Budget 😀 Breville Sous Chef 16 Cup Peel & Dice Food Processor, Brushed Aluminum, BFP820BAL ❤️

4 reviews for Budget 😀 Breville Sous Chef 16 Cup Peel & Dice Food Processor, Brushed Aluminum, BFP820BAL ❤️

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Brian F. Burke Jr. – January 9, 2021

   OK, I worked in mostly high-end restaurants for around 30 years or so. I know a lot about food processors. What they can and can’t do as what they do well and what they don’t do well. For a home food processor at the price I paid, I am completely satisfied with my purchase. Breville’s customer service had been outstanding even during COVID. I do plan on getting the other two dicers, as well as the one that came with it, which is beyond compare. I worked both the front and back of the house and performed every job that there is to do in a restaurant. I have been a Chef, a Bartender, a Waiter, a manager a sommelier, and so on. I can sharpen and use knives and have a set of Dick Steel knives that are as good as you can buy. I can dice onions much faster than a food processor, as long as there is only a small number, this is where people seem to have a disconnect with exactly what a food processor is for. Getting out a food processor to dice one onion is like using a bulldozer to clear a 5 ft sidewalk of snow. It is absurd. I can probably have the onion diced and the board and knife cleaned before you could get your food processor out and set up. Food processors also can not do what a good, especially a good vacuum blender, can do. My point is that a food processor, no matter how expensive or what kind will do what a food processor is meant to do and nothing else. It is best if you have used one before buying what is in my opinion the best home food-processor available today. No, they don’t cut french fries… Remember the old Vegamatic? They cut fries, or a good mandolin, even better a wall-mounted, lever-actuated french fry cutter, with a big industrial potato peeler next to it and the water hose for the peeler and a big worktable. You can cut 100 Lbs. of raw fries in 15 minutes or less if you know what you are doing, then you need a deep frier to blanch the fries and a deep frier to cook them, you can use the same one, but have to use different temps. I hope I have made my point.What is a food processor good for? Making a small amount (1 loaf) of bread or pizza dough in about 3 or 4 minutes. Many other things as well. One thing the Breville excels at is dicing small Spanish onions, you know, the strong ones that are 2 maybe 3 inches across and make you cry. They fit in the shoot and are diced in no time and will dice 5 lbs in a matter of a few minutes with no tears. Nothing on earth is better at making mayonnaise than a food processor. They also will puree things quite well as long as you don’t need them super fine, like a food mill would render, and you don’t need connective tissues removed like a food mill does when making things like forcemeat or very fine sausage stuffing, or don’t need the cells of what your pureeing crushed like a 40,000 RPM flat-bladed Vacuum blender(i.e. – smoothies). They slice, dice, puree, make emulsion sauces, and much more. If you are cooking for 2 people, get a tiny food processor if you have to have one. This one is best used when you are cooking for 4 to maybe 30 people or processing a lot of things as in canning. Shredding cheese! Another strong point of a food processor, remember you want to shred cheese that is very cold and fairly hard, or partially freeze it first, otherwise, you end up with a mess. The cheese MUSt be cut to fit in the shute I would like Breville to come out with a cheese grating plate, you know, the side of your stand up shredder that has little star-shaped things punched in it, the side that grates lemon, lime, and orange rinds into powdery stuff, are very hard cheese into powder. Food processors shred, not grate for the most part. I tested the peeler and it works on small potatoes quite well, but I usually leave the skins on those as they are tender, and the carrot peeler is, well, interesting, but takes longer than a good ceramic peeler or a coarse brass or stainless steel vegetable brush to get the skins off, I keep mine for stock anyway. It excels at mincing garlic or anything for that matter. The motor is the best I have used other than a 240-volt Industrial Robocoupe ($they can cost $10,000) and Hobart makes a buffalo-chopper that will chop 500 lbs of onions in no time, but who does that kind of thing at home. All I am saying is know what a food processor is actually capable of and also what it will save you time at. If you know those 2 things, then your way beyond most people, and there is no better 16 cup food processor anywhere near the price than a Breville.Lastly, a comment on the motor. A 1200-watt induction motor is a very powerful, high torque motor. no brushes! Just a control unit that turns Ac to DC and uses MOSFETS to make it a spin. Just think of the Tesla car, same thing. A tesla has 4 motors, not sure of the wattage, but it can go from 0-60 mph faster than almost ANY supercar and it’s a 4-door sedan. That is because it uses a variable speed DC-induction motor like the Breville Food Processor. No, they are not the SAME motors, just the same type. There are no gears needed, it all depends on the power supply and the motor driver. That is why a Breville can run at the same speed whether it is empty or has food in it, as long as there isn’t too much food in it, lol. It is beyond the scope of this review, suffice it to say, it has an outstanding motor. There is gear driven RPM reducer for certain set-ups. I am not sure why Breville chose to do it with gears and not electronically, probably due to the cost of using a high amperage, low voltage power supply, but hay, it works like a charm.I thought of one last comment, I haven’t tried the Cream Whipper, but don’t try to whip egg whites for meringue in it, won’t work. You cant whip egg whites in plastic or anything that has a trace of oil in it. Copper bowl, inside and out is best, like when cooking sugar for jams or Real Buttercream Frosting where softball cooked sugar is needed. Same for caramel. I am not sure why egg whites don’t whip in plastic, or if there is any fat in the bowl, including egg yolk in your whites.I HIGHLY recommend this machine for any cook who had experience with food processors.Happy cooking,Brian Burke Jr.P.S. – That’s My Fredrick Dick honing steel hanging to the left, they also make the best steel knives you can buy, in my humble opinion. (I didn’t rate “Thickness” ??? Don’t have a clue why it is part of the rating. If your blades ever get dull, get new ones, they are not the kind you can sharpen really. New they are razor sharp, so be carefull.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Lars Olsson – June 22, 2022

