Your favorite food processor?

[GLC1968]

It's a shame that it costs more to repair small appliances than to replace them. My toaster oven has a precarious switch interlock with the oven door that it can be quite tricky to get it to work. At 15 yrs old, I've probably gotten my money's worth, but I sure wish it weren't such a PIA to get it to toast! I can always toast on the broil setting but then I'd have to watch it so I could flip the bread over to toast the other side.

Ain't that the truth?

We had a toaster oven that we basically melted. I forget what we did, but it was a miracle we didn't burn the house down. By rare coincidence, we were at good will the next day for something else when we noticed the same exact toaster oven on their shelves. It was missing some stuff, but we bought it anyway and between the two of them, we were able to put together a fully working toaster oven that we still use to this day (3 years later)! The 'parts' oven went to the dump so I'm sure it's in a land-fill somewhere but at least we were able to get one of them working properly without having to buy a new one.

Lately, we've been in a place where we can afford to really shop around and buy high quality stuff. We have a vacuum that is almost all metal, sucks like a champ and should work for 20 years (even with the heavy shed of our animals!). We recently did the same for our mattress. And for our canner and our dehydrator. Clearly, I need to do the same with a blender purchase! I get so tired of having to replace stuff because it dies entirely too early in it's lifecycle!

[OakLeaf]

I had a magnetron replaced on a microwave last year. Sure it cost the same as buying a whole new unit, but the whole rest of the unit didn't go into the landfill, and the labor charge stayed in my local economy.

I'm bumming about my mattresses, actually. One of them is pretty old and I've hated it for the last 15 years and I'm not sorry to have to replace it. The other, though - while it's 10 calendar years old it's only had about four years' worth of sleeping on it, and it is way too new to be so completely sacked out. I've been sleeping with a pillow under my butt, because otherwise the hole in my mattress was giving me back trouble. And I do flip it regularly. Grrrrrr.

[Skippyak]

My 11 cup Cuisinart is about 18 yrs old and I would not part with it, I think it is better than any of the other processors I have used. You can get them for about 100 in Costco when they are on sale so inexpensive too. I have the collar/safety lock bit fixed up by DH as this is the part that always fails. I did buy a replacement but the construction is poor, he has it reinforced with some kind of metal and I don't put that part in the DW. I have an expensive magimix with 3 bowls and you know, I never use the small bowls. I also have a vitamix blender and that is totally awesome for blending but not for some jobs. I have one of everything in my kitchen but the Cuisinart is a solid little worker that never gets put in a cupboard.

[Crankin]

I have the Kitchen Aid. It comes with the big and small bowls, and a ton of attachments. I hadn't used it too much until recently. The only thing I don't like about it is that it's heavy!
It works great. I had a Cuisinart that sucked.