Customer Reviews

Cuisinart DLC-873 3-Piece Standard Disc Set, Fits 7- and 11-Cup Processors

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The set contains medium shredding disc, 4-mm slicing disc and 6x6 french fry disc. But medium shredding disc and 4 mm slicing discs are already included with the food processor. The only new thing in this set is the french fry disc, so you do not need the set, do not waste your money, just go and buy french fry disc, if you need it. It will cost you probably two times less. By the way, amazon.com stopped selling the french fry discs separately, and this stinks.

The blades on these discs are heavy, sharp and well made. But you need a detachable stem accessory to use them for my food processor (a DC-5 series). The stem did not come with the discs or the processor, is not currently available from Amazon. I finally found it at the Cuisinart website.

As with all things Cuinart, the quality is excellent. The prices are a bit steep, but you pay for an item that will last and last. All the blades I've purchased have been a useful addition to the processor itself. Since I've expanded my collection of discs, I've been using my processor far more than before. So if you don't want to get inspired, then I recommend you limit yourself to those discs that accompanied your processor.

I own both standard and specialty disc set, purchased from Amazon on September 6, 2011. I bought the sets for my Cuisinart DLC-2009CHB Prep 9 9-Cup Food Processor, Brushed Stainless, also purchased from Amazon. At first I was hesitant to purchase the standard disc set because of the review by 'A customer' in 2004, but I cross-checked with Cuisinart website what the sets contain and decided to take the risk and ordered anyway.

The standard disc set has: 3mm slicing disc, fine shredding disc, and 6mm x 6mm julienne disc aka french fry disc. The specialty disc set has: 3mm x 3mm julienne, 6mm slicing disc, and fine grater disc. As for the shredding disc in the standard set, it does have smaller holes than the "standard" shredder that came with my 9-cup processor, which means it makes a finer shred. My 9-cup processor came with a medium grater and a 4mm slicing disc along with the stainless steel chopper blade and plastic dough blade.

I carefully inspected all the discs and found out that the thickness of the cut a slicing disc can make is embossed on the disc itself, that is you will see 3, 4, 6 embossed on 3mm, 4mm, 6mm slicing discs, respectively. Even the graters have F and M embossed on them for the fine grater and medium grater, respectively. I got mine as per description in both sets. They look like they are excellently made and so far, I haven't encountered any flaw in the discs design and the discs are doing what they are supposed to do. I'm having fun using them and prep time in the kitchen is not only fun but fast and easy. If you are thinking of getting all the discs for your 7-cup, 9-cup or 11-cup (says on my 9-cup box that all discs for 7-cup will fit in it), these sets are a good deal... much cheaper compared to purchasing the discs individually.

This is a fantastic price for 3 Cuisinart disks, but BEWARE, this item has several different product descriptions, and indicate that different/incorrect blades are included in this set!

What IS included in the "Standard" option: fine shredding disc, french fry-cut disc, and medium slicing disc.

The "Amazon.com Review" portion of the product description (for "color: standard") is correct. The "Product Description" listed right below the Amazon.com Review incorrectly indicates that the medium shredding disc is included and omits the medium slicing disc.

If you select the "specialty" option for this product, it outlines what is included in both the "specialty" variety and the "standard." The "standard" description incorrectly indicates that the julienne disc is included in place of the medium slicing disc.

I had been hoping to receive that julienne disk, so I'm disappointed to receive the slicing disk instead, but it's still a great deal -- even if I were only wanting to get the fine shredding disc and the french fry disc, it is still cheaper to buy this set than it is to buy the 2 discs separately.