Kenwood stand mixer

xDerp

Hi all, I'm after a mixer that's going to be in fairly regular use, cakes, pizza, bread etc. Toyed with the idea of aldi/lidl but they seem to break. I've settled on the idea of a kenwood chef, does anyone have any experience with this particular model: https://www.did.ie/collections/all/products/kenwood-chef-46l-1000w-food-mixer-white-kvc3100w

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confusticated

I have that mixer, got it four years ago. I mostly use it for cakes and pizza dough, it gets used once or twice a week pretty much every week and I'm very happy with it. If you're doing large quantities of bread or pizza dough I might go for a more powerful motor and bigger bowl but I do batches of pizza dough of 800g usually and it does that no problem. My mother had a similar one, fairly basic model and it lasted over 25 years with similar usage levels. It died a few years back and she replaced it with a very similar one - maybe 1200W, I'm not sure.

xDerp

Thanks for the reply! I'd say my usage would be the same tbh.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118539980#Comment_118539980

You can get new motors online and they're good for another 25+ years.

Have a 1970's one, they're built like brick sh*thouses.

confusticated

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118541092#Comment_118541092

I hope to not need one for a long time, but good to know! Mam's had smoke coming out of it so I don't think she was up for repairing it after that.

xDerp

Thanks folks, I saw they had the 1200w kvc5100 on the site for the same price and went for that. Nice solid unit!

anonanymore

Kenilworth Electrical, 253 Harold's Cross Road, Dublin, D6W DH22, repair Kenwood mixers.

They repaired my wife's 1970s mixer, said it was much better than the latest models.