9 Incredible Tips For Food Processor Transformations
Types of Food Processors
Full-Sized Food Processors
These kitchen workhorses typically have a capacity of 7 to 20 cups, and most come with a variety of blades
And discs to handle just about any food prep job. Including shredding discs for grating carrots or shredding
Potatoes, cutting discs for slicing, hooks for mixing dough, and, of course, many unique blades for
chopping, mincing, mixing and pureeing.
Mini Food Processors
Some of these little guys -- usually about a 2- to 5-cup capacity -- can outperform their big brothers when it
comes to chopping and mincing.
Mini food processors are often lumped-in with food choppers (see
Food Choppers
grind some nuts. However, many of the most popular are manual devices that you turn a crank to grind, or
"slap" with your hand to chop up your ingredients on a cutting board. They make short work of small
Quantities of nuts, herbs, peppers and other foods when you only need a cup or less to toss into a recipe or salad.
Casual cooks and those with poor knife skills love them for quickly and evenly dicing and mincing. They're
Particularly popular with those who don't like the tears that come from managing onions.
The December 2016 Cuisinart recall
As this report was being prepared, Cuisinart issued a voluntary recall of about 8 million food processors due to
a faulty blade. This followed reports of the blade cracking and breaking off into food. The recall includes only
some S-shaped blades with four rivets. Many models, even if they have riveted blades, are not affected. If
You're buying a new Cuisinart food processor, you've got nothing to worry about. If you have an older model,
You can check to determine if yours is part of the recall at the Cuisinart site. All of the Cuisinart food processors
We recommend within this report have the newer blade.
Do you need a food processor, or a different appliance?
Most of the complaints we found across the board about food processors are that they don't perform well in
Processing recipes that call for a good deal of liquids, like soups, salad dressings, milkshakes, drinks, etc.. They
splatter and leak, users say. We largely discount these types of user complaints when evaluating food processor
Feedback since they're not a fair criticism -- food processors aren't really made for those types of jobs. If you
Want an appliance that can puree soups and make milkshakes or thin sauces, you need a good blender, and we
cover those in our blender report. If You Just Have to process fairly small amounts of liquids, say, individual
cups of soup or a single shake, see our report on immersion blenders. And, if you want to make smoothies or
Juice drinks, you will love our report on juicers.
Full-Sized Food Processors
These kitchen workhorses typically have a capacity of 7 to 20 cups, and most come with a variety of blades
And discs to handle just about any food prep job. Including shredding discs for grating carrots or shredding
Potatoes, cutting discs for slicing, hooks for mixing dough, and, of course, many unique blades for
chopping, mincing, mixing and pureeing.
Mini Food Processors
Some of these little guys -- usually about a 2- to 5-cup capacity -- can outperform their big brothers when it
comes to chopping and mincing.
Mini food processors are often lumped-in with food choppers (see
Food Choppers
grind some nuts. However, many of the most popular are manual devices that you turn a crank to grind, or
"slap" with your hand to chop up your ingredients on a cutting board. They make short work of small
Quantities of nuts, herbs, peppers and other foods when you only need a cup or less to toss into a recipe or salad.
Casual cooks and those with poor knife skills love them for quickly and evenly dicing and mincing. They're
Particularly popular with those who don't like the tears that come from managing onions.
The December 2016 Cuisinart recall
As this report was being prepared, Cuisinart issued a voluntary recall of about 8 million food processors due to
a faulty blade. This followed reports of the blade cracking and breaking off into food. The recall includes only
some S-shaped blades with four rivets. Many models, even if they have riveted blades, are not affected. If
You're buying a new Cuisinart food processor, you've got nothing to worry about. If you have an older model,
You can check to determine if yours is part of the recall at the Cuisinart site. All of the Cuisinart food processors
We recommend within this report have the newer blade.
Do you need a food processor, or a different appliance?
Most of the complaints we found across the board about food processors are that they don't perform well in
Processing recipes that call for a good deal of liquids, like soups, salad dressings, milkshakes, drinks, etc.. They
splatter and leak, users say. We largely discount these types of user complaints when evaluating food processor
Feedback since they're not a fair criticism -- food processors aren't really made for those types of jobs. If you
Want an appliance that can puree soups and make milkshakes or thin sauces, you need a good blender, and we
cover those in our blender report. If You Just Have to process fairly small amounts of liquids, say, individual
cups of soup or a single shake, see our report on immersion blenders. And, if you want to make smoothies or
Juice drinks, you will love our report on juicers.
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