Food processors - do you use yours?

I also hate my Magimix 4200XL. Absolute waste of money, heavy, so many parts and endless cleaning of parts you didn't even use. Don't buy that one OP.

I agree that the 3 magimix bowls are a PITA. I literally never use the smaller two. I should throw them away really.

I bought a Magimix 4200XL to replace a cheap Bosch which had done 25+ years. The Magimix is a complete pain in the arse, to be honest, as no matter what you do you have to wash up a bazillion bits. The feeder tube alone is 3 or 4 bits, and they all seem to get dirty no matter which bit you’re actually using. The three nested bowls are a bit of a faff too. To be fair it does a great job at chopping, but I spend far more time setting up and cleaning the damn thing, only for it to only take a minute to shred a whole cabbage.

I use my Kenwood Chef far more often, and to be honest I’ll probably replace the Magimix with a smaller cup sized food processor. I have a small choppy thing that fits on the end of the stick blender, but it’s too small to make hummus.

Less these days. Can do most things I was doing with the food processor with the stick blender which is way easier to clean

Apologies in advance, It shows how out of touch I am with things these days. I will see if I can realter it

I love my magimix 5200 (mini) as well. It is 18 years old, or at least the motor is - I’ve replaced the bowl a few times, probably because I always wash it in the dishwasher. It lives in a cupboard but I can’t say I’ve ever found it troublesome to get out or put away.

I use it almost every day - chopping vegetables, grating cheese/veg, making breadcrumbs, rubbing in flour/butter, whisking egg whites, making houmous, slicing potatoes for dauphinoise, pureeing soup etc etc. My son makes smoothies in it. I work long hours and cook most things from scratch. I wouldn’t have time to do that if I had to do the above tasks by hand.

I have my food processor out on the counter and my stand mixer in a cupboard. My processor isn't massive so it fits fine.
I use it for plenty of things:

Breadcrumbs
Houmous and various dips
Makes shortcrust pastry and pate sucre in seconds
Scones
Biscuits
Grated carrots and cheese if I need a larger quantity
Sliced red cabbage for braised red cabbage
White cabbage and onions for coleslaw
Sliced potatoes for dauphinoise and boulangere
Crumble topping
Crushed biscuits for things like cheesecake base
Vegetable purees
Small and large blender attachment for soups, smoothies, fruit coulis
Butter icing

I've a kenwood too and it's good. I only use ot once or twice a month now that I've got a kenwood mixer for cakes and dough and when it goes ill buy attachments. Use it regularly for making a batch of sofritto to freeze, hummous, breadcrumbs. In the summer we do milkshakes but I don't rate it for smoothies. Used to use it to blend soup but now I use a stick blender I inherited. I do adore it but I've big cupboards so can easily get it in and out to use.

Oh, god. Last Spring, I wanted to use mine for something, can't remember what. I pulled it out of the back of the "will probably need that one day" cupboard, to find it didn't work any more. It is about 50 years old, to be fair.

I promptly bought a new one. Didn't think twice, except to choose a price range and model. A food processor, it appears, is something I feel I cannot and should not live without.

It's still in the box, unopened.

I use mine for grated carrot in the summer when making a carrot salad so not very often. Sometimes use it for grated cheese when batch cooking lasagna etc when I remember. if it broke down I don’t think I would replace it.

Yes, use loads for dicing onions and carrots and blitzing flour and butter to make pastry. Keep it at the front of a cupboard- if you’re a good cook you’ll use it!

I really wanted a Vitamix as well, but DP pointed out that would take up the last remaining space in the kitchen. I still feel cheated, even though he was annoyingly right about it.

I have a Magimix 5200 and use it all the time. Not daily necessarily, but frequently. I also have a KitchenAid mixer and a Vitamix and use them a lot as well. The Magimix gets used for all sorts of slicing, shredding, chopping, pastry, dressings and sauces. Can also be used for bread doughs though I usually use the mixer.

Would love a Thermomix or similar but really cannot justify that cost!

I’ve had one for years so probably more basic than they are now. I use it for ‘rubbing in’ butter to flour when baking - takes seconds, chopping veg for soups, and mixing flour, diced butter, milk, and diced cheddar for cheese sauce - blend then pour into pan and cook, stirring as usual until thickened. I’ve used mine a lot. All that needs to be washed is the bowl and the metal mixers. Although my bowl is not dishwasher safe they might be nowadays.

I have an (ancient) kenwood which is a stand mixer (I assume that's what you mean by a 'kitchenaid....like the ones on bake-off?) which has food processor attachments. I use the FP at least as much as the mixer. I was considering getting a totally new one as I had to replace the shaft bit of the processor (and double blade) and was having extreme difficulty getting bits. There was a v good offer on a bosch one in John Lewis, but went to see it and it was so very light....no quality (despite the fact I usually like Bosch). Eventually found spare bits which fitted (hooray!). My point being that can you not get a processor attachment for your kitchenaid? I would wholeheartedly reccomend getting a machine which does both as saves so much worktop space.....so instead of getting a processor, treat yourself and get a dual purpose machine.

Mine got a little use, not much. Mostly using the liquidiser if the stick blender wasn’t an option, or for making pastes when a recipe required it - in the liquidiser as the main food processor but was too big. But not much use as it was in the back of a cupboard and took ages to even get out.

I say ‘got’ it decided to leak when last used for the latter task. But I’ve replaced it with one that’s smaller, and has an attachment for making small amounts like spice pastes. We’ve redone the kitchen, and it has a drawer to live in, so is much more accessible. Plus the (bright lime green) stick blender somehow got lost in the kitchen revamp, so it replaces that too.

I use mine all the time - it sits on the work top though so its easy enough. I use it to grate and slice and to blitz veg up for cooking - eg broccoli stalk gets blitzed and added to rissotto, carrot and celery gets chopped for soffritto and I make carrot cake and muffins and scones in it as well.

I use my Kitchenaid food processor a lot, especially for houmous, guacamole, grating cheese, all kinds of things really. Probably only a couple of times a month, but it’s a nicely made smooth operator that is really useful and hard working. I also have a Kitchenaid stand mixer and a Kitchenaid stand blender. All excellent quality and nice looking.

I use mine at least 3-4 times a week for chopping and mixing. It work full time and like to batch cook.

We got one for a wedding present. 27 years later it’s still in the cupboard and I’ve never used it since I bought a separate blender (about 20 years ago).

Yup. Love my Magimix. I've got the one with three different bowl attachments and it takes seconds to make loads of coleslaw, slice a bag of onions for soup or freezing, grating carrots or cheese and it's strong enough to do peanut butter without overheating. Mayonnaise is lovely, too.

We have a stick blender for soup/very small sauce portions.

I make lovely egg mayo in mine...
Use it to chop onions .carrots.chocolate