Good Kitchenaid product

I have had this since March and liked the look of the food processor. I chose the KA over Cuisinart b/c the KA looked more sturdy. The KA is very heavy which is a good thing and the 9 cup is the perfect size. Not too big and not too small. It shreds an 8 oz block of cheese in 3 seconds. I have used it for shredding cheese carrots and grinding grahmn crackers bread crumbs and chicken. I haven't actually learned how to make it so the food processor doesn't completely pulverize the food to little pieces. More detail ...

exceptional

I searched all over my town for a decent food processor. Most were too big or too small. I saw the KitchenAid 7 cup Food Processor but it was "out of stock" at the Target I was at and they didn't know when it might come in. Went directly to Amazon.com and found it for the same price and free shipping. How could I lose? It is an excellent food processor and the ease of cleaning is a real plus. It's slightly heavy but I attribute that to a powerful motor. Works like a dream.More detail ...

A HUGE improvement! Plus comes with Juicer Egg wisk...!

I received this food processor a few weeks ago and am so pleased! I previously had the Kitchenaid professional 11 cup model and this one is sooo much better! It's amazing what increasing the size by just one cup does! I had this chocolate tofu pie recipe that never quite got blended in my old processer because it was too thick and heavy but it blends to the smoothest consistency in this one. I no longer have to break it up into batches! Plus the extra large feed tube is a definate improvement over the older smaller versions. And this one doesn't jump around on my countertop like my older one did a bit. This one just seems REALLY solidly built. Don't get me wrong Kitchenaids older versions were also the best for their time this one is just even better!



The design of this model is also very sleek and I'm no longer emberassed having my processor on my countertop.



Please note this brushed nickel model also comes with an egg wisk a citrus juicer attachment and an extra work bowl which don't come with the other models. I noticed this wasn't mentioned in Amazon's description but it should be. That alone justifies the slightly higher price in addtition to the beautiful stainless finish and larger feed tube. More detail ...

strongest motor of its class

We chose this model because we don't want to move really heavy appliances around on the countertop but the mini-choppers are too small for our recipes. The 2007 weighs about 13 pounds and uses the same wattage motor and most of the same disks as the 11-cup model in this line although it lacks the extra slow-speed control button for dough processing and it uses the old-style plastic dough blade. (In this size it's probably a pie-crust dough maker not a bread dough maker anyway.) It's the biggest motor we found on a food processor this size.

Good stuff:

Easy wipe-clean base--no crevices to catch food. Hurray!

Stable and relatively quiet during use.

Easy top-rack dishwasher clean-up (power-saver no-heat drying)

Easy to add small (or liquid) ingredients during processing. Small inner pusher piece is removable giving access to a small feed tube. There's also a drip hole for liquids in the bottom of the small pusher piece.

Not so good stuff:

Very fiddly mechanism for locking down the workbowl before processing.

The large outer pusher piece that goes into the main feed tube has a metal rod that pushes down another rod on the lid that pushes down another rod on the bowl that finally pushes a control on the base.

If you have to remove the large pusher to add more big stuff to the bowl the mechanism stops. Probably just as well since a child's hand could easily fit through the large main feed tube.

I do wonder how sturdy the locking mechanism will be in the long run but so far so good.More detail ...

It's not as advertised

I bought this because I love my Magic Bullet however this is definitely not the same quality. The juicer was ok but the shredder shot my cabbage across the counter til I found a really big bowl (it's a 2 man job in the infomercial). The third time I used the Bullet I tried making some dough. The motor overheated after about a minute then smoke poured out of the machine. I scraped out the dough and used my KitchenAid to finish the job (easily I might add). Fortunately the motor worked again after it cooled down. Check other sites you'll find this and other worse issues to be common problems - including poor customer service. Save your money. This product is not as advertised. More detail ...

Gets the job done but not very well.

