Bosch MCM68861GB Food Processor, 10 Attachments, 3.9 Litre Mixing Bowl, 1250 Watt, Brushed Stainless Steel

Best food processor I have ever owned! Does exactly what it says it does. Great motor, great tools. Just take care when you first use it - chops really quickly! And, the blades are REALLY sharp. The instructions are very clear, making the machine so easy to use. Love that you can remove the blades from the blender jug - really helps when cleaning. I tend to make large quantities of soups etc. so the large bowl and jug are absolutely ideal. I've used it to make pastry and dough too. No problems. I cannot fault this food processor, superb value for money.

Powerful and with a good capacity in the main bowl. The blender benefits from the power too (I was upgrading from a less powerful Kenwood model), I haven’t tried all the fixtures (ha! probably never will!) but what I have used really does the job well.A nice feature is that it comes with a bag/pouch for the smaller, sharp attachments to help with storage.So, all in all, not the cheapest processor out there, but I guess you get what you pay for.

Really love it. It does almost everything I want. A bit disappointed that the dicing tool is not included - why? The tools are easy to use with minimal 'faff' which is important for me as I won't use tools that take more time to set up than chopping, mixing the food by hand would take. Easy to wash too, many items can go in the dishwasher, though I find mostly it is easier just to rinse them immediately after use. I find the blender is not really strong enough for smoothies, I prefer my vitamix, but it is fine for making sauces.

EDIT: Update, August 2016. Surprise, surprise, it packed up! After exactly six uses, the motor refuses to start. The problem (which I note others have had) is with the safety interlock, which was temperemental from day one and then stopped cooperating altogether. Luckily Amazon sorted me out. What a pile of cack.I really don't know what's happened to Bosch. We just had to replace a 4 year old Bosch dishwasher because water had ruined a circuit board. You'd think they'd make the electronic parts in a dishwasher waterproof, wouldn't you?Anyway, I bought this food processor for one reason only - it has an enormous bowl, which I needed. However, I'll be amazed if it's still working in a year's time. Everything about this bit of kit feels cheap 'n' nasty. The plastic feels thin and brittle. The motor unit looks the part, but doesn't have much "oomph". The so-called instruction manual is indecipherable.So far (two uses) it's done what I want, which is liquidize a large quantity of soup. I wouldn't dream of using the myriad attachments, which feel flimsy, complicated and hard to clean. For my day-to-day cooking I'll keep using my thirty year old Kenwood equipment, which still works beautifully. Having said that, I'm told that Kenwood kit is rubbish these days, too.Does anyone know of a manufacturer that still makes solid, well-engineered equipment?

This is the second food processor I buy within the space of 9 months. The Kenwood MultiPro Sense FPM810 that I originally bought when my 20 year old Braun processor died was an unmitigated (and expensive!) disaster. It is destined for eBay - many reviewers love it so I hope someone will pay to collect it.This one is much better - for the simple reason that it actually has a (more or less functional) speed controller. Who had thought that it should be practically impossible in this day and age to buy a processor that affords the user continuous control of the speed? I prefer these machines over a hand mixer because I can just leave them to it, to make mash or batter - two incredibly simple tasks I have no idea how Kenwood think they might be accomplished with their processor.So the good news is that the Bosch has a fairly robust whisk and a fairly capable speed controller, so you can go from reasonably slow (the Braun could do slower) to supersonic. (The Kenwood only knows 9 supersonic speeds.) This means that when your batter is in the plaster stage (or your mash still in the potato stage), your whisk will not disintegrate (as happened on the Kenwood).I note comments here about the durability of the blender jug. Let's see what happens. Plastic as it is, it means that it weighs a fraction of the Kenwood (which my wife could only lift with both hands). Moreover, while the Kenwood will forever toy with ice cubes, the Bosch will actually crush them. Like the Braun before it, the blade is designed such as to pull stuff in - not push out (Kenwood). The manual suggests a cleaning practice I have used with blenders for years: don't put in dishwasher but immediately after use fill with some water and Fairy and blitz.Still, I cannot give this processor 5 stars because of a rather weird design choice: Note how the headline says 3.9l? This refers to the supposed capacity of the mixing bowl. And it sure is large, probably capable of holding 3.9l - were it not for a large whole in the middle. I have never seen a design like it. The drive shaft isn't fitted to the bowl, like in every other design. It stands on the output gear and peeks thru a large center hole in the bowl. The way in which you need to assemble the main blade from three pieces is cumbersome. Yet even when the whole assembly is put together, there is no way that the bowl will hold more than 2.5l of liquid. Once filled to that level, the liquid will start to leak over the shaft housing and on to the base of the machine. Even if by the magic of the centrifugal force exerted by the blade you may not notice this right away, the moment you lift the bowl off the machine, liquid in excess of 2.5l will drain away thru the center hole.A remarkably stupid design, the purpose of which isn't entirely clear. Sure - by not sealing the shaft with the bowl, it is possible to share the shaft between other attachments (as Bosch does). It also means they need no expensive ball-raced seal (which might die in the dishwasher). But it also means that you cannot process nearly as much liquid as the physical dimension of the bowl would suggest.The small blender attachment that comes with it by contrast is superior to the bowl-in-bowl design used by Kenwood and Tefal for chopping small quantities (such as herbs, nuts, etc).Another plus of the Bosch over the Kenwood is that it features an automatic pulse. Sadly, there too we have a regressive step over the 20yr old Braun: The Bosch will only pulse at top speed, no adjustments possible.

This is a good value powerful food processor. Why am I giving it 1 star? Because one of the "teeth" in the cog inside the whisk component broke after 6 months causing the missus to go nuts because she couldn't make her cakes. Thanks Bosch. Thought I'd pay a little more for a quality brand but nope, poorly made parts = much woe. We have used the whisk maybe once a month at most for some light baking.Fortunately it is still within the 12 month warranty so Amazon should sort it out but still, not what you'd expect from a "premium" brand.Very disappointing.