Cuisinart MP-14N Limited-Edition 14-Cup Food Processor

Also, the wide-mouth feed tube gobbles up whole fruits and vegetables, which means less prep work. The powerful direct-drive induction motor base has touchpad controls with indicator lights and a special alternate speed for bread kneading. This model comes with all the basic accessories, including slicing and shredding discs, a chopping/mixing S-shaped blade, and a fabulous metal dough blade (all are stainless steel), plus a plastic spatula, recipe and instruction books, and a 45-minute how-to video. The 2-1/2-foot cord can be wrapped underneath, and all detachable parts are dishwasher-safe. --Erin Brown

Product Description
Just what can 3/4 worth of horsepower do when it comes to processing? Well, how about kneading up to three pounds of dough, in seconds for starters? This brawny 720 watt induction motor will whizz through your chopping, mixing, blending and kneading chores with a speed that will take your breath away. The Cuisinart Supreme Wide Mouth feed tube is twice as big as any other feed tube available, allowing you to slice and shred whole foods without pre-cutting. And just as you can load more food in the big tube, the big 14-cup capacity work bowl can process more at one time. Think of all the time you'll save when you don't have to preslice and reload! The whisk attachment allows you to make fluffy meringue, whipped cream, potatoes and more, so you may very well decide you don't need a stand mixer.

That original Cuisinart is still going strong, but resides with my daughter, now an adult and newly married. She laid claim to the Cuisinart somewhere during her high school baking and breadmaking phase, and instead of registering for a new model during her wedding, she happily absconded with mine when she set up her household and I took off for life in SW Florida.

After a year without my Cuisinart, and making do with a small, outdated Oster mini processor, I gave myself a Valentine's gift an bought the Cuisinart MP-14.

Why?
-Because I am tired of hand making the bread doughs I love to grill as pizza or flat bread over the open flame of our outdoor grill.
-Because I am tired of scraped knuckles and sliced fingers from hand graters and razor sharp mandolines when shredding or thin slicing veggies for slaws, tempuras, or Potatoes Anna.
-Because I like to grate hard and soft cheeses in bulk for adding to lasagnas, topping pizzas, or blending into savory shortbreads and hor d'oeuvre pastries.
-Because I like to make my own chopped pork and beef mixture for Swedish meatballs.
-Because I love the speed and ease of a food processor in making bread crumbs, apple crisp and pie crumb toppings, chopping chocolate and nuts, and mincing and blending large quantities of garlic or herbs for dips, herb butters and spreads, or pestos.
-Because my daughter also laid claim to my heavy duty KitchenAid mixer, and it looks like this whisk attachment is going to be fine for mixing cheesecake batters, whipping cream or putting the final whip finish on mashed potatoes, as well as frothing the egg custard foundations to chocolate mousses and flourless cakes.
-Because I believe in the Cuisinart product line, which has proven itself to me for decades. I believe my newest Cuisinart will to be worth every penny, and perform flawlessly and efficiently for generations to come!
-And because maybe, just maybe -- in the not too distant future -my new MP-14 will whip up even more wickedly wonderful batchs of baby foods!

Cuisinart - I love you, and I adore this new 14 cup heavy duty MP 14 with whisk attachment, bread dough mixing blade and the dough setting to prevent overheating the dough. You are making my Valentine's Day very sweet indeed!


Fabulous!   December 9, 2005
Sattvala (Harpswell, ME United States)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful

Wonderful, wonderful.

I've had 2 previous food processors - a Himilton Beach, and then the 7 cup Cuisinart which leaked (sprayed) if I was doing any sauces. This MP-14 is like Dorothy stepping out of her house into techni-color Munchkin Land!

It's simple to use, quiet, and powerful. The DVD that comes with it shows you how to make pizza crust (which is good because the cookbook doesn't explain it well). The 2-size-feeder tube option is great - now I can slice whole potatoes and still do a single carrot.

