Cuisinart Mini-Prep Processor
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart Mini-Prep Processor
Customer Review: Pint sized helper
Summary: 4 Stars
Tired of your old fashioned manual choppers? Tired of cleaning up that cutting board and losing all those juices? While I wish it offered another set of blades (to allow for larger chunks v. minced ones), its a great salsa, diced veggie, and seasonings aid in the kitchen and allows for a quick under the spigot clean up of the blades and cup. This dynamo is small enough to be portable, thus it travels well with us to shore rentals, etc. Considering my last manual chopper was nearly $20 with Pampered Chef and didnt even last a year, this was surprisingly well worth the additional $9.Customer Review: Great little gizmo
Summary: 5 Stars
This machine will cut up a food product in no time flat. As a matter of fact, you just toggle it on..and off and it's done most of the time.
Works super!
Customer Review: Excellent for making baby food
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this to mash - baby food. It is excellent for that purpose & as Im sure it will be for other little kitchen tasks when Im done using it for baby food. It seems well made - not flimsy. Looks good in the kitchen.Customer Review: Ten minute's use requires fifteen minute's cleaning.
Summary: 3 Stars
I find it a little difficult to get the get the consistency I want. Some things get liquefied if the chunks are too big and I want to try for a little smaller. What I wind up with is liquid -- but still with some chunks in it! That, for me is not too bad; I just wanted it for small amounts where hand slicing/chopping wouldn't do the job. I have had the Cuisinart Mini-Prep for three-and-a-half years and used it again, tonight, for the first time in two years! Then I remembered why I had not used it. The parts have too many small grooves and recesses which just do not wash cleanly -- easily. After brushing and scrubbing the disassembled parts I find that to get off all the small smears of food I have to resort to Q-Tips to get the numerous little, tight angles and grooves clean. It's a hygiene horror! Customer Review: has a very short life, and doesn't serve its purpose
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought mine new, and have regretted it since the first use. It does not chop the food evenly beyond the first half cup, and that becomes cream before it is chopped evenly. Beyond a half cup, everything else just sits on top of the blade and hardly moves. It seems like the blade width should taper, and the widest part should be close to the center; this one does not taper at all. Also, the volume is two cups (not three) with the blade in.
Today the food processor finally stopped working, after about 40 uses. I was trying to mash some very well-cooked potatoes, about 3/4 cups at a time, cubed into 1/2-square inch pieces, and the thing began smoking and smelling of burning electronics. Shortly after that, the motor stopped working completely.
I strongly recommend against buying this product, even for those who seldomly cook.
The only advantage is that it has a very efficient design for storing the cord.