Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I listened to all these reviewers and now I regret it. I am a very heavy user of my food processor and I've been through a few. 1) Yes, the machine weighs a lot and that gives one the impression it is a "heavy duty" machine. In reality, the plastic parts are quite inferior to brands I've used in the past and I often feel like the plastic parts on the lid are about to break when I twist it off to stop the machine and then twist it back on again, 2) I have to spend twice as much time "forcing" the food into the blades by hand than any other processor I've ever used. This is a sign of poor engineering design, 3) Yes, the lid does overlap the outer container to prevent spills on the outer rim, but this is more than negatively compensated for when you consider the short inner stem encourages an awful mess around the outer stem and up into the blade chamber...all this equals extra cleaning time and special cleaning tools, 4) the overlapping lid, while preventing spills during prossessing, encourages a huge mess when you try to take the lid off. Dry blends get stuck in the rim and are jetisuned all over your counter when you attempt to take off the lid, 5) The tiny hole in the feed tube is too large to do what it is intended to do, drip oil into the basket slowly enough to make mayonaise. You may as well just poor it in by hand because you'll never get a decent mayonaise using this feature. I gave my 20 year old Hamilton Beach Food Processor to my daughter-in-law when I got this one and now I wish I had it back!