KitchenAid 9-Cup Food Processor - KFP0921, Contour Silver

Why it's worth it

The KitchenAid 9-Cup Food Processor slices, shreds, minces, and kneads, and it stores all its blades and discs inside the bowl. For someone whose prep day is mostly knife work on peppers, onions, and cabbage, it removes the worst hour of the routine.

Chopping is where meal prep actually goes long. Three onions, four bell peppers, a head of cabbage, a pound of carrots — that's an hour of standing at a cutting board before anything gets cooked. A food processor turns it into a few minutes of feeding vegetables through a tube. America's Test Kitchen found this size class handled ten cups of shredded cabbage in under thirty seconds with unusually uniform slices.

The four-blade multipurpose blade also minces raw meat, which is the trick most people don't know they have. Grinding chicken or beef at home costs less than buying it ground, and your recipient controls the fat content — genuinely useful for anyone tracking macros. It kneads pizza dough with the included blade and whips cream with the whisk attachment.

From our review of 8 gifts for meal preppers

What we like

• +Chopping is where meal prep actually goes long
• +The four-blade multipurpose blade also minces raw meat, which is the trick most people don't know they have
• +All the blades and discs store inside the bowl, and there's a cord wrap in the base
• +This is the pick that says you paid attention to how they cook

What to know

• –There are more parts to wash than anything else here
• –Build quality draws mixed reactions