Which food processor?

[hairykrishna]

My OH does a lot of baking and constantly complains that using her hand whisk is a pain so I've decided to buy her a food processor of some description. I think it'd be used almost entirely for cake mixes of various descriptions; I do most of the other cooking and a little hand blender does everything I need.

Budget is one thing I'm struggling with. I don't mind paying if something is substantially better but I can't see the difference between blenders which cost twice/half as much as each other. Unfortunately I'm at sea in a bunch of conflicting reviews. Does anyone have a recommendation?

[grumbledoak]

Do you mean a mixer? Kenwood mixers do seem to be liked.

(If you do mean a food processor I prefer my current Magimix 4000 to the previous Kenwood fp5xx, it seems to be tougher, especially dishwasher-wise).

[hairykrishna]

I don't know. What's the advantage of one over the other?

[grumbledoak]

Mixers are more for baking, motor attachments (whisk, dough hook) on top:


Food processors have the gubbins (blades, mostly) at the bottom:

[hairykrishna]

Presumably mixers do a better job of mixing? At the expense of not doing all the chopping etc you can do with a processor?

[grumbledoak]

Mixers for whisking/mixing, food processors for chopping/blender. Mostly, anyway.