Empire Red KitchenAid 700-Watt 12-Cup Food Processors KFP750ER

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Appliances that earn my affection tend to be viewed as entities with personalities. I'm pretty sure they perform better when they know you really like them for themselves. My KitchenAid stand mixer, for instance, has been known as the Blue Beast for years and she is the steadiest, sturdiest helper in the kitchen. Just last month I added the chrome KitchenAid food processor to the family so now BeeBee and the Silver Streak are my Go To Team.

I have extremely limited counter space -- less than two square feet on either side of the sink. The food processor get the real estate on the right and I think it's worth every square inch. Because it's conveniently accessible, it gets used constantly. Because it's strategically located, it's a snap to wash up.

Perhaps I've gone a bit out of my way to test the Streak but I figured that was the best way to let him strut his stuff. So far he's done everything I've asked and done it well. It's nice to discover speed doesn't compromise quality. Vegetables are chopped evenly, cheese is shredded in the astonished blink of an eye, cashew butter appears magically from the rubble of crushed nuts and, unbelievably, a perfect blob of bread dough is created in less than 2 minutes. (And, yes, the bread bakes as light and tender as if I'd kneaded it for half an hour.)

There have been absolutely none of the problems mentioned by other viewers -- no leakage from either bowl, no blades going berserk and chewing up plastic, no difficulties cleaning nooks and crannies. The only curious thing is that sometimes when I go to lift off the big work bowl, I find a suction has built up, holding it in place. Easily remedied -- jiggle the blade and lift it just a bit and the suction is broken, releasing the bowl.

Thank you, KitchenAid, for making such a wonderful and truly helpful appliance. Thank you, Amazon, for putting it on sale so I could finally get one for myself.