Black & Decker FP1500 Power Pro II food processor

by Black & Decker

Product Features

• 10-cup capacity
• 500 watts
• reversible shred/slice disk
• 1 speeds plus pulse
• dough hook

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 13.2 x 9.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00006IJM9
• Item model number: FP1500
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,718 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With its 500-watt motor and large, 10-cup-capacity work bowl, this powerful food processor quickly and easily slices, dices, and chops, helping to reduce prep time. Its reversible disc slices and shreds, its chopping blade chops and minces, and its dough blade thoroughly kneads dough. The unit features convenient, easy-to-clean soft-touch "on/off" pulse control with dishwasher-safe removable parts. A food pusher and lid with a food chute are included. Stylish and functional for today's kitchen, the food processor measures approximately 14-1/2 by 9-1/2 by 13-1/4 inches and carries a one-year warranty.

Product Description

Black & Decker Power Pro II food processor in white. Includes 10-cup capacity, 1 speeds plus pulse, easy touch controls, 500 watts, reversible shred/slice disk, chopping blade and dough blade.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

100 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now you're COOKIN'!, October 27, 2002

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Joseph Ekaitis "author of Collinsfort Village" (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black & Decker FP1500 Power Pro II food processor (Kitchen)

When I went shopping for a food processor, I passed on the low-slung, low wattage belt-drive models. True, all I'm mainly doing is prepping veggies and meats before combining them in a slow cooker but I don't enjoy replacing cheapie small appliances on a regular basis. I prefer to get the best I can afford, instead of saving money on a throw-away gadget.

The Black & Decker FP1500 has a much more substantial look and feel than the rest of the B&D line. Although the specifications don't mention whether it uses belt-drive (bad), gear drive (better) or direct drive (best), the shape and the weight distribution of the base unit suggest it's one of the latter pair. The clincher for me, aside from its power and capacity, were those 5 magical words: "Removable parts are dishwasher safe."

The FP1500 isn't the quietest food processor on the counter, compared to those whispering workhorses from the likes of KitchenAid, Robot-Coup and, to a lesser extent, the latter-day Cuisinart line. But it also doesn't drain your checking account or credit card limit of 3 to 5 C-Notes. As a quick chopper, slicer and mincer, it's ideal and looks like it'll last a long time. Though it's not really up to, say, weekly batches of bread dough, a dough mixing blade is included. For about a quarter the price of a set of fancy knives, it'll get you through food preparation tasks quickly and, unlike those knives, it cleans up in the dishwasher.

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential kitchen gadget, April 12, 2003

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This review is from: Black & Decker FP1500 Power Pro II food processor (Kitchen)

This Black & Decker food processor is a truly great kitchen device. It's as good as a Cuisinart model, for a fraction of the cost. I've used it to make pesto, puree soups, blend herbed butters and many other tasks. It does these jobs with gusto and ease, and offers a pulse speed- a slower mode that is good for gentler mixing/chopping, and a high speed that will really chop things up. There is a food chute which allows you to add ingredients or liquids while processing without splattering stuff all over the place. Have you ever cut your fingers accidentally on a razor-sharp processor blade? That will never happen with this model because in a very intelligent design decision, the cutting blade is serrated! It is more than sharp enough to cut/blend when turned on, but you cannot cut yourself on it when you handle the blade. Very smart move and much appreciated by this chef. With a ten-cup capacity, the processor is large enough to hold plenty of liquid/food. Clean-up is a breeze- just twist the bowl off, remove the top and soak in hot water and soap. The machine comes with a dough-mixing attachment, which I haven't used yet. Highly recommended.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely incredible for the price!!, July 27, 2003

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"enjers" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black & Decker FP1500 Power Pro II food processor (Kitchen)

[1] *ONLY* reason we gave this 4 instead of 5 stars is that for some strange reason there appears to be no way to close the open top of the food chute, which is built into the bowl lid & is non-removable. Not a problem at all for me -- I simply hover a little plastic dish over the open chute 'just in case' when processing something fairly liquidy. But this could possibly annoy someone else, I suppose.

[2] The processor seems to hold *rather more* than the stated 10 cups, but this could be due to the really nice, wide-open, high-lidded design of the bowl & top. Both of the metal blades for chopping/ shredding/ cutting/ etc do an excellent job on a vast variety of foods. The pulse feature is superb -- just one or two pulses actually yields *real food* not *baby paste*!

[3] The dough mix blade is a handy feature if you frequently make light-dough, smallish batches of bread-cookies-etc. Very good results 'cutting' butter & flour into each other for pastry -- MUCH better than the iffy ole two-knife & other methods. Haven't tried the dough blade for any of my heavy-dough or multi-loaf recipes, though. The processor seems large enough & powerful enough to handle most of them -- it's the smallish flattish plastic dough blade itself I'm a bit concerned about. Could be I'm just too accustomed to the large metal traitional-shape dough hooks on my bowl-type kneader-mixer, and the 'known results' using it on heavy big batches.

[4] As an earlier review mentioned, there's just no need for the average ordinary home cook to pay hundreds for a food processor when there's THIS one, especially at the Amazon price. This was an anniversary gift to us from a friend, and unfortunately he did not buy it here (we knew from the return slip which of course didn't have the purchase price, then later we happened to come upon the processor by accident in the actual kitchen store -- ouch -- please do consider buying it here instead).