12-Cup Food Processor KFP750

For marinades and soups look into getting a blender instead. Also, for what it is worth, I've had very good luck on the used market. I picked up a 12 cup Kitchenaid food processor with accessory kit for $50, and there are always a good selection of blenders in my local thrift stores.

I just ordered a bigger KitchenAid food processor (9 cups) as I had a small one (750mL) and I was finding it not powerful or big enough to process purées. I don’t puree everything as my son loves BLW but pasta sauces, purées, dips (I made a beetroot hummus for sesame allergen exposure), even just blending a tonne of veg into a sauce or puree I needed something bigger! I still have a stick blender but will keep that for soups!

I use mine for pizza dough all the time, it’s an approx 4 cup/650g of bread flour recipe. I also finish with a couple minutes of hand kneading, same as when I use my stand mixer. I have an older large (12? cup) kitchenaid but I’d replace with a cuisinart or breville if I was replacing it.

It is the small KitchenAid but a few years ago. I have two, a big and a small and I love them.

We have a large KitchenAid food processor with a variety of discs and blades, but mainly use a Ninja 3-cup food chopper instead. I loathe the texture of cooked zucchini, carrots, and bell peppers, but am fine with the taste. So, finely chopping those veggies and disguising them in lasagna works great. A mini chopper also does well for dicing onions, making salsa, and repurposing pot roast to make enchiladas and meat pies. When looking for a small food chopper, get one that has blades going up the spinning vertical shaft ... not just a pair of blades at the bottom. My previous mini chopper with a pair of blades at the bottom just mauled the vegetables. The Ninja one has four blades. It is actually an attachment for an immersion blender power stick, but I believe the company makes free-standing models. I have not checked to see what companies make similar mini choppers.

The most used kitchen tools for us are: digital thermometer, digital scale, Santoku knife (others prefer a chef's knife), paring knife, bread slicer, fish spatula, offset spatula (aka hamburger turner), multiple sets of measuring spoons ($3 each), an easy-to-clean large cutting board, electric kettle, and rice cooker. A knife sharpener is essential. Things like an immersion blender, food processor, sous vide machine and/or pressure cooker are nice to have, but not essential items for a new cook. We have a fantastic KitchenAid food processor, that mostly gathers dust.

My cuisinart died after 20+ years, replaced it with a kitchen aid (they had a sale, cuisinart was more expensive at the time) and I like it just as much as my cuisinart. They do the same thing so for me, they’re interchangeable

I wondered if I would use it very often, but after I got my food processor, I use it all the time, for all kinds of things. I have had a Cuisinart (with a French-sounding name but made in China. I usually have nothing against things made in China, but in this case, there was a big difference) and a Kitchenaid. I much prefer the Kitchenaid.