That makes me feel so much better about having such difficulty getting it to turn on; thank you for sharing! I'm glad I could help you figure it out haha 💛
Mine is Navy Blue with brushed stainless steel. Very attractive and fits my motif perfectly. I'm excited to get it. Additionally, I bought the dough blade and a a 6x6 French fry disk. The total for those extras was around $70.00. You mentioned this was a top pick by Consumer Reports. It was also rated best by America's Test Kitchen that tested about 30 machines that were priced dirt cheap up to $350.00. It beat out the Breville 12 cup sous chef processor for top spot. Second year in a row for this top tier Cuisinart. From all the research I did, this is where I landed, too. And I'm elated by the color choices.
Just wanted to catch you up on my thoughts and progression to becoming a subscriber. I was on a freeze-drying channel where this woman mentioned “candied” when talking about her oranges from another state. I thought “what is she talking about?” and searched for candied oranges. Found your video on making those, thoroughly enjoyed watching it, and kept thinking about how thorough you were about the description. I almost left after giving it a thumbs up, but something made me check out your channel. OMG! All the recipes and goodies in those thumbnails really had me almost hooked. ALMOST… then I saw this review on the food processor. I thought “I’ve been meaning to look into one, because slicing my fruit for my freeze-dryer is a little labor intensive. So let’s see what the Floral Apron has to say. LOL! I LOVED how you left in all the foibles with trying to get it to turn on, and the on-screen notes. I thought here’s a Tuber I just have to follow.. plus there’s all those baking videos I’m sure show so much that other Tubers cut out. Before running away, I saw the words “6 month review” and being the dummy I can be I went back searching for it thinking it was the 6 month review of this processor (forgetting that I had just noted this only came out a few weeks ago). Imagine my Face-Palm 🤦 when I realized my error. Anyway, devoted subscriber here! I won’t “see” or hear your blog posts, but I will be watching more older vids and patiently waiting for new CZcams vids! 😍
Have been mulling the idea of purchasing a food processor for some time now and have zeroed in on the custom 14. America's test Kitchen did a product testing of many food processors and their most highly recommended was the custom 14. They use it virtually every time when making dough of any kind and this is what we're interested in doing too. Have you tried using your processor to make dough for bread, pies, pizza, etc etc ? If so, what do you think ?
I just started testing dough in it last week, and my shortcrust pastry came out great! I haven't tested it for pizza or bread dough yet, but that is on my list of things to try in the next couple weeks before I film my full review. I have a hard time imagining the blade forms gluten better/the same as a dough hook in a stand mixer, but I still want to test it because I trust ATK!
I'm happy with it! Still need to do a little more testing of different foods before I can put together my full review, though. The only partial complaint I have so far is that it doesn't do *really* small batches well, but that's kind of what I expected with a larger food processor bowl. I've used it quite a bit for my muffin pan cheesecake recipes (in my Shorts playlist if you want to see it in action), and that's about as small of a batch as I would go.
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I made every error you made. I kept searching for detailed instructions too. Thank you for your video. I see what to do now!
That makes me feel so much better about having such difficulty getting it to turn on; thank you for sharing! I'm glad I could help you figure it out haha 💛
Mine is Navy Blue with brushed stainless steel. Very attractive and fits my motif perfectly. I'm excited to get it.
Additionally, I bought the dough blade and a a 6x6 French fry disk. The total for those extras was around $70.00.
You mentioned this was a top pick by Consumer Reports. It was also rated best by America's Test Kitchen that tested about 30 machines that were priced dirt cheap up to $350.00. It beat out the Breville 12 cup sous chef processor for top spot. Second year in a row for this top tier Cuisinart.
From all the research I did, this is where I landed, too. And I'm elated by the color choices.
Very cool! I hope the food processor with those extra attachments works out well for you :)
And thanks for letting me know about the ATK ratings!
First time watcher and you have sold it to me. Thanks
Glad to hear it! I hope yours serves you well!
I love your facial expressions in this video!🤨🤪🥰😉😏🤩😕🥺😤😡🤭🤔🙄😮😲😅🥹
I am an open book 😂
Oooooo!! Makes me want one!🧡 It is SO quiet!
I couldn't believe it!! It's worth the price for that alone to me haha
Thank you....like others I made every mistake .....instructions are terrible!!!!Without your video I would never have figured it out!!!!
So glad I could help!
Your reaction is so beautiful ✨
Haha, thank you! I was amazed!
Just wanted to catch you up on my thoughts and progression to becoming a subscriber. I was on a freeze-drying channel where this woman mentioned “candied” when talking about her oranges from another state. I thought “what is she talking about?” and searched for candied oranges. Found your video on making those, thoroughly enjoyed watching it, and kept thinking about how thorough you were about the description. I almost left after giving it a thumbs up, but something made me check out your channel.
OMG! All the recipes and goodies in those thumbnails really had me almost hooked. ALMOST… then I saw this review on the food processor. I thought “I’ve been meaning to look into one, because slicing my fruit for my freeze-dryer is a little labor intensive. So let’s see what the Floral Apron has to say.
LOL! I LOVED how you left in all the foibles with trying to get it to turn on, and the on-screen notes. I thought here’s a Tuber I just have to follow.. plus there’s all those baking videos I’m sure show so much that other Tubers cut out.
Before running away, I saw the words “6 month review” and being the dummy I can be I went back searching for it thinking it was the 6 month review of this processor (forgetting that I had just noted this only came out a few weeks ago). Imagine my Face-Palm 🤦 when I realized my error.
Anyway, devoted subscriber here! I won’t “see” or hear your blog posts, but I will be watching more older vids and patiently waiting for new CZcams vids! 😍
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to leave this comment and subscribing to my little channel 💛
I want this now! Amazing machine!
Loved the Stormy tribute too. 😢🐈
I'm really impressed so far!
Thank you! I went through a lot of tissues making it 😭
Love the review videos!!!
Thank you!! Hoping to have a full review with allll the pros and cons I can find out later this year! :)
Yay!!!@@FloralApronBlog
This really helped me! ❤ I just received this model I haven’t used this yet!
Yay, glad to hear it!!
Let the cooking begin!
Yes, haha! I get excited whenever I get a chance to use it :)
Have been mulling the idea of purchasing a food processor for some time now and have zeroed in on the custom 14. America's test Kitchen did a product testing of many food processors and their most highly recommended was the custom 14. They use it virtually every time when making dough of any kind and this is what we're interested in doing too. Have you tried using your processor to make dough for bread, pies, pizza, etc etc ? If so, what do you think ?
I just started testing dough in it last week, and my shortcrust pastry came out great!
I haven't tested it for pizza or bread dough yet, but that is on my list of things to try in the next couple weeks before I film my full review. I have a hard time imagining the blade forms gluten better/the same as a dough hook in a stand mixer, but I still want to test it because I trust ATK!
Do you have a broccoli cheddar soup recipe to share? I want to make some now!
I don't yet, but there's one in the works!
Is there a smaller bowl attachment available?
There are smaller models of Cuisinart food processors, but the Custom 14 only has the one size of bowl. Hope that helps!
It’s been a few months. Thoughts?
I'm happy with it! Still need to do a little more testing of different foods before I can put together my full review, though.
The only partial complaint I have so far is that it doesn't do *really* small batches well, but that's kind of what I expected with a larger food processor bowl. I've used it quite a bit for my muffin pan cheesecake recipes (in my Shorts playlist if you want to see it in action), and that's about as small of a batch as I would go.
canadians: take this dictator out ... (of office.)
Thank you, i had the same issue with the locking mechanism 🫶🏼
Glad I could help!