Black & Decker MFP200 MiniPro Plus

I bought this to see if I would use a food processor enough to upgrade to a bigger, more powerful unit. I was excited to find that this small processor would shred and slice since most this size don't. This… would have been great had it actually done that. Most of the food I tried was wasted. I ended up with cucumber mush instead of slices. It would only shred half of two quarters of potatoes. It made more juice than shreds. The shreds and slices I did cut were stuck at the top of the shoot and had to be cleared every few seconds. Chunks of cheese got stuck between the blade and the container. This probably would be a better product if it didn't utilize the shoot only for shredding and slicing and just allowed them to fall in the bowl. I had more of a mess to clean up because of the shoot and I used a fairly tall bowl. Also with the buttons on the side, I more than once accidently turned it on. Too bad it was so terrible because it was so cute. If you want to mini processor that shreds and slices check out the 3 cup food processor made by Food Network. It's only $10 more and actually works.

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At the time it was the only small electric shredder I could find, and I've used this item for over a year, but I can't say I like it one bit. Its primary role has been to shred carrots. As others have… noted, the shreds fly everywhere unless you very carefully cup your hand around the spout. That's assuming you can get the carrots to shred. The unit is designed in such a way that often the carrots or pieces (you usually need to cut them to get them in the tube) will catch in the space between the tube and the blade. It's a hassle to have to fish those parts out and try again. And eventually, pressing carrots down to shred leads to a bent, then broken blade. My previous mini-food processor handled this work for years before it faded. The B&D unit is a great example of poor design and poor quality materials.

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I've had this little thing forever - but I only use the chopping blade. Did they even TRY shredding a carrot..cheese....anything? Because I gotta tell you, I make my living as a personal chef, so I'm… pretty handy when it comes to familiarizing myself with culinary appliances; I just though maybe I mixed up some parts from some other appliance, or wasn't assembling it correctly. The shredder/slicer attachment is so faulty that's it's actually kind of funny (only after you've lassoed the shreds of kamikaze cheddar that stormed the counter, floor, and pretty much anywhere BUT the bowl and recovered from a brief spell of vertigo as a result). Um....don't get it? yeah - don't get it.

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