The KitchenAid KFP1318 makes assembly quick: the bowl drops onto the base with no twisting, the hinged lid locks without screwing, and every blade and disc stores in a caddy inside the bowl. Tom's Guide rated it 4 out of 5. The large bowl is its weakness: Tom's Guide could not get hummus smooth and had to scrape cookie dough off the sides, and TechRadar found the capacity limited for dough.
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Twist-free assembly and built-in storage
Tom's Guide found the KFP1318 impressively easy to use. The bowl sits straight down onto the base with no rotating to lock, and the hinged lid locks on and flips open, which saved time on recipes that need the lid opened repeatedly. The multipurpose blade, adjustable slicing disc, reversible shredding disc and dough blade all fit in a storage caddy that sits inside the bowl.
TechRadar, which tested the UK versions of the KFP1318 and the dicing-kit KFP1319, called the one-click bowl "delightfully easy" and noted that the attachments are top-rack dishwasher safe, though dried pastry collected in the crevices of the chopping blade's fitment ring.
Fast on vegetables
In Tom's Guide's tests the 500-watt motor chopped an onion into small, consistent pieces in three seconds and sliced a russet potato in seven. Carrot slices were less consistent, and the chute's safety interlock meant ingredients had to be pre-cut to fit. At 82.3 dBA it was one of the quieter machines Tom's Guide measured. TechRadar found it grated carrot, sliced cucumber and chopped onion efficiently.
Too much bowl for small and sticky jobs
The 13-cup bowl works against small batches. Tom's Guide never got hummus truly smooth because the mixture spread thinly around the bowl, and cookie dough was pushed to the edges until it had to be scraped down. Grated cheese also backed up in the lid and chute. TechRadar's complaints were similar: there is not enough capacity to mix dough for a standard loaf, and the handle position is fixed.
Strengths
- +Bowl drops onto the base and the hinged lid locks without twisting, which Tom's Guide found saved time
- +All blades and discs store in a caddy inside the bowl
- +Chopped an onion in three seconds and sliced a potato in seven in Tom's Guide's tests
- +Relatively quiet at 82.3 dBA, per Tom's Guide
- +Adjustable slicing disc changes thickness with a twist
Watch-outs
- −The wide bowl spread hummus too thin to purée smoothly and pushed cookie dough to the edges in Tom's Guide's tests
- −Cheese built up in the lid and chute when grating, per Tom's Guide
- −TechRadar found the capacity too limited for a standard loaf of dough and the fixed handle position awkward
How it compares
With a 13-cup bowl it is larger than the 12-cup Hamilton Beach Stack & Snap, 10-cup Hamilton Beach 70730, 9-cup Ninja BN601 and 8-cup Cuisinart FP-8SV. Its 500-watt motor matches the Stack & Snap and is half the Ninja BN601's 1000-watt peak rating.
Rating sources
Counts as 4.02/5 in our score — this publisher's 156 scores on the site average 4.15, so its scores are adjusted up to compare fairly with other publishers.
Our 4.0 score is the average of the 1 scored review above, each adjusted for how strictly its publisher scores; 1 more reviewed it without printing a score and is not in the average. More about methodology.
