KitchenAid 5 Cup Food Chopper KFC0516CU, Contour Silver

This is the best food chopper! It’s compact and super easy to use. Works perfectly and efficiently. I highly recommend this product and am so happy I bought it. I donated the large expensive food processor and replaced it with this chopper. Best decision!

Love it

Works great! I’ve used it to chop nuts, puree dried fruit and make homemade breakfast bars. It’s also good for making salad dressings. It’s so much easier to wash than my Vitamix because the blades are removable.

Quick and Easy. Love it.

I recently received this product, so this review represents early impressions. I use a food processor regularly for many cooking tasks, especially making sauces and dips. My full-sized one is occasionally a bit too large. For example, it can't puree garlic cloves in a small amount of liquid. Initially, my goal with this unit was to be able to make hummus and mayonnaise.Pros:I like that it's a bit larger than most mini food processors. I found it easy to assemble and use. The "whisk" attachment is just a rippled plastic disk, but when rotated at high speeds, it can whip air into ingredients for whipped cream, meringue, etc. The manual recommends using it for mayonnaise, so I tried it. The small batch of mayonnaise came out perfect--thick, creamy in texture, white in color, just like store-bought mayonnaise. The drizzle cup on the lid worked well for building the emulsion slowly. On the higher speed setting, the rotation speed is quite high--more like a blender--which is helpful if you want smooth purees. The motor power seems sufficient. I think this tool will likely get a lot of use in my kitchen.I also like that the center shaft is taller than on many food processors so more liquids can be added without fear of leakage around the blades.Cons:It's pretty tough to clean. I wash it by hand, and there is no easy way to get into the narrow cavity inside the plastic rotating pillar that the blades rest on. The blades themselves are very sharp and difficult to handle and clean. My full-sized food processor's blades have a protrusion that can be grasped to hold them while cleaning the blades with a brush. These have only a large hole in the center. The lid consists of two pieces. You push one down onto the other in order to start the unit running. There is a gap between them where gunk can get in, but no way to get into the narrow space and clean it out. They don't appear to be meant to be separated, and the manual shows no way to do it.It's also quite loud. The sound is like the high-pitched whine of an electric drill. This is not much of a hardship if you are just pulsing it to coarsely chop ingredients for a salsa. But when running it continuously for a few minutes to stream oil into mayonnaise, I actually put on hearing protection. I don't want to give the wrong impression. It's not excruciatingly loud. It's just loud enough to be annoying if you have to run it for any length of time. This is true of many food processors and blenders, but my full-sized food processor is very quiet by comparison.There is no way to lock the motor on, so you have to hold down the lid at the handle constantly to keep it running, which means you can't start it and then do other tasks while it's processing. It's also a bit annoying when making something like mayonnaise, where you have to stream oil in, because it means both your hands will be occupied the whole time.While the drizzle cup is quite nice, there should be a way to get more of a hole into the container. For example, if you want to blend xanthan gum into a liquid, the best way is to add it with the processor already running so it disperses immediately and evenly. With this unit, there's no way to add it without stopping and opening the lid.Oddly, it has two speeds, but the manual only recommends the low speed, which is called "chop," for whipping eggs and egg whites. The other speed, called "puree," is recommended for everything else, including chopping ingredients by pulsing.

Love the size of this! I had a smaller one but wanted a little bigger one and this was it.

Little food Processor choppes food

For the record I am reviewing: KitchenAid 5 Cup Food Chopper - KFC0516, Onyx BlackIt is rare that I have to write a bad review. But this food processor deserves it. I have the smaller model of this food processor KitchenAid 3.5 Cup Food Chopper - KFC3516, Aqua Sky and I love it. I bought this one because mine is getting old and I was desiring the larger size as some times when making things like sauces or salsa, the one I have is just a tiny bit too small. So, I was looking forward to getting this one.However.... First the thing is much more difficult to clean. You have more parts and more surface area to clean and it takes twice the time of the 3.5 cup one. Food gets between the parts and into the center post.Then it just does not have the mechanics of working like it should. I made pot stickers and needed to chop shrimp into a chunky paste it was difficult for the unit to pull all the shrimp to the bottom of the processor and cut it up evenly. The smaller unit does it perfectly. I wound up with whole shrimp at the top and mush at the bottom. It just was too large and the blades were way at the bottom. Poor design, maybe the angle of the blades is not set properly as to pull and mix the food.Then on top of that and more frustrating was that when you push down on the lid handle to activate the unit it does NOT shut off immediately when you release pressure. Sometimes it runs for an additional second or two, other times it just does not stop running. If you just want to pulse it, like I do all the time, that is not going to happen. It runs and does not stop when you want it to. If I had to render a guess I would say that the activation switch is sticking not sure if it is because of the length of the unit, the position of the chopping container which does not clip into place and lock in as well as the smaller one.I am very unhappy with the design of this one, and the removable blades just means more surface area to clean and it is not that easy to clean.I am going to return this unit. I am very unhappy with it. This is one of those times when I think the design engineers who made it never actually used it or gave it to people that actually cook and have to clean it to test it. I am sad because usually this brand is a good product, but not this time. Sorry folks but...I DO NOT RECOMMEND GETTING ONE OF THESE.