8 Best Food Processors and Choppers of 2026, Lab-Tested and Reviewed
Models from Breville, Cuisinart, KitchenAid, and more 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 potpie 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 find plenty of uses for one.
The full-sized food processors we test come in a variety of sizes and capacities, ranging from five 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 for lighter loads, but if you’re only chopping small batches, you only need a food chopper. They cost as little as $20, a fraction of the price of processors, which can cost from about $50 to more than $500.
Our tests evaluate each food processor’s ability to chop hazelnuts, herbs, and onions uniformly, grate cheese, and purée cooked peas, carrots, and potatoes into a smooth mixture. We also test shredding ability with raw carrots and cheddar cheese, and slicing ability with potatoes. Models are also tested on how well they blend cake and pancake batter, knead dough, and emulsify the ingredients for mayonnaise. We measure noise, too, because while all models are noisy, some are much more grating than others.
We test food choppers on their ability to chop almonds, herbs, and onions; purée cooked peas, carrots, and potatoes into a smooth mixture, and grate cheese. We also measure how much noise they make.
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 is a 7-cup food processor that aces CR’s tests for slicing, and it does a very good job at shredding, puréeing, and chopping, but its ability to grate cheese and whip cream is just mediocre. If you’d like to use a food processor to mix cake batter, pancake batter, or mayo, you’ll find it does a very good to excellent job at producing smooth results. The 625-watt food processor comes with separate shredding, slicing, and dough blades.
Cuisinart introduced the food processor to the U.S. in the early 1970s, and it has been a recognized brand ever since. The Cuisinart Core Custom FP-130 excels at slicing, kneading, and mixing ingredients for cake and pancake batter in our lab tests. It also does a great job whipping cream and emulsifying ingredients for mayonnaise. It’s a three-speed model, and it comes with a three-year warranty.
With a claimed capacity of 7 cups, the KitchenAid KFP0718ER, like the Paradice above, is on the smaller side. It excels at mixing cake and pancake batter, emulsifying oil and eggs for mayonnaise, and kneading bread dough. However, it does just a so-so job at whipping egg whites and chopping onions and hazelnuts. It comes with a reversible shredding and slicing blade.
The 500-watt KitchenAid KFP1318BM food processor masters our slicing tests and does a very good job shredding, puréeing, and grating. Plus, it boasts a fairly large claimed capacity of 13 cups. For a larger food processor, it’s rather lightweight at just 8 pounds. 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.
The generously sized 16-cup Magimix 5200XL handles slicing and puréeing jobs with ease in our lab tests. It easily whips up liquids, including pancake batter and egg whites, and does an impressive job at shredding. (Its score for grating cheese, though, is just average.) It comes with separate slicing and dough blades, plus a whipping attachment and a minibowl insert for smaller jobs. At 1,100 watts, it’s the most powerful model on this list.
For quick tasks such as grating cheese and puréeing baby food, you can count on excellent results from the 2-cup Braun Easy Prep CH3012BK. It’s a two-speed model with push-down controls, and it earns a very good score for chopping in our tests, which involve chopping hazelnuts, herbs, and onions. However, its noise score could be better. All of its attachments, including its separate slicing blade, are dishwasher-safe.
The Cuisinart Core Custom MCH-4 food chopper purées and grates with the best of them; it’s very good at chopping, and our lab testers found this model especially easy to use, clean, and store. It’s also less noisy than many other food chopper models. What’s more, it’s paddle-controlled rather than push-down operated, so it may require less strength to operate.
The Hamilton Beach Stack & Press 72850 is a budget-friendly food chopper that shows excellent performance in our lab tests for grating cheese and puréeing baby food. It earns a very good score for chopping as well, but this model may be a bit noisy. This food chopper comes with a one-year warranty.
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