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$65.92
20.52% pricedrop
Avg. Price: $82.94
47 customer reviews
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- Prepare foods without cutting them into smaller pieces. The Big Mouth food processor can handle whole tomatoes, potatoes and other large foods. The specially designed food chute grabs the food and helps you achieve even slices for the whole item. With 450 watts and 4 speeds, you can prepare any food. This model comes with an extra slicing disk and spatula.
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- I love this product so much that I had to search for it on a couple different websites to tell people how great it is. My husband got it for me for my birthday because I had talked about getting one since we got married three years ago. I used ot to mix the ingredients of a pie crust for chicken pot pie, and it mixed everything perfectly. Then I put all the attachments into the dishwasher and ended up dirtying only one dish rather than the ten I used to dirty while making this crust. It was so easy that I am considering making more crusts to freeze for a quick use later. I love this product. I have now owned it for about three months and have had no mechanical problems either.
- Wow! Great food processor! I'm thrilled with its performance. I had no difficulty with the suction cups, they stick, but not too much. I resisted buying one for years. Happy with the bonus blade as well. It is now a ktichen staple in my house!
- I have had this processor for almost 2 years and use it constantly. I bought it to do baby food for my second child and have found numerous uses for it. It processed the food I made well, but it was not a silky-smooth texture without adding a lot of extra liquid. For that purpose, I typically make chunkier purees, adding extra liquid to the frozen cubes upon reheating. That way I could make large batches of baby food that 'grew' with my child once she was out of the 'stage 1' foods. Now off the rabbit trail...
I use my processor to make pie dough, huge batches of cookies, hummus, salsa....pretty much anything. It is super easy to clean and has performed well for these two years with near-daily use. It IS a monster to store, but for me it was worth creating a space for it because I use mine so much. I would say it's footprint is *about* the size of my KitchenAid Classic mixer.
It's an excellent product at an excellent price :)
- Move over Cuisinart! I never would have ventured away from Cuisinart but the price lured me to try. I couldn't have made a better decision. There are two main reasons: 1) the price 2) fluid does not overflow through the mid-section on the bowl. In addition, the bottom is made of suction which firmly adheres the device to the granite surface.
I highly recommend this food processor. The extra big mouth is great & I love the 14-cup capacity.
- I've had or worked with any number of food processors of various makes and models. This is one of my favorites! I love the big opening for dropping stuff in, and I really love the 14-cup capacity. Now when I mix up any liquids, I don't have to worry about it oozing out of the processor and making a big cleanup mess.
One nice chance that HB implemented with this one is that the core of the steel blade is mostly open/hollow. This means that if stuff gets up in there when you're using the blade, you don't have to use a teeny brush to dig it out and get it clean in there; it's super easy to clean now.
- This is a great food processor
- My previous food processor was a Sears CounterCraft made by Hamilton Beach in 1983. Last year I decided to upgrade and bought the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth and am very happy I did. It does a great job slicing, chopping, making pesto and hummus, and anything else I want to make. I use it all the time and it is going strong. The only pitfall is that it is huge and I am single, so sometimes my small-batch recipes get lost in the thing. The solution: A compact food processor. I've always been happy with Hamilton Beach and this appliance is no exception.
- Great product for the price!
- Thanks for having this. It works very well for the price.
- just used it once to test it (potatoes-home fries), this was exactly what i was looking for. It's a great decently priced food processor with hard to find 'adjustable' large shute, and mine came with a free rubber spatula perfectly sized for getting every bit of food out of the processor's container.
- I LOVE this food processer
- This is the third processor I have owned and the one I like the best. It is easy to clean, easy to operate and does a great job on the big veggies. I love the way it grips on to my counter and stays put. I recommend it highly and you cant beat the price.
- I bought this as a gift for my wife for Christmas and she absolutely loves it. She couldn't believe the price that I got it for given the size and blades. After reading other reviews of this and a Black & Decker, I chose the Hamilton Beach. We have already used it quite a bit and no problems at all. The suction cups on the bottom hold the machine firmly in place. Overall, a great purchase.
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- You get what you pay for...
