Cuisinart Mini-Prep Plus Food Processor, 24-Ounce Mini Food Processor to Chop Herbs, Vegetables, and Hard Cheese, 24-Ounce Work Bowl, Reversible Stainless Steel Blade, DLC-2ABC, Brushed Chrome

This food processor is a best buy!!!
I really like this mini food processor. I have a larger Cuisinart food processor as well, but since I am single I thought this smaller one would be a good choice for me. It is small enough that it minces garlic or ginger well and is a lot easier to use for that than my garlic press or mini-grater for this purpose. I do a lot of ethnic cooking and like to use whole spices like nutmeg, cumin seeds, szechuan peppers, ect., grinding them as I need them. Although I don’t believe this food processor was intended for that, I found it does it well. I love the fact that the blade will go both directions, one to chop and the other to grind. I can’t tell any real difference in the results by using just one or the other method, but using the processor both ways does an excellent job of evenly processing all the spices. When I use it for tomatoes and onions, it chops from coarse to fine depending on how long I hold the button. It gives pretty good control over being able to control how coarse or fine you want the results to be.Again, I doubt if it was intended for this, but it works well as a blender as well. It works excellent in making dips like hummus by just adding all the ingredients at once. Again, using the blade in both directions helps giving excellent results.The bowl, blade, and top are much easier to clean than my larger processor. I use this processor almost daily and hardly ever use my larger processor any more. I have taken the larger processor off my counter and it has given me more counter space. I really like the Cuisinart brand as it is always (except for a teakettle I purchased) well made and high quality. I have learned to trust the brand and at this price, the Cuisinart Mini Prep Plus Food Processor is an excellent buy.

Chops well – cleans easily – small enough to live on the countertop
This little food processor is an awesome addition to my kitchen. Honestly, it gets dinner started for me so quickly (my mom used to say ‘while you decide what to make for dinner, start peeling and chopping an onion’). This takes most of the work (and tears) out of that little chore.Things I love about the cuisinart miniprep:1 – size – it’s small enough to live on the counter – its big brother is such a pain to drag out of the cabinet, find the right blade, set up, run, breakdown, clean and put away that it only comes out for the big jobs. This little mini processor is only about as big around as a roll of paper towels, and not as tall. Very worth the counter-space, but also compact and light if you store it in a cabinet and need to get it out. Ease of access makes this a great addition to my kitchen2 – effectiveness – honestly, i mostly use it for chopping up onions or other vegetables. (oh, i made herb butter in it too that came out really good). I think it does quite a good job. Like any processor, the longer you run it the finer the pieces. I find that one medium yellow onion, peeled and quartered, takes about 4 pulses for a coarse chop, and about 7 pulses for a fine enough chop for my husband, who hates onions – or at least hates them coarsely chopped. There is a reverse direction that can be used to grind. I really have not used that feature enough to fairly evaluate.3 – cleanup. There are four pieces to this processor. The motor/base, which plugs into the wall, the bowl, the blade, and the lid. I wash the bowl, blade and lid in the dishwasher – top shelf – so clean up is a breeze. the base wipes down easily with a damp cloth.4 – sound – i usually warn anyone watching TV that ‘it’s going to be a little loud.’ before i pulse, but really it is a pretty quiet machine. Depending on what you’re chopping, it’s likely that the actual noise of the chopping will be much louder than the motor (wish that were true of my ninja blender). And really the bowl is pretty small so the chopping goes fast.All in all – this is a little workhorse of a processor. Maybe a bit of a one-trick pony (staying with the equine metaphors), but one that sees frequent enough use in my household that it gets a permanent spot on the countertop. It’s held up well for a few years with no decline in performance, and I can honestly say, it’s one of my favorite appliances.

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NOT FOR THE EU COMES WITH A US PLUG!!!I can smell the engine when I run it even when using an adaptor. I think the wattage is too high for the EU. Also can’t put the barrel in the dishwasher or food gets stuck in side the handle and it has a special type of screw to unscrew it so I can’t get it clean. Don’t buy.