Does most of the chopping work but not all

This cuisinart makes chopping a 3 second affair, most of the time. At a hefty price, this kitchen appliance is well built and well designed for making food preparation just a little easier.

The strong plastic bowl locks into place on top of the motor unit, the sharp propeller blade easily slips into place, and the plastic bowl cover nicely locks on to. Until the bowl and cover are properly locked on, the motor will not operate; a good safety feature. A good sized tube is on the top of the lid with the plastic food depressor for feeding vegetable chunks into the machine while closed and ready to operate.

In practice, I found that the unit is designed so that the blades constantly try to suck the large chunks into them to achieve an even chopped chunks. However, it's still less than perfect and if the unit hasn't chopped to your desired consistency, further running of the blade will reduce your vegetables to multch. You will not get julian style vegetables from your cuisinart. I found that to get finely but not shredded vegetables (especially with delicate stuff like tomatoes and onions) you'll have to precut the chunks into small 1 cubic inch chunks before dropping into the machine.

Cleaning is straightforward and as easy as you can reasonably expect for a kitchen appliance. There aren't small crevaces for which food will get stuck in and make cleaning difficult, and assembly and deassembly of the parts are intuitive to remember.

Unless you cook a lot of dishes that require shredding the vegetables into tiny bits, then the food processessor is just another luxury appliance in the house. It does it's job and Cuisinart makes quality units, so the real question is, "do you need a food processor". If you answer yes, then I highly recommend this unit to you.