If you find yourself always mincing up garlic, onion, ginger, or chilli for your meals, this is a handy equipment to have. It’s also useful if you are frequently making curries—be they Indian, Thai, or Indonesian. Because of the amount of paste you constantly have to grind up, a food processor will definitely be a good investment. It works for well for Western dishes too, when a recipe asks for chopped garlic, onion, celery, carrots and tomatoes to make a basic stew. Simply throw all these ingredients in the food processor, give it a blitz, and they will be nicely minced or chopped up for you according to the setting it’s on.