Abstract: A kitchen appliance for processing food by chopping, mixing, whipping, kneading, pressing, and preparing emulsions from food has a horizontally positioned cylindrical vessel for receiving food. A tool for processing food in the vessel has a diameter that matches the inner diameter of the vessel. A drive motor is connected with a drive shaft to the tool for driving the tool in rotation. An advancing unit is provided for advancing the tool in the axial direction of the vessel over its axial length. The advancing unit has a stationary spindle and a slide connected to the spindle so as to be slidable on the spindle in the axial direction of the vessel, wherein the slide is displaced by an electric motor on the spindle in the axial direction. The drive motor of the tool is connected to the slide to allow for axially advancing the tool within the vessel.