The Best Food Processor (2024), Reviewed by Our Experts

To Uskokovic, this is best exemplified by making falafel: “When I make falafel at home I only use my food processor. You can’t get that same finely chopped but still bitsy texture from anything other appliance. You would have to chop it all by hand—which is a bitch to do.”

Cuisinart sells multiple food processors with different bowl capacities, but Uskokovic strongly endorses the 14-cup capacity if you want to get the most out of your machine, especially if you are interested in using it for kneading doughs, as anything smaller really cannot handle the volume of ingredients that typical bread recipes require.

Specs

Dimensions: 9.38″(L) x 12.5″(W) x 15.0″(H)
Weight: 17 lbs
Capacity: 14-Cups
Accessories: Shredding or grating disc, 4mm slicing disc, spatula
Warranty: Full 5-year for the motor, limited 3-year for the entire unit

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The best food processor according to expert home cooks: Breville Sous Chef

One thing we product testers have come to understand about Breville is that they really pay attention to the details. The 12-cup Breville Sous Chef is the best food processor according to our product test, because it managed to edge out the Cuisinart in a couple of ways.

The Breville Sous Chef motor is both more powerful and quieter than the Cuisinart’s. It also has the widest feed tube of any food processor we’ve tested. It’s handling and ergonomics make it one of the most comfortable to use right out of the box, and the general design is intuitive. The work bowl clicks into places easily without latches or locks, and it has a streamlined design with fewer nooks and crannies that makes clean up less of a pain. (This matters, because really no food processor is dishwasher safe, even if they claim to sort of be.)

The Sous Chef comes with several food processor attachments, including a dough blade, a reversible shredding disc, and an adjustable slicing disc with 24 settings that range from 0.3 mm to 8 mm. That last attachments allows the Sous Chef to function like an automatic (and arguably safer) mandoline slicer.

The primary drawback to the Sous Chef (and most Breville appliances) is that they can be expensive, and the 12-Cup Sous Chef will cost you $50 more than the 14-Cup Cuisinart would. Whether or not those refined touches are worth the price tag is up to you. Breville also makes a Sous Chef 16, with a very generous 16-cup capacity as well, if you think bigger is better.

Specs

Dimensions: 8.5″(L)x 7.5″(W) x 17″(H)
Weight: 16 lbs
Capacity: 12-Cups
Accessories: Shredding or grating disc, adjustable slicing disc, dough blade,
Warranty: 10-year motor warranty and 1-year limited product warranty

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The best food processor according to the pros: Cuisinart 7 Cup Food Processor

One might expect a professional chef to opt for the most heavy-duty appliances out there. At least at home though, chef Anita Lo prefers the convenience and simplicity of the smaller Cuisinart food processor. “If you’re just processing a small amount of food it just doesn’t work in a big processor.” Lo says, “sometimes you just need a few tablespoons of something pureed or whatever and that doesn’t work with a big bowl.”

Lo has had the same 10-cup Cuisinart food processor for 25 years, and recently purchased a 7-cup model for her place in the city where storage space is limited, and has been pleased with its performance. Most of the time, Lo reaches for her food processor for making purees, mincing pestos, dicing bread crumbs, and prepping small batches of ingredients. In these instances a larger model would be overkill.