KitchenAid Kitchen Aid Pro 6 qt. Mixer Review

I bake stuff all the time for everyone anytime they need it and even when they don't. It's a fun hobby for me, and I like coming up with my own new cookie creations. I had a kind of a stand mixer from Oster. It was a normal hand mixer that could snap onto a plastic stand. It came with a heavy glass bowl that could be set upon a spinning turntable. It was pretty rudimentary, but I couldn't afford the big guy. I thought it was pretty good. Still it was better than using just a hand mixer. I needed upper-body workouts to keep me in good enough shape for the amount of cookies I was making to use that!

Then I invested in this appliance. If I thought the last one was pretty good, imagine my delight with the Kitchen Aid Artisan Stand Mixer! This is really expensive, and I wouldn't suggest getting it if you wouldn't use it all the time. It comes in cool colors, but only the white one was on sale (I really wanted pink). It's also very large and uses a lot of counter space.

It's very heavy, and constructed well. The motor is super strong. It comes with a stainless steel bowl with a handle, and it screws securely into the base. It comes with the flat mixing blade and a dough hook. The bowl and attachments are dishwasher safe. There are many other attachments for it: an ice cream maker, a pasta maker, a meat grinder, so forth. Those are very, very, expensive, and again I wouldn't purchase one of those if you weren't going to get your money's worth out of them. Definitely not worth it for a novelty.

This works so well, both for bread dough, and other batters. You pretty much need to be mixing something on a larger scale to use this. It would not be good at all to make something like pancakes for the family. It probably would only do minimal mixing on something with a small volume. It does quite well on the big jobs.

It has its little issues. Sometimes it doesn't completely mix things and you have to aid it with a rubber spatula. Occasionally I have had to stop it, scrape the sides, and let it mix again. I actually solved that problem by buying another blade, The Scrape-A-Blade mixer accessory. How nice for you that I have reviewed it! No more side scraping.

Depending on which cookie I am making, I can sometimes get two batches of cookies mixed at once in there. The bowl is that big. It saves SO much time! The motor is so strong that it won't bog down even if the bowl is full. I would watch it if you have a really thick batter in there, you wouldn't want to burn the motor out on this. It has variable speeds, and even one so slow, you can fold items in. When the blade is in, and the motor is engaged, there's not much room on the sides to fold something in without the possibility of spilling it on the sides.

This is a dream come true for the serious baker. I don't know how I made any cookies without it!