- ..and in this case, not even that. I arranged to return mine the day I got it. Chops and slices food unevenly leaving lots of "chunks" among the slices. Holding the handle and trying to twist the bowl to the right to remove it is very difficult. There is nothing to hold onto to push the other way. Believe me, if you have any kind of arthritis in your hands, this is not the product for you. The materials it is made out of, including the blades, are cheap, inferior. Yes, it is also big and bulky, but I could have adjusted to that had it been a good product. The "Big Mouth" feeding tube is the only plus, but that wasn't enough to warrant keeping it. I have a used food processor I got at a yard sale 14 years ago that does a better job. I only ordered a new one because I needed a bigger bowl.
- Spend the extra and buy Cuisinart. I bought the Hamilton Big Mouth in November, just in time to use for all the extra cooking I do through the holidays. I didn't have the money to spend on a Cuisinart at the time, so I thought I'd give the Hamilton Beach a try, after looking at the reviews here.
Now, this is my first time using a Hamilton Beach food processor, as I've worked in professional kitchens and have always used Cuisinarts, and I'm used to them being work horses that can plow through any kind of food you process. At first, things were going great--it survived through a Thanksgiving for 20, a Christmas for 30, with the last thing made was a large batch of gingerbread dough.
I put the machine away, and just brought it out to use for a weekend's worth of cooking, and it's dead. We've troubleshooted through everything, but to no avail.
I guess this product would be fine if you only cooked occasionally, but for the frequent home cook who occasionally also does large meals, I'd seriously suggest getting a better and more sturdy brand.
- After reading the reviews on this, I thought why not? Should make cooking easier. Apparently, I should have only read one review ,which is listed and that is the one titled, "Not what I expected" or maybe it is just the two of us. Every complaint in his review was accurate.
1. The processor is bulky - no place to store (What did I expect for the 14 cup container) Ok so this is my fault. But this only begins my list of complaints.
2. The processor is so powerful it turns items to mush within mili-seconds (Ok who can complain about more power) this ends the common sense things.
3. When slicing carrots, potatoes, cucumbers, onions or, anything else for that matter - when you get to the bottom the machine throws the final pieces between the blade and the lid and spins them around at the speed of light. I keep waiting for one to break through the lid and impale me. (This should have been addressed by the engineers)
4. Unless you are planning on using the entire 14 cups (Cooking for the Smith family reunion)- the machine throws all of the food to the side of the container - where they don't even get touched by the blade.
5. Suction cup feature - I am a 200 lb 6'2 man - the machine comes with a free spatula that comes from the dollar store. Instead Hamilton beach should have thrown in a free crowbar to help pry the machine from the counter top.
6. Hamilton beach advertises you can put whole foods in the mouth of the unit - well I guess - very small tomatoes, or onions. Try placing a red onion in this machine - good luck.
7. This unit is so large, I have to take it a car wash to clean.
- Now I will give Hamilton Beach the benefit of the doubt...This is the first processor I have owned, so I don't really know how to compare it to other processors - and maybe the mess that it creates is excellent to an individual who enjoys their salad smothered in carrot, pepper, egg, onion, cucumber, and tomato soup. Trust me, the nice, evenly cut, crisp vegetables you see on the box were cut by hand or by a better machine and you WILL NOT even get close to these results with this processor. I have several other complaints, however I feel that if you have read this far and still purchase the machine my attempts at saving you the $70.00 are futile. Hey on the bright side, make sure you keep the box and packaging, the machine looks really nice and expensive, great for re-gifting (Just make sure you don't regift it to the person that regifted it to you).
- As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
The main thing this food processor has going for it is the size of the food bowl. It also chops and slices very fast. Those are the only good things I have found about it.
Here's what's not good about it.
1. The blades are poorly balanced and the machine vibrates wildly.If it weren't for the rubber suction feet, it would end up on the floor.
2. The blades are simply not rigid enough to produce consistent slices, particularly with more dense vegetables like carrots and potatoes.
3. The large mouth is actually a disadvantage because of the angle the food can get relative to the blade. The result with the slicer blade is half chopped, half sliced. It's very inconsistent.
4. The design of the lid makes it very hard to clean. It has a sliding opening on top to locate the pusher over the food. There is no easy way to clean it. Food also collects in the hinge of the food holder chute and no good way to clean that either.
5. Shredding is also quite inconsistent. It ranges from bits as small as a pencil point to shreds several inches in length.
