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I am looking for a new stand mixer and wanted some feed back on the Bosch stand mixers.  Does anyone have opinions about them compared to the KitchenAid mixers?
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whatever you get don't gea a kitchen aide mixer. I bought the 600 model  to use when i have company at the holidays. I used it about 20 times for mashed potatoes, turnips etc. never even made cookie dough in it. and the bushing shattered inside  jamming the inner works. I achecked to see where the nearest certified person was to fix it they gave me four places to take it. all were at least 6 hours away from where i live. I had to pay 35.00 for a box to ship it in. and then they wanted 75.00 to fix it.  I now have it in my front yard with a sigh on it tlleing people not to buy them and why. they are no longer made by hobart but is made by another company that bought them out.; and why is it i have gone to five stores and the only mixers they carry are kitchenaide.
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Janice:

Whatever you do, don't buy a Kitchenaid stand mixer.  I have been trying to get them to fix my new, "Professional" model for a year now and they just can't do it.  It will not make a bread batch bigger than four cups.  Anything larger and it overheats and stops working.  It makes grinding and struggling noises before quitting that you just know are not natural and are not indicators of good machine health.  The first few times I used it I got gear filings dropping into the dough as it mixed.  The machine has been in for repair three times and every time returned with a note saying that they could find nothing wrong with it.  The repair shop claims to have run the thing for hours on end but I expect they're stirring up a bowl of water or air, not bread dough.

Today I ran into an old friend who I didn't know baked bread.  Through a weird set of coincidences we discovered we shared a bread interest and a seacondary interest in broken Kitchenaid appliances.  To make a long story shorter, he's been having the same trouble as me over the past year.  He bought a middle level mixer that failed totally.  It was replaced by KA at a nominal fee with an upper level machine that burned out quickly.  That was replaced with a "Professional" model that simply will not work.   Mine is black and his is white.  The colour's not the problem.  These things are badly designed and will not do what you want them to do.

If you read the instructions for breadmaking in the manual it says to knead in the machine for one and one-half minutes (or something like that, it may be two minutes).  I suspect they give this ridiculous instruction because that's all the machine will do.

I hope this helps.

Alan
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I use my Bosch mixer for a six loaf bread recipe. No problems. My mom had hers for thirty years before she handed it down to my older sister.

Mine is the new universal plus. Very happy with it.

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I am looking to buy a mixer, did you purchase the bosch mixer.  Are you happy with it?
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Natasha,

Cooks Illustrated magazine has just tested mixers. I would check out the article.

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I have used my Bosch mixer in a semi-commercial application for about 6 years. It's power is amazing and easily handled making 10 pounds of fruit cake at a time. The meat grinder easily handled beef, but had problems with the membrane in grinding wild meats. There was never a question of it over-heating even in grinding 10 or 20 pounds of meat at a time.

However, I found it to be cumbersome when making large batches of cookies - having to put the cover on and off between processes was a pain, so I've purchased another KitchenAid mixer (from which I had 'graduated' to the Bosch), for day to day use. I find it much more convenient, and certainly strong enough, for mixing up cakes or cookies. It seems a little silly to have the two machines around but convenience makes the day go better.

 

 

 

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Hi,

Kitchenaid mixers are garbage for making dough the older ones are still OK.  Kitchenaid was using a plastic housing around the gearbox which almost always broke. I am told that it is metal now however there are still lots of problems.

I have a Bosch and it mixes dough like nobodies business.  It is amazing. I have an old kitchenaid too and it is great for other things than dough.

KA stopped fixing and making the older model because the don't break.  How can a $300 plus machine be disposable.  I guess we should ask KA.




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Alan:

Actually your review doesn't help much because... you did not provide the exact model number for your KitchenAid stand mixer.  They make nearly 7 or 8 completely different models, the prime differentiating factors being wattage, bowl size and how the bowl sits.

Chris K.
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I've owned kitchenaid mixers for 15- 20 years never the tilt head type and always the top of the line, I broke the gear box on my mixer by asking it to do what it wasn't designed to do...like make 10 cups in a 6 cup machine of bread dough. Duh!!

That week end I drove 225 miles to the nearest william sonoma store and got the KA 8 cup pro 610 model in fire engine red...yes I'm a guy, I tried this machine out as soon as I could and it over-heated making dough for 4 loves of bread...something my old machine never did, broken gear box yes, over heat never. I was pissed off to say the least, so to solve my prob. I went to a commerical appliance store that I new of and they had a 12 quart Hobart with dough hook, wisk and paddle this machine will never fail me.

Oh and the new KA it kinda sits on the shelf and gets dusty, but it makes great Ice cream!

The only experience I've had with Bosch is they make the best and quietest Dishwashers bar-none. Hope this helps.

Norvin
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My mother has had a Bosch mixer for 30+ years.  We have used every attachment made for the mixer.  We butchered our own meat and used the grinder and sausage stuffer.  I bet that machine ground over 100 beef, pork and deer.  Never once missing a beat.  I still use it at Christmas time to make tripple batches of cookies and candy.  Works like new.
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