Cuisinart Fp-13dgm Elemental 13 Cup Food Processor Review
This is a detailed review of the Cuisinart Elemental FP-xiii Food Processor, featuring both PROs and CONs later thoroughly testing for 3 weeks. ~Jaden
Cuisinart Elemental 13 Loving cup Food Processor with Dicing Kit Review
We spend 3 weeks testing this newest model of the Cuisinart food processor family, during my busiest cooking holiday, Chinese New Twelvemonth. We made homemade potstickers, wonton, egg/bound rolls, each filled ingredients candy by the Cuisinart Elemental Food Processor with the Dicing Kit.
What'southward in the box?
Neither PRO nor CON, but something to consider: After removing all the parts, I laid out all the pieces and a picayune overwhelmed! Where am I going to store all these pieces? My pantry shelves are non tall enough to store the base of operations motor with the bowls and hat attached.
The good news is that the unit comes with a locking case for the blades (my previous Cuisinart food processor didn't come with a example, and all the blades are but stored loosely in a plastic bin). The small work bowl nestles in the larger piece of work basin. The dicing kit parts (including the cleaning tool) all nestle into the included storage bowl.
Here's what you need to make room for:
- Base
- Workbowls with Chapeau
- Bract Box
- Dicing Kit
Locking blade box
Holds all the sharp stuff.
My favorite feature of the Cuisinart Elemental 13 Cup Food Processor
Permit's just jump in here and talk about my favorite feature of the Cuisinart.
PRO: The base of operations is LIGHT!!! I can hold and lift information technology with i paw. Surprisingly, the lightness doesn't touch the car's functioning – no wobbles, no creeping on my counter, and standard food processor noise.
Locking Machinery
The bowl locks smoothly and easily onto the base. Merely line upwards the handle towards the front-correct, and twist to the left.
The lid was a petty more than finicky when using the slicing disc and adapter. Later on failing to get the machine to engage, I had to have every part off and disassemble, and and so reassemble again. Simply I think because it was a new machine for me, it just took getting used to the feel of when each piece "locks" into place.
Broad Rima oris, Wide Bowl
PRO:Love the wide oral fissure of the chute. It used to take me more than fourth dimension to cut/re-cutting ingredients to fit a narrow hole than information technology did to just slice everything by manus!
The large bowl size is generous, great for processing a large batch of nutrient without having to continuously empty to refill. I've never had a "mini-basin" for small batch, and only realized how useful information technology is!
Before, for small batches, I never used the nutrient processor. 1. It was heavy to lug out 2. Too many parts to wash for just a picayune bit of food. Plus, a small-scale amount of food doesn't process well in a large bowl.
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The first thing we processed was large carrots for My Mother's Famous Chinese Egg Rolls. Normally, I would shred the carrots, only I wanted to examination the power of the Cuisinart – who will information technology practise to large, thick, mesomorphic carrots?
PRO: The answer is a very even, impossibly modest mince, without the carrots condign mushy. No devious chunks of carrots, every piece was beautifully candy.
PRO: One handed dump into the bowl, without the blade falling. My sometime Cuisinart required y'all to stick your finger in the bottom of the bowl to hold on the blade to prevent it from falling out.
The blade is a lilliputian funny looking! Simply it works.
CON: Subsequently washing, the blade is still stained with carrot. I now have an orangish blade!
Adaptable Slicing Disc
The slicing disc is adaptable! Merely turn the knob and the very abrupt bract adjusts.
Very sharp!!! Ouch. Exist careful of this moving blade. Every time I look at this bract now, I go the shivers.
Sliced an apple tree, not for the dumplings, but just for a snacky-snack.
Shredding Disc
Nosotros're shredding cabbage for both the egg rolls and the potstickers.
PRO: Nice wide oral cavity shreds a lot of cabbage at once. The shredding blade is reversible. I side is large shred, the other side is small.
The shredding disc didn't work that well for me. Lots of big pieces still stuck.
CON: Considering of the shape of the lid, look at the mess upwards in at that place! I think there was more cabbage stuck in the hat and higher up the bract than in the bowl itself.
Dicing Kit
Where are my dicing photos??? Argh, my phone ate the dicing photos! It'southward okay, just sentry this video.
PRO: The dicing kit works actually well, dices the tomatoes without overly smushing. I wish there was a smaller dice blade. I've used the dicing kit many times, Dear Information technology.
Price: Cuisinart Elemental xiii Cup Nutrient Processor
You can buy the Cuisinart Elemental 13-Cup Food Processor with Dicing Kit at $199 on Williams Sonoma. They also have a version of the Elemental with the spiralizer set up instead of dicing, for $249.
Amazon sells the Cuisinart Elemental with Dicing Kit for cheaper, at $160 (at time of publishing) and a smaller, 11-loving cup version for $130.
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