5 Best Food Processors and Choppers (2023)

When you’ve already bought a blender, stand mixer, or juicer, you could really feel such as you’re all set for prepping for meals, however—as the very best cooks will agree—no kitchen ought to be and not using a first rate meals processor. The right multitasking instrument for slicing, dicing, chopping, and extra, with a superb meals processor you’ll at all times really feel such as you’ve bought an additional pair of palms serving to you within the kitchen.

The newest home equipment can chop, shred, slice, grind, grate, cube, knead, and puree on the contact of a button. A meals processor is especially good for shredding greens to boost salads and for smoothing do-it-yourself sauces resembling pesto or hummus. You can too use it to puree elements for no matter stage you’re at in life—be it for weaning a 6-month-old child or making champagne Bellinis for a Friday night time.

In our choose, we’ve included a spread of tall and small designs to go well with each massive and petite kitchen cabinets. To evaluate the efficiency of every meals processor, we used them to arrange hummus with chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, cumin, tahini, and sea salt. We additionally used them to cut carrots evenly to cover in Jamie Oliver’s Versatile Meat Ragu recipe, which is scrumptious in pies or served with pasta and rice. We’ve additionally rated every meals processor on versatility, design, and what number of helpful attachments the set contains.

For extra of WIRED’s kitchen guides, try our Best Stand Mixers, Best Blenders, Best Air Fryers, Best Electric Kettles, and the Best Gear for Small Kitchens.

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