My contributor received a Hamilton Beach food processor to facilitate this review, and Hamilton Beach provided the food processor for the associated giveaway.
Frugal Novice contributor Debbie really knows her way around the kitchen, so she was perfect to test out the Hamilton Beach professional food processor sent my way for review. In fact, she regularly hosts a group of friends at her house for dinner, so she was able to use the food processor to make food for an upcoming gathering and share her opinions of the machine:
I decided to try out several preparations of ingredients with the food processor to really get a feel for the variety of options it provides, and first started with dicing a potato. If you’ve ever done this manually, you know how hard it can be to get uniform cuts – so it’s really appealing to get the job done with a food processor instead!
Here’s what the setup looks like – there’s a blade that spins around and then the potato will also be pushed through the grid, giving me nice cubed pieces of potato.
The dicing worked really well and I’m happy with the finished product.
I did notice some potato left on the top of the disc when I removed it from the processor:
The food processor comes with a device to help clean the dicer; there’s a bit of a learning curve in getting it to line up right, but once I got the hang of it I was able to use it to remove the leftover pieces of potato.
You can see in the video above that there’s a locking handle on this food processor. It holds everything together well and keeps the machine stable, along with the help of suction cups underneath.
After dicing the potato I decided to try slicing cucumbers. The slicing disc has 15 different thicknesses to choose from, giving you a lot of options for various needs.
Last but not least I used the shredding disc to shred cheddar for homemade pimento cheese.
It worked really quickly, saving a lot of time and effort that would have been used if I’d shredded the cheese by hand.
There was a little bit of cheese left on the disc, but not too much.
Looks great, don’t you think? All set for making some amazing pimento cheese.
The Hamilton Beach Professional 14-cup food processor provides a lot of power and efficiency, and has some really smart features built in – the suction cups and locking handle mentioned above, but also…
a spot for the cord to be stored. Genius.
…and…
a storage container for all the parts and pieces. Love this!
The Hamilton Beach Professional 14-cup food processor is a great tool to have in your kitchen arsenal, and I’m looking forward to making many more dishes with its help.
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comes with 5 attachments
My favorite feature is the convenient storage case.
I like the minimal precutting with the 3-in-1 Big Mouth feed tube, which fits whole foods as well as small, thinner pieces.
A feature I like is the storage case. I also like that most of the pieces are safe to put in the dishwasher.
I like that it comes with 5 attachments and has a case to keep them together.
I love the slice and dice features
I love the large capacity and the dicing feature is a BIG plus. I also like that it is BPA free.
I like that it comes with 5 attachments, storage case and warranty.
I love that it can do anything chop shred dice has big holding tank different attachments. I want this with arthritis this is my best friend oh I want it!
I like the nice large size and the fact it can do shredding, dicing or chopping. Thank you for the giveaway. Happy New years!
I like that it has Easy Stack & Snap assembly with no difficult twisting.
I love that is has a storage case
I like the 3-in-1 Big Mouth feed tube that can fit whole foods.
I love that it dices cubes!
love that is has a storage case
I like that it is large 14 cup capacity
I love the fact that it has a easy Stack & Snap assembly with no difficult twisting.
I love the storage case for attachments and the ability to dice.
I love the large size and storage case
I like the fact it has a five year warranty, which goes to the high quality of the product.
I am most excited about its heavy-duty construction!
my favorite thing about it is that it Dice cubes. :) I hate chopping up things into small pieces. this would save so much time!
I like that the 5 attachments have a storage case. I never know where to keep my attachments.
I’m most excited about the 5 attachments.
I like the 3-in-1 Big Mouth feed tube that will result in less of a need for cutting.
I love that it has a storage case for the attachments. What a smart idea.
I’m most excited that there is no difficult twisting.
This food processor seems AMAZING!!! It’s hard to pick one thing about it that makes me most excited. I love that it has commercial quality performance, that it has a 3-in-1 Big Mouth Feed Tube for minimal precutting and that it is multi-functional–dicing, shredding and 15 different slice thicknesses! What?!!!!
The stack and snap sounds very easy to do. Very nice item
I love the 14 cup capacity. And I love the storage case. It makes it easy.
I’m excited about the cube dicing!
We like the easy-clean touchpad controls / LED indicator lights, and the dishwasher safe components i.e. cutting blades, etc.