I purchased this food processor for myself only about two weeks ago so I can't say yet as to how long it lasts. I wanted to point out a few problems with it though. First off I really despise the locking lid 'safety feature'! I find it difficult to position the bowl and lid correctly and get it to lock and I usually have to try this several times to get it right. (The unit will not power on until the lid is locked correctly) In fact the first day that I had this I thought that it was broken and I almost returned it! I am also not pleased with the shredding blade. My main purpose of this processor was to shred potatoes so that I don't have to use a hand grater or purchase the frozen pre-shredded ones. The shredding blade on this is very small and makes the potatoes come out more like spaghetti noodles. I would love to purchase a different size blade but Black and Decker does not make one. I am going to shop other food processors with better shredding capabilities and when I find one that suits me I am going to replace this one. I hope that this review will help others who are looking for a good shredding food processor. More detail ...

Makes purees very well but hard to clean

I tried two other small food processors the KitchenAid Chef's Chopper and the Cuisinart Mini-Prep Plus for making two to four servings of pesto cilantro sauce etc but pureeing these small amounts of ingredients in the approximately 3 cup work bowls was difficult because the blade throws the ingredients on the sides. Scraping the ingredients down several times helps but the finished product was still not smooth enough.



The MM-2M works much better for making these small amounts of sauces. You still have to scrape the ingredients down once or twice but the puree is much smoother. The blades turn much faster than the other two processors and there are also two speeds. You can reverse the blade holder to choose a blunt or sharp leading edge. The blunt edge works well for pureeing.



The unfortunate drawback to this processor is that the motor housing forms the top of the work bowl. As a result quite a bit of the finished product ends up coating the end of the motor housing. If you are not extremely careful when cleaning the motor housing you will get water and perhaps food into it. If you're just chopping relatively dry ingredients like coffee or dry spices this would not be so much of a problem.More detail ...

Great maxi-mini chopper!

I love my new Oster Mini food chopper! The reason for a 4 star rating: Use caution if blending liquids as they tend to foam up and flow out under the blade/whisk and into the motor housing. This happened to me. After letting it dry out for a few days it's working fine. And the hot chocolate was delicious although I will use a larger blender next time! So be careful! This could happen with any food processor large or small. This is a pleasure to use! Chop an onion in seconds make bread crumbs instantly many other uses. I recommend it!More detail ...

New sharp blade!

The plastic piece under my blade broke after 25 years and the replacement is great. Nice to have a sharp new blade it makes the food processor as good as when I bought it!More detail ...

A Kitchen appliance snob says 'WOW'

Kitchen supplies are like an addiction to me. I spare no expense on only the best. Kitchenaid mixers Le Creuset whatever All Clad this and that. But one day I was short on cash and decided I needed a food processor. I saw this in a grocery store for like $20. I said "Screw it this will work until I can afford a $100 Cuisinart." That was a year ago and I have had no desire the replace this one yet. I grind nuts in it. I've made big batches of pesto in it. Hell I make pie crust in it on a REGULAR basis (Making pie crust in a food processor though much easier then using a pastry blender by hand is absolute HELL on a food processor.) . This little bad boy takes the abuse and asks for more. If it blows up tomorrow Ill have gotten my moneys worth and even if I have the money for a better name brand I would probably just go out and buy another Hamilton Beach. I'm only giving it 5 stars because Amazon wont let me give it 10. Seriously 'Worth the Money' is an understatement.More detail ...

a review of the product itself

I am a food professional and have used this many times since it is a perfect size (not too large or too small) for the little tasks that often come up at home and I don't want to use my big machine. It has done a terrific job on everything from bread crumbs to salsa mayonnaise grinding nuts pureeing onions etc. It is easy to control and not 'over process' whatever the job is since the blade comes to a complete stop immediately. The instruction book is Cuisinart's usual competent quality. I do highly recommend it for a small size processor.More detail ...

Buy a food processor instead

I was given this as a gift at my baby shower before my daughter was born. Now 5 months later she just is starting to eat solid foods so I used it for the first time. First off I agree with the other reviewer the lid gets stuck easily. Very annoying! Second the motor turns on as soon as it is plugged in and the only control you have is to 'turbo' speed. 'Turbo' is a nice feature as it helps get all of the food pureed but I wish the motor didn't turn on until I pressed the button. Having to unplug the unit to turn it off is just annoying especially if you have a baby in your arms.



It was a gift so I'm using it for now but I really wish I had just a plain old food processor. More detail ...

