Stand Mixers

[Radec]

Mrs birthday coming up and she's been into baking a lot recently and even thinking of doing it as sideline thing for friends and family.
Currently she's only using a hand mixer so thought this would be a practical gift if she does decide to do it more seriously.

Is it KitchenAid or nothing?, they are quite expensive though and plenty of different ones about, so just want to see if anyone has experience of any others that will be good enough.

Thanks

[ShampooEfficient]

MrsSE got a Kenwood K Mix and it's brilliant. Sometimes cheaper if she isn't fussed on colour ..

[RyanDD]

I got my missus a kitchen AId, heavy duty with the large bowl, its over kill for the occasional cake and cookies. the standard size will be fine until you get to serious production. A second bowl is the best accessory I have a friend who has ditched kenwood and gone for a magimix and rates it highly.

[sherman]

We went for a kitchenaid artisan model. We got a spare bowl and several beater attachments.
Bread now only takes a few minutes to make and cakes are soo smooth even compared to the electric hand whisk we used to have. Did make bread with that though.

[J8 SVG]

Kenwood Chef is the sensible choice but they "don't look as good" as the Kitchen Aid. If you can afford it, your wife will be happier with a kitchen aid over any other option (whether it's better or worse!)

They are good, well made items though, they're not just expensive for the brand

[21TonyK]

I've gone through two kitchen aids, worn the worm drive out on both with 2-3 times daily use. Never had a Kenwood die on me so that would be my first preference especially with the pretty ones being cheap(er) at the moment.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-kMix-Stand-Mixer-...

As mentioned, if it becomes a work tool more bowls are useful.

[RizzoTheRat]

We have a Kenwood Chef Titanium and it's great. Stand mixer, food processor, blender, mincer, pasta maker, spice grinder, dough kneader, sausage stuffer...etc. Probably averaged being used about twice a week for the last 5 years and we've just had to replace one of the rubber feet and the blender bowl where I dropped it and cracked it.

[Radec]

Thanks for the suggestion guys, I thought sod it in the end and just ordered the KitchenAid Artisan last night after comparing loads of different ones and just got bored.

Also Bakeoffs back on and I can point out to her that's what they use on there so they must be good.

[Byker28i]

21TonyK said:

I've gone through two kitchen aids, worn the worm drive out on both with 2-3 times daily use. Never had a Kenwood die on me so that would be my first preference especially with the pretty ones being cheap(er) at the moment.

As mentioned, if it becomes a work tool more bowls are useful.

We had a KitchenMaid that went wrong after a couple of years. Contacted then and sent it back for repair and they just sent us a brand new uprated model with all the uprated attachments

[thebraketester]

Kenwood chef.... unless you like paying scene tax then Go for the kitchen aid.