Hamilton Beach - 8-Cup Food Processor - Black

This food processor is great. I've made hummus better than ever before. The pulse action starts the processing off quickly, then it only takes a short burst of the #1 or #2 speed to finish. Everything was chopped to the desired texture very quickly. It is a powerful unit. It's sturdy base grips the counter so the unit stays in place. It cleans easily. It looks nice on the counter or you can store it easily. The only thing that is a slight hinderance is the locking mechanism for locking the bowl to the base, it's a bit hard to lock in place. All in all it's a great unit, I would recommend it totally.

We were looking for a basic medium-size model that didn't have a lot of discs and other additional attachments, nothing too fancy. So far it seems to chop and puree various things well, rather quickly and fairly evenly. The so-called 8 cup capacity may be a bit misleading though. Sometimes if you have more volume, it might be better to do things in two batches as opposed to throwing all your stuff in at once, especially liquids or ingredients with some liquids. Overall good but not for large amounts of food or large recipes.

I bought this product twice. It's cheap, and it works when I need to make smoothies/soup/sauce, grind nuts, etc. What I don't like about this product is that the bowl has a hole in the center, and a small part of the processor sticks up in the hole upon assembling. The protruding part gets in the way when I have to add ingredients directly to the bowl and not to the feed chute. But I can deal with that considering how cheap it is (I bought one very cheap on Amazon several years ago; it's more expensive now but still cheap here and on Amazon).

Placed an order for this food processor just minutes ago. But before I decided to go with it, I did my research on this product and came to conclusion that it will definitely serve our needs. Before I used to own Philips food processor which was powerful enough to mix a dough. This one's exactly similar to Philips FP and is powerful enough it serve all your needs. I am looking forward to get my hands on it. By the way, I have seen its performance in my aunt's home and I strongly recommend this everyone.

If you are buying your first food processor, I would recommend buying a much smaller model. This is my first experience with one this size, and it takes longer to process, and usually still leaves lumps. It is however, perfect for making banana ice cream, and the size is helpful in that case. Works best with creamy foods.

Ordered on back order and it came sooner than estimated. Love them, it light and haven't fall out my ears yet. I work out with them no problem. They last long on battery and they charge real quick when you put them back in the box. Overall I really like them.

This is my first food processor. How have I managed to do without one??? Love it! Have used it several times already. It has done a great job; it also cuts prep time and mess from chopping food to a minimum. Easy to clean. Highly recommended.

Hamilton Beach Food Processor is great. A little noisy as others have commented on, but works great, and is very fast! I thought it grated my cabbage too fine (was a little mushy), but that may have been operator error.