6. Chopped foods don't always fall cleanly into the bowl. About 10% stays on top of the blade.
I have since bought a Cuisinart and it is the difference between night and day. But hey, it was only $59.95.
- Bad Design / Too Cumbersome
- I had a Hamilton Beach Emmie for 20 years and just last night it died :( I LOVED that little thing. They certainly don't make them like that any more. I was in the middle of making dinner and had my food in the Emmie, when it died. So my husband & I ran to a local hardware store and got the Big Mouth for just $37.00. The bar code on the box was marked as "door prize" which didn't get given away, so we bought it at the great price. We used it to chop up toast and vegies for the meatloaf and it worked fine. It is convenient to be able to put it all in at once, but I'd still rather have my smaller Emmie and chop in shifts, than to have to clean that weird Big Mouth lid, and I have no idea where I'll keep it since it's so huge to fit anywhere (it's still on the counter). It wouldn't be bad if they created it do that lid/chute can be stored up-side-down into the bowl portion, instead of upright making it too tall to fit anywhere. It too big to just grab and use so it'll probably last simply from lack of use. So I guess it was $37.00 down the drain.
- I see the positive reviews for this thing, but I just really hate mine. I've had it for 7 months now, and every time I use it, I end up frustrated. Heck, this this manages to frustrate me even when when I'm not using it because of all the cabinet space it wastes. Here's my list of cons:
1. It's well over a foot tall and very bulky, taking up ALOT of space. This thing is HUGE.
2. The cord is under the machine and wraps around manually underneath. If you wind it in the wrong direction, it won't fit right, so start over. It's also a pain to hook it under the little tabs to keep the cord in place.
3. The suction cups on the bottom sound like a good idea, but they're more of a pain. I would rather have non-slip rubber disks on the bottom. But then again, for a machine as tall as this, perhaps it NEEDS to be suction cupped down.
4. I've tried pureeing with it several times. Unless it's filled to the max, it just pushes the food to the side and the blades chop air.
5. I've used the slicing and shredding disks on potatoes, carrots and cheeses and am very disappointed. When you get to the end of the veggie or cheese it slips in between the lid and the disk, just spinning in circles. When this hapened with the potatoe, I thought the the lid was going to break.
And now for the pros (okay, pro, there's only one:
1. The chopping blade works great to make homemade bread crumbs. It's the only thing I've used it for that it actually works as it should. But even then, it's such a hassle to use, I end up frustrated. I'm going to send mine off to Goodwill and get a KitchenAid.
- I loved this processor at first, it was great to shread cheese and slice potatos. But do not drop it, it is made of very cheep plastic. I droped my lid and it cracked in several places, now it is no good, i have looked every where to find a replacement, and there is no way you can order parts. DO NOT DROP THE LID OR THE BOWL.
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- I GIFTED THIS PROCESSOR TO MY SON IN ST. LOUIS. HE IS SATISFIED WITH IT'S PERFORMANCE.
- I love this product so much that I had to search for it on a couple different websites to tell people how great it is. My husband got it for me for my birthday because I had talked about getting one since we got married three years ago. I used ot to mix the ingredients of a pie crust for chicken pot pie, and it mixed everything perfectly. Then I put all the attachments into the dishwasher and ended up dirtying only one dish rather than the ten I used to dirty while making this crust. It was so easy that I am considering making more crusts to freeze for a quick use later. I love this product. I have now owned it for about three months and have had no mechanical problems either.
- Wow! Great food processor! I'm thrilled with its performance. I had no difficulty with the suction cups, they stick, but not too much. I resisted buying one for years. Happy with the bonus blade as well. It is now a ktichen staple in my house!
- I have had this processor for almost 2 years and use it constantly. I bought it to do baby food for my second child and have found numerous uses for it. It processed the food I made well, but it was not a silky-smooth texture without adding a lot of extra liquid. For that purpose, I typically make chunkier purees, adding extra liquid to the frozen cubes upon reheating. That way I could make large batches of baby food that 'grew' with my child once she was out of the 'stage 1' foods. Now off the rabbit trail...
I use my processor to make pie dough, huge batches of cookies, hummus, salsa....pretty much anything. It is super easy to clean and has performed well for these two years with near-daily use. It IS a monster to store, but for me it was worth creating a space for it because I use mine so much. I would say it's footprint is *about* the size of my KitchenAid Classic mixer.
