Blender / food processor recommendations.

I have the Kitchen Aid food processor and so far it's been great. I have some attachments for it that I use more often so don't need any extended set. It wouldn't do a good blending job since the opening of the shaft area of the bowl is shallow and liquids would splash out.  I recently did about 20 lbs of kraut and I finished in less than 10 minutes.

For blending smoothies and such I adore the Magic Bullet. If I didn't already have the Kitchen Aid processor I might try the magic bullet processing system.

I have the magimix food processor which I use continually for liquidising, shredding, slicing, chopping and pastry. A brilliant piece of kit.

I wouldn't use it for cakes, or dough tho'.
But I too use a stick blender for soup which is less of a faff and less washing up too.

I have a Kenwood Multipro (bought 3 weeks ago) with 27 functions I think!
Wouldn't be without it

My previous blender effectively caught fire while I was soup blending so it's time for a new one when your kitchen is full of smoke!

Do any of these do juice extraction?

Mrs G's blender is on the way out, and I was looking at juicers only today, as I think they can do apples, which would be a must for me...

So, if one or more of the machines mentioned above don't take up much room, and can cope with both processes, then we'd be delighted to hear about them - it!

Thanks for posting the question, Kate, I was going to do the same in about an hour's time!

Well yesterday I took the plunge & ordered a new Kenwood from here
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/11609/KMC010-Kenwood-Chef-Titanium,I'd being looking on & off for a year or so,it's reduced by £120,there's an offer to send or a free extra bowl & if there's also an offer from Lakeland that if you spend over £50 you get £50 of wine free paying £4.99 postage,although I didn't see that when I ordered so have emailed them asking if I can have that retrospectively. Just need to wait for it to be delivered,they hadn't got one at our local store. I'm very excited. I can finally throw away the bread maker that we only use to mix & prove in.