PSA: Cuisinart food processor recall (4-rivet blades)
javiwa
7 years ago
(x-posted to Appliances)
FYI to all from the CPSC: Cuisinart Food Processors Recalled by Conair Due to Laceration Hazard
Specifically, this steel blade:
Cuisinart's website has been down all morning, it appears, due to traffic. I tried calling the toll-free 877-339-2534, and message states calls are not being accepted due to high call volume.
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elgable21
7 years agoRelated Discussions
My vintage Kitchen Aid Food Processor...waaah!
Comments (13)Once upon a time, a son of France rose, drank his bowl of cafe au lait, smoked a morning Gauloise, and made machines until lunchtime. Fortified by the lunch packed by his young bride, a carafe of vin ordinaire, and more Gauloises, in the afternoon he made more machines. The next day, and the next week, he did it all over again. Those machines traveled all over the world of the swingin' seventies, to kitchens from Helsinki to Hackensack, and set to work. Chopping and dicing, whirring and kneading, they worked in kitchens grand and small, just as their big commercial Robot Coupe brothers were working in the world's restaurants. Like the solid French ouvriers who made them, the machines worked and worked. The years passed, decades went by, generations came and went. The sturdy young Gaul who screwed together this food processor and riveted the engraved label to its underside grew old, stooped, and was buried in the old cemetery by the wood, next to his beloved wife. The machines he made outlive him, and may outlive their children, and their children. In 1970s France, they hadn't learned to shave thicknesses and cheapen materials so that their products would fail just after the warranties expired. Your Robot Coupe in Kitchen Aid livery was made to keep working indefinitely. It was meant to be the last food processor its owner would ever have to buy. We live in the twilight of quality consumer goods. Everything is made in China of thin plastic and pot metal, cost-engineered to fall apart after an average of X years, with a standard deviation of Y that the company's accountants compute into the warranty reserves and balance against the manufacturing cost, to achieve maximum profit for the corporate parent. There is no red wine, or indeed time for lunch, in the factories. Yes, there are sturdy machines in the factories, some even made in France. They are used to make the cheap new machines that we consumers buy. Or, that we don't buy. You can get a used bowl, lid, blades, and stem for your KFP 700 for about $50 on eBay. See link for a typical auction. Or a new work bowl for about $60 from a few companies who stock parts for old machines. Try Gourmet Depot. Obvious, as a grouchy old sentimentalist, I would keep using the old French machine instead of junking the work of our Gauloise-puffing and vin rouge-imbibing hero. But I'm not a nutter about this stuff. Why, only today I dumped a box of old stuff - 56K modems, parallel printer cables, floppy disks, Celeron processors - at the freegeek computer recycle place. But I kept the old acoustic coupler and 1200 baud modem that I used to go online with, from pay phones on dusty roads all over France. Maybe, even the side road where the factory once stood. Maybe, even the phone where our hero would call his young wife, to take her out for dinner with the francs earned from his long day of making machines. Maybe, even the sturdy machine on your kitchen counter. Here is a link that might be useful: Example...See MoreCuisinart Food Processor - old blades in new?
Comments (24)I have a Cuisinart custom 11 that i have to hold to work, the lid is cracked alittle so I bought a new Cusinart 14 cup but didnt open it. Does anyone think the newer one is superior to older one....thinking I should have just gotten replacement part....See MoreFood Processor
Comments (19)I have the same experience as Olychick regarding Cusinart made after 2005. Bought a Cusinart food processor after 2005 and it broke within 3 months while making pesto. Agree with what Olychick wrote: "I don't remember the Model #. It lasted until about 2007 or so. The shaft finally gave way or something...I can't really remember but it wasn't repairable. I bought a new one, also the largest available...it lasted a couple of years of very light use....I never make bread anymore, but still chop/slice/grate everything in it or in my mini. It quit working and I sent it in for warranty repairs which took 3 months or some gawd-awful length of time. Got it back, it lasted less than a year. From Straw: I still have my KitchenAid heavy-duty food processor for 15 years, works great in grinding meat. Kneading bread didn't work though. I need to shop for a smaller one to grind a smaller amount of meat or pesto, with less cleaning....See MorePSA: Cuisinart food processor recall (4-rivet blades)
Comments (14)>>> "I won't hold my breath on receiving it over the holidays, though, and will just have to re-work my cooking/baking agenda"<<< I'll echo what Cavimum said. Note that on Chowhound's similar thread, a user reported the blade breakage happened to him several years ago. Pictures are provided for anybody interested. (Link is here.) He also states: "you can allay your fears by examining the blade each time before and after you use it. The cracks form on the narrow sides next to the rivets, and if there are no cracks, you're good for that day: the problem takes a while to get serious." While Cavimum and I think that approach is sufficiently reassuring for our own "cooking/baking agendas" while waiting for the replacement, YMMV. FWIW, I was able to get through to the Cusinart site this morning by using this direct url: https://recall.cuisinart.com/...See Morejaviwa
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoBuehl
7 years agoIt's just the one blade that is being recalled, not the machine itself or the other blades. You can continue to use all the other blades.
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