It's an excellent product at an excellent price :)
- This is a great product and well worth the money spent especially if you spend a lot time in the kitchen.
- You get what you pay for...
- ..and in this case, not even that. I arranged to return mine the day I got it. Chops and slices food unevenly leaving lots of "chunks" among the slices. Holding the handle and trying to twist the bowl to the right to remove it is very difficult. There is nothing to hold onto to push the other way. Believe me, if you have any kind of arthritis in your hands, this is not the product for you. The materials it is made out of, including the blades, are cheap, inferior. Yes, it is also big and bulky, but I could have adjusted to that had it been a good product. The "Big Mouth" feeding tube is the only plus, but that wasn't enough to warrant keeping it. I have a used food processor I got at a yard sale 14 years ago that does a better job. I only ordered a new one because I needed a bigger bowl.
- This model is very simple to use, requires no culinary expertise, and is very easy to wash and store. I hated having to cut things up in order to fit them in the processor to be cut up! The Big Mouth was the answer. I've had mine since Feb. 2005 and it is well worth the money and the valuable real estate in my small kitchen.
I'm not a cook, don't like kitchen chores much and I have never even used the regular processing blade, but the grating one is used at least twice a week to make homemade hash browns for my husband's breakfast.
Instead of buying pre-grated cheese, I buy in bulk, slightly freeze it and put it through the Big Mouth grater. Then I vacuum bag it in single use quantities and freeze what I won't use right away. I always have several kinds of cheese on hand and grated cheese can often be used when sliced cheese is called for.
I also garden and come harvest time ol' Big Mouth really gets a workout. Those big zukes and prize-winning potatoes are no match for this fella. He can handle it all and cleans up quick and easy. I don't like the suction feet as I can't move around easily then, so I just place him on a plastic-coated disposable plate. I have used the slicing blade when preparing foods, like peppers, apples, onions, eggplant etc. for dehydrating. I find that uniform slices takes some practice on things like tomatoes but the large, firm veggies come out just perfect.
My 2nd biggest use is cutting up onions. I used to have a hard time seeing through the tears just to get the job done. Now I slice them in Big Mouth and put them in a sealed bowl in the fridge, when I need chopped onion I just pull out what I need and fine chop the slices. It's faster, cleaner, and with the big cuts already made and the onions cold, there's no more tears. When I shred potatoes, I remove the bowl but leave the blade on top while I run cold water over the potatoes to rinse off excess starch. It holds the potatoes down but allows the water to run off; then I just dump the whole thing in a strainer to drain while I wash up the processor.
My husband balked when I first wanted to buy this, he said that using the hand grater was just as easy. Hah! Now the hand grater is hung on the wall as decor and he actually called me long distance one time when he couldn't find Big Mouth while cooking on his own.
I recommend this machine for basic kitchen prep. After 3 years of regular use, mine is trouble-free.
- I bought this food processor with the intention of making baby food for my 6 month old son. I've found that it does not do a good job pureeing the food, so he will gag and cough most of it up. I think he'll be fine with it by the time he is 10 months old or so, but if you are looking for a food processor that does a good job of pureeing food I would not recommend this. However, everything else I've used it for has been fabulous and it really is nice having one with such a large cup capacity. I also agree with others - it is relatively easy to clean.
- Move over Cuisinart! I never would have ventured away from Cuisinart but the price lured me to try. I couldn't have made a better decision. There are two main reasons: 1) the price 2) fluid does not overflow through the mid-section on the bowl. In addition, the bottom is made of suction which firmly adheres the device to the granite surface.
I highly recommend this food processor. The extra big mouth is great & I love the 14-cup capacity.
- I've had or worked with any number of food processors of various makes and models. This is one of my favorites! I love the big opening for dropping stuff in, and I really love the 14-cup capacity. Now when I mix up any liquids, I don't have to worry about it oozing out of the processor and making a big cleanup mess.
One nice chance that HB implemented with this one is that the core of the steel blade is mostly open/hollow. This means that if stuff gets up in there when you're using the blade, you don't have to use a teeny brush to dig it out and get it clean in there; it's super easy to clean now.
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