Cuisinart Elemental Small Food Processor, 13-Cup, Gunmetal

I don’t leave many review but ......This is a fantastic machine, I LOVE it and use it several times a week. I especially like the dicing option and make dressings in it every week. The dicing blade is very hard to clean but because it’s so awesome, I am ok with the trade off. It works great for cauliflower rice, sweet potatoes, carrots etc. I also purchased the spiralizer and it’s awesome. I’ve even made spiralized beets! They are so great mixed with the diced cauliflower rice. This machine will not make diced tomatoes, no matter what the advertising says. It destroys the tomatoe, but who cares, I have resorted to zipping, garlic, cilantro, tomatoes, a can of roasted tomatoes, jalepanos, onion, salt and pepper and it’s perfect. The only MAJOR complaint I have about this machine is that the gasket that is around the lid is NOT replaceable and I have not found an aftermarket gasket yet. A few days after I got the machine the gasket snapped and I called Cuisinart, and the only way to replace the gasket is to replace the lid. Luckily they warranted it for me and sent a new one. Here is a hint: if this happens to you, the lid that comes with the dicing blade is much less expensive, buy this lid and use the gasket. EVEN with this issue, the machine is amazing and I can live with this. I’ve learned to be very careful with the lids and blades and clean immediately and not to stack in an attempt to protect them from damage.

The dicing kit works! I have KitchenAid KFP1642OB Onyx Black Pro Line 16-cup Food Processor , it has dicing kit also, but it was driving me crazy. It is huge, and heavy, and all accessories and the storage bin were huge, and worst thing - the dicing kit was huge pain to use because it has very weird system where it has to be locked inside, and it has very tight fit and very hard to use. I bought it for dicing kit, and was so frustrated about it. Also if I tried to dice something which is too soft, the processor would mush it and send the mush into the center shaft all the way down to the gears. It was pain to clean, and eventually food residue made it impossible to adjust the thickness of the cut for their adjustable slicing blade. Now, Cuisinart made their own food processor with dicing. Yay. I just had to try it, and I am glad I did. First of all, it is much smaller and lighter, it fits under cabinets (you will still have to pull it out to use it, but it is so much easier to move). The light weight does concern me some, as well as it having all plastic gears, but we will see. The dicing kit is very easy to use, I do not have to lock anything - just drop pieces in place in the correct order, and you ready to go. Removing it is as easy. Unlike Kitchenaid, Cuisinart dicing kit does not get stuck if potatoes are unpeeled. Nor does it make a total mess out of boiled potatoes - those do not come out as perfect as raw potatoes do, but it makes excellent potato salad with very little waste - some of the potatoes do mush and spread over the blade and the shaft, but it is nothing compared to Kitchenaid, where you get 95% mush. To make dicing work, you need to push on the food down, it would not dice under its own weight. That means that the very last slice will no be cut through completely, and will have to be pushed down with the dicer cleaning tool. Overall the dicing kit works, and works much better than the other one, and really worth it for me. Other things I like - the main processing bowl is sealed both in the middle and around the top - you can process runny batter or soup or whatever you want and there will be no mess outside the bowl. That sealed design means that there is one more gear set - from the base to the bowl, and from the bowl to the middle stem adapter and then to the rotating blade. The slicing blade is adjustable, the adjustment is on the blade itself, not on the outside of the unit as with Kitchenaid. All of the blades have hefty plastic insert indie and easy to grab by it, so they are much safer to handle. I was surprised that when Cuisinart is turned off, it does not stop right away - my old Cuisinart has brakes to stop it immediately.. Kitchenaid continues to spin some after turning off, too, so no dice here.

Fantastic purchace. It's larger than i visioned. The extra storage container of accessories is bulky to store but awesome and convenient. I used it mothers day for the first time and felt justfied with my purchase. It works better that I expected. Did i need a fancy processor? No. Will i use it more now that I'm comfortable with it? Yes. I hope it continues to please me and be a staple in my kitchen.

My old Cuisinart (which still worked great) was 20 years old. So for my birthday, I asked my husband for this new, wonderful one. In general, it works pretty well. I also wanted the dicer, which works okay, but is kind of tricky. What I have recently discovered is that when I want to use it to shred cabbage for cole slaw (something that was a snap with my old one) - it doesn't work well. The shredded cabbage collects in the lid, the shreds that fall into the bowl are only on one side of the bowl, and the pushers pick up pieces of the cabbage and stick - making it almost impossible to continue pushing OR to remove them. So basically in this instance, my 20-year-old Cuisinart worked much better than the new one does. So you know, I am not Andrew, I am Andrew's wife.

This is my third Cuisinart food processor. I've liked them all over the years - I just wear them out. I thought this would be difficult to operate when I first saw it, but I was wrong. It's actually easier than my last 8-cup one. I have used the shredder and puree functions, and they work well. I have not used the dicer yet, but it looks like it will be a great feature. The motor is lighter than my last Cuisinart, so it's easier to store. However, it does take up a lot more room.

I bought this to first make my salsa I make often, being able to put all ingredients in at once and combine is great!! All of the attachments are very impressive. You do need room to store everything, but you have to make room! Easy to clean also, most parts are dishwasher safe in top rack. I also see there are other attachments you can buy seperate. Love this!

Love the food processor. The dicing feature really works well, unlike machines that cost even more.

Excelente calidad, fácil de usar, y muy práctica la caja para guardar los accesorios

El aparato es todo lo que promete, pica, ralla, rebana y tritura. El día de la entrega usé todos los aditamentos para ver su funcionamiento y todo trabajó perfecto, hice mantequilla de cacahuate en tres minutos o menos. Los cuadritos se hicieron en segundos. Muy contenta con el aparato. lo único que no me gustó es que se requiere de mucho espacio para guardarlo. También tengan cuidado con las navajas, son extremadamente filosas

Takes up a lot of space in your cupboard, but great processor. Powerful and not whiny sounding.

This is a great food processor. We've mostly used it for grating cheese, parmesan for pasta and mozzarella for pizza, and it does a great job. My only complaint is that it takes a long time to air-dry. I prefer washing our dishes in the sink rather than the dishwasher, it's just faster. But there are little nooks, crannies and chambers that water will get into that you cannot get a cloth into to dry them out. So I just wash it, hand dry it the best that I can and then leave it in the drying rack overnight. By morning, most of the water has evaporated.