Anything less than a convincing

Moulinex for me was always a well-known manufacturer of kitchen appliances. This brand embodied for me know how, quality and functional design. So that was until today. So it was, until I have the QA404G food processor Masterchef Gourmet PLUS unpacked, cleaned and taken for the first time in operation.

This food processor is truly an eye-catcher, the design, extremely heavily based on the KitchenAid Artisan is really well done. For my taste, there is perhaps a little too much (cream) white plastic, because I had found a uniform design in metallic red nice, but I could have lived with it. The dough hook and stirring hook are made of cast aluminum and robust view of even the futuristic shaped whisk makes a very strong impression. At the bottom of the machine suction cups are attached, which should probably ensure stability on the worktop. Desweitern included is a 1.5-liter, Mixkrug, a chopping mechanism for shredding, grating and cutting, a multilingual color recipe book and a multilingual instruction manual included.

Target 01 Preparation of a Reibekuchenteigs

The assembly of the required for this vegetable cutter designed absolutely simple and succeed right away. It requires, however, quite a lot of space on the worktop because the receptacle for the grated potato has left next to the machine to be placed (see photo), under 50 cm width goes nothing.

The four drums of scavenger plant for grating manufactured (coarse / fine), cutting and rubbing are made of stainless steel, the drum bearing and pusher made of transparent plastic. So far, so beautiful, you might think, because there is the rasping, after all, what to see and rubbing snipping.
So I choose the Einsatzfür Reibkuchen and put it into the camp. Then I fill the feed tube with the first potatoes, pick up the pusher and switch the machine to the recommended level 4. After a delay of two seconds felt sets the drum in motion, deafening noise begins and I try the potatoes using the tamping tool to push down. So all I did not succeed in this with one hand but. The potatoes need more pressure from above to be pushed into the drum as I can muster one hand. I'm not so sure whether holding the plastic anchor the drum-Schnitzel work was my pressure from above and try the schnitzel work simultaneously support from below (see photo). This process turns out to be extremely difficult. For three potatoes I need almost two minutes !!

What I also noticed, as I so with one hand abstütze the drum from below: Thicker potato pieces, which have settled on the drum and rotate in this way, noticeably deform the plastic outer wall of the chip factory. Can it be true?!?

The horizontal application of the drum, the grated potatoes falling only very reluctantly in the collection container. Hello Moulinex?!? Should I now carry out about the mashed potatoes with your fingers out of the drum ?? Somehow I see that too dangerous out ok, the sharp part of the drum is located on the outside, but I am reluctant simply because reinzufassen and besides, I have freely around the ground with the help of a spoon to pulen also no longer hand out.
The grater can function of their intensity so much to be desired. Without pressure the friction drum engages simply not strong enough. Rubbing may perhaps very well work for cheese, hard things like potatoes or similar good for this accessory does not exist.

Eventually I lose patience and resort to my 15 year old compact Philips Cucina. In the time in which the Moulinex has just rubbed three potatoes I have processed a kilo of potatoes with the elderly and the machine cleaned again.

Target 02: Grate carrots

The drum insert for finely grate works a bit better. The carrots are hard, but my trust in the anchor has grown obviously, maybe I'm already so annoyed that I do not care if the plastic chopping mechanism under strong pressure, I now performing with both hands from the top , breaks ...
But again, I have the same problem as the rasp coming out of the barrel? Gravity alone just does not look at the horizontal position, which is no fun and takes valuable time.

Hitting Target 03 egg whites

I give protein in the stainless steel mixing bowl and immerse the whisk it. Then I push even the splash guard / lid over it and turn the switch to "max" It takes quite a while, but the results speak for themselves: the very finest super stiff egg whites. Kudos to the planetary mixing system, my hand mixer creates the egg whites firmly a little faster, but so beautiful he is not so.

Target stir cake batter 04

On the menu is a hazelnut cake. The opening in the mixer jug ​​for adding the ingredients is not particularly practical and I remove the attachment. When Teigrühren strikes me that the multifunctional head is not really stable mounted. Even under normal load, I am referring only stirring a soft and almost liquid cake batter, the gap above the release shifts.

Really problematic but it is only when you want to remove the mixing bowl to pour the cake mixture into the cake tin. Before lifting the multifunction head, one should in any case remove the dough hook, or the whisk. Not doing this, which is the risk that dough runs inside the now unfolded machine. Ergo: I remove the stirring hook with complicated herabgesenktem multifunctional head and let him - it's unfortunately not help - stuck in the cake batter.

What I also want to mention is the extreme volume this appliance: For sensitive ears this is an absolute absurdity.

For my taste too much plastic was used on the QA404G food processor Masterchef Gourmet PLUS easy, even for parts that really have to endure what, such as the chopping mechanism. It may be that the motor is robust, just nciht awaken many plastic components my confidence.

The stainless steel mixing bowl, over which I have actually very happy, is not particularly well made and has top of the rim and the two handles disturbing sharp edges.

Well, all in all I can not report much good about my first day of testing with the first Moulinex food processor really. The planetary mixing system works effectively and thoroughly, but solely because of the great stirring function I imagine such a big device not even in the kitchen. The negatives outweigh clearly for my needs and I think that the Moulinex QA404asG15 is unfortunately quite a bad design.

It may be that the true talents of this appliance remained for me in secret because
the mixer jug ​​and also the big dough hook I have not tested it (honestly my desire is it currently also passed). As soon as I can bring myself to further test runs, this review is of course supplemented by the new experiences and along the way I will continue to diligently save the original KitchenAid Artisan ...

PS:
Also interesting is the product video on the previous model Moulinex QA402G here on Amazon.com. All critical steps were deliberately skipped or edited out. I seriously wonder how this food processor has been "good" cut off at the Stiftung Warentest.