food processor

American  

noun

food processors plural

1. an electric appliance with interchangeable blades within a closed container into which food is inserted for slicing, shredding, mincing, chopping, puréeing, or otherwise processing at high speeds.

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food processor British  

noun

1. cookery an electric domestic appliance designed to speed the preparation and mixing of ingredients by automatic chopping, grating, blending, etc

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• food processing
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• food processors
  plural

Etymology

Origin of food processor

First recorded in 1970–75

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Example Sentences

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food processor

Meanwhile, combine the ricotta, heavy cream, confectioners’ sugar, citrus zest, vanilla and salt in a food processor.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Breville Paradice 9 – This food processor on steroids would serve any home cook or entertainer well in a small kitchen.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

Thompson makes his dough by hand; in the recipe here, I give instructions for doing it in a food processor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

On the morning of the lunch, Ms Patterson recounted frying off some garlic, shallots and several trays of supermarket-bought mushrooms that had been finely chopped in a food processor.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025

The Owner stuck a tentative finger into the food processor, where his first batch of his mothers peanut butter sat, waiting.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

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• blender
• mixer