Stand Mixer; Who has One?

[Bentley Green]

What tidying up do you have to do for company in THERE? Looks pretty clean to me!

[Food Network Fan]

I guess just to have more room for other things, edible and drinkable things.

[Bentley Green]

Hopefully, somday, I'll have a kitchen like that!

[Food Network Fan]

I hope you do too. It's very enjoyable.

[Bentley Green]

I can just imagine!

I may make a pound cake soon. Have to decide which mixer I'm going to use.

[bakerman]

I noticed that Ina was using a KitchenAid classic, made by Hobart. I would love to get my hands on one.

I have a KitchenAid Ultra Power that I got about 14-15 years ago, I believe that it is technically a Whirlpool model, but they hadn't had a chance to mess them up at this point. This machine hasn't even hiccuped in the time I have had it, I work it pretty hard with bread dough, and even put 5 lb. cold cream cheese in it to beat into a cinnamon sugar cream cheese, and it didn't miss beat.

I have been reading some not so good things about KitchenAid mixers lately, seems that they are not lasting, I have read that the newer models have some plastic gears.

My mixer is my favorite tool in the kitchen (I don't have an awesome stove like Suzie.......Yet!) I hope whirlpool gets its act together with kitchenAid, because when my mixer finally gives up the ghost, I hope that I can get a good durable replacement.

MAC

[MiseEnPlace]

My poor KA gets a terrible workout... cookies, cheesecake, pizza dough, other dough. It probably hates me

Mine is a newer one and the hinge pin moves out sometimes on those heavy doughs. But other than that I'm very happy with it.

[Food Network Fan]

Yeah I have the newer one too, I wasn't paying attention when I voted. I was just thinking kitchenaid. I have had to replace the gear in mine once. And my pin slips out too.

[bakerman]

My pin slips as well, I just keep an eye on it and tap it in with a meat mallet before it comes too far out!

I still prefer the flip up model to the one with the crank, my best friend has one of those and I used it when we were roommates, I didn't care for that one nearly as much.

MAC

[Bentley Green]

Originally Posted by bakerman

I noticed that Ina was using a KitchenAid classic, made by Hobart. I would love to get my hands on one.

I have a KitchenAid Ultra Power that I got about 14-15 years ago, I believe that it is technically a Whirlpool model, but they hadn't had a chance to mess them up at this point. This machine hasn't even hiccuped in the time I have had it, I work it pretty hard with bread dough, and even put 5 lb. cold cream cheese in it to beat into a cinnamon sugar cream cheese, and it didn't miss beat.

I have been reading some not so good things about KitchenAid mixers lately, seems that they are not lasting, I have read that the newer models have some plastic gears.

My mixer is my favorite tool in the kitchen (I don't have an awesome stove like Suzie.......Yet!) I hope whirlpool gets its act together with kitchenAid, because when my mixer finally gives up the ghost, I hope that I can get a good durable replacement.

MAC

I saw that also! It had the word Hobart on the right side of it like mine does. The pin sometimes moves in my K-45SS also, but it HAS done well by me for all these years! I just take a wooden mallot and tap it back over a little.

My K-45SS, that is. You might be able to find a Hobart-made K'Aid stand mixer at Ebay. They usually have a few. But you gotta jump on them really quick when you see one! They sell like hotcakes.

Yeah, it's the Proline 500 / 600 Series (5-qt & 6-qt) Stand Mixers that you're thinking og that are messing up. The transmission is all metal. The problem lies in the gearcase cover which is plastic.

When the mixer has been on for a while, the transmission get quite warm and the plastic gearcase cover heats up along with it. But it also cracks and breaks, causing some of the metal gears to get pushed out of position, and the machine won't mix.

This has been an ongoing problem with these models, and the strange thing is, that after a year of testing in the factory, these machines are supposed to be better and more powerful than their predecessor models!!

the ones to stick with are probably the Artisan models, the K-45SS and the K-5SS These models have nylon gears, but you really have to do something awfully bad to make the gears blow out!

They're pretty powerful! I should know. I'd had my K-45SS for almost 22 years. And it is STILL going strong! it has not wimpered, not even once. The only thing I had to replace on it were the rubber feet! Knock on wood.