Black & Decker Quick N Easy FP1500 Food Processor
- Dishwasher Safe: Dishwasher Safe
- Bowl Capacity: 10 Cups
- Power: 500 Watts
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not worth the (low) price
Pros
inexpensive
Cons
flimsy parts, weak motor, no replacement options
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Don't buy this thinking it's a bargain for the price. You'll end up spending more in the long run to replace it with a better machine.
We received this food processor as a wedding gift late last year. I was thrilled—I'd been using an ancient GE food processor I got at the Goodwill. Much as I liked that old GE, it had a small bowl and no extras.
The Black and Decker started out OK—I had no problems pureeing marinara sauce in it, or dicing onions, garlic, etc. But I also like to use my food processor to make pastry dough, and that's where I saw the first big problem with this machine.
As long as I stuck to making one pie bottom's worth of dough, it was OK. But if I were making an apple pie, with a top AND a bottom, well, the motor really didn't like that. It started to smoke one day and turned what should have been a good batch of pastry into mush.
Oh well, I thought, I'll just keep my pastry batches to one shell at a time. Inconvenient, perhaps, but it was a gift and, again, better than the old GE.
Then the blade broke. Yep, it broke. I pulled the feed tube off after chopping some onions, and the blade (which has a metal pin that hooks into the lid) came off with it. It bounced on the countertop and the top blade SNAPPED IN HALF.
I immediately got online to see about ordering a replacement and found...you can't! No replacement parts seem to be available for this machine.
I'm on my way to purchase a higher-end food processor—one with replaceable parts. This machine looked like a bargain, but it turns out the price reflected the quality.
(Lastly, the bowl has a nasty habit of leaking—liquids slosh over the blade stem tube in the bowl and from there onto the base and from there everywhere.)
The Black and Decker started out OK—I had no problems pureeing marinara sauce in it, or dicing onions, garlic, etc. But I also like to use my food processor to make pastry dough, and that's where I saw the first big problem with this machine.
As long as I stuck to making one pie bottom's worth of dough, it was OK. But if I were making an apple pie, with a top AND a bottom, well, the motor really didn't like that. It started to smoke one day and turned what should have been a good batch of pastry into mush.
Oh well, I thought, I'll just keep my pastry batches to one shell at a time. Inconvenient, perhaps, but it was a gift and, again, better than the old GE.
Then the blade broke. Yep, it broke. I pulled the feed tube off after chopping some onions, and the blade (which has a metal pin that hooks into the lid) came off with it. It bounced on the countertop and the top blade SNAPPED IN HALF.
I immediately got online to see about ordering a replacement and found...you can't! No replacement parts seem to be available for this machine.
I'm on my way to purchase a higher-end food processor—one with replaceable parts. This machine looked like a bargain, but it turns out the price reflected the quality.
(Lastly, the bowl has a nasty habit of leaking—liquids slosh over the blade stem tube in the bowl and from there onto the base and from there everywhere.)
