Breville Sous Chef 12 Food Processor BFP710 review

A 12-cup bowl for larger everyday prep

The Breville Sous Chef 12 BFP710 is a corded, full-size food processor with one rated 12-cup work bowl. The exact U.S. Brushed Stainless Steel package, SKU BFP710BSS1BNA1, pairs that bowl with a two-in-one wide feed chute, an adjustable slicer, a reversible shredder, an S-Blade and a separate dough blade. It is a sensible short-list candidate when a nine-cup work bowl feels restrictive and you use several cutting styles, but bowl capacity should not be read as a promise that every recipe or ingredient load can be processed at that volume in one go.

The most practical distinction from Breville's smaller Sous Chef 9 BFP610 is scale: BFP710 is rated for 12 cups rather than nine, and its wide chute ranges from 2.76 to 5.2 inches. That may reduce some pre-cutting, but the booklet still asks you to choose the chute appropriate to the food, use the pusher and respect the marked fill line. Long, narrow foods can tip in a wide opening, so the small chute remains useful rather than decorative. If a smaller unit's 9-cup rating already suits your batches, compare the BFP610 review before giving up counter or cabinet space.

Useful tool range, without an included dicing grid

For slicing, the BFP710's adjustable disc is marked from about 0.3 to 8.0 mm in the manual, so one disc covers very thin through substantially thicker slices. The reversible shredder has fine and coarse sides; it is not a separate three-thickness disc set. The S-Blade handles chopping and mixing tasks, and the dough blade is a dedicated tool for the bread and pizza dough routine described in the booklet. An in-bowl caddy stores the listed attachments, which keeps a multi-tool set together, although the blades and discs still need careful handling when removing, washing and putting them away.

Do not buy it on the assumption that a 12-cup Breville automatically includes every cutting accessory. The exact BFP710 product page and its directly linked manual list the S-Blade, adjustable slicer, reversible shredder, dough blade, spindle and caddy. Neither lists a dicing grid, French-fry disc, whisk or second mini bowl. If grid-cut vegetables are central to your cooking, the nine-cup Paradice 9 BFP638 is the nearby Breville package in this library that includes a dicing kit; it trades capacity for that different box of tools. If you can add a separate accessory later, check compatibility and package contents for the exact model rather than relying on a generic family description.

Measure the space and the workload

Breville publishes the BFP710 body at 8.66 inches wide, 11.02 inches deep and 16.73 inches high, with a listed weight of 20.3 pounds. It is a larger, heavier countertop appliance than the BFP610, and the height is relevant if the base is stored under a cabinet. The body measurement is not working clearance: allow room to attach the lid and handle the tall chute and pusher. The wide feed opening is a convenience, not a direction to force whole produce through it.

The manual gives a concrete dough ceiling: up to 25 ounces (700 g) of flour with 15 fluid ounces (420 g) of water. It also states that the S-Blade should not run longer than one minute at a time and warns that stiff mixtures such as dough can slow the blade; treat that as an operating boundary, not a performance promise. The booklet says not to crush ice in the bowl and not to process hot or boiling liquids. It separately tells users to unplug the machine and allow a 30-minute cool-down if the overload protector trips. That recovery step is not a routine run/rest schedule.

There is a specification conflict worth keeping visible: the U.S. product page lists 12 amps and 1440 watts, while the directly linked BFP710 manual's rating panel states 120 V, 60 Hz and 1650 W. This assessment does not choose one watt figure or use it to predict speed, durability or food texture. Breville lists a two-year product warranty and a distinct 30-year limited motor warranty; the longer term is not coverage for the entire appliance.

Cleanup and who should choose it

The product page broadly calls the bowl and lid dishwasher-safe, but the more specific manual says to handwash them and allows only occasional top-shelf dishwasher washing because regular exposure to hot water, detergent and pressure may shorten the life of the plastic and interlock parts. The manual permits top-rack washing of the blades, spindle and discs. If your essential requirement is routine dishwasher cleaning of every removable work part, that is not confirmed for this package. The manual also requires the bowl, lid and large pusher to be in place for the safety interlock; removing the large pusher stops the motor.

Choose BFP710 when you will use the 12-cup bowl, variable slicing, fine/coarse shredding and dedicated dough blade often enough to justify its height and tool storage. It is a less direct fit if you want dicing included, a second small bowl, French-fry cuts or simple dishwasher cleanup of the entire work set. Compare the exact 9-cup BFP638 when dicing matters more than capacity, or the 9-cup BFP610 if its smaller bowl and shorter published height meet your prep needs. This is a source-based assessment of the BFP710BSS1BNA1 page and its model-specific manual, not an ownership account or independent performance test. See Breville’s BFP710 product page and BFP710 instruction book for the package and safety instructions.