Best Basic Food Processor for Everyday Cooks
Cuisinart Pro Classic, $100
Pros: It’s inexpensive, it’s trim enough to travel easily from cupboard to counter, and the seven-cup bowl
can handle most jobs (though if you have a big family, you’ll want a machine with a bigger bowl). In addition
to one disk for slicing and another for shredding, as well as separate blades for kneading dough and chopping,
this Cuisinart comes with an extra-wide feed tube
for whole potatoes, big chunks of cheese, or a couple
of cucumbers. A nice plus: The insert for the pusher
has a pinhole that can drip oil onto spinning yolks for perfectly emulsified mayonnaise or aïoli (freeing the
cook to answer the phone).
Con: Cumbersome locking and loading — three parts must be aligned to get the machine to run.
To Buy: www.cuisinart.com.
