Color: Brushed Stainless

• 720-watt large-capacity food processor with intuitive “on” and “off/pulse” buttons
• 14-cup Lexan work bowl; extra-large feed tube; small and large pushers
• Stainless-steel slicing disc, shredding disc, chopping blade, and dough blade
• Spatula, instruction/recipe booklet, and video included; dishwasher-safe parts
• Measures 7-1/2 by 9-3/4 by 15-3/4 inches; 3-year limited warranty with 5-year warranty on motor

Reviewed By:    Mary Delacruse


Every Kitchen Needs a Cuisinart


Every kitchen needs a Cuisinart, and after the work bowl of my former much loved 14-cup Cuisinart Food Processor of 20+ years finally gave out, I opted to purchase the new Cuisinart DFP-14BC 14-cup brushed chrome model .

First the aesthetics, this model compliments all my other stainless steel appliances, including my double oven, toaster and microwave, etc. It looks very sleek compared to my former white model. In other words, I’m very pleased with the way it looks.

I use my food processor quite often and shopped around before deciding to choose this particular model. I picked this square-shaped model, similar to my older replaced DLC-7 model, with the two rectangular buttons that `click’. Since my former Cuisinart of like design served me well 20+ years, this design appeared more durable and was less expensive than another Cuisinart rounded model with oval buttons that looked less heavy-duty.

Other than a few modifications to the food pusher assembly, this new DFP-14BC model is virtually identical to my older processor, and just as easy to use. Even better is the fact that my older DLC-7 discs (with detachable stems) also fit this new processor. So far, I’ve used the metal blade, which worked like a dream, and the shredding and slicing discs that again work with ease and provide excellent results. Additionally, the motor on this new processor is more powerful than my original model and I can’t wait to try it on making bread or pizza dough.

For first time food processor users, a demonstration video accompanies this machine and walks you through everything you’ll need to know. You’ll never make a pie crust again without it!


- Mary

Reviewed By:    Rachel Welton (New Hampshire)


What a Workhorse


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 DFP-14BCN 14-Cup Food Processor 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.


- Rachel