Cuisinart 20-Cup Food Processors

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Product Features

• 20-cup work bowl
• Includes chopping and dough blades, shredding disc, and three slicing discs
• Base: 12 by 8-1/2 inches, 17 inches high with work bowl
• Work bowl and accessories dishwasher-safe
• Three-year limited warranty; five-year warranty for motor

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 8.8 x 17 inches ; 28.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 30 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004S9EI
• Item model number: DLC-XP
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #77,512 in Kitchen & Dining (See Bestsellers in Kitchen & Dining)

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Product Description

Color: Brushed Chrome

Amazon.com Review

With its powerful motor and vast capacity, this food processor is suitable for catering and restaurant use and for the serious home chef. The possibilities are almost limitless: it chops and purées fruits, meats, vegetables, and cheese; makes pastry and bread dough; and slices and shreds almost any food, all at the touch of one of its two big gray buttons. In addition to the myriad attachments included with the machine, you might want to purchase separately specialized slicing discs and juicer and whisk attachments. All of the cutting discs slot easily onto the detachable disc stem.

The processor comes with a detailed instruction/recipe booklet that has full-color photographs illustrating the parts of the machine and how to use them to make everything from tabbouleh to curried pumpkin soup to brioche dough. Troubleshooting information is also included. --Jennifer Harris

Editor's Choice: Cuisinart's 20-cup food processor is our choice for the best food processor over $300. This processor features a direct drive 1-1/2-horsepower induction motor (which equals about 1,120 watts) and a 20-cup plastic bowl. It comes with one standard blade, one shredding disc, three slicing discs (including a standard 4-millimeter disc and a thick 6-millimeter disc), a dough blade, a spatula, and a cleaning tool, and has one speed plus a pulse function. This is a heavy and sturdy machine--it weighs 27 pounds, the base is 12 by 8-1/2 inches, and it's 17 inches high with the work bowl. Read more in our comparison of food processors.

Product Description

The Cuisinart® DLC-X Plus™ Food Processor provides unmatched performance and durability. The extra large 20 cup capacity Work Bowl is perfect for catering and restaurant use.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXPENSIVE BUT WORTH IT!, September 25, 2000

By	M.Williams (Holmes Beach, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

I'll preface this by saying that I have cooked professionally for almost 15 years. Before ordering this massive processor, I checked out almost everything comparable. I am delighted with my selection. This processor is very powerful. If you have a large family or do a lot of entertaining, this one is for you. The work bowl is massive, and batters don't slop out. The motor can handle multiple batches of cookie dough. You can turn out cake batter in no time, and in big quantities. I went for a big processor as I have a large family. Several years ago I catered my daughter's wedding reception, and how I wish I had this processor at that time. Now it's easy to produce huge amounts of pesto, knead multiple recipes of bread dough, and slice tons of veggies. This product is a TOTAL WINNER!

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Mighty Giant with an Achilles Heel, October 27, 2001

By	J Keistler "[e-mail]" (Lake Jackson, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I've had my DLC-X for roughly ten years now. I bought the largest size specifically for doing bread. Even though it's a very large and impressive-looking unit, it takes up only a little more space than the smaller, more popular models. Also, at that time, the 'X' had a stronger shaft setup and a heavier-duty switching system than the smaller models.

The ability of this machine to chop, shred, slice, etc., is amazing. One of the Cuisinart tricks I've used for years to save time is the practice of mixing up a salad dressing, then shred and slice the remainder of the salade, finally inverting the whole thing into a large bowl where the dressing drains over the salad.

Being an appliance freak, I bought all the accessory disks, which on this machine are the size of 45-rpm records, and the whisk attachment. This attachment fit on the center shaft and rotated a small set of twin beaters around counter to the attachment rotation. It worked well for whipping cream, but I broke the gears in two of them doing mashed potatoes and a fairly sticky candy. As these were running about $75 each back then, I never replaced it.

In my opinion, the greatest design weakness is the plastic lid with its engagement mechanism on the back side. I've been through three tops because the Lexan eventually cracks and breaks. No, I don't abuse the lids or use the mechanism as an on/off switch, it just seems to happen. Perhaps in the newer ones they've strengthened this area, hopefully so. The feed chute is a pain to clean but Cuisinart was trying for max flexibility. Nothing, certainly, that I can't live with.

My other regret is that Cuisinart hasn't made the flat lid w/o tube available for this model. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

My cooking style has changed somewhat over the past ten years. I don't use my 'X' as much as I used to, but am glad to have it waiting for me when I need it!

By the way, I discovered that a generic case made for a sewing serger accommodates my machine like it was made for it! This makes it very easy to transport the machine and not have to worry about breaking something off.

30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A bust, October 20, 2001

By	Mark B. Anstendig (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mine arrived broken.

After much aggravation with the customer service, which gave wrong info and wanted me to send it in at my own expense, Cuisinart finally told me Ca law made them pick it up for nothing. It took two months and lots of Cuisinart mistakes to get it back to me. And I was also billed for the repair and went through hell getting them to find that it was under warranty.

Then, too, I received this repaired, top of the line product back with a broken plug.

Then a really nasty cusomer service sup., without apologies and a truly hard-nosed ugly manner lays down the law...I have to send it in at my expense and they will take another 3 to 4 weeks to fix it and there is nothing I can do about it (she said that).

Finally an upper level supervisor, whom I insisted on speaking with, realized none of this was my fault and, while still making me send it for yet another repair and refusing to exchange the twice wrecked unit, at least agreed to pay shipping, etc.

I am sorry I ever did business with Cuisinart (Conair), and never will again, if I can help it.

Mark

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