Stand Mixers - Silver Spring,MD

We have a Kitchen Aid mixer. It's awesome. You can also get a lot of attachments & such for it. (Grinders, even an ice cream maker attachment!). Mine has a stainless steel bowl, not glass & I love it. We make homemade bread, cake batter, cookies, buttercream frosting, etc. If you shop around you can get it on sale for around $100 or a little over that.

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The kitchenaid mixers are fabulous. You can't go wrong. There are tons of accessories available if you want them. Mine has a metal bowl. Buy one of the more powerful ones - you won't regret it!

My mom got hers as a wedding gift in 1971 and still uses it regularly.

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If you are going to do things for people you need to get a mixer that is time tested. I have a KA that lifts up and down and not back. My DIL has the one that lifts back. Either is good but I prefer the lift up and down one.

There are so many things you can while the machine is mixing the contents and you don't have to stand there holdling the mixer while it mixes and get tired.

The bowls are stainless steel so you don't have to worry about dropping adn breaking them you could get a dent or two but they will continued to work. You can get attachments to do things you want as you change your cooking needs.

I also use mine to make body creams and whip the ingredients together and make them light and fluffy before packaging.

It may cost more in the beginning but it will be less in the long run. How many hand mixers have you bought? It could have been the cost of one good mixing machine that still keeps going. Besides you can send them in for repair if necessary.

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I have a Kitchen Aid that my late MIL bought in the early 1980's. It's about 30 years old and still going strong. Given the baking that you do, you will never regret investing in a Kitchen Aid. It's simply the best of the best. Mine has a 4.5-quart metal bowl and it's totally fine for what I do, which is a lot of baking, including large cakes, huge batches of fondant and frosting, big batches of bread dough, double batches of cookie dough, etc. I think that most of the newer ones come with a 5-qt bowl as the standard. I have never seen a glass bowl on a stand mixer - all the ones I see are metal.

The one I have would probably be closest to the Classic, which is a little over $200 and available everywhere. You can probably upgrade to the Artisan (5-qt bowl) for not much more - I see them on sale all the time for $250.

Have fun with this - it IS and investment but it is sooo worth it. I can't imagine baking without one.

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love my kitchen aide!
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I have an older Kitchenaid, and it has a metal bowl. It has been a great stand mixer! I'm sorry that it's going to "retire" any time now, which I know will happen from the sound of the motor.

When I look for an expensive appliance like this, I go online and look for customer reviews. They're always on Amazon, and sometimes on other sites. Although you need to read carefully (some people review an item before they've even used it!), you might find some good information about various products. A brand name that "has always been good" may be a whole different machine now, made by a whole different company. So you are wise to do your homework.

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kitchen aid - love it!!

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I have a kitchen aid artisan that I got as a wedding gift and I LOVE it. It's really versatile since there are multiple attachments. For example, it has a food/meat grinder; grater/slicer; pasta maker and probably about a dozen other attachments. The artisan series also comes in multiple colors to match your kitchen or just your favorite color and the bowl is stainless so you can't break it. I also bought one for my mom for her birthday and shopped around. At the time, I found one on Amazon for a great sale price so if you're patient you can find one for under 200 (not including shipping and/or tax), but if you get it through Amazon shipping was free.

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I have a Kitchen Aid Mixer that I absolutely love!! My daughter and I are always using it to make cakes, cookies or something!! It has held up for almost 20 years and I have never had a problem. If I were in the market for one, I would definitely buy Kitchen Aid again!! And now they have all the different colors to choose from! Not sure if I had the option of what bowl to choose, but I would definitely get the bowl with the handle! (Come to think of it, I might look into that now!!) With all the stuff you do, you might want to look at the Professional Style Kitchen Aid Mixer - if it's too pricey for your Aunt, maybe you could chip in toward it. I'm guessing it's a more heavy-duty motor.

Good luck and happy baking!!

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Looks like the vote for Kitchen Aide is unanimous. I bought one for my wife for a Christmas present 20 or so years ago. Each of my daughters or DIL that have a stand mixer have Kitchen Aid mixers.

I have the heavy duty one and the mixer lifts up rather than tilts back.

My wife and I have used it for all kids of things, no the least of which is making bread.

It had lasted very well and I would recommend it.

Good luck to you and yours.

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Hi K.-

I have the KA artisan model with the 5 quart stainless bowl with handle...I LOVE it! Wish I had gotten it years ago...

I used to think I had a 'defective baking gene'...But not any more! lol

I bake bread regularly now (those dough hooks are great!!) Cakes and cookies are a breeze!

I am currently looking at some of the attachments (pasta maker...slicer...grater) and am dropping some HUGE hints for my birthday!

Best luck!
(nice aunt too!!!)
michele/cat

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Like 8kidsdad, I have the KA one that lifts up, not tilts back. I got it not long ago (2 years at most) and I love it! My teen daughter and I love to bake (and I do home childcare, so we are always making tasty breads and cookies for cooking projects that involve us using science, math and cooperation, with a tasty treat as the outcome!) and it is always being used!

The snappy red color and the stainless bowl fit with my contemporary and clean line styling so it looks great on my countertop as well!

My hubby got it for me and used a 30% off coupon at Kohls along with their sale price on KA products! It was a great price!

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I have a very very old Kitchen Aid that is still working and is wonderful.

They have all sorts of attachments that you can buy to make your own ground meat, bread dough, etc....

I think the only thing that is frustrating is how it lifts out of the batter. I have the white plastic guard that keeps the batter splashes in the bowl but when I take the beaters out I have to use a scrapper to get the batter off the beaters. It leaves so much on them.

With a hand held one I just lift the mixer a bit and the batter spins off onto the sides of the mixing bowl. I miss that. But it is just something you have to get used to. Once you get past that the Kitchen Aid mixers are the best and strongest.

i own the 6 qt kitchen aid and love it. i haven't had any problem with it and i use it quite frequently. i have never made fondant, but i do use it for some heavy batters and it works well for what i need. i also like it because it's the bowl that moves up and down for removal, not the mixer bending back and forth.

My sister's Kitchen Aid has stainless steel ... I do covet it (sigh on the wishlist) I think she did buy the stainless stell bowl as an extra acessory though.

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