@DiannaAtherton
I went from a KA professional 600 that started smoking in my kitchen. I was making a double cake recipe. I couldn't get it out of my house fast enough. I replaced it with a bosch. Big upgrade. Very smooth and quiet. I don't see it having issues anytime soon. I am buying a Ankarsrum as well. I cook and bake with my daughter-in-law. After baking and cooking over 55 years i only want the best.
@FredrikGranlundkayaker
My grandmother's stand mixer is in my aunt's care since about 30 years, and it still works flawlessly. My grandmother baked a LOT so she used it almost daily for more than 30 years. It's an old Electrolux, and the model is nowadays sold as Ankarsrum.
@hunter9410
We got the Ankarsrum after seeing it featured in another ATK video earlier this year. It is far and away the best mixer we’ve ever used, and very easy to clean. The quality of the mixer, the packaging, and even the reading materials is insane (it came with a hardback recipe book). The 7 year warranty is also fantastic, though I don’t see this thing dying anytime in the decades to come.
@NeoclassicalRadagast
I gave my mom a Cuisinart 5.5 quart stand mixer last year for Christmas and it's worked flawlessly for her. She makes good old Newfoundland style bread in it quite often so it handles the heavy duty kneading that she can't do herself anymore, she also makes a lot of other things like deserts with it. I'd say it's a great product.
@timo5601
My wife and I owned a bakery for nearly 30 years in Tempe, AZ. Early on we used Kitchen Aid standard mixers and blew through them in a few months. Then we upgraded to the "professional" with slightly better results. Then to their "Commercial" which fared best, but still inadequate. We then splurged for the $1000 Globe 8 qt stand mixers. These were work horses that lasted for years. The only parts I needed to replace were the power buttons and the touch pad speed controls. If Globe moved to mechanical switches, these mixers would be perfect. ALTHOUGH, now that we are retired, I'm going to invest in the Ankarsrum. I'm impressed and curious. I love the reviews ATK! I relied on you for years for ingredient and equipment reviews. Bravo!
@griseldaguerrero7199
I bought a Wolfgang puck stand mixer 20 years ago and it still going strong works like new. All the attachments parts are made of steel not plastic. I make pizza dough, chile relleno egg batter, pastries, shreds my chicken, etc. Never had a kitchen aid, but I've worked with it.
@anthonyward8223
After 20+ years with my kitchen aid artisan I bit the bullet and brought the 7 qt bowl lift professional, What a beast double opr quad batches of cookie dough it did not even faze it put in 2 lbs. of butter and the assorted sugars etc. and it works like a dream never needs more than# 4 speed Glad I made the move.
@Mindy56743
I am so glad that you have started adding the Ankarsrum mixers! I have had problems mixing a simple pasta dough in the kitchen aid mixer and finally just did the research and got one a couple years ago. It definitely has a learning curve but I can definitely trust it to mix just about anything I have tried to in it.! They are a beast. When my daughter got married she wanted me to make the wedding cake and there is no way the kitchen aid would have coped with the amount of egg white icing or the triple batches of cake batter. This mixer just powered through with no problems.
@LileCremeans
Great review and appreciate the info. I will say, we've had our KitchenAid 5 qt Artisan series stand mixer for 20 years. And we make a decent amount of dough in it. Never had an issue with it ever.
@kellyspann9845
I have had the KitchenAid tilt head mixer for about 15 or 20 years and it has worked perfectly so far. It is powerful and use it a lot. So far so good.
@noracharles80
Thank you, Lisa. Another ATK excellent review. I love my Ankarsrum. As I understand it, they are reputed to be so great and long lasting you can pass it down to the next generation. As a result, I let my daughter pick the color. But, as I plan to live forever, she may have to just go out and buy her own. Merry Christmas, ATK!
@brucejohnson1264
I gave away our old Kitchen Aid and replaced it with a Bosh. The Bosh is much more powerful and operates with a very different principle than the other stand mixers. When using the dough hook, it is direct drive, but when using the cake/cookie/or whisk, it incorporates a high speed gear drive. Because it drives from the bottom, I think it is safer and easier to add ingredients while mixing. It has suction cup feet, but has never moved an inch under load when I use it.
@spindiamond
I'm kind of shocked about the KitchenAid warranty void parameters. I often make dough that has to be mixed at medium high for 7 minutes.
@drananth
Been using the Kenwood Master since 2017. Standard paddle, hook and balloon whisk. No hassle. Trouble free.
@geoffsbakingblog
The Ankarsrum is simply the best for making dough, and you can scale up to 11lbs of dough. You can also run it at top speed for hours and it won't overheat. Using a KitchenAid on level 2, and only for two minutes at a time, with no more than six minutes total, as Lisa said KitchenAid specifies, is not enough time to make any decent dough. So to make dough in the KA you have to risk voiding the relatively short warranty. Ankarsrum has a 7 year warranty. I bough mine about 6 months ago and my Bosch and KA haven't moved since.
@chanceworsley3380
I have never appreciated a YouTube video more in my life! Thank you!!
@danbev8542
Many years ago I gave away my small Hobart-made mixer & bought a larger Kitchen Aid. After 5-6 years it died when I was whipping egg whites for an Angel Food cake. KA customer service promptly sent me another mixer with instructions to put the broken one in the new box & send it back. I didn’t trust that mixer & read a good thread on The Fresh Loaf about Commercial KA mixers. I managed to buy a refurbished one about 15 years ago. The Commercial is MUCH more heavy duty than the “Professional” sold in the stores. It’s got heavy stainless dough hook, paddle, and an orange heavy duty electrical cord. We took the tops off & compared the motors & my DH said the motors were very different - the “Commercial” being much more heavy duty. It naturally has a clicking noise when running, and will do anything I throw at it! In 1986 Hobart sold Kitchen Aid to Whirlpool - KA has not been the same since. So imo, Lisa is right here!
@robertsterner2145
I have a 6 qt bowl life KitchenAid and an Ankarsrum, which I initially bought just for large batches of sourdough. Now I almost never take my KitchenAid out of the closet because Ankarsrum outperforms it in almost every way.
@MichaelDavis-x5i
I called in to ATK a few times asking if they would review the Ankarsrum Assistent mixer. I am glad they finally reviewed it! Thank you!
@AldrickTanith