Cuisinart ECH-4SV Elemental 4-C Chopper Grinder, Silver Import To Shop ×Product customization General Description Gallery

I like itI ordered a “like new” returned product. It arrived clean and in excellent condition, and also had the spiralizer attachment, which I wasn’t expecting but happy to get. I was replacing a 30-year old, broken food processor. For all its bells and whistles, the cuisinart doesn’t really work any better than my old non-fancy machine. It also takes up a ton of space with all the attachments. But it does work well. I made 3 large batches of relish and salsa and it chopped nicely. I haven’t done anything else with it yet.

It’s a CuisinartCant go wrong with this one. Value for your money. Great workhorse of a mixer. Can do large or small batches and gets the job done efficiently. A drawer for the blades would be great, but love it overall.

Easy to use……..I love the case for the blades. This thing works through my foodProcessing like a breeze. Cuisinart does not disappoint with this product.

Excellent dicingThe dicing kit works!I have 

KitchenAid KFP1642OB Onyx Black Pro Line 16-cup Food Processor

, it has dicing kit also, but it was driving me crazy. It is huge, and heavy, and all accessories and the storage bin were huge, and worst thing – the dicing kit was huge pain to use because it has very weird system where it has to be locked inside, and it has very tight fit and very hard to use. I bought it for dicing kit, and was so frustrated about it. Also if I tried to dice something which is too soft, the processor would mush it and send the mush into the center shaft all the way down to the gears. It was pain to clean, and eventually food residue made it impossible to adjust the thickness of the cut for their adjustable slicing blade.Now, Cuisinart made their own food processor with dicing. Yay. I just had to try it, and I am glad I did. First of all, it is much smaller and lighter, it fits under cabinets (you will still have to pull it out to use it, but it is so much easier to move). The light weight does concern me some, as well as it having all plastic gears, but we will see. The dicing kit is very easy to use, I do not have to lock anything – just drop pieces in place in the correct order, and you ready to go. Removing it is as easy. Unlike Kitchenaid, Cuisinart dicing kit does not get stuck if potatoes are unpeeled. Nor does it make a total mess out of boiled potatoes – those do not come out as perfect as raw potatoes do, but it makes excellent potato salad with very little waste – some of the potatoes do mush and spread over the blade and the shaft, but it is nothing compared to Kitchenaid, where you get 95% mush.To make dicing work, you need to push on the food down, it would not dice under its own weight. That means that the very last slice will no be cut through completely, and will have to be pushed down with the dicer cleaning tool. Overall the dicing kit works, and works much better than the other one, and really worth it for me.Other things I like – the main processing bowl is sealed both in the middle and around the top – you can process runny batter or soup or whatever you want and there will be no mess outside the bowl. That sealed design means that there is one more gear set – from the base to the bowl, and from the bowl to the middle stem adapter and then to the rotating blade. The slicing blade is adjustable, the adjustment is on the blade itself, not on the outside of the unit as with Kitchenaid. All of the blades have hefty plastic insert indie and easy to grab by it, so they are much safer to handle. I was surprised that when Cuisinart is turned off, it does not stop right away – my old Cuisinart has brakes to stop it immediately.. Kitchenaid continues to spin some after turning off, too, so no dice here.

Heavy duty ProfessionalTook only 5 minutes to grate 50 cups of Papaya (3 large) attachment seems heavy duty and not thin metal like other processors.