It does jobs that it is advertised to do. However, in some jobs, it may not work like a magic. Let me list what I’ve tried for a month after the purchase.

-Mincing meat: superb. I didn’t even bother to chill the meat and it worked great. I minced meats for making ragu and dumplings. Unless you have a special reason to go for an expensive meat grinder, I think it is almost perfect.

-Chopping: superb. do about 8-10 pulses.. onions are already ready for ragu.

-shredding with disc: great! I have shreded potato and cheese. Both worked so quickly and nicely.

– kneading dough: Not magical but it helps. I think it works beautifully with quite wet dough (>50% water (in weight respect to the weight of flour)). but when you knead a dry dough, for example, noodles dough (40-45% water), it may not work like a magic. Capacity also matters here. I have tried 500g of flour with 5 eggs to make pasta dough, the top 1-inch layer of the flour was not mixed into the dough. For a wet dough, 500g was okay. But here, the reason may be that I am not using it correctly. I am still learning. But I do admit that I have my doubts if it’s worth kneading with this machine because I am not sure it reduces work if I include the washing up afterward. Speaking of which, washing up the bowl and the blade is quite tedious after the kneading because of the stuck flour bits. (with chopped onions and such it is not too bad.) If you have a dishwasher, this may be not a problem.

– slicing: I never tried yet but no reason to believe it won’t work well. I personally love slicing things with my knife, so I will not be taken my job away to this machine.

– Pureeing; Not yet tried. I hope it works well.

**A piece of warning: Never use the abrasive green side of the sponge when you clean the bowls. It leaves scratches on the plastic surface. Sadly, mine is now cloudy with those scratches. Just use the softer yellow side or white (less abrasive) sponge.

Also, a review I read here that says water leaks when he/she put some water and spun it for washing is not true. I have tried the same, and I have not noticed any leaking. On the other hand, the dry flour will leak at the top lid when the water is not yet added as one of the reviews said here. So it won’t be a good idea to mix just dry powders in the bowl. But I don’t know why people do that before adding water anyway. I think it will be mixed well in the dough.

Overall, I am happy with the product. It enables some jobs that are almost impossible without such as mincing meat or helps speeding up a big batch works like chopping lots of onions for ragu, shredding potatoes for hash brown, and cheese shredding for lasagne or mac n cheese.

It is my first food processor, therefore, I cannot compare it to other models. I hope my review answers some of the questions in your mind.