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Coupe 12-Cup Food Processor
Overall Impression: A well-built, powerful food processor with smart, cook-friendly design and
easy cleanup. On the high end pricewise, but a value if you expect to use it frequently.
In my view, the best food processors are the ones that keep the lowest profile. No jumping and
Diving, no burning motors, no array of buttons. No play, mama. It might not seem good to define a
Instrument by its negative (here's what it is not) but I think that in this case, this is exactly the right way to
describe the Magimix 12-Cup Food Processor -- it's pretty dreamy to use, but this really just means
1 significant thing: No fuss, no hassle.
The Review
Robot-Coupe is a French company that's been making food processors for more than 40 years. In Reality,
Well-built; you'll discover Robot-Coupe processors in many restaurant kitchens. Their food processors are
Made in France, and the motors come with a 12-year-guarantee.
Devoted; I have heard from people who have been using their Magimix for 20 years or more.
But they have been quite expensive and sometimes hard to find here in the States. Now, though,
Williams-Sonoma is carrying a very sensibly-priced model of the Magimix, a 12-cup basic food
processor.
Characteristics and Specs
This food processor comes with three bowls, 12-cup, 10-cup, and 6-cup.
grating discs, two slicing discs, a dough blade, egg whisk, and spatula. All together, it weighs about
21 pounds.
Even
when making heavy doughs, it doesn't hop and skip across the counter. The motor is very powerful,
and very quiet. It just does its job; you don't even have to scrape the bowl down between adding
ingredients.
I love how the bowls stack inside one another, too. When You're using the smallest bowl to process
Something (herbs, nuts, pesto, for example), you stack it right inside the large bowl. This makes
Changing out bowls very quick, and it lets the processor work without an extra spindle; it just works
With any bowl that's on right now. It's like Russian dolls -- food processor-style!
Additionally, there are only three buttons here: Off, On, Pulse. If you turn it ON the motor runs until you hit
OFF. Pulse just pulses the blade while you're holding the button down. Easy peasy; no decisions to
make about speed and power.
I was also struck by how easy it is to clean this food processor. The bowl washes out easily, without
too many nooks and crannies for food to get stuck in. The handle is often the stickiest spot (literally)
As the spring in the handle, which controls operation when the lid is on, can get gummy or wet. I
Thought it was smart here how the handle is pierced by a lot of large holes (see above), letting it be
rinsed out and air-dry more easily.
Potential problems: The elephant in the room with any food processor is a large one: Size. How
much space will this thing take up, and is it worth lugging it in and out of the cupboards every time I
want to shred some carrots? The Magimix is in a similar league with its Cuisinart and KitchenAid
Cousins here; it's a considerable tool. However, the blades do come in a convenient storage case, and the bowls
Stack inside each other, so it has a slightly smaller footprint than the other food processor I am
currently testing. Still, though -- the sheer size of the food processor, or some other full-sized food
Processor, will make many cooks in little kitchens think twice.
This issue only multiplies if you get any of their (admittedly very fine) attachments, like one that will
turn the Magimix into a juicer, or the additional grating blades.
Additionally, another quibble is that I do not think the small bowl is quite small enough; I had trouble using it
To make banana ice cream in small batches, as an example. I'd prefer to have this replace my little
chopper, with its three-cup bowl.
Splurge-worthy? Perhaps. Purchasing a food processor is a very personal decision, and it depends a
Great deal on what kind of cooking you do daily. For years I got by easily with a 3-cup small
Food processor, finding it much easier to pull out and clean up. I used it for small batches of pastry,
grinding nuts, and for making sauces and salsas. A larger food processor just seemed cumbersome.
Now, though, I have been making bigger batches of bread dough and pastry in this machine, and
using it for spice pastes, grinding meat, and quickly shredding cabbage for slaw. Some others might
Use this food processor daily, for convenience and for speed. Others of you might never touch it.
It really depends on your style of cooking, your time, and the size of your household.
If you are indeed in the Marketplace, though, for a workhorse food processor, in my opinion I don't think
you can do much better than this one!
Good for smaller kitchens? If you do want and need a full-sized food processor, then yes, this one
Will be just as good for a small kitchen as any of the others on the current market, especially given its nicely
stacking bowls.
