Well I've had this for a few weeks now and used all of the features. I bought mine from Bed, Bath and Beyond for the same price plus sales tax which was less than I would of paid from Amazon and had it the day I purchased it. I would of like to get the larger one but the difference for what I use it really isn't that big a deal and the 11 qt was $175 compared to mine for $100 with mine coming with 2 additional blades (slicer and grater) as well as the dough blade. It also came with a DVD that showed how to operate it as well as a section by Herbert Keller using it for things that ranged from dips to an apple pie all made using a single food processor. It also came with an instruction book as well as a rather extensive recipe section in the back of the book also including the Herbert Keller recipes.
This thing has a lot more power than I thought in that it has 600 watts with a simple controls. Off in the middle press down for pulse and up for on which just doesn't get any simpler. It has handled pretty much everything I thrown at it over the last few weeks from cole slaw, salads, vinaigrettes, egg salad etc. All removable parts are dishwasher safe which makes for easy cleanup also. I might add it goes together easily with a lot of safety features that one would have to really work hard to over ride to hurt themselves using it. I also like the extra wide top that came with it but also got a smaller opening top for vinaigrettes and such but can't be used with the top blades however though I can't imagine why one would want to use it with a grater or slicing blade as the opening is really for adding small amounts of oil for example while making a vinaigrette. I was also impressed by how it mixed doughs so well very quickly. I've yet to try that ability but will soon as I thinking of making a pizza dough with it. My wife looked at how Keller made the apple pie on the demo DVD and will be trying that soon as well.
The slicing blades work so well that I'm seriously considering picking up the other 5 that they have for this of which are a julienne slicer, shoe string style French fries, standard French fries (1/4 square), heavy greater for cheese etc.
If I remember correctly that at the time I purchased this one on Fryboy's recommendation of a few others I was looking at. I wish to thank him for that as I've really impressed with how easy it is to use as well as the power it produces.
This thing has a lot more power than I thought in that it has 600 watts with a simple controls. Off in the middle press down for pulse and up for on which just doesn't get any simpler. It has handled pretty much everything I thrown at it over the last few weeks from cole slaw, salads, vinaigrettes, egg salad etc. All removable parts are dishwasher safe which makes for easy cleanup also. I might add it goes together easily with a lot of safety features that one would have to really work hard to over ride to hurt themselves using it. I also like the extra wide top that came with it but also got a smaller opening top for vinaigrettes and such but can't be used with the top blades however though I can't imagine why one would want to use it with a grater or slicing blade as the opening is really for adding small amounts of oil for example while making a vinaigrette. I was also impressed by how it mixed doughs so well very quickly. I've yet to try that ability but will soon as I thinking of making a pizza dough with it. My wife looked at how Keller made the apple pie on the demo DVD and will be trying that soon as well.
The slicing blades work so well that I'm seriously considering picking up the other 5 that they have for this of which are a julienne slicer, shoe string style French fries, standard French fries (1/4 square), heavy greater for cheese etc.
If I remember correctly that at the time I purchased this one on Fryboy's recommendation of a few others I was looking at. I wish to thank him for that as I've really impressed with how easy it is to use as well as the power it produces.
