Cuisinart Easy Prep Pro | 2 Bowl Food Processor With 1.9L Capacity | Stainless Steel | FP8U
GREAT PERFORMANCE, COMPACT SIZE
The Easy Prep Pro food processor gives you all the performance of a full size processor but in a user friendly, compact size that’s easy to store and beautiful enough to keep out on your worktop.
It comes with just the right amount of accessories – 2 blades for mixing, chopping and pureeing in the small and large bowls and slicing and grating discs to use with the large bowls.
COMPACT SIZE
1.9L is the perfect size for everyday tasks and won’t take up too much space on your worktop.
2 BOWLS
Use the 0.7L bowl for mixing small quantities, like dips and sauces. Or the large 1.9L bowl for larger quantities and for slicing and grating.
BLADES
Comes with blades, in 2 sizes, for mixing, chopping and pureeing. Use the large blade in the large bowl and the small blade in the small bowl.
DISCS
Comes with fine and medium slicing and grating discs for use with the large bowl. Slicing can be in either 2mm or 4mm thickness.
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CHOPPING AND BLITZING
Speed up simple tasks like chopping onions and herbs . Great for cauliflower rice, breadcrumbs, nuts and chopping meat.
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PUREEING AND MIXING
Quickly and easily mix your own dips, sauces, nut butters dough, pastry and cake batters. Also great for pureeing baby foods and compotes.
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SLICING AND GRATING
Slice and grate ingredients for a salad or coleslaw, pizza toppings and much more. Discs are reversible for 2mm slices/fine grating or 4mm slices/medium grating.
RECIPE IDEA – Chocolate Brownies make the perfect treat and can be enjoyed with cream or ice cream. Made in under 45 minutes, using the Easy Prep Pro – watch our quick recipe video and make your own delicious Chocolate Brownies.
| Weight: | 3.1 kg |
| Dimensions: | 23 x 19 x 37.5 cm; 3.1 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Cuisinart |
| Model: | FP8U |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Colour: | Silver |
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I’ve had this for a few months now, so glad I bought it, cuts (pun intended) down on prep time so much. All the attachments work very well, blades extremely sharp and works with harder veggies such as carrots and potatoes. Cheese grating is easy and FAST, perfect for hard Parmesan, Manchego etc.
If you overload it the machine will move about, so make sure you put in just the right amount.
No tiny nooks and crannies you can’t get to, so it’s easy to clean. I hand wash everything with a soft sponge.
It’s a whizz!!
Never had a food processor before and I love this! Looks great and doesn’t take up too much space on worktop! Easy to use and easy to clean! Don’t know what I done before I got it! Fab!
Researched the market for a medium sized processor with a variety of slicing/grating options and this certainly fits the bill. Used so far for veg prep which becomes easy and fast with this machine. As a new food processor user, it took a couple of goes the first time to work out how to fit it all together and now find easy to use – and easy to clean. I’m very pleased with it.
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i bought this processor for the right money and it has payed off in the kitchen with well chopped food. its simple to use and cleans easily. if you wand a no fuss easy to use processor then this is the one for you. just spend time finding a cheap one.
It also comes with there own recipe book.
Cuisinart is the best food processor I have ever had or used before. I make smoothies and cakes and also bread in this machine and a lot more.
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This is a vast improvement on ou previous food processor . Not much more money but worth every bi
Does the job really well
This machine is so easy to use that I have my wife using it. Only a few weeks old but has become an indispensable tool in the kitchen for grating, slicing, mixing chopping. Nothing has fazed it as yet (even the dates mentioned by another reviewer were no problem) – would definitely recommend and great value for money.
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.
Not too large to keep out on worktop for easy access
This food processor is easy to use and effective and well priced
Ticks all the boxes
I have a slight issue with over researching…. finally decided on this processor and so so pleased with it. Couldn’t be better. New kitchen toy that does everything a hoped it would do and so well. Super chuffed with it.
Efficient at shredding and slicing
Motor has no real low setting as they are all a bit fierce.
I had a magimix 3l food processor for many years. It was very expensive and to be honest a waste of space, it didn’t whisk egg whites or ‘cream’ cake batter anywhere near as well as the mixer I went onto to buy. It’s not a brand I would use again. It’s only advantage was replacement bowls etc could be purchased. In the end I gave it to my son. This Cuisinart is probably a third of the price of a small magimix, it does lack it’s heavy solidness which is worth bearing in mind if you are lifting it off a shelf or out of a cupboard, but not sure if the build quality is fantastic, the exterior is plastic. I didn’t notice any great movement when in use so hopefully it won’t leap off my counter top and I don’t think it was any noisier than the magimix. It takes up slightly less space than my magimix and the bowls are smaller, which is what I wanted. I found using the large bowl and chopping blade to make breadcrumbs a little under powered, so it took more than a quick blitz. I imagine pastry might be easier and not at risk of being overworked. The fine grating blade was however quick and produced a finer grate than the Magimix. There is no storage container for the grating/slicing discs or the two chopping blades just the flimsy plastic covers it was packed with and which you are told to use to store them in. The instructions were straight forward and they do warn you to be careful when handling the attachments. My thumb can confirm the blades are very, very sharp! It’s not a mini processor but if you want to make litres of soup I would suggest a liquidiser instead. It’s early days but overall I’m pleased and very glad to take advantage of Amazon’s interest free monthly instalment plan.