   This is a high end processor. One look at the price tag alone will tell you that, but what you don’t get a good sense for in the photos and even videos you see online is just how much of a tank this thing is. The base is heavy and smooth; it reminds you of Breville’s equally high-end Control Freak induction burner in its lines and material and heft.With the Sous Chef’s array of discs and blades, it can accomplish so many repetitive kitchen tasks as well. Yes, careful knife work by a skilled user with sharp knives will always give a better result than a mechanical chopper/slicer/diver like this, but the Sous Chef comes very close in most regards, and how many of us are really skilled enough with knives to be at that level anyway? Even if you are that skilled, sometimes just staring at a mound of potatoes that need peeling and thinking there has to be a better – or at least faster and less time-consuming – way makes you yearn for something like this.The blades are ridiculously sharp and also quite well-built. The controls are thankfully very straightforward, eschewing the trend toward overly-complicated touchscreen interfaces hiding a zillion options you’ll only use a dozen or so of. And the various blades and other attachments all do their work very well, though some better than others.For example, the cheese (or vegetable) shredders are a dream, and the standard S-shaped slicing blade can make quick work of anything you throw at it. But there are a couple of less-stellar points. One of the truly whiz-bang attractions (and part of the name) is the plastic “blade” that promises to peel your potatoes, apples, etc. And it works…mostly. But it isn’t until you look at the back of the attachments box that you see Breville’s suggestion that you use only round potatoes of about 70mm size for best results. Fair enough, I suppose, but in the USA, one of the most-commonly peeled potatoes is the Burbank Russet, which is usually oblong and frequently lumpy to boot. This is in fact what I tried to do first; I imagine with larger red potatoes, the results might be substantially improved, but with the Russets, the results were just OK. Yes, the Breville peeled them…mostly. But there were several patches on every one that were simply left untouched and required manual finishing with a peeler, which to my mind sort of defeats the purpose. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t awesome either.The one thing I found genuinely near-useless was the “French fry” blade. This is likely a limitation of the fact that, well, it has to spin around in a circle, but whatever the reason, the result was weirdly thin-yet-wide “fries” that were curved. The curve didn’t bother me much, but the width-to-thickness did. I am not sure why Breville chose the particular ratio they did, but they were not proper shoestring fry shape, and they seemed too thin to be of much use for most applications, almost approaching what might be good for hash browns, but there again, too WIDE for that, really. I don’t t think I’ve seen any potato ever cut exactly that way, so it’s a bit of a puzzling choice.That said, these are minor quibbles with a product that mostly shines and does a lot of things very well. If you are looking to take some of the repetitive drudge work out of preparing food, it’s hard to imagine a single tool (albeit with a ton of attachments) that would be better-suited.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Critic is me – October 24, 2022

   I just got this the other day and I have already made several dishes with it. We have recently went to a mostly vegan diet and I dreaded thinking about chopping and slicing all those vegetables. Now it’s fun to see this thing do all the work. I made a diced potato salad in minutes. also a fruit salad diced 6 apples all at once and the bowl held all that and 3 kiwis and more I didn’t have to dump the bowl to make more room it all happened in the same bowl, I was thrilled. I used to struggle with my old Cuisinart to get the lid on and off, but this one slides like butter. I like that as long as you have it on you can just put all the items you want in and it will turn off and on automatically as you put the pusher in. It cleans very easily, but if you want to keep it spot free you’ll have to dry everything used right away. Be aware if you want different size dicing disc they are a separate purchase. One thing for sure is do NOT wash the adjustable slicer without turning the blade back down, I already cut myself with it, its razor sharp! Oh and I use the potato peeler for garlic and it takes off the skins too I love that. I really can’t think of any cons to share. Im having so muchh fun with it.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Klz – December 4, 2022

   I used it during Thanksgiving time and it was excellent for shredding cheese and mixing soups. It shreds super quick! I Ireally have enjoyed it. I haven’t used all of the equipment as of yet but so far it definitely outweighs the Cuisinart I’ve had that one and I couldn’t stand it because I kept having to stop the machine while shredding cheese. It would shred unevenly including vegetables as well. It is easy to clean the Cuisinart wasn’t as easy. I look forward to trying other features. It also purees great, as well, but GREAT, so far.