39 Years with KitchenAid, But No More….

A little over a year ago my wife and I replaced our ca. 5-year-old KitchenAid stand mixer with a KitchenAid Professional 600.  The new Professional 600 ran for about 45 minutes, but was cheerfully and promptly replaced…by another which lasted a little over a year--beyond the warranty period but not quite to the end of the holiday baking season--with never having mixed anything beyond half the rated batter/dough quantity, and almost never at more than half speed.  Finding local repair service quite unexpectedly turned out...