Kitchen Mixer Help

KENMORE 10 Speed Hand Mixer

I recently purchased a Kenmore 10 Speed Hand Mixer at a brick and mortar Sears store in Thousand Oaks, California.

It was a much needed kitchen tool. I am a one year newlywed and was simply tired of using a big spoon to mix cakes and other baked goodies. Yes, it is true you can actually mix batters with a spoon and a whole lot of elbow grease. However, it takes much longer to produce a smooth batter and can really tucker you out in a short time.

WHAT’S THE 411 ON THIS PRODUCT?

First, let me start by saying that I’m very satisfied with my two wonderful K’Aid Stand Mixers, and that I have no intention of getting rid of them and that I had absolutely no intention of even getting this product. That is, until I read Epinions.com member Caprig’s outstanding review on the machine.

I, at first, was not going to buy this mixer at all because I felt that I was very satisfied with my two present stand mixers, which I still am. So I paid it no mind. Then I visited the company’s website, read some rave reviews on the mixer and it then struck me that curiosity was just killing the cat!!

I actually own the RRK45, which is essentially a refurbished K45SS. It cost around $160, which is a very good price for a heavy-duty stand mixer, let alone a KitchenAid.

I’ve used KitchenAid products for years, and I have always liked their mixers. I previously used a KSM90, but this one is plenty good enough for anything I’m realistically going to do.

I’m sure there must be plenty to say about mixers, but I can’t think of much. It’s solid, heavy, is powerful enough to mix the thickest doughs I’ve tried, and just plain works. I’ve only had this one about 4 months so I can’t comment on the longevity very well, but my previous KitchenAid products have been quite robust.

WHY ANOTHER KITCHENAID MIXER?

At first, I wasn’t going to buy another KitchenAid mixer.

I was thinking about buying the Electrolux. But then I thought I’d try this one out first. Also, the Electrolux has an 8-qt. bowl, which qualifies it to make up to about 20lbs. of dough, and I’d probably never be able to eat that much bread unless I gave some of it away. It would spoil before I got a chance to eat it all. And there’s no room in the freezers for all that bread anyway.

My KitchenAid experiences have - up until this purchase been very positive. In my kitchen can be found a KA dishwasher, Superba convection oven/range, two KA blenders (old and new styles), and 3 stand mixers dating from the fifties. Two are estate sale finds which are really too dirty to use but they still run. My most frequently used one is a K-4C in avocado, circa 1972, with the glass bowl. It was my mother’s and she used it mercilessly until cobalt blue hit the scene and I ended up with it. I am retiring this one just to avoid the inevitable accident of breaking the glass bowl, I will quit while I am even with Murphy’s Law.