Best food processors
3 Best Food Processors To Buy
Looking to whizz up vegetables in a flash? With prices starting from £50, this is our pick of the best food processors you can buy
If you're sick of chopping ingredients by hand and wish you could whizz up ingredients in a flash, then it's about time you invested in a food processor. Whether you're dicing vegetables, blending soup or grating cheese, a good food processor needs little or no washing up yet saves valuable preparation time in the kitchen.
If you cook large meals or batch cook dishes, a food processor will always be quicker than human hands – even if you're a one-person cordon bleu production line, a machine will always dice dozens of onions faster than you can think.
But what really counts is whether a food processor is worth bothering with for smaller dishes. If there's too much faffing around with awkward accessories and difficult to clean bowls, then a food processor is a waste of worktop space and generates washing up.
That's where our handy guide comes in. We've picked out five of the best food processors that are well worth their coveted worktop space. Use them right and you'll save time and energy. From high-end workhorses to budget models that cost little more than £50, and from simple designs to ones that double as smoothie blenders, there's something here for everyone.
The best food processors to buy
1. Magimix 5200XL: The best food processor under £300
This triple-play food processor has three bowls at once. You can whisk a single egg or make baby food in the smaller ones, batch prepare big dishes in the largest. It also comes with all mod cons, including dough blade, egg whisk, citrus press and discs for grating and slicing.
The design is practical and space-saving in many ways, but has the disadvantage that you can't use the smaller bowls without having the big one in place. And then if your home-made mayonnaise splatters you have two bowls to wash, not one.
It's heavy, but this and its solid build quality mean that it doesn't vibrate too much and certainly won't skitter around on the worktop. The powerful 1100W motor is surprisingly not too loud.
A pricey but great-quality food processor that's perfect for foodies and families.
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2. Nutri Ninja Complete Kitchen System: A food processor, ice-crusher and smoothie maker all-in-one
Ninja is best known for its personal blenders, which perform well and work much like a NutriBullet. This Complete Kitchen System costs quite a bit more but offers much more. As well as being a personal blender, for making a quick, healthy smoothies to drink on the go, it's a food processor and a large blender.
A combination of powerful motor and clever programs make quick work of blending ice, nuts and more. As a food processor, it's worth buying the "with chute" model which comes with two discs for grating and slicing, as well as blades for pureeing.
It’s very loud but makes quick work of everything, so at least you won’t have to endure the noise for long. It's also good and sturdy. But you will need to find somewhere to store all those lovely attachments.
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3. Sage Kitchen Wizz Pro 2.7L: The best food processor for real foodies
You can always rely on kitchen electricals from Sage by Heston Blumenthal to do something a bit different, something that makes them stand out if you're a keen cook. This is no different.
It comes with all mod cons and a storage box for attachments. But what really sets it out from the crowd is its "why didn't I think of that?" adjustable slicing blade. You can cut thicknesses ranging from 0.3mm to 8mm. So it takes the place of a mandolin.
Plus the feed chute is extra wide at 14cm, which is wide enough to throw a potato in whole – ideal for making Heston's triple-cooked chips recipe. And instead of a two-blade attachment for soups and purees, it comes with a quad blade that blitzes things even faster.
The Kitchen Wizz Pro is also available as a 3.7 litre food processor, but it cost more than £100 more than this model at the time of writing.
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