Ninja BN600 Professional Food Processor

When our old Hamilton Beach food processor gave up after nearly a decade of service, we went to Walmart and bought another Hamilton Beach to replace it. That was a mistake! The thing broke within a month of purchase, and when we contacted Hamilton Beach to get a replacement with the warranty, an automated reply said it would take two weeks just to hear back! What a joke. So I came to Amazon and started looking around for something better. I'm happy to say I found it here! The Ninja food processor holds plenty of food (9 cups in this case), its motor is about half as loud as the original Hamilton Beach (to say nothing of the screeching noise the second one made!), and the dual blades means my food gets processed twice as fast! I've used it three times so far. First, I made the filling for chocolate chickpea truffles. Very sticky, but not a problem for this guy! Even with melted chocolate cooling as it blended, it had no issues. The second thing I made was a seitan (fake meat), which requires a very thick, very tough dough to get the fake meat texture. Again, no problem! This food processor had no issue tackling it, despite the pressure it put on the previous food processors' motors. And the third thing I made was cashew cheese. Which, even though I soak the cashews first, it still requires a lot of time to get the cheese nice and smooth. With the old models, I would start it and walk away for around ten minutes to get the texture I wanted. The Ninja got it done in seven minutes. My only gripe is that it only blends for 60 seconds at a time, meaning after each minute, I had to press the button to restart the machine until my cashew cheese was ready. Still, it's a great machine! I was really pleased with the price, too. It only cost $20 more than the Walmart Hamilton Beach, and it's so much better! The way it comes apart makes a lot more sense, too. The Hamilton Beach bowl was donut shaped, with a hole in the middle (walls around the hole), and food would get up under the blade and wind up on the base. This one has no such issue. The bowl is an actual bowl, with the rotating base for the blades built into the bottom. I imagine the base on this one will be a lot easier to keep clean. Overall, a great buy. Does everything I need it to and is quiet about it. : )