Love this machine. I could use it straight out of the box, after a wipe down. Love the flat lid as an alternative to the feeder tube lid. Brilliant. Attaching the stem on the cutter disks had me puzzled for a while but I checked out the online video and that showed me. I was tempted by the 14-cup but the 7-cup is plenty large for all my needs. Pastry and crumb bases are a breeze. I will buy an extra slicer disk to produce thinner slices than the one that comes with the unit. The only reason I bought a new processor was because the bowl and lid on my old Cuisinart DLC 10 needed replacing for the second time after 25+ years, and I wasn't sure if the replacement ones would fit. Delighted with my purchase. And it arrived in record time, a day earlier than scheduled.