KitchenAid KP26M1XER Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, Empire Red
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of KitchenAid KP26M1XER Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, Empire Red
Customer Review: Awesome for Mixing Dough
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this 6-Quart KitchenAid Professional 600 series mixer in Empire Red (in addition we bought the cover as well) for the main purpose of mixing dough with the spiral dough utensil, which is included.
My family and I spent spent a considerable time comparing the Cuisinart 7-Quart Mixer Cuisinart SM-70BC 7-Quart 12-Speed Stand Mixer, Brushed Chrome
with the KitchenAid mixer before making our purchase.
The Cuisinart Mixer had a larger bowl, more wattage, sale price was less than the KitchenAid.
We watched numerous demo videos on both on Amazon and YouTube.
For us, the KitchenAid's selling point was the lift-up handle that picked and locked the bowl into place. I have many years worth of experience working with a restaurant-grade dough mixer (Usually mixing nearly 20 pounds of dough at a time), so the videos demonstrated the mixer's sturdiness.
Although the Cuisinart's mixer appeared equally sturdy, we were nervous about the constant over-use of the hinge of the machine that requires completely torquing up and out the machine and the wires inside in order to remove the bowl (You should watch the videos to see what I mean).
So far I have limited myself to making up to 6-8 cups of flour into dough at a time. Only thing to point out: When mixing dough, I would recommend standing by the dough mix and adding water into the bowl in areas that needs to be wet, instead of dumping all the water in the beginning. By doing so I cut down the time the utensil is able to work the water into dry dough, thus I am able to cut down the total time my machine needs to be running. Dough is mixed in less than 10 minutes, but overall I hope that I am extending the total life of the machine. The dough always comes out in a ball shape and does not require further kneading by hand, as long as the flour and water are in the right proportions.
We have not opened the cover to see if the 2010 parts are made of metal, but based on most recent reviews we believe they are. The machine is loud, so I recommend placing it on a counter-top instead of a table. Over all the machine does what it promises and we are very happy with our purchase.
Customer Review: Power Mixer
Summary: 4 Stars
This is my second one. The first I used to make bread almost exclusively and never, never, never used it at speed 2. Always at 4 or more. However, the other one had the plastic gear box and had been repaired several times for other problems until the gear box split and the gears seized up. I must say, Mixing dough at a higher speed gave better crumb to the bread, but that dough was usually more hydrated than your basic white-bread-in-a-pan recipe. The newer dough hook isn't as efficient with wetter doughs. It grabs the top half of the dough mixes it and rides over the bottom half, never quite engaging the whole mass. The old hook works better with wetter doughs. It grabs hold of the dough and turns it fine. Still, the mixing at speed 2 is not as good as I remember it with my previous mixer. I'm still playing with mixing times and will have to try each and every one of my bread recipes to see if Speed 2 can be accommodated.Customer Review: Love It, buy it
Summary: 5 Stars
So much better than standing on your feet for hours on end in the kitchen. This thing is huge and fast! I have bought other infomercial junk and now I don't need to buy anthing else. This does everything! It looks great on the counter. Red was not my favorite color ever, and well this just looks awesome! It's almost to pretty to dirty up :O) Cleans fast, doesn not take up alot of space on my counter top as I live in an apartment. Motor is strong!! My family loves me more for all the treats and fresh bread they are enjoying. Defiantly worth the price!! no doubt about it. I have DDD and cannot stand on my feet for to long, so this has helped me be back in the kitchen. Everything that I have ever bought before, always broke/ motor would die or fry!! This thing is a working horse! I love it! you can not go wrong with this Kitchen Aide!!! :O)Customer Review: I am in love!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had a Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer for years and had many happy years (and wonderful memories of making cookies with my son) but have had my eye on this mixer for some time. Now that my son is setting up his own home he really wanted our old Artisan because it has been such a great mixer. So I passed it down to him and ordered my beautiful red Professional 600. It's maiden voyage my son came home and we mixed TRIPLE batches of Christmas cookies in it effortlessly I am so happy! I love this mixer! No more making separate batches of cookies. It mixes triple batches of heavy dough effortlessly. We were a little surprised at the high pitched noise it makes while mixing but for the amount of power it has, we can certainly handle that! Why did I wait so long? Did I mention I love this mixer?Customer Review: Kitchen Aid 600 Pro -- Empire Red
Summary: 5 Stars
What do I say...it's the Miele Capricorn of mixers, it's the Hummer, it's the HP. It does what they say it can do, and it's not a nightmare to clean up. The model I purchased is the bowl lift, which gives you a wider bowl, and therefore more thorough mixing than the head tilt--or so I hear from my friend in the neighborhood who has a head tilt.
Whatever possessed me to buy Empire Red, I don't know, but I couldn't be happier. It's.....beautiful. Even with the red cover, which is great, because it has a nice pocket on one side adequate to hold the instruction booklet and a couple of tools.
If you cook--and if you have a tendency to be drawn to real quality in tools and appliances, then spend the extra and get this one. I haven't had any buyer's remorse at all!