Pro Line Series 16-Cup Food Processor KFP1642CA

I have the Kitchenaid High Performance KSB6060. Far better than the Vitamix in my experience but I don't know if it is cheaper. You can get it for $450 on Amazon. There is also a proline on the Kitchenaid website that is great but it's $600.

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.

I have one and it's great! Is indeed kitchenaid. Can be used cord free and charged by plugging in so extremely convenient for those of us with limited space/limited plugs :)

I have a kitchen Aid. It works wonderfully, but is terribly bulky ( gets a whole cupboard to itself) and with my limited countertop space, cannot stay out.