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Good kitchen appliances for your parents. Very handy tool to have.
Excellent value
It was Excellent value and did all that it was advertised to do, very good .
It's OK
Nothing to get too excited about, it does the jobs you need (slicing, grating, mixing) but it doesn’t feel very solid.
The carrot grating is not super, it seems not able to deal with carrots that much, and leaves quite big chunks ungrated. For slicing (I used it with courgettes primarily) it does a better job. Finally, it mixes dough well enough but I wouldn’t recommend it with enthusiasm…
It’s not crazy powerful, so your hummus will not be silky smooth. It blends liquid things quite well, but struggles with dryer things. Grating/slicing attachments, are great, use them a lot for making salads, like slicing cucumbers really finely. The small bowl I don’t use at all almost… Mixing bread I wouldn’t be so confident, as it starts shaking a lot with dry mixtures… Overall, it’s good helper in the kitchen, but if you want super smooth silky blending, you’ll need to invest into something more powerful…
Great product and value for money
Use this all the time. It’s very sturdy. I use it every day, wouldn’t be without it.
Treated myself to this after the one I had inherited from a great aunt started so make a horrible electrical smell (it was probably bought in the 90’s!). Looks so beautiful and love the fact it has a smaller and larger bowl as it means not having to clean the big bowl each time. Easy to clean as it all goes on the top shelf of the dishwasher and comes out sparkling (although I do tend to rinse it out before hand). Great for making pestos and curry pastes, would highly recommend.
I decided to go for this processor when my compact kenwood bowl got broken .i could have replaced that but I had it for along time and wanted a larger one. I based my decision on reviews on Amazon and on another review site in which it was in the top 10 .
I do a lot of cooking so use it most days . I am really pleased with it . It sits nicely on the worktop and seems well made and sturdy .
I have successfully made pastry ,crumble and pizza dough in it
The graters are great ! and the slicer works well too . I have only had it a short time so will review again in a few months but very happy for now. I knocked a star off for value based on the fact that most of these appliances are quite expensive generally
Works fine not problems, however, much smaller than I thought it would be, max liquid it can take is 900mls which is a lot less than the bowl size which is advertised as being a large1.9 litre! The small bowl is useful though.
Everything about buying this gift for my niece living in London couldn’t have been easier. She loved it, is making all kinds of pate etc and I couldn’t be happier that my gift for once was onTime.
Love this as much as my previous Cuisinarts, tho it is smaller. There is a small bowl and a larger one, 2 blades and other attachments. One small annoyance – all my previous processors and choppers had blades that covered the pin upon which they spinned – this one, the pin goes thru the blade so it gets covered in whatever you are processing – ?! So ridiculous since previous models didn’t have this flaw? Anyway it is just a cleaning issue, but when it’s guacamole and similar stuff, it is hard to clean the pin thoroughly. Otherwise love it completely!
Five Stars
Love it. Not to big, but big enough for what I want.
I’m very pleased with this Cuisinart food processor. I bought it primarily to enable me to shred vegetables finely (for fermentation) which it can do with ease. I’ve also used it to make (for the first time) mayonnaise and butter and I’m going to also start making my own hazelnut flour soon! It’s also great for mixing cake ingredients. The bonus for me is that it fits very tidily into a cupboard under the worktop in my very bijou kitchen so it’s not a pain to get in or out.
Five Stars
It’s compact but capable of big jobs and the price is right. What more can anybody ask for?
Loving this. Wanted a small footprint food processor principally for slicing and grating. It really does the job well without leaving too much residue at the bottom of the chute. The chopping blade is less good though. But I’m happy with what I bought it for.
I’ve only used this a few times – even so I can say it is sturdy/ makes light of chopping and shredding. And I’m looking forward to using it in the future.
I bought this machine recently. I am happy with the purchase
Wanted a compact “helper” on the work surface that would do more things than a mini processor. This is very good. It doesn’t take up much more space than “mini” and it grates and slices enough to be really useful. The big bowl size is excellent for pastry and crumble for 3-4.