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33 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 Acceptable food processor Dec 30, 2009
By J. Shinn
First I am not a professional cook nor do I strive to be. I assume that anyone reading reviews for a Black and Decker food processor are in the same boat. I just enjoy cooking and preparing healthy, and usually easy, meals for my family.
Out of the box I was pretty impressed with the unit. The base is solid and heavy and each piece, albeit most plastic, feel substantial as well. So without delay I will list the pros and cons I see with this unit:
PROS
- Looks good sitting on the counter, no reason to hide it (unless you ARE a professional chef).
- Every little nook and cranny that can get food in it is accessible through the dishwasher or hand washing.
- Safety feature of needing to lock the workbowl AND the wide-mouth attachment for the unit to operate is a nice feature for those of use with kids.
- 10-cup size is ample to prevent overloading
- Workbowl fits snug into base once locked and the teeth on the base have much less likelihood of deteriorating.
- Suction cups on base is nice for me. It could be a con for some who prefer an easily movable processor.
- Good warranty and customer service has been accessible and great thus far.
- Wide mouth setup actually works for me. You remove the wide-mouth feed chute, load in your large item (tomato, apple, orange) and then replace the wide-mouth chute and use it to guide the item down to be prepared. This helkps prevent overloading with large items if you could simply feed in one after the other.
CONS
- The surround on the base around the touch buttons for the controls is cheap and is already "buckling" and "bubbling". I am praying it stays this way and does not peel off.
- The main gear on the workbowl that attaches to the base's toothed gear is not customer replaceable. There is no part number and the chances that Fox (the people used by B&D for warranty replacement and repairs) understanding what you need are slim. Most likely will simply get another workbowl.
- Loud, VERY loud. Certain Cuisinart models are far quieter, but I usually am not trying to talk to someone when I am using a tool with sharp blades.
- Fan creates a VERY strong gust of wind that will blow away anything light on your counter (including flour which was nice).
As for my personal use of the machine, I do not trust the blades in the dishwasher just as I do not trust my Wüsthof knives in there. I hand-wash each blade after use and dry it. This will help keep them sharper longer and will keep them looking new as well.
Overall I think this is a great food processor. There are a few concerns for long-term use such as the non-replaceable gear and the surround on the controls, but that is not enough to give lower than 4 stars and also prevents a perfect 5-star rating.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Fantastic machine. Jan 17, 2010
By Jason A. Thelen
This is a really great little food processor. We've used it for mostly basic tasks, such as dip-making with a dash of vegetable slicing. It's got a lot of power behind it, handling hummus and guacamole with ease. All the components are fairly sturdy and seem like they'll hold up to fairly frequent use well.
The only reason that it's not getting 5 stars is a lack of speed control; it's on/off and pulse. It's not a game breaker by any means, but it'd be nice to have.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Great motor but SMH about the *non-replaceable* parts Dec 25, 2010
By VTS
Bought this about a year ago on sale at Target. Never owned a food processor before and thought I got one over buying this one at a sale. I have to say, this food processor does a great job. The safety locking mechanism is a great feature. You can't run the food processor until the bowl, lid and top feeder have aligned in the lock position. The motor is pretty good, and the blades are SHARP (I handwash them using a large sponge and keep my fingers away from those.) I have gratered cheese, pureed soups, shredded carrots with no problems... until today. I was gratering hard cheese (cheddar), which I cut into small pieces and had sitting at room temp for close to an hour (as instructions state) while I did other prep work. When I went to take apart the bowl, I realized that the large removable plastic pin in the middle of the cup had a crack. Unfortunately this pin interacts wih the motor, slide though the cup and attaches to the gratering disc, dough kneader, blades- necessary for any use of the food processor. In retrospect, I should have picked a food processer with a more durable mechanism. Expected more of B&D. Can't find a replacement on the B&D website. So I'm off to search for a new bowl as one of the reviews recommends...UPDATE: did a search, and found the replacement part-the plastic pin (Center Post/ Bowl Coupling) alone- for $19.99.
 Great piece of kitchen equipment. Apr 06, 2012
By Jim Oyen
I needed a food processor for quite some time. I had foolishly purchased a 2 cup size one before. Unless you are using it for a single serving of something, it is pretty stupid to have. This one, the B & D, is great. I must warn you, READ the warning labels!.. as I was taking the sticker label off the slicing blade, that says : caution extremely sharp, I barely touched the blade, and dang it is sharp. I would recommend keeping bandaids handy. I now have a nick in a finger. The machine is great!! I am very pleased with the purchase. The processor works fantastically!
Take that vegetables! Dec 29, 2011
By S. Skalnican
We've been looking for a food processor for some time now. We really like the Cuisinart brand but didn't want to remortgage the house just to buy one. If I was food processing everyday maybe but we just needed something to do some chopping and shredding from time to time. We also wanted the stainless steel look. Throw all that into the Amazon search engine and it spits out this food processor. We're really happy with it so far. I can't comment much on durability because we've only used it a few times.
PROS: Nice clean look, chops the crap out of stuff, comes with multiple blades, cord wraps up underneath machine.
CONS: No easy way to store the blades (makes pawing around the gadget cabinet especially perilous), consider ear protection - this sucker is LOUD.
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