KitchenAid Stand Mixer Attachment, Food Processor with Commercial Food Dicing Disc KSM2FPA

I really wish I had known about this sooner. This thing is amazing. I love how it cubes vegetables directly down into a bowl and is not limited to quantity other than your bowl size.

First let me say that I own a very nice food processor with a dicing feature. It is great. Then I saw this KitchenAid Stand Mixer Attachment, Food Processor with Commercial Dicing Kit demonstrated and knew right away that I needed one. I am a farmer and every spring, summer, and fall; I spend days processing the summer harvest for the pantry. It takes long hours to prep all of the vegetables and fruit for freezing, dehydrating, canning and freeze-drying, so anything that can shorten the time spent processing is a bonus in my kitchen. This attachment is a game changer. Because it is attached to the KitchenAid Stand Mixer, you can adjust the speed easier (from 1 - 10) than your standard food processor with only high, low and pulse settings. This way you can adapt your speed to the produce you are prepping. Next you can easily adjust the depth of the cuts with a handy slide knob. This slices from very thick to very thin in seconds. But last, but the very biggest benefit, is that you are NOT limited to the size of the food processor bowl to catch your food. No more cutting, stopping to disassemble the cutting bowl, dump the bowl and then reassembling the food processor to finish your cutting. Just place a large or even Extra-Large bowl under the Attachment discharge and cut away. I actually diced a full bushel of zucchini in 20 minutes using this method. And that included washing, cutting the zucchini into chunks that will fit the input tube, and running them through the dicing setup. It was so fast, I was amazed. Now before you think that I am looking at this attachment with rose colored glasses, I will tell you about one 'small' downside to this unit. That downside is that this makes small size dice cubes. These dice cubes are about 1/4 size smaller than my standard food processor makes. I would like to see KitchenAid offer an additional dicing blade with larger size dice cubes. That is my wish - You hear me KitchenAid? Anyway - cleanup is a breeze as the parts, except for the base, is all machine washable. I can't do that with my free-standing food processor either. All parts of that are hand washable. This is a great attachment to have. I am extremely happy with this purchase. Will I give up my other food processor? Nope. See the note on the size of the dicing cubes. Plus, this does not chop like a standard food processor, and it does not make pie crust either. But this works better on the other slicing, shredding and dicing. There is room in my kitchen for both.

I've been using this food processor for a couple of weeks now, maybe 2-4 times a week, and I am very happy with the product. The slicing attachments work well, although even the thickest setting does not really slice very thick. The grating discs work almost as good as the grating attachment, but this is a bit easier to clean.I really like the storage case that all of the discs come packaged in, but there is one disc that need to be in the perfect position in order for the lid to close, which is really irritating. The processor itself seems to be really well designed and built, and is very easy to clean since it uses a plastic liner that protects the attachment itself from touching any of the food.Overall, I would recommend buying this only if you find it on sale. I do not think it is really worth 250$, when most of the functions can be performed in a similar fashion with other mixer attachments. for 150$ though, I think it is a great addition to our kitchen.

Kitchenaid wins again. Works well for my needs. Seems to be durable. Has power to whop and chop what I need. Like the dicing blade. Easy to clean. Takes a bit to secure lid, but not a deal breaker.

The pictures of the machine are misleading, its shows whole slices of apples and tomatoes coming from the machine, but the feed tube is too small to fit whole fruits and vegetables through. In order to fit a cucumber through, four sides had to be shaved down. It doesn’t provide the functionality of the product that I thought was going to be provided. The device functions, lid locks secure, the blades cut. We were just expecting a different set of dimensions from the machine.

I was hesitant to purchase this attachment as the cost was a bit more than I wanted to spend, however, during Prime Deals, I decided to give it a try. I currently have a 2 cup kitchenaid chopper that I use for everyday, so I need something for when I'm canning or making soup, both of which I do plenty of this time of year. I saw a lot of really positive reviews about the dicer blade so I opted for the model that came with that and I was so impressed with the ease of using it. I made a large batch of jalapeno jelly yesterday and it diced all of my peppers in short order in a very uniform way. Cleanup was a breeze too! I would recommend.This product seems very well made and cleanup was simple.I would also like to add that I used to have a 7-cup kitchenaid food processor (which I loved but ended up giving away when I moved 3500 miles away) and I wanted something that would minimize working in batches but not take up an exorbitant amount of storage space. I do keep my mixer on the countertop so I do not have the hassle of lugging that in and out of a cabinet along with this attachment.