KITCHEN APPLIANCE AND ACCESSORY ELEMENT FOR SEALING A PROTECTIVE HOOD OF A KITCHEN APPLIANCE
The invention relates to a kitchen appliance, preferably a hand-held kitchen appliance, for food processing, which has: a drive shaft which is mounted rotatably and can be operatively connected to a motor of the kitchen appliance; a working part, preferably having a blade, which is provided on the drive shaft; a protective hood which has multiple cut-outs in the circumferential direction, surrounds the working part in the circumferential direction of the rotation of the drive shaft and has an opening in the axial direction of the drive shaft; and a preferably cylindrical accessory element which can be removed from and attached to the protective hood without tools. The accessory element has an outer body with a first axial end face and a second, opposing axial end face remote from the protective hood, and the protective hood defines, in cooperation with the accessory element, a cavity which is terminated in the circumferential direction of the protective hood, for processing food. The outer body also has multiple, preferably three, more preferably six, protrusions which project radially inwards and can be operatively connected to the cut-outs in the protective hood. The invention also relates to an accessory element for sealing a protective hood of such a kitchen appliance.