Overall Impression: A well-built, powerful food processor with smart, cook-friendly design and
easy cleanup. On the high end pricewise, but a value if you expect to use it frequently.
In my view, the best food processors are the ones that keep the lowest profile. No jumping and
Diving, no burning motors, no array of buttons. No play, mama. It might not seem good to define a
Instrument by its negative (here's what it is not) but I think that in this case, this is exactly the right way to
describe the Magimix 12-Cup Food Processor -- it's pretty dreamy to use, but this really just means
1 significant thing: No fuss, no hassle.
The Review
Robot-Coupe is a French company that's been making food processors for more than 40 years. In Reality,
Well-built; you'll discover Robot-Coupe processors in many restaurant kitchens. Their food processors are
Made in France, and the motors come with a 12-year-guarantee.
Devoted; I have heard from people who have been using their Magimix for 20 years or more.
But they have been quite expensive and sometimes hard to find here in the States. Now, though,
Williams-Sonoma is carrying a very sensibly-priced model of the Magimix, a 12-cup basic food
processor.
Characteristics and Specs
This food processor comes with three bowls, 12-cup, 10-cup, and 6-cup.
grating discs, two slicing discs, a dough blade, egg whisk, and spatula. All together, it weighs about
21 pounds.
Even
when making heavy doughs, it doesn't hop and skip across the counter. The motor is very powerful,
and very quiet. It just does its job; you don't even have to scrape the bowl down between adding
ingredients.
I love how the bowls stack inside one another, too. When You're using the smallest bowl to process
Something (herbs, nuts, pesto, for example), you stack it right inside the large bowl. This makes
Changing out bowls very quick, and it lets the processor work without an extra spindle; it just works
With any bowl that's on right now. It's like Russian dolls -- food processor-style!
Additionally, there are only three buttons here: Off, On, Pulse. If you turn it ON the motor runs until you hit
OFF. Pulse just pulses the blade while you're holding the button down. Easy peasy; no decisions to
make about speed and power.
I was also struck by how easy it is to clean this food processor. The bowl washes out easily, without
too many nooks and crannies for food to get stuck in. The handle is often the stickiest spot (literally)
As the spring in the handle, which controls operation when the lid is on, can get gummy or wet. I
Thought it was smart here how the handle is pierced by a lot of large holes (see above), letting it be
rinsed out and air-dry more easily.
Potential problems: The elephant in the room with any food processor is a large one: Size. How
much space will this thing take up, and is it worth lugging it in and out of the cupboards every time I
want to shred some carrots? The Magimix is in a similar league with its Cuisinart and KitchenAid
Cousins here; it's a considerable tool. However, the blades do come in a convenient storage case, and the bowls
Stack inside each other, so it has a slightly smaller footprint than the other food processor I am
currently testing. Still, though -- the sheer size of the food processor, or some other full-sized food
Processor, will make many cooks in little kitchens think twice.
This issue only multiplies if you get any of their (admittedly very fine) attachments, like one that will
turn the Magimix into a juicer, or the additional grating blades.
Additionally, another quibble is that I do not think the small bowl is quite small enough; I had trouble using it
To make banana ice cream in small batches, as an example. I'd prefer to have this replace my little
chopper, with its three-cup bowl.
Splurge-worthy? Perhaps. Purchasing a food processor is a very personal decision, and it depends a
Great deal on what kind of cooking you do daily. For years I got by easily with a 3-cup small
Food processor, finding it much easier to pull out and clean up. I used it for small batches of pastry,
grinding nuts, and for making sauces and salsas. A larger food processor just seemed cumbersome.
Now, though, I have been making bigger batches of bread dough and pastry in this machine, and
using it for spice pastes, grinding meat, and quickly shredding cabbage for slaw. Some others might
Use this food processor daily, for convenience and for speed. Others of you might never touch it.
It really depends on your style of cooking, your time, and the size of your household.
If you are indeed in the Marketplace, though, for a workhorse food processor, in my opinion I don't think
you can do much better than this one!
Good for smaller kitchens? If you do want and need a full-sized food processor, then yes, this one
Will be just as good for a small kitchen as any of the others on the current market, especially given its nicely
stacking bowls.
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