KitchenAid KFPW760 12 Cup Food Processor

The kitchen at our place is our playground. We love to cook, to bake and to create wonderful, edible experiments. When you play hard with your toys, sometimes they need fixing or replacing. My food processor finally got past the point of being fixable at a reasonable cost. I decided it was time to upgrade. To that end, I purchased the KitchenAid KFPW760 12-cup food processor. After a couple of months of playing, I am thoroughly delighted.


The KFPW760 is designed to be safe and versatile. The base is heavy and solid. While this might be an issue for those who store and take out their food processor, mine sits on the counter and I appreciate heavy. It comes in basic KitchenAid white and while that's not the most attractive appliance color, it tends to be neutral enough to be unnoticed most of the time.

To the main base one attaches the 12-cup bowl. This is a great size for the average hosuehold. It's big enough to handle most jobs, but not so large as to be a waste of space. If you prefer, this unit also includes a 10-cup chef's bowl or a 4-cup mini prep bowl. I do occasionally use these, but the 12 cup is my workhorse. I find the smaller bowls come into play most often when I have several items I want to process and don't want to have to clean the bowl between.

The 4-cup bowl has a blade built in. The other two bowls offer numerous options including a multipurpose blade and a dough blade. There are also two slicing disks for different widths of slices, a shredding disk, a citrus press and an egg whip. All of the attachments except the citrus press store in a nice box together along with a spatula. Once the chosen attachment is in place, the bowl and lid must be fully locked and the food pusher must be inserted at least halfway before the machine turns on. This is a great safety precaution.


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.


The multipurpose blade works great for chopping and pureeing and mixing things together. I have used it when making mayonnaise, or making hummus.. The dough blade is fun for pulling a bread together, though I find that when the dough comes together, I have to finish off with a few minutes of hand kneading. I rather like the visceral feel of kneading, so this works for me.

The shredding blade is ideal for making short work of cheese for melting on top of omlettes, or melting into sauces. It's also great for shredding potatoes for latkes. The slicing blades get their biggest exercise at my place making coleslaw or cucumber salad.



The KFPW760 has a very large feed tube with a small section in the middle for smaller items. This two part construction means one can feed anything from an egg to a quarter of a cabbage down the tube and have it fit.

The citrus press is the only part that I don't like. It's a joke. I get no more juice this way than with a hand reamer, and who is going to dirty up this kind of attachment and a food processor for some orange juice.


All the bowls, lids and attachments are dishwasher safe. The buttons are flat and covered in plastic so there's nowhere for gunk to get in. clean-up, therefore, is easy. There are just three buttons - on, off and pulse. There are food processors with more buttons, but these three take care of all my needs.

I love my kitchenaid. If you want to upgrade your food processor, this is a great choice. It's not a toy. It's a workhorse.