I love my Breville 12 cup. It replaced my Cuisinart that I expected to last longer than 7 years.
RobotCoupe is truly the best out there, but a little too rich for my blood.
I got the 12 cup a few months ago and I have loved but I think I got one of the last models. I think they are not making any new sous chefs because I broke the lid on mine after a few weeks and I had to call customer support because all replacements were sold out everywhere but luckily they had one and were able to ship it out to me
Most food processors will do slicing (with varying degrees of adjustability), and there are also food processors these days that dice. They're not cheap (for instance, the Breville Sous Chef starts at about $500 new), but they're effective and mostly effortless. Lack of a dishwasher would make clean-up harder, though.
As with most forms of cutting up vegetables and such, you'd still need to remove any ends and bits you didn't want in the final product. I umpteenth recommendations for cut-proof gloves.
If it makes you feel any better, I busted a few parts on my Breville Sous Chef using it to make pizza dough. And that's one of the higher end non commerical food processors. It was my fault for letting it run to long, but it wasn't like I ran it an extra 2 minutes, it might have been 25 seconds longer than I meant. I was able to order replacement parts, but if that food processor struggled, you're gonna have to get a Robo Coup or something high end for one that won't bog down too much.
You don't do longer kneeds with a food processor, I think even with something like the Sous Chef the recommendations I came across said don't run it longer than 60 seconds. When I used it properly, the dough came out really great with very little kneed time.
If you're set on using one, you should check FB Marketplace & Offerup for used Sous Chef, they're built like tanks. And can be found used for pretty good deals. Also, Breville includes a 20 year warranty on the motor.
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