Customer Reviews

Black & Decker FP1550S 10-Cup Food Processor, Stainless Steel and Black

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(19)

 

 

After reading several bad reviews I had decided not to get it - even though, at the price, 10 cup size and strong engine power of 500 watts it seemed the best deal compared to other brands that cost twice as much, or even more.

Anyway, I had written it off until I happened to see a unit on display at Target and was able to touch it and inspect it for myself. It looked perfectly fine to me. The blade seemed thick and sturdy. I checked out how the lid opens and closes etc and couldn't find anything visibly wrong with it. Maybe you have to get used to it, and not use brute force on any parts, but it's not rocket science. So I ended up buying it.

When I tried it out at home I was careful not to force any parts. There are two safety features. The first one is that the lid needs to be locked. The second one is that the cup needs to be locked as well, with the handle aligned in the front (as seen in the product picture above). If it's not in that position it won't start!!! At first mine wouldn't start, and I thought I had bought a lemon - until I figured it out. (Yeah, I don't read product manuals either).

It's been only 2 days, but so far it's been working just fine. I don't know what kind of miracles other "more advanced" machines can perform, but I am happy with what this unit does for me: it chops up stuff!

Is it loud? I can only compare it to my Oster blender. It's less noisy than the blender. After a few uses I became more familiar with working the lid etc. I'll be using it a lot and should it break down anytime soon I guarantee I will back here posting about it. Until then, this one gets two thumbs up. It's a solid product and a bargain at this price.

The first time I used this food processor I found it very hard to latch the lid. The second time I tried to latched the lid the little, flimsy plastic catches on the bowl snapped off. This leaves the food processor absolutely useless as it will not operate without the latches being secured. This is a badly designed product and if I am still able to return it I certainly will. If not it will have to go in the trash. I should have bought a Kitchen Aid or Cuisinart.

This is my first food processor. I use it daily and it seems to work just fine for the simple tasks I need it to do. I do wish it had an on/off button and I wish the feeder was bigger. I have to cut items fairly small to get them to fit through the feeder.

The price was certainly interesting, just under $[...] compared to a Kitchen Aid, $[...].
The design problem I find is that the cover has a double lip, that is there the cover is both inside and outside the bowl. Another way to describe it is the bowl ends up inserted in the cover. The problem with this is that it is a pain to clean because nothing will fit in this cover crease but a brush. I've never had that on my previous processors, the cover just fit around the bowl.
A worst problem which is why I don't recommend it is that it's the second time I use this and there are rust spots appearing on the blade... cheapy cheapy. The good news is that I can return it to the store becaus it's clearly crap!

This food processor looked liked a good idea and acted as I hoped it would for the first few uses. However, the plastic parts were not durable by any means. I had two indicents where two different plastic parts broke very easily. To add on to my dislike, custoner service was not helpful in helping me find replacement parts. If you are in the market, I would look at other food processors.

Got this as a gift along with the matching blender. The blender broke out of the box, this hunk of crap didn't last much longer. The design is terrible. Sometimes it was impossible to get the lid off. Do not buy this thing!

Like all of the other's above I had similiar issues. The only difference in me and them is that I was foolish enough to think that I was one of the unfortunate that just happened to recieve one of the bad ones. I returned the first one for one just like it. The second one failed me as well. Did I mention that both failures were on there first use. Did I also mention that the part that broke was the same part in the exact same spot on both. Both of the gears that mate with the motor snapped into two separate pieces while grating cheese. I will not make the same mistake again and will pay whatever it takes to avoid these issues in the future. Do not buy this product unless you enjoy dissapointment, countless hours of your life lost due to returns, or pulling your hair out trying to figure out what you will now do for dinner while your kids are upset because they didn't get what you had promised them. Very bad product for Black & Decker. I have owned other products by this company for many years and never had any issues. I am surprised this item has not been pulled from the shelves and until that happens I will not continue to buy any of their other products.

My wife and I picked up this food processor at Target a bit over a year ago.
At first, it can be a bit tricky to get the bowl latched into place so that the safety switch is depressed, but it only takes a couple of uses before becoming natural.
Yesterday my wife was using it to grate some parmesan cheese and it stopped working completely.
I took the food processor apart (not an easy task as there is one screw with an odd head) and found that the main gear connecting the motor to the blade axle had shredded. Despite the fact that this is obviously the spot on the machine undergoing the most stress during operation, the gear was made of plastic.
If Black & Decker had installed a sensible metal gear instead of a cheap plastic one, our food processor would still be grinding away today.
Until it died, we were very happy with this food processor, but really it should have been built tougher.

Bought this last Thanksgiving, and surprisingly after just one year of light usage, the blade just broke into two while using it on a couple of tomatoes. It is lucky that the blade pieces did not fly out and hurt me. I have never seen something like this happening with any of the mixers/food processors I have used before ! It is astonishing for blades to be this fragile. This is definitely a design flaw. I don't know whether I will be able to get a replacement blade from them; otherwise, I will just have to end up buying a new food processor! In that case, I definitely will not buy the same one again!

I purchased this food processor on sale recently and really like it! I've used it to puree veggies and think it does a nice job. Perhaps it's not for heavy duty cooking, but I don't need it for that. I haven't used the chop or shred attachment yet, but definitely plan to! My only complaint is that it's pretty loud, but for $39.99, I'm very content!