Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I just used my new 9 cup Cuisinart food processor and am not impressed. First, there are multiple pieces that must be put together every time you want to change a blade. With my old processor, you lifted out one cutting blade and put a different one in its place, that's it. With this processor, you have to remove a center stem that is holding up the blade, turn it upside down onto your counter top - still attached to the blade- then mess with a little latch and turn it to remove the blade - and then do the whole thing in reverse to put on the different blade. What a pain! What a mess on my counter! Couldn't the engineers figure out a permanent center stem that would hold all the blades? Is that really too much to ask? Second, the results you get are inconsistent and not attractive. I followed instructions exactly to chop an onion. By the time you chop an onion into 1 inch chunks as the instructions direct, you might as well just keep chopping on your cutting board for two more minutes and end up with consistently sized pieces for your recipe. I'll never use the processor for an onion again. When I put the 1-inch chopped pieces into the work bowl of the processor and pulsed for two seconds, I ended up with half of the onion in microscopic-sized pieces and the other half in irregular 1/2 inch slices. What's one to do? Fish through the puree for the pieces that are too big and chop them separately??!! Or perhaps just puree the whole thing. Then I changed the blade and sliced some carrots. The carrots were peeled and cut into consistent two inch lengths and put into the narrow feeding tube as directed. Some of the slices were literally so thin you could read the newspaper through them and some of them were about 2mm thick. Not exactly consistent or attractive. Nor will they all cook in the same length of time. I guess if I have a whole bunch of vegetables that I want minced into indistinguishable dots of color, I'll use this processor. Otherwise, I'm back to a good knife and a cutting board. At least those two things will fit into my dishwasher without taking up all the space - and I don't have to take them apart.