Cuisinart Food Processors
Both cookbook authors we spoke with essentially said these add-ons were a waste of money, so we didn’t test any. The Breville Sous Chef 16 Pro is more powerful than the Cuisinart Custom 14, so it’s the machine you’ll want when you’re cooking for large groups or if you process food several times a cuisinart pots and pans set week. Its 1,200-watt motor and smart design save you time in use and cleaning. In fact, despite the 16-cup Sous Chef’s many accessories, it was one of the easiest models to clean. That said, if you only use a food processor occasionally, the Breville’s high cost probably outweighs its benefits.
The Food Chopper is covered by a one-year warranty, which is standard for appliances in this price range, and you can get the base in a wide range of colors. We read a few reviews by people who disliked how the Cuisinart Custom 14’s lid locks with the feed tube in the back rather than in the front . However, we think it’s actually easier to see the ingredients in the bowl when the feed tube is positioned in the back of the lid.
This cuisinart griddler elite performed well in our food processor review tests. It isn’t pretty , but this $240 German food processor from Braun’s Tribute Collection had the best results by far when it came to blending and chopping. The hummus from the Braun food processor was the smoothest of any I made in my testing. When I used the Braun FP3020 as a food chopper to make Pico de Gallo, it came out uniform and finely chopped without leaving too much juice pooled in the bottom of the bowl.
If you’ve ever struggled to fit a blade over a pile of flour in a processor bowl, you’ll appreciate this design feature. Most full-size processors come with a wide feed tube that’s fitted with a food presser, which has a narrower feed tube in the center. The larger tube should be big enough to easily fit a block of cheese or a potato, so you don’t have to spend time cutting food into pieces that are small enough to fit. But the smaller tube needs to be narrow enough to keep carrots and other thin items upright during slicing.
In our tests, we found that a 14-cup capacity food processor bowl was ideal for most people. The Cuisinart Complete Chef chops, slices, and cooks food all in one 18-cup stainless steel bowl (it comes with attachments and built-in recipes for cooking things like risotto or beef stew). We were eager to see how it would compare to the Thermomix , but we weren’t able to get it to work. We probably just got a lemon, but that doesn’t bode well for a $700 appliance . An error consistently appeared on the screen each time we attempted to run it, even when the correct lid and blade attachment were in place. The customer service representative we spoke to wasn’t able to offer much guidance since they weren’t familiar with the model (they even confessed it doesn’t sell often).