I have a kitchen aid thing that has a base on which you can attach a blender, mixing or kneading beaters, or a grinder, shredder, cutter..depending on blade used, also a noodle, pasta maker or sausage stuffer........and I have used all parts sucessfully...more when we were a family, but now kids gone, I am widowed, so creative scratch food prep is very limited....I still make my own bread crumbs from dried bread...and do use slicer for batch cooking, and beaters for cookie baking...the rest of the attachments are packed away in the pantry. But, it was the best investment we made......