Breville BFP810 Sous Chef 16 Cup Food Processor, Large, Red Velvet Cake

When my 20-year-old Waring professional food processor died--The lid broke and a replacement was exceedingly expensive. I purchased a Cuisinart. I sent the Cuisinart back and bought this one. The breville is an excellent product. I just wish the 12 cup sous chef model was back on the market (The sous chef models have a metal base and the storage box). The breville is worth the upgrade over the Cuisinart or the KitchenAid. The top is easier to use, it's more powerful, and it simply does a better job.

The Cuisinart I had for many years suddenly started breaking down in the last few months. The plastic bowl and other pieces began chipping off and cracking to where it was way too dangerous to use. I had thought they gave a lifetime warranty but not so. In any event, I purchased the Breville for our vacation home and found it vastly superior to the Cuisinart. The size is bigger but not too big. It's simple to use. I could spend an hour figuring out all the different functions on this food processor. It has numerous speeds, attachments, and so on. It's about 75% quieter than my Vitamix! I use it to shred good quality hard cheeses in seconds. I make salad dressings with it. I mince habanero peppers and hot chiles in it so I don't burn my eyes. The possibilities are endless and I'm looking forward to trying out more functions.

I love this machine. I have been a Cuisinart loyalist for years. I have every blade, an extra bowl, and was content until I used my daughter-law's Breville. I couldn't justify buying it until I had enough rewards built up but wow. I would buy it again without points. I make a nut bread several times a week. The Breville chops the nuts faster, quieter, finer and more evenly with less bowl scraping needed. I add a ground chia to the nuts and the Cuisinart always left a ring of unincorporated seeds between the bowl and bottom of the blade around the stem. The Breville combines everything without having to scrape that out of the bowl and hand mix it. That alone sells me. Cleaning is easy. A small nice thing: I fill the bowl with soapy water, clean and remove the blade and the bowl doesn't drain like the Cuisinart, b/c the stem isn't hollow, so I can keep washing tools. The one blade I miss is the grating blade Cuisinart has. The Breville shreds beautifully and finely, but I grate Parmesan from a chunk and a grating blade, not shredding blade, is needed. Great Food Processor, worth every penny.

WE use this weekly. Makes chopping up cheese, bacon and more like nothing. Excellent product and built well. Heavy base and plastic body/parts. Love it.

So far, I am happy with my new food processor. After our two-year-old Kitchenaid food processor died, we quickly had to do some research. While I loved my old Kitchenaid, the plunger shattered, getting plastic in the food and making us quite unhappy, we couldn't buy replacement parts. After researching and reading reviews by Consumer Reports, we decided to take the plunge and buy the Breville Sous Chef 16. As an older Millennial, I will be the first to admit I nearly had a panic attack buying this food processor since I never imagined I would pay $500 for a small Kitchen Appliance. Part of what made us take the plunge was the fact that we could buy replacement parts for just about everything for this unit, and it had one of the best warranties I could find, with 2 years on parts and 30 years on the motor. While I wasn't thrilled about the price, my engineer was saying he was done with how Kitchenaid has been lately. Once this unit arrived, I was very happy with what I spent the money on. This machine is a true beast! It has a sleek, beautiful design and comes with so many different parts that it could easily replace other kitchen items (yay for space back in my kitchen). I love getting the extra 3 cups of space compared to my Kitchenaid food processor, and I love that it comes with a little bowl for smaller projects. It is also very powerful, able to handle projects with better care and truly chops things as I want them to be chopped (not just pureed if you aren't careful). My only complaint with the Breville Sous Chef 16 is that it is very difficult to move. The base weighs about 30 pounds, and even the parts container is pretty heavy. This must be something that lives on your counter since it is just a big monster. If you use it all the time (I do), this is good, but if you want something you can store away, you are not moving this thing quickly or easily. With power, we also have a considerable weight, so I shouldn't complain. As long as it lasts, it is a worthy tradeoff!

I really wanted to love this product but it was absolutely not worth the money. The number of cons far outweighs the pros. FIRST, there is only one speed. SECOND, for the engine supposedly being so powerful, it constantly turns itself off for ‘motor overload protection’. This happens everytime I use the dough blade for mixing bread, no matter what the quantity in the bowl - 4 cups AND 10 cups. I’ve never had this happen with any other food processor I’ve owned. THIRD, it doesn’t actually mince things very finely. Like for pesto, the remaining leaf size isn’t that small or consistent, my old Cuisinart did better. FOURTH all the peices are pretty irregularly shaped and interlocking which makes it very hard to clean. When I run it through the dishwasher and there are always left overs in the nooks & crannies which forces me to then hand wash AFTER going through the dishwasher. FIFTH, if you want to use the ‘mini’ bowl it actually fits inside the larger bowl, leaving about an 1” of the larger bowl exposed to the contents. This means if you use the ‘mini’ bowl you have wash the mini AND the large bowl. How poorly designed is that!? The one upside is that it’s really, impressively quiet. Is that worth the ~$300 up cost from its Cuisinart counterpart? Absolutely not. Not when the laundry list of poor functionality is so long.

Good investment

I have been a dedicate Cuisinart guy for close to 50 years. When my 20 year old processor started quibbling with me, I decided to treat it as a back up and was surprised by recommendations that favored this Breville. Having used it for just shy of a month, I understand their arguments. It is BUILT TO BE CLEANED. I still wash plastics by hand and this is a breeze to clean. It is POWERFUL and I love the timer display. I won't last another 20 years but it might. Couldn't be happier with the purchase. PS The more powerful motor allows shorter base so main unit stores more easily on the counter top. The tools box is larger than older Cuisinart storage.

Super puissant. Tout se fait à une rapidité exceptionnelle. J'ai hâte de faire mes pâtes maison.

Half the power of my 10 year old Ninja and goes into protection mode under any kind of load. I expected a lot more at this price point.