KitchenAid Reviews

1 star for looks.
You will lose the brush, and then it will break when you try to press a nice large clove. Go for a more sturdy model (all metal).

Did a good job pressing the garlic, until it broke where the plastic met the chrome on the handle. Use caution.

This is a nice tool, but I wish the holes in the press were a little larger so that it would make chunkier bits of garlic. As it is, it makes more of a garlic paste than anything...

I would rate this appliance at a 3.5 out of 5 stars if you had that option.

NOISY!! Use ear protection. Otherwise the appliance works great.

I upgraded my 20+ year old Kitchen Aid 3.5 Qt. stand mixer, which still works, to this 6 Qt. model. I gave it a thorough testing, with my family's favorite cookie recipe which inludes 13 cups of dry ingredients - oatmeal, chocolate chips and such. This recipe has a very stiff heavy dough. It is wooden spoon breaker dough.

When my old mixer tries to mix this recipe, the dough spills over a bit from the top of the 3.5 qt bowl, and the chips stay mostly on the outside, between the dough and the bowl.

So I knew this was the perfect test recipe.

The 6-Quart bowl has lots mixing space. The dough came close to the top of the bowl during mixing, but did not spill over. I used the lowest speed to mix in the chocolate chips. The new mixer handled them gently and mixed them thoroughly. Every cookie had chips in them, down to the last bit of dough left in the mixing bowl.

The noise of the mixer is loud. It is the loudest appliance I have ever owned. If you are running it for a long period of time, for example, a stiff cookie dough, or the flour mill, you will most likely need ear protection. I do not have a decible meter in my kitchen, but I suspect this appliance exceeds the level recommended for home use. I did call KitchenAid customer Support regarding the noise, and was told yes, it is noisy, they know that, that it has been reported as sounding like an airplane's jet engine on a runway about to take off. (I might add that airplane's jet engine noise sounds like it's coming directly from the tarmac, and you are standing beside the engine during engine testing.) I was told the metal gears and the cooling fan are the reasons the Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer is so noisy. My old mixer is running on nylon, it seems.

Well. Perhaps the KitchenAid Engineers need to research out some noise dampening material products like the ones they use in their dishwashers.

This is an outstanding mixer. I don't think it's terribly loud, as I have seen in other reviews. The design may have changed or it could just be that I mill my own flour in an impact mill, and the mixer seems very quiet compared to the mill! I also have 4 children, so I'm fairly desensitized to noise.

I got the mixer primarily for making bread. It is rated for 14 cups of all-purpose flour, but the manual says to only use 8 cups of whole-grain flour (2 loaves). I make 2 loaves of whole-grain bread at least once a week, usually twice. The spiral dough hook does an excellent job of kneading, and the mixer has plenty of power to handle the whole-grain dough. Just 8 minutes of kneading develpes the gluten so well, that I only have to raise the dough for 30 minutes in the bread pans and then bake it, and we end up with delicious, light, fluffy bread. I can make bread in less than an hour and a half, including the time for kneading, rising and baking. (We live over 7500 feet in altitude, and I have seen recipes that call for up to 3 rises of yeast bread at high altitude, but that is absolutely not necessary.) I used to use a bread machine, and produced many "bread bricks" with it. Since I got the KitchenAid, the bread machine has been retired.

We have mostly just made bread, but also have used it for cake, gingerbread, and whipped cream. It had no problem with any of those, as I expected. There is one major design flaw, in my children's opinions, and we discovered it when 2 of them were helping me make a birthday cake. They were very distressed when they realized there was only one beater to lick! That is our only complaint so far.

We also purchased the meat grinder and used it to grind at least 30 pounds of beef, elk, and turkey into burger. The mixer had plenty of power to be up to the task.

I am very pleased with the performance of this mixer and don't think anyone would regret purchasing it.

If you're thinking of buying this mixer, go for it! I originally bought this model in white and I loved it. I am glad that I got the 575 motor. It can really handle those large batches of dough. I bought this mixer about 2 years ago and I have never baked so much! It is so easy to make that cookie dough now! This mixer can really handle it. It used to be very difficult for me to mix the dough when I had to do it by hand, but now it's no problem. I whipped up some cream for a dessert on Christmas and it took about 2 minutes!! It was so quick.

I gave my daughter the white mixer and I purchased this one to add some color to my kitchen. I like the color. It's not fire engine red. It's more of a brick red, which I prefer. I leave it out on the counter because it is so beautiful and having it out makes me use it more!

I used a coupon that I found on www.currentcodes.com and I got an even better price. The discount, coupled with the free shipping is what persuaded me to buy it at Amazon rather than QVC.

As far as the noise, I don't think it's that loud. With a motor that size, I guess we have to expect it to be somewhat loud. It doesn't bother me! I love it!

Like others, I have to agree that this is the best pizza wheel I have ever owned. I have been struggling with inferior pizza cutters (and we eat a LOT of pizza in my house) for YEARS. If it can't go in the dishwasher, I don't want it -- and I'm happy to say I've given this one a beating and it hasn't let me down. Use caution when putting the blade protector on for storage in your drawer -- the blade is SHARP! It's weight is perfect in the hand for cutting everything from cracker crust to deep dish, and I love the thumb guard. Get the large version -- worth every penny!

Super heavy pizza cutter, feels great in your hand. It has a very smooth roll and cuts with ease. Bat far the best pizza cutter I have owned - even better than Pampered Chef's. Dishwasher safe too, which is a plus.

It's rare that a tool feels this good in your hand. Someone at KitchenAid put a lot of love into this design. They really sweated the details. The handle is ergonomic. The hilt is functional and beautiful. The plastic blade guard works well, and is a nice touch.

I didn't think a pizza cutter could be this good. If Jedi knights made pizza, they would have invented this instead of a light saber.