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I finally broke down and bought a new food processor. I had one but it got lost when we moved, and I rarely used it due to space. Costco had an open box 9 cup Kitchenaid for 75 bucks, so I picked it up. And man, where has it been all my life? I cut an onion in half and threw it in to make sure it worked, and in 3 seconds I had a diced onion. 

Yeah, it's amazing how useful they are. My wife makes a great shredded Brussels sprout recipe and that food processor makes short work of a bag of sprouts. We probably use ours at least twice a week. 

Throw away the knives

Now that's just crazy talk. Heck, I can dice an onion much faster with my knife than taking out the food processor, setting it up, cutting an onion in half, pulling off the peel, throwing it in the food processor, processing it, cleaning the food processor, and putting everything away. And I get a uniform dice when I do it by hand, whereas the food processor might be all sorts of piece sizes. 

Shredded brussels...

Ina Garten?

Yes, although sometimes we omit the pancetta/bacon if we don't have any on hand, or replace the shallot with red onion likewise if we don't have shallot on hand. I think she makes it probably twice a month. 

Heh well I still say peeling the onion takes about 10 seconds, processing takes 5, and rinsing the machine takes another 15.  So that ain't bad.

Anyway, though, I was just surprised about that because I always thought about the food processor more being about combining things into a paste that are too thick for the blender.  I have been wanting to make some chili pastes and things like that.  Also intrigued by grinding meat in it.  Anyone tried that?

I use my meat grinder. If you have a Kitchenaid mixer you can get an attachment for that.

I've used the processor for further grinding, when I make gyros.

I plan on getting a grinder. We bought a dedicated freezer so I can finally store it properly.

I have the Kitchenaid grinder attachment. It works, but it's slow and can be a pain when the quantities go up. When I'm doing burger blend it's 7-10# of meat, which can take a while. 

If you plan on grinding a LOT of meat, I've heard that dedicated grinders are a heck of a lot faster and better -- but at a hell of a price. 

I think mine was about $250. So you're saying I should keep it (I was thinking of selling) and stay away from the attachment option?

Yes. Without knowing the specs of the waring, I'll bet the attachment option is a downgrade IMHO.

I did order the knock off kitchen-aid grinder.  Hopefully it works. It got good reviews, was all metal, and was about half the price