Hamilton Beach Stack & Snap 12-Cup Food Processor
The heavily marketed budget full-size, with a straining motor and fragile plastics that make it a poor three-year proposition. A discounted KitchenAid 7-Cup is the better budget buy.
Consolidated from 2 independent outlets
See the sources2 of 7 research runs entered this as a product to avoid rather than a pick. A trap is a product buyers genuinely cross-shop but should not buy, ranked honestly alongside the real picks rather than dropped to the bottom. Why the boards include them
Pros & cons
- ✓ Cheap and pushed hard on big-box endcaps, so easy to find
- ✓ Reviews fine in week one
- ✗ 450-watt motor strains on dough and hard cheese
- ✗ Plastic bowl and lid are common breakage points
- ✗ One-year warranty; disappoints in year two
The sources behind this ranking
We searched the web and YouTube for what has been published about this product, then read the articles, video transcripts and comments we found.
2 positive sources
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Animated Review Animated Review · 2.3K subscribers · May 2020 This model is one of the best rated food processor on the market right now.Watch
Frequently asked questions
It ranks #13 of 16 on our food processors tier list, in F tier. That placement draws on 2 independent outlets.
450-watt motor strains on dough and hard cheese. Plastic bowl and lid are common breakage points. One-year warranty; disappoints in year two.
Nobody we can recommend. It is in F tier on our board because its 450-watt motor strains on dough and hard cheese, its plastic bowl and lid are common breakage points, and its one-year warranty runs out before the problems start. Our research names a discounted KitchenAid 7-Cup Food Processor (KFP0718) as the better budget buy.
A discounted KitchenAid 7-Cup Food Processor (KFP0718), in B tier, which our research names directly as the better budget buy. If you need the full twelve-cup bowl, the GE 12-Cup Food Processor in B tier is Good Housekeeping's best value pick and delivers credible full-size performance for little money. If you can stretch, the Cuisinart Custom 14-Cup Food Processor (DFP-14BCNY) in S tier is the machine you will not need to replace.
The motor and the plastics. The 450-watt motor strains on dough and hard cheese, the jobs a full-size processor is bought for. The plastic bowl and lid are common breakage points. Our research sums it up as a poor three-year proposition: it reviews fine in week one and disappoints in year two, with a warranty that ends after year one.
About as long as the warranty. Our research found it disappoints in year two, after a one-year warranty, and calls it a poor three-year proposition. A cheap machine that has to be replaced in two or three years costs more than a sound one bought once.
Because most are written in week one. Our research notes it reviews fine when new and is pushed hard on big-box endcaps, so it is easy to find and easy to rate after a single use. The faults, a straining motor and fragile plastics, show up with months of use, after the review is posted and the warranty has run out.
Not reliably. Dough is the heaviest load a food processor sees, and our research found the 450-watt motor strains on it and on hard cheese. If kneading is on your list, buy a machine with a stronger motor, such as the Cuisinart Custom 14-Cup Food Processor (DFP-14BCNY) with its 720W continuous-duty motor.
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