2 hours ago, TdeV said:
Shel_B, I don't have any experience with new Cuisinart appliances.
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Periodically when visiting stores, I have gone to look at new Cusinart food processors. I don't like how flimsy these machines look up close. So far no deal.
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I share your appreciation for the quality feel of good appliances.
It seems that a number of cognoscenti believe (and can at least somewhat substantiate) that the older machines were better engineered and better built. That's in great part why I want a blade rather than a new machine. Even if the blade is of less than stellar quality, I can buy a couple-three for less than the cost of a new machine and keep my baby on the road another decade or more. I'm going to get one of the blades that was mentioned in this thread. It's already in my shopping cart.
Turns out that my machine is from the '80s, so it's about forty years old.
