8 Best Mini Food Processors of 2024
The top mini food processors can purée baby food, emulsify dressings and mince vegetables with ease.
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Whether you're chopping small cubes of Parmesan to sprinkle on your salad or tackling a mountain of veggies in your meal prep marathon, give your chef’s knife a break and consider a mini food processor your trusty sidekick. A mini food processor doesn’t claim a massive footprint like a full-size model might and its compact bowl makes it perfect for whipping up smaller batches of herbs, nuts, salsa, pesto and dressing.
Our top picks:
At the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, our experts dive deep into testing all things culinary. When it comes to food processors, we're on the lookout for the ones that chop with precision, boast user-friendly controls and are seriously easy to clean. In recent years, we put over 30 food processors, including the pint-sized powerhouses, through the wringer.
For this list, we focused solely on stand-alone mini food processors, but many immersion blenders throw their hats into the processing ring with similar-capacity attachments, and some full-size processors flaunt a second, smaller bowl (but beware, they’re prone to leaks).
At the end of this guide, you can find more details on how we test mini food processors and what to look for when shopping for one.
Perry Santanachote (she/her) has more than 15 years of experience in service journalism, specializing in food and consumer goods. She tests and reports on kitchen appliances and cooking tools. She also evaluates food products and cleaning supplies. She’s an experienced writer, product tester and recipe developer who has worked in labs, test kitchens and media organizations, including Thrillist and Consumer Reports.
Sarah (she/her) is a deputy editor in the Good Housekeeping Institute, where she tests products and covers the best picks across kitchen, tech, health and food. She has been cooking professionally since 2017 and has tested kitchen appliances and gear for Family Circle as well as developed recipes and food content for Simply Recipes, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Oxo and Food52. She holds a certificate in professional culinary arts from the International Culinary Center (now the Institute of Culinary Education).
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