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A Swedish spinning-bowl mixer that experts rate the best for bread and big batches, with a 7-year motor warranty. It is expensive, has a real learning curve, and its plastic bowl setup feels flimsy for cakes and cookies.
Top complaints
- Steep learning curve
Serious Eats says you must add wet ingredients first and adjust the arm position, which takes getting used to. ATK lists a steep learning curve and many parts.
- Weaker setup for cakes and frosting
Wirecutter says it falls short on other baking tasks: batters use a smaller, flimsy plastic bowl that flexes, the center column gets in the way, and bain-marie frostings need a separate bowl.
Source: Wirecutter - Expensive, with pinch risk
Serious Eats calls it quite expensive (about $800). Wirecutter warns it's easy to squish a hand between attachment and bowl, and ATK says the open bowl with a high-torque motor requires care.
What owners love
- Best-in-class kneading
ATK's overall winner for strong kneading with no dough-speed limit. Serious Eats says the dough roller kneaded both sticky and stiff doughs with ease, and Wirecutter calls it great at bread dough.
- Fast at whipping and creaming
Serious Eats whipped cream to stiff peaks in 35 seconds and easily creamed butter and sugar.
Source: Serious Eats review - Big capacity, long warranty
A 7-liter bowl that a contributor says holds nearly twice the dough of a 6-quart KitchenAid, and a 7-year factory warranty on the machine (Serious Eats). ATK praises the sturdy parts.
- You're a beginner or bake with kids
- You mostly make cakes and frosting
- You want a familiar KitchenAid-style workflow
- Frequent bread bakers
- Very large dough batches
- Long-term ownership (long warranty)
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What experts say
- America's Test Kitchen: Highly recommended overall winner for heavy-duty, large-batch baking; large with many parts and a steep learning curve.
- Serious Eats: Best for bread bakers, and good at whipping too; not intuitive if you're used to planetary mixers.
- Wirecutter (NYT): Worth considering for bread experts, but it falls short on other baking tasks and isn't recommended for beginners or kids.