The Best Food Processors of 2026

• Capacity: 12 cups
• Power: 550 watts
• Size: 10.3 x 11.4 x 16 inches
• Weight: 10 pounds

The GE 12-Cup Food Processor is moderately priced, easy to operate, and performs great. It blitzed a whole bunch of parsley into green confetti in mere seconds.

When it came to slicing, it cut exceptionally cleanly and left no wayward pieces unsliced. Tomatoes didn’t turn to mush and pepperoni didn’t get mangled. Using the chopping blade, the GE kneaded pizza dough without overheating it or rocking or moving on the countertop.

Our only complaint is that the feed tube is small, so it can’t accommodate a whole tomato or ball of mozzarella cheese.

The processor comes with a slicing and shredding disc, each of which can be reversed to make thin or thick slices and fine or thick shreds. All of the parts can be popped in the dishwasher.

Unlike many food processors, this one is intuitive to set up and operate. The large lettering makes it easy to select your setting.

• Capacity: 5 cups
• Power: 60 watts
• Size: 6.61 x 5.51 x 10.39 inches
• Weight: 2.79 pounds

The KitchenAid 5-Cup Cordless Food Chopper comes with a multipurpose blade and whipping attachments, compared to standard-sized food processors that typically also come with shredding and slicing discs. That said, this mini processor can chop, grind, puree, and whip ingredients, but it can’t knead dough or shred cheese.

It took about two hours to fully charge, which is enough to chop 40 onions. Within seconds, it turned an onion into evenly chopped bits, ready for sauteing or adding to salads. When it comes to firm ingredients like toasted almonds and hard cheese, it didn’t have any issues grinding them super-finely either.

This high-quality food processor requires no assembly and its safety measures can effectively prevent young children from turning on the device by accident. Its 5-cup capacity allows for one medium-sized onion or one tomato at a time, which is sufficient for most kitchen tasks, though you might need to work in batches.

Though we liked how convenient it was to use, this food chopper isn’t without flaws. It lacks the features that other food processors we’ve tested have, like kneading dough and processing ingredients in large quantities. Additionally, there’s no chute on the lid that allows you to add ingredients while in use. You’ll have to load everything before running a processing cycle.

• Capacity: 7 cups
• Power: 300 watts
• Size: 7.87 x 9.65 x 15.35 inches
• Weight: 6.6 pounds

The KitchenAid 7-Cup Food Processor chopped onions cleanly and evenly, minced parsley into dust, and ground almonds into a fluffy powder. It created clean slices of pepperoni and long beautiful shreds of cheese. However, it didn’t slice tomatoes perfectly evenly. Worse though, when it came to kneading yeast dough, it stalled and couldn’t finish the task.

The working bowl is easy to position on the base and the controls are easy to depress.

Unlike most food processors, which require that you turn the lid to lock it into place, it has a lid that attaches to the bowl on a hinge and is then latched into place on the other side.

It was designed like this to be easier to close and to avoid having to remove the lid entirely when you stop to stir or add ingredients and then leaving a mess on the countertop. Some might find that slightly annoying, especially if they are accustomed to turning the lid to lock it.

All of the parts fit neatly inside the bowl for storage and can be washed in the top rack of the dishwasher. Also, the KitchenAid is a beautifully finished product and is available in two shades of black, white, silver, and red.

• Capacity: 12 cups
• Power: 500 watts
• Size: 10 x 7.5 x 14.7 inches
• Weight: 8.3 pounds

The Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Duo Plus Food Processor can mince parsley and grind almonds with the best of them. However, it was weak on some tasks, leaving a big percentage of pepperoni unsliced and cutting ripe tomatoes so thinly they fell apart. It’s also not designed to knead heavy yeast doughs.

Considering its price and lightweight build, it would be a decent choice for family meal preparation if the cook isn’t looking for precision results.

It comes with a smaller 4-cup bowl that you could use to turn an avocado into guacamole or mince a few cloves of garlic.

The Hamilton Beach is definitely not a statement piece for your countertop and gunk can collect around the control buttons making it nitpicky to clean. Also, don’t be surprised if the kids cover their ears when they hear it whirring. This machine is loud.

• Capacity: 8 cups
• Power: 450 watts
• Size: 16 x 10.5 x 14.5 inches
• Weight: 5.5 pounds

While the Hamilton Beach Stack and Snap Food Processor with Bowl Scraper is proficient at chopping, mincing, shredding, and slicing evenly, it doesn’t cut as cleanly as our more highly-rated models. The edges of pepperoni came out slightly ragged and parsley a bit wet and mashed.

It did a fine job of kneading dough, once we stopped and stirred the ingredients, but the machine rocked quite a bit as it worked.

However, what really made this model fall to the bottom of our list is its ease of use. The lid was difficult to put in place and before using the model, you have to bring a large locking arm up over the lid and snap it on. In addition, the lever controls are a little tricky to use.

This food processor comes with both a reversible shredding disc and a slicing disc that can be adjusted to six different thicknesses and a dough blade. It also comes with a bowl scraper attachment but as it doesn’t reach down into the edge, where food is most likely to accumulate, the scraper didn't provide much help.

You also get a storage box to hold the discs and dough blade, which can sit under the food processor when it’s not being used. All of the parts are safe for dishwasher cleaning.