The KFPW760 - my trusty aid in the kitchen

I have owned the KFPW760 for almost a year, and by this point I can't imagine living without it. Over the past year I have made all of the following in it: pizza dough, pie crusts, salad dressing, falafel, coleslaw, veggie burgers, and an assortment of dips and spreads. It's also excellent for shredding veggies, slicing potatoes, shredding cheese, and grinding meat.

The Set-up

The KFPW760 is designed with safety and versatility in mind. The base is solidly built, although on the heavy side (luckily, though, I have enough counter space to leave mine out, negating this concern). Onto the main base you attached the main 12-cup bowl. Depending on the size of your project, though, you can go one step further and insert the smaller 10-cup chef's bowl or a 4-cup mini prep bowl into the main bowl. These three bowls are very handy when you're doing a lot of cooking at once and don't want to wash the bowl out immediately in order to use it again.

Once you pick your bowl, you then pick your attachment. The 4-cup bowl has a blade built in, but for the other two bowls you have plenty of options: a larger multipurpose blade, a dough blade, a shredding disk, two slicing disks (2mm and 4mm), and then even a citrus press or an egg whip. All of the attachments save the citrus press come in a nice storage box with a spatula.

Once you've picked your attachment of choice, you put on the lid and then insert the pusher into the lid. The bowl and lid must be fully locked, and the food pusher must be inserted at least halfway into the tube before the machine turns on, as a safety precaution.

Usage

I have used all of the attachments aside from the egg whip, and they work to various degrees.

First, the bowls. The three bowls offer a lot of convenience, but watch out: the chef's bowl and prep bowl have a tendency to leak into the main bowl. This is okay if the main bowl is already dirty, but very annoying if you just want to use the prep bowl for some herbs.

The multipurpose blade works great for pureeing and mixing together things like dip, spreads, or veggie burgers/falafel, that sort of thing. I have also used it to grind up chicken breasts. Also good for making pie crusts.

I've used the dough blade for making pizza. Towards the end, when the dough has come together fully, the processor makes a sort of grinding noise as it struggles with the dough. I take this as a sign to remove the dough and finished off with a minute or two of hand kneading. Worrisome, but after a year of weekly pizza making, I haven't noticed any problems.

The shredding blade is a godsend when it comes to shredding cheese for fondue, or shredding and sort of veggie. The slicing blades are good for slicing cucumbers or potatoes into even slices, and works excellent for shredding cabbage for coleslaw. The KFPW760 has a wide-mouth feed tube that can accommodate these bigger foods as well.

The citrus press is the only attachment that disappointed me. I was juicing limes, so perhaps a bigger fruit would work better (also the attachment itself has an attachment to accommodate both large and small fruit), but results were subpar compared to what a manual squeezer would do.

Clean-up

The food processor has a lot of nooks and crannies, so speed is essential for swift cleanup. Clean up directly after you use it, and it's a breeze. A few hours later (or overnight), and bits of food have dried in inconvenient places. Luckily, all of the bowls and lids are dishwasher safe (supposedly the blade are too, but I never like to put sharp objects in the dishwasher).

The final word

Just like with many kitchen items, once you have it, you don't know how you lived without it. That's definitely the case for me with my food processor. However, if you're looking to save a few bucks, you might also want to consider the KFPW750, the model a step done. It's currently $20 cheaper on Amazon, and is essentially the same. It lacks the 10-cup chef's bowl, the egg whip and citrus press attachments (not a big loss, in my opinion), and it doesn't have the wide-mouth feed tube. However, if these attachments are valuable to you, I definitely recommend the KFPW760.