DOES ANYONE KNOW IF YOU EVER HAVE TO REPLACE THE BLADE IN YOUR FOOD PROCESSOR. I HAVE A CUISINART AND I HAVE BEEN USING IT ALL THE TIME AND IT SEEMS LIKE IT DOESN'T WORK AS WELL AS IT USED TO. I JUST TRIED TO MAKE FROZEN BANANA ICE CREAM AND IT HAS 2 BIG CHUNKS THAT IT JUST WOULDN'T PROCESS. I THINK THE BLADES ARE DULL AND I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW I COULD SHARPEN THEM.
HAS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCED THIS?

Food processor blades do get dull. They are usually much harder to sharpen than knives are. You may very well want to consider getting a new blade unit. You can probably find what you need online, but expect the shipping charges to be higher than you're used to. (For some reason they usually are when buying replacement parts for kitchen equipment.)

42bananas

If you use your food processor every day / week, it should be sharpened every week for best results..Just like a chef's knife..Of course, no one, myself included, does this..It only takes a single hard object, such as an olive pit, to really dull & or nick the blade..The duller blade the harder the machine works, & the poorer & less consistent the results..The blades are not designed to be easily sharpened..For the smaller processors the cost of the new blade plus shipping can often exceed 1/2 the cost of a new processor..If you decide to have the blade sharpened, you'll need a second one while the first is being sharpened; either locally, or by shipping it off..

Three places I found in less than 5 minutes by Googling are;

[sharpening.net]
[www.saturdaymarket.com]
[www.westsharpening.com]

Further Googling shoud provide you with dozens of additional resources, hopefully one close to where you live..

Bruce