It includes all the main attachments – from choppers and blenders to shredders – but you can also make perfectly julienned potatoes for chips, use the citrus press for orange and lemon juice, and whisk with the whisker.

Well, it can peel potatoes, for starters, very quickly and pretty effectively – not quite as effective, perhaps, as doing it by hand, but much, much speedier. The steel blades are incredibly sharp, and with five separate speeds, there’s a high level of control.It’s important to use the pulse button though, this powerful machine is so fast that pulsing is the best way to retain control over the finished size and texture. Versatility: stand mixers can work hard with the right attachments, which include everything from pasta rollers to sausage makers.

The chopped nuts were an uneven mixture of larger chopped chunks and powder, making this the least successful food we chopped.Striking the balance between practical and versatile isn’t the most straightforward thing for a food processor to do – extra accessories often find their way to the back of a cupboard. The pasta dough needed to be smooth with a slight spring back, both the curry paste and pesto needed to be processed to a smooth texture with no chunky, un-chopped bits, and we looked for even and consistently sliced and grated ingredients.

Minimalist in design but not in stature, this is a serious hunk of die-cast metal finished to an incredibly high spec. I made quick tomato purées, whizzed herbs in no time for a herby chilli sauce, sliced onions speedily – although, it should be noted, not quite as thinly as some other food processors. This food processor is easy to clean by hand, but we did get cut on both an attachment and the blade—you just have to be especially cautious because of how sharp it is. While some smaller models are limited to a few functions, most food processors these days have several interchangeable attachments for all sorts of food prep, from julienning potatoes to thinly slicing cucumbers, grating cheese to whisking and even kneading bread dough.

Magmix first hit UK shelves as the prosumer line from Robot Coupe, whose appliances were produced by French catering company salesman Pierre Verdun in 1960. Kenwood’s kMix is available in a range of colours and metallic finishes, but we think it really suits this special edition chrome casing. Multi by name and by nature, if you want a food processor that handles almost every part of your prep, this is it.

The functions are seemingly endless, but so are the product options available today, so we tested top models to find the best ones. We reviewed food processors from market leaders including KitchenAid, Ninja and Magimix and rated each machine on the speed and standard of grating, slicing, chopping and more. We loved the automatic one-touch for blending and processing as these programmes really took time out of our food prep tasks. The accessories are particularly sharp and come in a large storage case, which is worth bearing in mind if you're low on kitchen space.It seems like food processors just keep on coming out with more attachments and smart options - some can even be used as a blender, and you can even give your stand mixer a break with a food processor to make dough or whip up cream or mayonnaise. The wire whisk will make light work of meringue, for classics including lemon meringue pie and pavlova, as well as fun dishes like a tiramisu meringue roulade. But when thinking about space, you’ll also have to factor in the large accessory storage box which measures 19. The only other downside we found was that since the chopping blades sit slightly higher, we needed to scrape down the sides of the bowl more often.