Model comparisons
Cuisinart small-bowl processors: DFP-3, LPP, SFP-13 and CFP-800
Start with the food motion, not the bowl label
The three-cup Cuisinart Handy Prep DFP-3 and Little Pro Plus LPP look like compact processors, but their useful distinction is how they handle repeated slicing. Both package a small batch bowl with a separate continuous-feed chute and ejector disc. Cuisinart describes that chute as allowing ongoing slicing or shredding; it does not make the work bowl larger for chopping, puréeing or dough. Their linked booklets recommend chopping about one cup of produce at a time and list up to 1.5 cups of flour for a bread or pizza dough batch. If most of your work is a large chopped salsa, soup base or dough, those task amounts matter more than the claim of unlimited chute output.
The DFP-3 keeps the compact package focused: a metal chopping/mixing blade, a fixed 2 mm slicing disc, medium shredding disc, continuous-feed attachment and small bowl. Its manual gives separate task amounts for chopped vegetables, liquids and dough, so treat a three-cup rating as bowl volume rather than a promise that every three-cup recipe can run at once. The LPP adds a three-cone citrus press. It is a real difference if fresh lemon, lime or orange juice is a repeat job; it is not a centrifugal extractor for whole produce. The LPP's listed five-year motor warranty and three-year unit warranty are historical package terms, not a promise of present warranty coverage on a used machine.
When a nested-bowl 13-cup package changes the work
The stainless-steel SFP-13 moves into a different prep scale. Its manufacturer page lists a 13-cup large bowl and a separate 4.5-cup bowl, an adjustable slicer, reversible fine/medium shred disc, dough blade and storage case. That nesting can be useful when you want to move from a smaller mince or sauce to a large shredding job without cleaning the main bowl in between. It does not erase the small bowl's own manual limits: the booklet's small-bowl chart gives two cups for chopped produce or cheese and two cups for thin liquid, while its four-cup flour and four-cup nut-butter amounts apply to the large bowl. A named bowl is only a starting point; match the manual's task and bowl together.
For slicing, an adjustable disc can change thickness without swapping to another fixed disc, while the reversible shredder provides fine and medium sides. Neither package listing documents a grid dicer or a continuous-feed chute. If your priority is a separate stream of sliced or shredded output, the DFP-3 and LPP use a more relevant arrangement; if it is a broader bowl-based disc range and nested prep, SFP-13 is the more natural comparison.
CFP-800 is a three-attachment appliance, not an enlarged chopper
The Kitchen Central CFP-800 has an eight-cup processor bowl, a separate 40-ounce blender jar and a juice extractor with a 0.7-liter pulp tank. These are three assemblies with different jobs. The processor booklet lists task-specific amounts including two cups of chopped produce, 2.5 cups of flour for bread/pizza dough and two cups of nuts for nut butter. Its separate jar is for blender work; the manual also has milk-shake/smoothie directions using the processor bowl's chopping/mixing/dough blade. That documented bowl method is useful as a separate option, but it does not mean a processor bowl and blender jar have the same liquid capacity or results.
The juice extractor is also not a citrus press. Its filter basket and pulp container describe a different arrangement from the LPP's three-cone press. Choose CFP-800 when the jar and whole-produce extractor would both earn their storage space along with the processor; choose a simpler food processor if the extra attachments would mostly sit in a cupboard. Check that a used unit includes its exact jar, lid, mesh filter assembly, pulp tank and processor tools before comparing it with a complete package.
Keep older and recall references in their proper lane
All four product pages are discontinued/out of stock. A secondhand search needs the exact model marking and complete listed attachments, rather than a product-family name or photo. Cuisinart's separate DFP-11 manual describes an 11-cup machine and large dough amounts, but CPSC recall 17-050 includes the DFP-11 prefix among models whose four-rivet chopping blades are affected. That does not establish that every DFP-11 unit has the recalled blade; it does mean this guide treats it as a reference, not a purchase candidate, and a particular blade/remedy must be checked against the CPSC notice.
In short, choose the tool that matches the meal prep: DFP-3 for a small bowl plus continuous-feed slicing; LPP when the citrus press is worth adding; SFP-13 for a nested small bowl and more flexible disc setup; CFP-800 only when its separate blender jar and juice extractor add real utility. None has been tested here in a kitchen. These comparisons follow the exact Cuisinart pages and manuals, not measured speed, texture, noise or durability.
Primary sources: DFP-3 page, LPP page, SFP-13 page, CFP-800 page, and CPSC recall 17-050.