Our decide
This straightforward, sturdy meals processor comes with every part you want and nothing you don’t. And it dices, slices, and kneads persistently and effectively.
We just like the Cuisinart Customized 14-Cup Meals Processor for its simplicity: This mannequin has a pared-down design, so it’s simpler to make use of and to wash than fashions with extra settings or a number of bowls. It comes with a handful of essential equipment and disks for finishing frequent kitchen duties, however nothing additional.
This meals processor additionally has an easy interface, with simply two buttons and one bowl—however its simplicity doesn’t come at the price of efficiency. In our checks, the Cuisinart 14-Cup tackled a large number of chopping, shredding, and mixing duties exceptionally effectively, and it’s constructed extra solidly than many different processors out there for underneath $250.
Runner-up
This meals processor is best at slicing and has extra frills than our high decide. However dicing onions and almonds takes a bit longer.
In contrast with our high decide, the Cuisinart Core Customized 13-Cup Meals Processor has extra frills: extra settings, a number of sizes of meals pusher, and an adjustable slicing blade (which slices far thinner than the one-size slicing disk that comes with our high decide). However this machine took longer to cube substances like almonds and onions. In any other case, it performs fairly equally to our high decide.
If our high decide is bought out, or thinner slicing is a precedence for you, the Core Customized 13-Cup is a superb possibility (particularly if it’s on sale for much less). Its blades and slicing disks nest in an included storage hub that matches contained in the bowl, so that you received’t be overwhelmed by extra storage containers or miscellaneous unfastened attachments.
Additionally nice
This mini chopper dices effectively and is extra-roomy, and it was the one mini processor we examined with two drizzle holes, for frustration-free drizzling. However it slacks on dicing herbs.
A mini chopper received’t substitute a full-size processor. However if you wish to use one to make sauces or spreads alongside the occasional cube, the Cuisinart Core Customized 4-Cup Mini Chopper is the one for the job. This mini chopper is a half-cup to a full cup bigger than most mini meals processors. So a complete quartered or halved onion simply drops into the processor, whereas different meals processors require a little bit of wedging and shoving to accommodate bigger substances.
This meals processor additionally has twin drizzle holes which can be nested in a deep channel, which spans all the lid. So it’s far simpler to drizzle liquids into this machine than it’s in mini meals processors which have solely a single, shallow drizzle gap.
The Core Customized 4-Cup excelled at chopping onions and making mayonnaise, and it did effectively dicing almonds, tomatoes, and garlic. Nonetheless, this meals processor underperformed on herbs, tearing parsley into uneven items moderately than chopping it cleanly and evenly.
Improve decide
If you wish to use your meals processor to make giant, concerned recipes a number of occasions every week, this premium meals processor rises to the event.
At twice the worth of our high decide, this massive, accessory-laden meals processor is way over most individuals want. However for those who’re cooking concerned recipes for a crowd a number of occasions every week, you’ve the counter area, and you’re keen on utilizing meals processors and desire a premium improve, the Breville Sous Chef 16 Meals Processor is an opulent, highly effective mannequin to contemplate.
It diced substances exceptionally evenly, with an particularly spectacular efficiency on effective herbs, and its adjustable slicing disk can shortly and quietly churn out millimeter-thin slices of potato. The hefty base and highly effective motor can deal with heavy-duty duties with ease.
