I recently bought the Cuisinart custom 14 food processor as a replacement for my old Cuisinart food processor. My old processor was basically the same processor as the Custom 14 just a little smaller. It was my go to appliance for 23 years. When it broke I looked into getting a fancier version with more bells and whistles, however, when I started researching products every review kept pointing me back to the Customer 14. The key is the solid blade. The main complaint with other processors was that the blade was not solid and did not work well doing tougher jobs like making dough or working nuts. Also all the extra blades and attachments did not work well. This machine has a solid blade and makes fantastic doughs, works nuts, and yet can still mince herbs perfectly. The other attachments also work beautifully. One is a shredder for things like cheeses and the other is a slicer for things like potatoes.