Cuisinart 14 Cup Food Processor
This model of Cuisinart cup food processor is constructed with a compact design. Users can process food easily with a drop-in hole if shredding or slicing are no your daily household handling. This is the reason why this Cuisinart cup food processor is called a half mini-processor because it cannot be used to shred and slice foods. With a sleek design, the Cuisinart 14 cup food processor can outcompete other products on the market.
Customers are complimentary of its efficiency, capacity, and quiet operation. The few negative reviews we found describe difficulties in attaching the discs to the stem and the locking mechanism of the bowl. The base of the Cuisinart DFP-14BCNY houses a powerful 720-watt motor, which is strong enough to handle pretty much everything you throw at it, or in it.
If you use food processors on a regular basis this is a great unit. Versatile – this food processor seems to do everything cutting the effort of beating, grating, and chopping to practically zero. There is no way I am going to stand there for 10 minutes whipping egg whites into meringue. With this food processor, I don’t need to worry because it takes all of the efforts out of this kind of kitchen task.
In the end, though, the cauliflower pizza and latkes we made in the Cuisinart were delicious and even came out on top among some of our friends in a taste test. Cuisinart has been a well-known brand since the 1970s until now for its wide range of high-quality products. Customers can buy versatile products in different sizes, budgets, and capabilities.
Therefore, in our list below, we offer the top five of the best cuisinart pots and pans sets. The reviews aim to help you with the information about purchasing the most suitable Cuisinart custom 14 food processor. We weren’t impressed with the Magimix by Robot-Coupe 14-Cup Food Processor. It wasn’t able to chop as evenly as the Breville Sous Chef 16 Pro or the Cuisinart Custom 14.
The preprogrammed recipes seemed straightforward, but there are only 201 total. That may sound like a lot, but this model lacks the capability to add more recipes to its digital database down the road , so you’re stuck with what you get at the time of purchase. This model also takes up a ton of counter space and weighs 30 pounds; it’s definitely not something you’ll want to lug around your kitchen often. The Breville Sous Chef diced tomatoes and onions evenly, and it chopped nuts to a more consistent texture than the Cuisinart. The Sous Chef’s grater disk shredded soft mozzarella cheese easily. And though we’re not huge fans of the mini bowls on most of the big processors, we liked the Sous Chef’s 2½-cup bowl best among the ones we’ve tried.
It was not mentioned anywhere in the instructions so we thought we had a dud. Grounding chicken was a breeze, making slices of lemons were quite easy and quick. We bought this in July, used it 3-4 times so far, so couldn’t speak about longevity.
Here, you can see me placing the pusher into place at the top. If the groove of the pusher doesn’t feed into the feed tube, the food processor simply won’t turn on. I have spent countless hours chopping, cutting, slicing, kneading, grinding, and shredding ingredients in my kitchen. You get Prime shipping if you’re a member and the return process is easy and lengthy if you’re not happy with the appliance. This is the only area were the Cuisinart fell short, though most food processors struggle to evenly and consistently shred cheese.
Another staffer just replaced her Cuisinart with a new one after 11 years of use. Meanwhile, senior kitchen and appliance editor Marguerite Preston still cuisinart soup maker uses a decades-old Cuisinart Custom 14 that she inherited from her parents. The Cuisinart doesn’t come with a storage case for its attachments.
We never would have thought to knead dough in a food processor; in the past, we’ve always done it by hand or using a stand mixer. But sure enough, the Cuisinart’s swift-acting blade turned dough elastic in a matter of minutes with minimal effort. All Cuisinart 14 cup food processors in our list above are suitable for tiny kitchens, as they are not space consuming. The Cuisinart FP-13DGM Elemental 13 Cup Food Processor and Dicing Kit didn’t chop as evenly as our picks. Our testers were impressed with the dicing kit, which chopped firm vegetables like potatoes and carrots into even cubes.