Best Cake Mixer You'll Ever Buy

10/8/2018

It is the Kitchen Aid

I'm just going to drop this right here. Kitchen Aid is the best kitchen mixer available for the home baker on the market. Now, I promise you, this is not a sponsored opinion. I am not getting paid for this review.

Although it'd be nice, I am not receiving any gifts from the KitchenAid company. This is an honest testimony, out of my own experiences of over 30 years from actually using the Kitchen Aid brand of mixers.

My pretty Candy Apple Red with glass bowl.

Yes, there are others out there and I've tried nearly all of them. I've used the Hamilton Beach and the Sunbeam. I had myself a little Black & Decker handheld mixer. I even remember using one of those manual rotary egg beaters to make a cake, but they were hell to use for cookie dough.

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The one thing all of those mixers had in common, is that at some time they all were replaced. Once you buy a Kitchen Aid, it will be many years before you'll be replacing it.

When I got married, I couldn't afford to buy a Kitchen Aid, so I bought one of those Black & Decker 2-speed, low wattage, hand mixers. The kind that struggles through cookie dough.

But, it gave me its life for a year to produce enough cakes to buy that Kitchen Aid. That little 2-speed, hand held conked out on me the day I made my last batch of cakes.

Cake production at its finest hour I had with that little Black & Decker handheld. Now, I had enough to buy my first Kitchen Aid.

The Best Mixer You Will Ever Buy

My first introduction to the Kitchen Aid was through my grandmother. She used that Kitchen Aid from around 1970's up through the mid 90's, just before her dementia began to set in. I believe that Kitchen Aid is still floating around
in one of my cousin's cabinets.

It was from watcher her, and then going on to using her Kitchen Aid, to having my own, I've learned all of the wonderful, creative things that the Kitchen Aid mixer
could do for the baker.

I've made cake batters, cookie dough, bread dough, tart dough, pasta dough, whipped cream, mousse cream, buttercream icings, cake, pie and candy fillings.

Still working for me at nearly 30 years old.

After using my grandmother's, I must confess I became a Kitchen Aid snob. Every brand of mixer I used after that, did not measure up to the power that the Kitchen Aid had. I found it hard to use my mother's handheld after that first go.

To this day, I still own and use my very first same Kitchen Aid mixer. Oh yes, I still use my old trusty original Kitchen Aid. It's sitting side by side with the new one
I've bought myself.

My Kitchen Aid mixers have been such dependable workhorses for me.

This is why I call it the "Best Mixer You Will Ever Buy". With the exception of the Hobart brand, manufactured for the commercial market, I've been using the Kitchen Aid brand of mixers exclusively since the day I bought my first one in 1992.

It's been nearly 30 years since and I still have, and use my first Kitchen Aid mixer, sitting right next to my candy apple red jewel Kitchen Aid of a mixing machine. Since I'd bought my first Kitchen Aid in 1992, I have never had to replace a mixer since.

Really, It's An Investment

My assumption is that you'll be investing a lot of time creating masterpieces out of your own kitchens, so buying a mixer that can handle the job is priority.

Wanting a guarantee of your mixer's longevity is just as important. Yet, you don't want to go over your budget. Or worse, buy a mixer not suitable to your needs. Just consider this, when you're out there buying a mixer, you are making an investment.

Whether you’re a rookie or a semi-pro in the kitchen, a reliable mixer is essential for tackling a host of food prep tasks. The price of one of these mixers can run you from $250 to over $400, all depending on your baking needs.

If I'm spending anything over $200 on a mixer, it's gonna be an investment. And I want my investment to not only meet my needs, but last for the duration I need it to, as well.

Inside every bakeshop that I have ever worked in, the Kitchen Aid mixer was sure to be used throughout the day, every day.

In the bakeshop, the Kitchen Aid mixer, generally used for smaller jobs, could hold up to the same rigorous hours of production as the commercially branded Hobart. That speaks volume of this machine's consistent dependability.

My Kitchen Aid mixers, side by side.

Of all, or any, of the home mixers you hear about on the market, Kitchen Aid is the only brand that every pastry chef that I've ever known and worked for, have themselves personally owned their Kitchen Aids for over a ten year period.

And when one of them does buy a new mixer, it is always another Kitchen Aid. Sitting next to their old one. Just like mine.

Kitchen Aid's Best Features

The Tilt-Head Design

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When adding your ingredients into the bowl, you don't need anything getting the way of being neat.

