KitchenAid® Professional 600 6-Quart Mixer (Review)
KitchenAid® Professional 600 6-Quart Mixer
| Average Customer Rating: 4.5 |
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| I have been a long time user of the KitchenAid stand mixer, over 45 years. I really like this purchase and will continue to use KitchenAid mixers. It is a great product but there are some thing I wish were different such as the noise level. This is my 5th KitchenAid Stand Mixer and I have to say that my first was the best. It was made by Hobart and was a great machine. I keep buying KitchenAid because I have the attachments and extra bowls. If you are a first time purchaser of a stand mixer I would look into other brands to see if this one is the one you really want. This is a great mixer. I bought it because I wanted to make bread, but hated the kneading. Ten to twelve minutes of kneading bread goes on forever. Because of this I seldom made bread. With this mixer, making bread is a snap. I have had the mixer for about 2 weeks and in that time I have made 20 loaves of bread (been giving fresh bread to everyone I know). With the mixer, the kneading time is about 1 minute and the bread is the best I have ever made. I don't think I will buy another loaf of bread - making it is so easy now with this mixer. Like the reviewer, "Cats Rule", I, too, have an old workhorse KitchenAid mixer that is about twenty-five years old and has only needed one repair throughout all of those years and hundreds of cookies and cakes. I will never let "Old Reliable" go (I had withdrawal symptoms when I had to send it to KitchenAid for the repair which took a month) but I also wanted a larger capacity mixer. I purchased this one from Amazon.com a couple of weeks ago and so far it has been fabulous. For the first time in my life I made pizza dough, three batches in two weeks, using the KitchenAid recipe, at the recommended speed of 2, and both the mixer and pizza dough are great. I did find another recipe that differed only in the amount of olive oil used (1 Tablespoon vs the KitchenAid 1 tsp) which worked even better for us (slightly less crisp crust and works beautifully with the dough hook). I found that if I use too much flour and/or too little olive oil, the mixer did vibrate a tiny bit but still kept mixing. One really great difference between the older, five quart mixer and this new, larger one is the shape of the bowl. The 600 Series has a slightly flatter bowl which allows better mixing without having to use a spatula at frequent intervals to incorporate the batter at the bottom of the bowl. I read all of the reviews before purchasing this mixer, which really helps, and I am looking for any sign of the gear box breaking (we haven't taken it apart yet to see if we have a metal or plastic box). I did speak to KitchenAid before I made this investment and they said they would replace the gear box with a metal one if mine should have a problem. I intend to keep making bread or pizza dough each week, and larger batches of cookies during this first year - not only to test the mixer, but because the mixer works so well, so far, and there are so many fantastic cookie, cake, bread and pizza recipes out there! My husband (voluntarily) said that he would rather have our pizzas than any other he's ever tasted, and we can choose healthier alternatives by making our own - like canadian bacon or turkey, Italian sausage pizzas. I have noticed a difference in sound when mixing pumpkin pie ingredients, but that might be normal (and I might be overly concerned about the gear box). KitchenAid documented my concern, at my request, in case I should have a bigger problem down the road. I might also take an idea from "Cats Rule" and purchase a few other attachments from Amazon.com. I am thrilled with my KitchenAid mixer, the KitchenAid company, and always with Amazon.com! |
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