Cuisinart presents a durable new look for today's kitchens. The Matte Black Metals TM feature a pebble-textured black metal finish that won't reveal fingerprints, making it ideal for everyday use. A powerful motor, precision stainless steel blades and discs, an a large 14-cup work bowl let you shred, chop, slice, or mix ingredients in seconds - or knead up to 2-1/2 lbs. of dough. An extra large feed tube holds whole fruits and vegetables to eliminate precutting, and all detachable parts are dishwasher safe.
Product Features
- 4-mm. standard slicing disc, medium shredding disc, chopping/mixing blade and dough blade
- Dual extra-large and small feed tubes with pusher
- Includes spatula, instruction/recipe book and how-to DVD
Customer Reviews
"Mine is close to 5 years old and working perfectly!" 2010-05-15
By Lillea Woodlyns (BC, Canada)
I've had this machine for close to 5 years. It's excellent.
I had to special order it back then, and it was well worth it.
I've processed various doughs in it - fairly tough doughs that
contain nuts that usually make other processors stall or burn out quite
quickly.
Back when I made my own bread (I've had to drop gluten from my diet
since that time) I kneaded bread dough with this processor and it
did a very good job. Kneading by hand was rough on my shoulders
and wrists, so it was such a relief to use this machine instead.
This size is Cuisinart's largest, which surprises me. I don't
process huge amounts of ingredients at a time, yet I know that having a smaller
machine would be frustrating for me.
It's a beautiful looking unit, too. I like to display it on my
countertop.
"Very Happy" 2010-05-14
By S. Dennick (Tampa, FL United States)
I had the DLC-7 Cuisinart for at least 35 years, probably longer, but recently decided to get a new one. I donated the DLC-7 to one of the charities and I think someone else will be able to use it for years to come. I thought I would purchase another brand, but after extensive research decided to stay with the upgraded Cuisinart model, especially since I have the DLC-7 complete 9 disc set. I was delighted when it arrived to see that the detachable stem for the DFP14BCN is identical to the one that came with the 9-piece set - DLC-7 is stamped on the stem - so I will be able to use all the old blades. This model is almost identical to my old one, so I shouldn't have any trouble working with it. I could have gotten it for about the same price at BBB with a 20% coupon, but with the Amazon Store Card will be able to spread payments over 6 months. Look forward to using it for years to come.
"Work Horse" 2010-05-07
By Jeanne Scott (Seattle, Washington)
Works great, and I use it a couple of times a week. It's a work horse in my kitchen.
"Food Procesor" 2010-04-28
By Loredana Boran
Really handy tool !!! I love my toy , easy to use ,to prepare food and to clean !!! Love it
"What a Workhorse" 2010-04-11
By Rachel Whelton (New Hampshire)
I chose this model after reading several other reviews and trying to avoid any problems while also minimizing my cost, or at least keeping it reasonable. I am so happy with my choice and really glad I relied on those reviews.
At first I was considering getting a smaller model like the 7 cup or the 9 cup. So glad I didn't do that. What convinced me was reading somewhere that the smaller ones have a smaller motor, less power, and/or no dough option. What I see now is that the cup size isn't as big as it sounds. It doesn't look like 14 cups. Maybe you can stuff 14 cups of sliced strawberries in there but for practical use that isn't precise. For example there is a "max liquid" line below the halfway point on the bowl. Just making simple pizza sauce for our family pizza night easily reached that max line. I can see now that making several batches of anything would be less convenient. Even opening the bowl or adding foods seems time consuming now that I am getting accustomed to the light speed of preparation this machine provides. I wanted to make sure to get one that was large enough to do the job it's supposed to do.
Long ago I had a Kitchenaid food processor with the more rounded base design. I didn't like how the bowl locked onto the base. Eventually a piece of the bowl broke and instead of getting a new bowl, I became frustrated and threw the whole thing out. Comparing my new Cuisinart to that Kitchenaid, I would say I prefer the Cuisinart because it has a more industrial or professional feel to it. I like the square base. I like the sheer power of the motor. Certainly the way the bowl has to lock in place before the motor will engage is significant in both models. It took me half an hour to figure out how to click it in place. It takes force and also touch. It also took me a while to figure out the tube feeder is opposite the handle when it is in the closed/working position. But now that I understand exactly how it works, I like it.
When I ordered on amazon, it appeared to me as if there was a choice of colors between brushed steel or black chrome. When mine arrived, I thought I had gotten the wrong color because I had clicked on brushed steel but mine was clearly the black chrome model. Apparently there is only one if I am now reading this correctly. It has metal and black plastic on the base. I guess I don't mind, but I might have preferred the all steel looking one or a white one. Not sure if they came in this model number and after using the machine, I don't think the color matters to me so much anymore.
Overall I would like to say that this is an incredibly useful machine! I worried that I wouldn't know how to use it often enough. Many years ago when I had the Kitchenaid food processor, it was just one more gadget that I didn't have time to care about. Now that I am older, a mother, and cooking at home much more, I am a different person in the kitchen. I understand cooking more and I go to the food processor much more instinctively. It is much easier now to read a "regular" recipe (not specifically mentioning any use of a food processor) and use the Cuisinart anyway. This morning I made crepe batter in it where I used to use a spoon or my immersion blender. This afternoon I chopped a bell pepper where I used to always use a knife. My husband asked if I needed a cookbook of "food processor recipes" but I think that's just silly. You can cook whatever you want to cook and still use this for lots of the chopping and mixing. The special things it can do beyond that are icing on the cake.
Speaking of special skills, the dough making is ridiculously impressive. Pie dough, pizza dough, puff pastry, biscuit dough... never again will I have to touch butter and flour with my hands. You just jump ahead to a wonderful ball of dough and proceed to the flour and roll out phases.
Also you can learn new things. At least for me, this is a new ability to do things like emulsify or puree. I make sauces now, because it's no big deal to work out a sauce after I've already used the machine anyway to chop or slice. I used to never bust out the blender because why clean it just for a sauce? The food processor is another world from my blender.
I use all the pieces and will consider the specialty blades. I love the dough cutter, which is a plastic piece short enough to assist with the ball of dough forming around the edge of the bowl. I love the super sharp chopper blade, which reaches to the edge of the bowl and can do different cuts based on how you pulse it or keep it running. It chopped almonds, then can make the pieces small enough to be like a flour, then can keep going to paste if you wish. I love the slicer blade, which can slice things so beautifully including so many more things than just the potatoes I had in mind. I love the grater too. That's all that I have but I'd like to order the julienne and the thin slicer blades sometime.
It was delivered quickly. It came in a box (white with color photos and styrofoam packing), which was inside another box (cardboard and saying cuisinart on it), which was inside a larger box (cardboard saying amazon on it). I was skeptical about why it was not more expensive. I believe this is an older model but I'm not sure. I guess the Cuisinart company pushes the newer models at higher prices.
The dvd that it comes with is helpful yet dated. It says 2004 on it. The chefs seem to be somewhat old school, like television cooks before the age of Food Network. Still, the recipes they demonstrate show the machine at work, which is impressive. It did not come with a printed manual. I had to go look for it on the Cuisinart website. It wasn't extremely helpful. But they do have customer service. I figured out how to get the machine going before calling to admit I had no idea how to do it.
I would wish this wonderful machine on any home cook! It's a joy to use once you become familiar with it. Unlike my Kitchenaid Stand Mixer, this Cuisinart food processor will have the honor of staying out on the counter and not being put in the cupboard. I believe it is a widely useful tool and underrated for how fun it can be to use. I'm so glad I got the 14 cup size too, so that the machine can really do what it's supposed to do and not be overfilled or overworked.
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