Kitchen Mixer Help

I bought this mixer for myself for Christmas 1999. I love it! I don’t know how I ever lived without it!

I do a lot of gourmet cooking, but used to "get by" with inferior equipment. I’ve seen these mixers on TV and at friends’ houses, so I knew there had to be something special about them. They are a bit pricey, but this baby’s going to outlive you and me. I highly recommend saving your money, and getting the best.

You’ve got to try the bread making feature! The recipe for French bread that comes with the mixer is the best I’ve ever had. Enjoy!

My mother just recently purchased a Kitchen Aid. During Thanksgiving I was at her house helping cook dinner. I was using her Kitchen Aid and just fell in love with. I was nothing like the mixer I use at home, and soon after that my mixer broke. So ever sense that moment I asked every one I knew I wanted a Kitchen Aid for Christmas, but no one would buy it for me because it was too expensive.

I am absolutely convinced that this is the mixer God used to stir up the cosmos and send the galaxies into orbit. That’s how strong it is.

I struggled for years with a beautiful but seriously design-flawed stand mixer before remodeling my kitchen. I used that as an excuse to get rid of it and buy the one I’d been dreaming of, the KitchenAid K5SS.

There’s a lot to like about this machine:

• The bowl holds five quarts. If you’re a professional baker, that might not be enough for you, but for home bakers like me, it’s enough to hold double quantities of my favorite recipes. It also has a handle, which is very handy - no pun intended.

I am an avid baker and enjoy preparing everything from my own homebaked bread (no bread machine please!) to cookies, cakes, pies, brownies and once I even made whole wheat crackers. I had gotten to the point where my bread didn’t rise very well when I hand kneaded it. It still tasted as good as it ever did, but what was the problem? I was also using a hand held mixer to beat all the other ‘from scratch’ recipes and it was a chore.

I work in a cake shop and I have wanted this mixer for some time. It has a 600 watt motor. It is compatible with the kitchen-aid attachments and the price was much better. It seemed to have it all. When I first got it home and started it up I was so disappointed. It sounded like a jet plane. I thought maybe it needed to warm up. I made a few things thinking the noise might ease up, boy was I wrong. I got a nasty head ache in less than 20 minutes. I thought maybe mine was the only one that was noisy. My boss had also bought one so I asked her to try hers to see if I just got a bad one. After a couple minutes she put it back in the box and took it back to the store. I was so embarrassed.

I have just added this to my gift list after using at my brother’s house recently. Because I do almost everything with my KitchenAid stand mixer, I didn’t think that I would need a hand mixer, but I’m wrong.

This mixer has two regular beaters, plus a third which you use by itself for meringues or whipped cream. There wasn’t any job I couldn’t use it for from mashed potatoes to cheesecake to pancake batter.

The mixer has several different settings which you see through an LED display. To add more power for more difficult mixing (like beating cream cheese), you simply press a button on the handle with your thumb.

This mixer is one of the best I’ve seen. They also have a refurbished line with the same warranty as a new one, the only thing different is the price, which is about $170.00. You couldn’t ask for a better small appliance in your kitchen. This unit will do anything you need done as far as mixing, and it doesn’t even over heat on those big dough jobs. The mixer has what is called a worm gear inside with a heavy duty vinyl gear on it. This gear is designed to protect the mixer from burning out if beater gets jammed or if you are mixing to heavy of a load. If you do overload the mixer the gear will give out before you damage the mixer. A 40 to 60 dollar repair compared to the cost of a new mixer. This is a good mixer and I recommend it to everyone.

I chose to buy a KitchenAid because of the name reputation. I specifically chose the Artisan 5-quart because it is the largest KitchenAid stand mixer that still has a tilt-back head, which was something I wanted. The price wasn’t that much higher than the smaller KitchenAids, and I wanted the biggest motor I could get, after reading some reviews of the smaller ones that mentioned overheating.

MUCH BETTER THAN MY PREVIOUS MIXERS:

I begged for this mixer for Christmas. After recieving it, the first time I turned it on, it emmitted a burning motor smell. Hoping that it was just breaking in, I used it.

I trusted KitchenAid because I’ve owned 2 of the smaller 4.5 qt models, and they have been superb mixers - not a complaint with them - other than they are too small. Which is why I wanted the larger one.

I also own the 11 cup Professional Food Processor, the Blender, 3 Hand mixers. All have performed wonderfully.

After reading an earlier review, and in need of an inexpensive mixer, I bought this as my first Black & Decker mixer. I used it for 6 months, and it was good to me. While I missed the lower speeds my Sunbeam upright had, for the money, this baby did the job, until I used it on butter that was too hard. The beaters locked, and stripped out the housing that holds them. I should have known better. It had spoiled me, and I forgot that it was still a relatively light weight mixer. So after being so delighted with my first one, I went back for another.