For many cooks, an Oster food processor is all they need to satisfy their food preparation requirements. The Oster 3212 10-cup processor is large and sturdy enough for most home kitchen jobs.
Cooks that regularly process larger amounts of ingredients, or hard foods such as nuts and hard vegetables, may be better off choosing a commercial food processor such as the Cuisinart DLC-XP. This processor has twice the bowl capacity at 20-cups, but isn't too bulky or intrusive for a home kitchen.
The Oster, with a 500-watt motor, is powerful enough to chop vegetables, grind meat, or puree hard fruit. The pulse button helps to control the coarseness of the ingredients. This model comes with several blade attachments, including shredding discs, a stainless steel "S" blade, and a dough hook for mixing. Home baking preparation is a snap with a food processor of this size.
The Cuisinart commercial model offers a solution to cooks who need a larger processor, but don't want to go so far as to have a huge floor model in their kitchen. Larger baking, mixing and processing jobs require a more powerful motor and larger bowl capacity. With 1-1/2 HP direct drive motor, the Cuisinart DLC-XP will muscle it's way through up to 4-1/2 lbs of bread dough and can easily chop or grind hard ingredients. Compact and attractive, this processor has a square base and fits well onto most kitchen countertops.
For most home cooking or baking jobs, an Oster will do the job nicely. But overfilling a processor, or using it to process ingredients that are too dense or hard, will only burn out the motor and damage the blade. If you have tough processing jobs, you will appreciate the versatility and capacity of a commercial processor.