The components of this package are:
The base unit - a nicely-styled and compact unit, with a big rotary dial and two push buttons (ice-crusher and pulse) on the front; very easy to clean with a cloth;
A generous 3.4 litre polycarbonate mixing bowl (marked up to 2 litres), with a very wide top for easy cleaning - a big improvement on my old Braun mixer with straight sides;
A lid for the bowl, with a wide feeding tube and two pushers (you can use the bigger one to make the feeding tube narrower if you want, and the smaller pusher doubles as a measure);
A detachable spindle that is used to drive most of the gadgets that go in the bowl;
An S-shaped plastic kneading tool;
An S-shaped metal chopper;
A balloon egg-whisk;
An adjustable slicing disk (you can adjust the gap from 1mm to 6mm);
A grating disk;
A citrus juicer that sits on top of the bowl;
A plastic spatula (just in case you don't already have one);
A 2-litre polycarbonate liquidiser jug (marked on the side up to 1.5 litres); and
A lid for the jug, with the usual hole for adding ingredients while the liquidiser is running.
You also get a multilingual manual and a slim multilingual book of recipes by Cyril Lignac, who is apparently the French equivalent of Jamie Oliver.
Good points:
The very compact footprint on my kitchen worksurface.
That large wide bowl, with plenty of capacity, and easy to clean.
The wide feeding tube - it's about medium-apple-sized, so you do still need to halve some ingredients first.
The motor seems really powerful - I reckon it could cope with pretty much anything.
The ice-crusher - it's quite noisy (and startling at first), but it does crush the ice beautifully.
Other than the base unit, everything is apparently dishwasher safe, but to be honest it's quite easy to clean most of it by hand.
Bad points:
It's not as flexible as the
Kenwood Multi Pro FP920 Food Processor, 3 Litre, 1kW. It doesn't have a coffee-grinder or a juicer (if you want a juicer, by the way, I'd recommend the stand-alone
Antony Worrall Thompson by Breville JE15 Whole Fruit Juicer - I've had one for three years and it's still soldiering on).
There's nowhere to keep all the bits, although thankfully there aren't too many bits to worry about.
The liquidiser jug is polycarbonate, not glass, although it seems tough enough.
You can operate the liquidiser with the lid off - there's no safety lock - so there's some potential for accidents. Conversely, the bowl lid must be clicked into place before the motor will turn on.
The unit I was sent by Amazon was black, not white like the one in the illustration - this doesn't matter to me, but check first if you want your food processor to match your kitchen colour-scheme.
I quite like the (relative) simplicity of this unit. Other than the citrus press (I'm happier juicing lemons with a fork or using my juice extractor), I'm likely to get a fair bit of usage from all the gadgets - there won't be too many little bits gathering dust at the back of the cupboard.