Best Food Processors and Choppers of 2025
Models from Braun, Breville, Cuisinart, KitchenAid, and Ninja chop, slice, and shred their way to the top of our ratings
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Whether you’re dicing celery, carrots, and onions for a pot pie filling or cutting in butter to make a crust, a food processor can make your job easier. Even if you’re an experienced home cook who prefers to slice and dice by hand, you’ll probably find plenty of uses for one.
The full-sized food processors we test come in a variety of sizes and capacities, ranging from 2 to 16 cups. Most are too big for processing small volumes of food, such as minced garlic or chopped herbs and nuts. Some food processors come with mini chopping bowl attachments to accommodate lighter loads, but if you’re only chopping small batches, all you need is a food chopper. They cost as little as $20, a fraction of the price of processors, which can cost more than $500.
In Consumer Reports’ lab, we evaluate each food processor’s ability to chop almonds and onions uniformly, grate Parmesan cheese, and purée peas and carrots into a smooth mixture. We also test shredding using carrots and cheddar cheese, and slicing using mushrooms and celery. We measure noise, too, because while all models are noisy, some are much more grating than others.
Read on for reviews of the top food processors and food choppers from Consumer Reports’ tests, listed in alphabetical order. Check our complete food processor and food chopper ratings and buying guide for more details. We’ve also rounded up the best food processors and choppers for under $100 if you’re looking to spend less.
Breville’s The Paradice 9 BFP638 aces CR’s tests for chopping, slicing, and shredding, but its grating ability leaves much to be desired. This processor does have a generous 9-cup capacity, handy if you tend to cook for a crowd. The 625-watt food processor comes with separate shredding, slicing, and dough blades. There’s a 30-year warranty on its motor and a two-year warranty on other parts.
The 960-watt Breville Sous Chef Pro 16 BFP800XL aces CR’s slicing and shredding tests, and performs admirably at chopping. It’s loaded with accessories, including a midsized bowl, mini bowl, dough blade, whipping attachment, and disk carrier/organizer. The touch buttons are easy to wipe clean. This food processor is 18 inches high and weighs a hefty 19.4 pounds, factors to consider if you plan to store it in a cupboard or cabinet and would need to lift it out with each use. The parts warranty is for a year, but the motor is covered for a generous 25 years.
Cuisinart introduced the food processor to the U.S. in the early 1970s, and it has been a recognized brand ever since. The 720-watt Cuisinart Custom 14 DFP-14BCNY garners a top rating for shredding and is a strong performer when it comes to chopping and slicing. It’s also one of the quietest models we’ve tested. It has a 14-cup capacity, stands 15 inches high, and weighs nearly 15 pounds. Many of the food processors we’ve evaluated operate with push-buttons, but this one has levers, one for on, the other for pulsing and off. The warranty covers three years for the parts and five years for the motor.
Our tests found that the 7-cup, 600-watt Cuisinart Pro Classic DLC-10SY isn’t so great at grating, but it’s a champ at chopping and slicing. It also nabs a stellar rating for noise, a strong rating for shredding, and a passable rating for puréeing. This 11-pound model comes with separate shredding and slicing blades, a three-year parts warranty, and a five-year motor warranty.
The one-speed 650-watt Cuisinart Pro Custom 11 DLC-8S receives excellent scores for slicing and shredding and very good scores for chopping, but it showed middling results in our grating and puréeing tests. It has an 11-cup capacity and lever controls. There’s a three-year parts warranty, and the motor is covered for five years.
The 500-watt KitchenAid KFP1318BM food processor masters our tests for chopping and shredding, and it’s one of the lower-priced options to boast a fairly large claimed capacity of 13 cups. Of the big guys, it’s the lightest, tipping the scales at just 8.3 pounds (less than half the weight of some of the other models listed here). That makes it a compelling choice if you plan to store it in a cabinet and lift it out for each use. One knock: The parts and motor are covered by just a one-year warranty.
For quick tasks such as grating Parmesan cheese, you can count on very good results from the four-cup Braun Easy Prep CH3012BK. It’s a two-speed model with push-down controls, and it comes with a small chopping blade. But it earns just a so-so score for chopping in our tests, which involve chopping onions and almonds. Like most food choppers, it earns just a middling score for puréeing, so if you expect this to be a common task in your kitchen, you may want to choose a full-sized blender, a personal blender, or even a more compact and budget-friendly immersion blender instead.
The Ninja Master Prep Professional QB1004 food chopper is part of a package that includes a single motorized pod that can be used with a 2-cup container for chopping, a 5-cup container for food processing, and a 6-cup pitcher for blending. In our tests, it earned an impressive rating for chopping, turning out nicely diced veggies and chopped nuts. It also aced our grating test and earned a very good score for noise, but earned only a middling score for puréeing performance.
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