The tilt-head design allows you clear access to the bowl, the attached beater and the accessory portal. The pouring shield makes sure your work is mess free.

Sparkling water always available at home with a touch of a button

Easily add ingredients into your bowl for any recipe. The bowls come in 5 qt. and 6 qt. capacity. Big enough to mix enough dough to make to make 9 dozen cookies. Its 325-watt motor can handle up to nine cups of flour, enough dough to make four loaves of bread dough in a single batch.

Ten Speeds

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10-speed slide control
Ranges from very fast whip to very slow stir
Includes Flat Beater, Dough Hook and Wire Whip
Stainless steel bowl
Comfortable handle

The Handheld

If you don't have the counter space for the stand up mixer, you can still harness the power of the Kitchen Aid with their convenient hand held.

KitchenAid 7-Speed Digital Hand Mixer with Turbo Beater II Accessories and Pro Whisk

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Even Kitchen Aid's handheld mixers
are offered in a rainbow of colors.

Power Hub for Additional Attachments

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Every Kitchen Aid comes equipped with an attachment power hub that will upgrade your culinary prep to a whole new level.

The power hub turns your stand mixer into a culinary center with more than 15 optional attachments available , giving you hundreds of recipes to work through. The power hub turns your stand mixer into a culinary center powerhouse.

With more than 15 optional attachments use the power of your stand mixer to help you make fusilli pasta from scratch, shred a block of parmesan cheese in seconds and so much more.

This includes a pasta press and a pasta roll. A grain mill attachment. A spiralizer. A peel, core and slicer attachment. A meat grinder, plus a sausage stuffer. An ice cream maker. The power hub turns your stand mixer into a culinary center with more than 15 optional attachments available.With the power hub attachment, your prep ideas are endless.

Choosing the Best Kitchen Aid Mixer

The Good Deal

This Artisan Series 5-Qt. Stand Mixer with Pouring Shield is the perfect starter mixer of all, in the Kitchen Aid series of mixers. This mixer features a 59-Point Planetary Mixing Action.

The Artisan Series 5-Qt. Stand Mixer
with Pouring Shield

This models boast all of the features I just shared with you. It is a basic model and is the most economical of the stand up mixers.
It's heavy duty, but not as heavy to lift as the kitchen aids used to be.

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There are 59 touch points per rotation around the bowl for very thorough ingredient incorporation. It's powerful enough for nearly any task or recipe you demand of it.

The Pretty One

Themodel with the glass bowl offers the same exact features as the 5 Qt Artisan Design Series.

KitchenAid 5Qt. Artisan Design Series
with Glass Bowl

What makes it stand out is that pretty glass bowl. I can't deny. It looks so pretty sitting on my counter, shiny and new as the day I bought it.

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That's one of the best features of all the beautiful features the Kitchen Aid mixer series have to offer you.

They all come in a myriad of colors to match any kitchen decor you have.

The Professional One

The KitchenAid 6 Qt. Professional 600 Series Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer is the granddaddy of the three, here.

It is stately and beautiful.

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The Bowl-Lift Design

The bowl-lift design provides sturdy bowl support for stability when mixing heavy ingredients or large batches. The lever smoothly raises the mixing bowl into position for efficient beater-to-bowl contact.

Kitchen Aid 600 Series 6 Qt. Professional Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer in Copper Pearl

A perfect workhorse when you have some semi-production sized baking going on. Especially around the holidays.

This model also has its own glass bowl. Whether you stick with the stainless steel, or are seduced by the glass bowl, this Kitchen Aid model is for the baker who is serious about their baking.

If you're hustle is in your kitchen, then this is the mixer you want.

The Glass Bowl

Kitchen Aid 600 Series 6 Qt. Professional Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer in Black.

67-Point Planetary Mixing Action

Its bowl boasts its own 67-Point Planetary Mixing Action, to accommodate the 6 Qt size of the bowl. The 6 qt sized bowl is the average size used, and much needed in the professional bakeshop for the small jobs. It has served me well on every function I'd ever needed it for.

It stirs wet and dry ingredients together much quicker than you can do by hand.
The 67 touch points per rotation around the bowl helps the beater, dough hook and wire whip with thorough ingredient incorporation.

It gives you incredible bowl coverage for comprehensive mixing. Efficient at kneading bread dough, and whips cream to perfecting peaks. It's powerful enough to tackle nearly any task or recipe you hand it.