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Cuisinart Custom 14 DFP-14BKSY

Cuisinart Custom 14 DFP-14BKSY

Scored on 44 verified owner verdicts, from 531 comments read across 3 communities
TL;DR
Owners overwhelmingly praise its durability, powerful motor, and excellent chopping and dough performance, though several find it bulky, weak on small batches, and awkward for slicing and shredding cheese.

86% of 44 verified owners recommend the Cuisinart Custom 14 DFP-14BKSY, based on real owner verdicts aggregated from Reddit, enthusiast forums, and YouTube.

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What 44 owners say
531 comments reviewed · scored on the 44 clearest verdicts
86%
Recommend
38 owners
3%
Neutral
1 owners
11%
Don't recommend
5 owners
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38%
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100%
3

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The headline score reflects owners (Reddit, enthusiast forums), independent lab tests, blogs with no affiliate links, and YouTube owner-comments when they line up with owners. YouTube and Affiliate blogs are shown for perspective but kept out here — hover the i for why.

What owners like
  • Durable, lasts decades · 20 · 45%
  • Excellent, uniform chopping and prep · 14 · 32%
  • Powerful motor handles dough · 12 · 27%
  • Better value than Vitamix attachment · 10 · 23%
  • Fast spin-up and true pulses · 6 · 14%
What owners flag
  • Bulky, weak on small batches · 8 · 18%
  • Poor slicing and cheese shredding · 5 · 11%
  • Lid latch awkward or breaks · 4 · 9%
  • Small feed chute · 4 · 9%
Who it's for
A great fit if
  • Home cooks who batch-prep vegetables and meal-prep weekly
  • Bakers kneading bread dough and pie crust
  • Buyers wanting a durable, buy-it-for-life processor
  • Anyone weighing it against the Vitamix processor attachment
Look elsewhere if
  • People with limited counter or storage space
  • Cooks mostly making small, single-serving batches
  • Those who mainly want to shred or grate cheese

Synthesized from what Cuisinart Custom 14 DFP-14BKSY owners say — not a spec sheet.

How buyers rate it elsewhere

Retailers' own star averages, for comparison — separate from our vetted owner-verdict score above.

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YouTube▼ don’t recommend

why the fuck is this information not in the manual

YouTube— neutral

Now I want to replace my old, secondhand processor, which has very dull blades and is rarely used because of that.

Reddit⚠ product link▲ recommend

No other food processor (aside from a commercial model like a Robot Coupe) is remotely as good. This is the one model Cuisinart makes that is definitely still BIFL. Get the 14 cup model even if you don't think you need that size. The 11 cup model has a different lid latch design that isn't as sturdy. I accidentally dropped our demo model like 5 feet onto c

YouTube▲ recommend

I love to cook and see that the 14 cup Cuisinart is used all the time on America's Test Kitchen

YouTube— neutral

I tried this one but i love the Breville more because of the adjustable slicer and build quality.

YouTube▼ don’t recommend

The instruction book was totally useless.

YouTube— neutral

The food processor is great, but the instruction booklet is the worst I have ever seen.

Reddit▲ recommend

It is immediately obvious that the Cuisinart is better in (almost) every respect. The Vitamix certainly works fine enough, but it is so clear to me that the Cuisinart is truly a top-level purpose-built machine and that the Vitamix attachment is a clever design but nowhere near as strong a performer.

YouTube▼ don’t recommend

I read the manual and it is terribly written, I had the same problem as you the machine would not turn on

YouTube▲ recommend

I love that it can make dough

YouTube▼ don’t recommend

Piece of junk impossible to get the lid on.

YouTube— neutral

It seems like it’s not very user-friendly. I’ve been wanting one for a long time and don’t know if I have the patience for this one.

YouTube▲ recommend

I give it 4.9 stars. Excellent! My only small wish is that the food chute was a little bigger - I was doing more cutting by hand than I expected in order to fill the chute.

YouTube▼ don’t recommend

Just received it today and was so frustrated by no assembly instructions!

YouTube— neutral

My old cuisinart was so much simpler.

YouTube▲ recommend

I absolutely love this machine.

YouTube▼ don’t recommend

Therefore, I do not use it much. I used yesterday but it cut my cucumbers too thin. Faster to get out a good knife!

YouTube— neutral

Pity about the handle trapping food.

YouTube▲ recommend

you have sold it to me

YouTube▼ don’t recommend

You are definitely right about the manual being helpless to understand proper assembly!

Reddit— neutral

it now has a larger gap at the very bottom, so some things do not get incorporated as well as they used to. It also does not perform well with small batches of things for this reason.

YouTube— neutral

I think this processor is the one for me, except… why oh why don’t they do a glass bowl or stainless if they must? I worry about the microplastics

YouTube▼ don’t recommend

Ive tried everything, been fighting with it allll day..ready to throw it away

Reddit▲ recommend

The Cuisinart Custom 14 is like half the price and does all the same shit with the same precision. Don't get me wrong, I'm a breville fanboi, but the Cuisinart is the 'budget baller' food processor IMO.

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