It also has a separate button/speed for dough and has a variety of recipes for breads. The motor is so strong you needn't worry about making whatever you want.

It is a sleek, handsome machine which really adds to my kitchen. The 14-cup capacity is perfect - I don't have to worry about making cole slaw or any other large recipe. I'm so glad I finally took the plunge and got the best of the best.

Enjoy!


the relentless power alone deserves a sixth star   September 10, 2009
M. Eldridge (nashville, tn)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful

i've only had this unit for two weeks and i can tell you it is built like a tank. after much deliberation -- which involved about a week's worth of back and forth between online investigation via countless websites (including amazon) and physical investigation at the brick & mortar stores of sears, kroger, wal-mart, and bed bath & beyond, i began to grow very attracted to this unit, but i didn't expect to find it anywhere...

then i ventured into an electronics store i used to work for (electronic express) that i knew sold cuisinart products. boom. they had one of them. on the top shelf. so i bought it.

i'm a guy. although i love to garden and garden, i still feel strange paying over $200 for a glorified blender, especially with all the negative reviews on amazon regarding cuisinart processors. i want to address first one of the concerns that bothered me the most:

SAFETY (and the price we pay):

i've read reviews where people have complained about safety features and units not operating unless 37 different plastic pieces are aligned and it's tuesday at 4pm and the inner planets are in a triangular formation, blah blah blah -- these people must either have defective units or are attempting to cram whole pigs into their units. it's only so big...

i love to be given enough rope to hang myself with, if you get my drift. if a piece of equipment has the power to chop my arms and my legs off at the same time, i want it to be capable of such. if you have any reason to push anything through the MP-14N that is not available in semi-squishy 8" x 6" chunks, then you probably should buy a chipper shredder or 2' food slicer instead.

the MP-14N has three safety features (and for good reason -- the motor spins with such power and torque that i'm pretty damn sure it'll take your arm off if you let it). the base unit will not operate unless the bowl is attached and locked (durh; like any blender - although amazingly easier to lock into place than your run-of-the-mill blender), the top is locked into place (another task that's easier than attaching a tuperware top) and the large food pusher is attached to the top of the bowl's large chimney. the last safety feature is probably the most limiting, but (like i said), if you're processing food chunks that are bigger than 8" x 6", you must need something else...maybe a chainsaw. even with the large chimney, there's a smaller 2" chimney that has no safety feature whatsoever. the large chimney safety is easy to defeat if you really want to make a mess.

you probably don't, though. and if you don't believe it, drop me a line. i'll hook up a webcam and SHOW you this unit in operation. which brings me to my second concern:

POWER (it's not a blender):

according to my bathroom scale, the stainless steel base weighs 16.2 pounds. find something that's 16.2 pounds. you know why it's that heavy? the torque of the motor would send it flying off the counter if it weren't. even with everything attached, the base rotates about a quarter of an inch when you start and stop it. and it's QUIETER than my blender. that's quality.

speaking of motor power -- this thing will chop your arm into neatly sliced pieces if you let it. i grow tomatoes and peppers (i'm a chilehead) and make my own salsa and italian sauce. this thing eats through tomatoes like nobody's business. i've always skinned and deseeded my tomatoes in the past. this process has gotten to be too much for my patience, so i left the skins on them while only partially deseeding them... the cuisinart devours the seeds and leaves only small traces of the skins. it's saved me a ton of time. i'm happy.

this past weekend i smoked two 10 pound pork shoulders for the college football kickoff. i thought the cuisinart would die trying to cut through a pork shoulder that's been charred on the outside by 12 hours of smoking. no such thing. the MP-14N mowed through the huge chunks of pork like they were weak sticks of butter. in less than 5 seconds, it had processed everything i had pushed into the chimney with no hesitation.

i am extremely happy with this unit. for the price, however, i think it should have come with a few more blade attachments. although it did come with a gratuitous egg beater (which i haven't used), the disparity in function between the slicer and grater discs leave something to be desired in between.