Makes quick work of common chopping needs

I have had a few full-size food processors in the past -- both expensive and cheap models -- and the main complaints I had with them were: bulkiness noise and cleanup time. Over time I realized that I was doing fewer and fewer things with the processor and then finally it got put away for good.

But lately I found that I was chopping the same ingredients in almost the same amounts again and again.

So on a whim really I decided to give the Kitchenaid 3-cup chopper a try. I own a number of Kitchenaid large appliances and have always been satisfied. This food chopper is no exception as it exceeds my expectations for handling my chopping drudgery. Be it onions garlic emulsifying dressing making bread crumbs chopping nuts whatever.

This unit takes a very small amount of counter space has a great look stores its cord in the base and its bowl and cover are dishwasher-safe.

This appliance is a nice time-saver and that in my opinion makes it a great item.More detail ...

An Expensive Disappointment

I bought this model almost two years ago as a replacement for a much-loved food processor that had been discontinued. Here's why I don't like this one:



1) One of my main criteria when I was shopping for it was that my new food processor should have a large capacity. This one was advertised as having a large capacity. But the stem in the middle of the bowl is very short so you can't actually put much food into it especially if the food is liquidy.



2) They advertise having one of the widest mouthed feed tubes. But what they don't tell you is that the "maximum fill line" on the feed tube is very low. So you really can't pack all *that* much food into the feed tube.



3) The ad said it had an attachment called "juicer." I thought that this meant that I could use it to say juice carrots like the way my local food co-op has a juice bar where you can buy things like carrot-beet-celery juice. But no actually the "juicer" is an attachment where you push down on an orange over a dome and the juice comes down the sides through holes and into the body of the food processor. It's basically like an ordinary "Mexican hat shaped" manual juicer except that you use the food processor to turn the middle (I guess that's how it goes -- I've never used this attachment) and then the bowl collects the juice. When I made my final decision between the last two food processors that I was looking at I chose this one because it said "juicer." So this was a disappointment and made me feel that I'd been snared by phony ad hype. Interesting... I see they are now saying "citrus press" instead of "juicer" for this attachment. I think that is much more honest.



4) It's not good with small quantities. My old food processor could chop a clove of garlic. My KitchenAid just bounces the clove of garlic around uncut.



5) Food often will "slalom" between the lower and upper blade without ever getting chopped. I've made hummus let the machine run for a while served it and then found whole garlic cloves in the middle of the hummus totally uncut. My old food processor never did that.



6) Flimsy spatula.



7) The rim of the lid fits on the *outside* of the bowl. So if you blend anything liquidy it's pretty much guaranteed to be spread all over the outside of the food processor. And the counter underneath. On my old food processor the lid fit *inside* the bowl which was a zillion times better at keeping drips contained mess-free.



8) When I want to take off the bowl with the blade inside the blade is always "locked" to the middle stem which keeps the bowl from coming out unless I reach in and disconnect the blade. This is easy to do but it's annoying especially when the blade is covered in food.



9) The pusher that you use to push food through the feed tube has two parts to it. They often unlock from each other while I'm in the middle of using them to push food into the food processor. This seems mildly dangerous.



10) When I bought it I loved the idea of having multiple bowls so that I could chop one thing then switch bowls and chop something else. However to use a smaller bowl you need to put the smaller bowl inside the larger bowl and then run the food processor with both bowls attached. Unfortunately the few times I've tried this food from the smaller bowl has gotten onto the bigger bowl making it dirty enough that it needed washing too with no time saved.



The one thing that I *do* especially like about the KitchenAid more than my old food processor is that its base is very well-sealed so it is easy to wipe spills off it.



You wanted to hear all of that. Right? :-)





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An update: Soon after I wrote this review the food processor self-destructed. One of the metal blades ripped off of the shaft while I was using it. And then a piece of the latch broke off the lid in a way that sealed the lid and bowl permanently shut and permanently attached to the base. I was really happy because it gave me a chance to buy a new food processor. I got a Braun CombiMax and am delighted with it. Here is a link to it: Braun CombiMax K-650 Food Processor Braun K650 replaces the K600 The CombiMax has a much larger usable capacity than my old KitchenAid did plus some nifty features that I haven't seen on any other food processor such as a sealed bowl -- which means that liquid can't run out through the stem so you can fill it *much* more full than other food processors.More detail ...