside dish tray (manual says using dishwasher will dull the blades), piled up in a way that most of the blades were under or behind something. Then I laid the bowl parts on top.

 

In the morning water came out of the handle of the big bowl, as well as the parts of the feed chute, as I turned them into a different position than they were in the dish tray.

 

What it boils down to is that I had to leave the parts all over the kitchen so they could dry . . . .

[rotuts]

Ive always washed by hand my processors , and dried the part w a soft cloth.

 

I carefully dried the blade , and I didnt over do that , as the blade was very sharp , and let that sit on the counter overnight , along w the bowls.

 

they were dry the next day.   

 

pay careful attention to the blades , as they are very sharp , and looking  for trouble

 

I friend dropped his blade one his foot , wearing ' slip-ons '

 

I had to take him to the ER , and process the damage to the foot.

 

it was not trivial as the blade stuck right in the instep.

Edited January 29 by rotuts (log)

[TdeV]

@rotuts, I'm afraid how that last sentence might end!

[lindag]

19 hours ago, TdeV said:

Breville Support said they had not heard any hints of future availability of more dicing blades for the Paradice 9 (which has 1, Paradice 16 has 3).

 

Yesterday DH and I made clam-less chowder (the clams kept separately).

 

I used nearly every blade in the Paradice 9.

• S blade for finely cutting garlic
• Dicing blade for the onion
• Slicing blade for the celery
• Shredding blade for the carrot
• Dicing blade for the potato

Made a huge mess of the kitchen.

 

Last night I hand washed all the blades and stacked them in the dish tray in a way that hid the blades from accidental hands. This morning most parts (blades and bowl) leaked water.

 

Seems inefficient. If more dicing blades were available for the Paradice 9, these could have been used for most of the subsequent chopping. Grumble, grumble.

 

Perhaps the more I use the machine, the more efficient the usage will become!

Yay!!!   I hope you love yours as much as I do mine.

The more3 I use it the more new ways I find to do my cutting.

The one thing I have had a bit of an issue with dicing onions...a lot gets stuck on the blade.  I also wish they'd come out with a 8mm dicing blade.

 

[ElsieD]

I have both the 8mm and 12mm disc's.  I use them both, probably in equal measure.

[TdeV]

We mere Paradice 9 owners are not as lucky as you @ElsieD !

[lindag]

@ElsieD

You seem to have had good success with dicing onions.

Mine tend to jam up under the disc.

Is there a trick to this?

[ElsieD]

1 hour ago, lindag said:

@ElsieD

You seem to have had good success with dicing onions.

Mine tend to jam up under the disc.

Is there a trick to this?

No trick.  I just dice them as you dice anything else.  I had a few pieces, mostly from the outside layers, that the machine did not dice.