Cuisinart DLC-2011BCN Prep 11 Plus Food Processor
- Touchpad dough control w/Power Prep dough blade, one piece
- Wide mouth feed tube, Powerful induction motor for heavy dough
- Stainless steel slicing & shredding discs, SS chopping/mixing blade
- Detachable disc stem, spatula
- How to video, Recipe and instruction book
Product Description
Get ready to cook up a storm and whip up meals that everyone will remember! Cuisinart's 11-cup processor can do everything from blending 2.5 pounds of dough to chopping a single clove of garlic--and anything else in between. In addition to its vast functionality, it's also easy to use and clean. Its work bowl is shatterproof and heat and cold resistant. Great meals have never been so easy. Model DLC-2011.
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Cuisinart DLC-2011BCN Prep 11 Plus Food Processor
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- Publisher: Cuisinart
- Label: Cuisinart
- Studio: Cuisinart
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 56 reviews
- Sales Rank in Kitchen & Housewares: #349142
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Summary: Given as gift--recipient very happy. 2009-01-06
Comment: I gave this to my mother. She says that it is updated and she loves it. She was surprised and pleased with all it can do.
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Summary: Are blades stainless steel? 2009-01-04
Comment: It is a good product & it did simplify our cooking. The recipe book is nice too. The part of the product which I do not like is that the blades are not stainless steel but made of metal. Put a magnet against the blade & it will stick. After a month of use, one of the blades developed a rust spot.
Remember to dry the blades such that no water spots remains on it after washing it else you will have rust spots on your blades."
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Summary: Big plusses, little minuses 2008-12-29
Comment: My wife has been cooking up a storm lately (in a good way) for me and our four small children. We changed our diet a couple of years ago and have been eating a lot more fresh foods, which of course involve more preparation. This year for Christmas I came up with the idea of a food processor to save my dear bride a lot of effort chopping and slicing.
The big plus is that I think this Cuisinart Prep 11 Plus model is a fine piece of machinery and is well thought out. I'll get into more detail on that later.
The big minus is that I was somehow expecting a food processor to do more. Note that I'm not taking off any stars for my false expectations, but potential buyers should know these things. Before you put most things in to be chopped, they have to be pre-chopped. If I'm going to spend the time to cut everything into 1" squares before putting it in the food processor (FP), I'm pretty sure I haven't saved that much time. And there are some shapes the FP just can't make. For example, my wife made a roast over the weekend in the slow cooker. For the potatoes, she had to chop them up by hand since there is no way for the FP to make small (½") cubes out of them. Then when you're all done, you have to wash everything - a blade, a disc, a small feed tube, a large feed tube, the bowl cover, and the bowl. Oh yeah, and the spatula, too. So just be sure and think through your cooking needs to see how much time and effort this will actually save. The bigger the meal, the more time it will save. I'm not saying we'll regret getting a FP and we'll certainly find it very useful for some things, but it's not the end-all super gadget that I was unrealistically hoping for.
Now, back to the actual performance of this unit as a food processor...
This Cuisinart 11 cup model has not failed to impress this engineer as a machine. The motor is very strong and the working bowl and feeders all snap into place solidly (the bowl maybe a little too solidly, as my wife is still getting the hang of snapping it all the way locked). Things are as they should be for a well-thought-out design. The small feed tube locks into place in the large. The blades slide easily onto the keyed drive shaft. The buttons have a great feel and are the membrane-type, which doesn't allow food to get in the unit. This thing cuts through stuff with ease. We haven't used the dough blade or shredder disc yet, but the slicing discs works great, as advertised. The chopping blade does pretty well.
One annoyance is that when chopping, bigger pieces tend to stay on top and not get chopped further while little pieces keep getting chopped smaller. With some items (like garlic) you can avoid this by pulsing the machine, which bounces the contents around and mixes them up pretty well. But other items like tomatoes just turn into puree on the bottom and chunks on the top. If you watch the included DVD, you'll notice that this happens in the video, too. But Cuisinart is sneaky and skips forward in the video to after they've opened the top and mixed the tomatoes manually to eliminate the chunks on top. You see chunks on top, then a slow fade, then magically uniform chopped tomato. I think we'll get used to doing this, but I wish Cuisinart would just 'fess up that it is a fact of life and say that you have to take a break and mix things up with a spatula.
The other big downer is that you now have all of this stuff to store, and nowhere to put it. Two blades, two discs, and that disc adapter. They're sharp, so you can't just throw them in a drawer. You could get Cuisinart's caddy (Cuisinart Blade and Disc Holder), but I would argue that it should be included with this processor as I'm not sure what Cuisinart expects you to do with the discs and blades when not in use.
All in all, I think this is a great food processor. I would recommend this model to someone who knows they want a food processor. I can't speak about longevity or customer service yet, and hopefully I won't have to. It does carry that substantial warranty.
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Summary: Versatile and powerful 2008-11-25
Comment: When I put this food processor on my Christmas list last year my parents doubted whether I would actually use it. After all, I already had a Cuisinart blender, Kitchenaid stand mixer, and smaller Cuisinart food processor, what use could I possibly have for an 11 cup food processor? After a year of using it I can easily say, a lot.
My initial draw to this food processor was for bread making. I do not have a bread maker so all of my kneading has been done by hand or using my stand mixer. The dough blade has proven perfect for making bread dough in my food processor. I find that it is powerful enough that it kneads the bread even more quickly and evenly than my stand mixer which makes bread baking a breeze. I also dabble in vegetarian cooking and find that the dough blade also works perfectly when making seitan and other vegetarian meat substitutes from scratch. I have also found that it does an excellent job on pie crusts by incorporating the chilled butter evenly and perfectly, something I always found challenging to do by hand.
I've also found that I get a tremendous amount of use out of the slicing and shredding blades. They work wonderfully for grating cheese, shredding lettuce, and slicing vegetables. I love how it cuts my prep time in half and is easy to clean up afterwards.
Overall I have been thrilled with this appliance. It has proven so versatile and powerful that I find I am constantly finding new uses for it and loving how it makes me more efficient in the kitchen. As other reviewers have said, I am at heart a Kitchenaid girl, but the usefulness and durability of this appliance speaks for itself.
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Summary: Pleased 2008-11-24
Comment: I bought the 11 cup instead of the 14 cup processor because I can use my other discs from the old 7 cup processor with it. I'm glad I don't have to buy all new discs. There was nothing wrong with my old unit , I wanted a bigger one.
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