Cuisinart FPC-100 CompleteChef Cooking Food Processor, Stainless Steel

It is such a fantastic piece of equipment. It needs some training, and I wish the recipes were open source to program, but I use it all the time and love it.

I truly love this product. Easy to follow, to clean and is amazing

I bought this product for its large size and stainless steel bowl. However, for its size the motor is underpowered, but it works. The cooker is a different story. It emits toxic fumes that smell like burning plastic, which it probably is. See photo of burned connection, the first time I used it between bowl and base.So I can only use the food processor side, the cooker is too dangerous! Way to expensive for a big, underpowered food processor. I do not recommend spending so much money on an inferior product, which should probably be removed from the market,

Our unit has decided that it won't go into high speed mode. It does low speed only.I love the idea of it. I use it to make hollandaise sauce which comes out great.Two things would make it better:1) a built in scale2) if it would display the actual temperature in the bowl, along with the temperature setting.At this point, I'm not sure if I should return it or get it repaired.Update:I returned it. I just can't bring myself to try again.

Very good .

I'm still on the fence after using this for a couple of weeks. First of all, it's a Thermomix wannabe, without the high price tag and without the cultish following that the other guys have. That said, it is, above all, a food processor that is highly capable coupled with a heated base (you can dial in the temperature), and use both at the same time with one of the 200 recipes pre-programmed into the device.It does take up a good sized footprint on the counter, since the blades and accessories are in an additional plastic cabinet about 8 inches square. There is also a dicing blade in a similar cabinet, but the cabinets stack. Overall, the powered unit is about 15 inches tall. There are also two lids, one for chopping and one for cooking.You can also use buttons to the side of the digital display to pulse, slow chop and fast chop. You can also set the cooking settings to your choice of time, temperature and mixing speed.Everything except the base is top rack dishwasher friendly for relatively easy cleanup.This device has quenched my desire for a Thermomix, at least for now... Check with me after I have won the Powerball!UPDATE: Returned the machine, took up too much space and found I was a good enough cook to live without it.

Not big enough. Too complicated

I am an kitchen geek. I can barely contain myself when a new super duper kitchen gizmo comes out or when a newfangled cookware item rears its head. Years ago, I ordered a Thermomix Cooking Blender from Canada, through a Canadian friend, because the dealers were not allowed to sell them in the US at the time. I still use it today. I also own a Kenwood Cooking Mixer / Food Processor / blender / with a huge amount of attachments.When combining appliances, a cooking blender or mixer seems to be the most logical, but when I saw this offering from Cuisinart, which, as far as I know, is the first attempt to combine a food processor with a cooking pot.There were some things that intrigued me about it, though it was expensive. I bought mine through the Bed Bath and Beyond membership program and saved $140 over the list price, which also made returning it very easy.I decided to do the Borscht test with it. The test involves taking raw beets and cooking them into Borscht, an Eastern European delicacy that's served chilled. Borscht is generally made with the beets chopped, shredded or sliced into small French Fry sized pieces. I actually prefer shredded, which is one of the things that intrigued me about the Cuisinart Cooking Food Processor. So I peeled three tennis ball sized beets, quartered them, and fed them into the machine using the shredding disc and the food processor lid. All went quite well - the beets were nicely shredded. But....the red juice from the beets somehow got into the crevices of the food processor lid, which is far more complex than the lid from a normal food processor, because of the fancy locks that tell the cooking system not to work with that lid on....and I couldn't get the red stains out.Also, you can't cook with the shredding disc in, so you have to pull it and the spindle out. And, if you want to have the unit stir the Borscht while it cooks, you need to dump the beets into a bowl, place the stirring tool in the bowl and dump the shredded beets back in. Now you have a food processor lid, a shedding disc, the cooking bowl from the unit. the cooking lid AND a regular bowl to clean. This is not efficient. Also, if you want, let's say, to adjust the stirring speed after starting the cooking cycle - nope, you have to start from scratch spinning the knob.As I cooked the Borscht, I noticed a burning smell. I stopped the machine and sniffed it - one of the electrical contacts on the base had started to burn.....I dumped the Borscht into a stock pot and finished cooking it on the stove, cleaned the unit, packed it up and returned it.Poor design, poor quality, dangerous product - $699. Yikes. Dear Cuisinart - please engage me to help you redesign this terrible product. I will do it for free! I can't imagine that anyone on your design team actually cooked with this or had any expertise in units like this. At the very least, add some weight to the base!The Good:-Has a higher temperature range (up to 285 F) than most other combo cooking appliances. Makes actual browning possible.-Has a longer cooking cycle than most others - up to 4 hours-Has a good sized bowl - 4 quarts, v. 2 liters like the Thermomix-Has built in recipes - I suppose some folks would like thatThe Bad:-Terrible, Clunky design. Lots of parts that take tons of room to store - removing and attaching the cooking lid is difficult, and as well as the food processor lid - making simple things is not simple - and no one needs a food processor if they want to cook for one or two people, and those are the folks who'll buy a unit like this-Steamer basket fits in the bowl, and is tiny-Terribly difficult to clean - was never able to get the food processor lid completely clean as the item I was cooking worked its way into crevices and wouldn't come out-Single control knob made setting cooking times maddeningly difficult - you have to turn it ten times to get more cooking time, and turning it in the other direction, which would logically count down from the max cooking time of four hours, did nothing-Almost caught on fire the first time I used it - lucky it didn't actually catch on fire-base is way too light for the heavy steel bowl that sits on it - easy to tip over-obviously designed by people who don't actually cook