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My wife worked at a fancy kitchen store for a long time. She tested out a whole lot of small appliances, demo'd them for customers, saw what people returned and exchanged, etc. and generally knows what's what.
And her general advice is to go breville for basically every small kitchen appliances. I can really only think of 4 exceptions- KitchenAid for stand mixers, Vitamix for blenders, croquade for waffle makers, and the Ninja Crispi for countertop air fryers.
I've really put our breville sous chef through it's pages over the years, Shen had it since before we started dating to easily more than 10 years, and it's still going strong.
I’ve had good luck with most of my Breville devices. This tracks. Tell her I say thanks! (I love my Breville BOV900BSS Air Fryer toaster oven though, so she’s right AND wrong! 😂)
We do also have a breville toaster oven/air fryer (slightly different model though) and do love it. Probably use it more and get better results from it than our regular oven.
It is not, however, the greatest air fryer out there. It's certainly passably but we definitely get better results from the crispi, and the Ninja is much easier to clean.
I whole-heartedly recommend their toaster ovens without reservation. And if you lack the storage/counter space for a dedicated air fryer o it will certainly do.
My one wish is that they'd make a toaster oven with a rotisserie.
Breville toaster oven gang rise up. It has pretty much replaced my gas oven, which I'll only use in the rare instance I'm cooking something that won't fit in the toaster oven. Best money I ever spent
It preheats so much faster, and fits a small turkey. Why use the energy for the big one? Mine is also a fairly good dehydrator.
Yeah, ours works great as a dehydrator, I just wish it came with more dehydrator racks. You can order more I've just never gotten around to doing it
While I second the breville recommendation in general, I have the Breville food processor. It's lovely and does everything, but it's not heavy enough. It's heavy, but lacks the real weight it needs to counter its serious motor. I have to hold it while using it, which makes it cumbersome.
It does an excellent job, especially at grating and slicing with its adjustable disc, but it annoys me enough that the blender gets used as a food processor more often than it should.
I honestly can't say I've experienced that.
It might be that newer or different models are lighter, like I said, mine is over 10 years old.
Or it could be down to something goofy like your countertops being smoother than mine (not unlikely, I have some shitty laminate counters that are pretty beat to hell)
Don't know for sure. It's the 1000w, 12 cup model. It mainly has issues when I'm chopping something dense with the standard blade.
It won't jump off the counter, but if I don't have a hand on it, it will shift and try to "shake" walk away.
Mines a 16 cup model, so that could be the difference.
I don't think mine has ever moved at all when I'm using it, and I've done just about everything you could ever want to do with a food processor.
The only time I've seen it struggle with anything was when I had it almost full of ground beef to make homemade hot dogs. It got it done, but it wasn't happy about it, and I'm pretty sure that emulsifying that sort of quantity of meat would be a struggle for any machine that could reasonably fit on a countertop.