[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I’ve wanted this mixer for a long time and finally treated myself to it for a BIG birthday in November. The timing was perfect for making so many of my holiday goodies. I’m still getting used to turning it off and unlocking the head to lift it in order to scrape down the sides and add ingredients, but that will come with time. I’m looking forward to trying the spiral, shredder attachments that came with my mixer as part of a special promotion.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I finally replaced my 40+ year old mixer and can’t believe how super my new Kitchenaid stand mixer is! I’m making bread and Christmas cookies and it is so much easier. Wish I hadn’t waited so long.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I found that this KitchenAid with bonus attachments was perfect and ideal for me and my kitchen. My first recipe made with this was The Banana Magic cake which required full mixing of ingredients and stiff whooping of eggs. Three techie came out perfect. Can't wait to buy the pasta attachments. Mines came with schedule and dicer attachment. I love my new KITCHENAID

I've had my KA for a year and a half. I use it once a month or so. I have loved it - and purchased multiple attachments including the 2 pastas attachments and the ice cream bowl. Suddenly, in the middle of making a bread dough, the head stopped spinning. Considering the price point of the KA and the expected quality, this is very upsetting. My KA is no longer functional after maybe 20 or so uses.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I never could understand my daughters in laws obsessions with their Kitchen Aid mixers. Until I was baking cookies with a friend and botched the recipe. It was either triple it, or throw it out. Her Kitchen Aid mixer made short work of that triple recipe! I went and bought one for myself the next day at 56 years old! I've used it for everything from baking to mixing meatloaf. How did I live this long without it?!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I needed to change to the tilt head style to help my arthritic hands and I'm so glad I did. Since I changed from one style to another you can see how much I love these kitchenaid mixers. They are durable and have powerful motors that you know you'll never need to replace. You can mix anything with it and the attachments give you even more possibilities. I personally consider buying one an investment, and the best kitchen related one at that. You can't go wrong with it.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I got the Kitchen Aid stand mixer w/attachments for Christmas and its so amazing! I have never been one that has been able to cook but having this really motivated me to learn and now I use it almost everyday.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Need to get used to speed setting. Made cookies and used too high of a speed, over mixing the batter and cookies baked flat. Was my first time using. But it does what it was designed to do. Hand mixers are not as effective as the Kitch Aide mixer, making the process much easier .

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I ordered my Artisan stand mixer in late December, choosing the bundle that includes the Fresh Prep Slicer/Shredder attachment. I’ve used it several times per week since it arrived in January. Some items in the order took longer than others to arrive, so I didn’t have all the “pieces” until the second week of January. I was particularly excited to use the mixer to make bread dough. I enjoy having homemade bread on hand and the thought of not having the floury mess on my counter every couple days was appealing. Since I’ve never used a mixer to make bread dough before, I decided to use one of KitchenAid’s recipes to begin with to get an idea of what order to add ingredients, what speed to use and how long to knead. I’ve made several batches of bread now and can say that the recipe for Basic Bread makes a nice tasting loaf that is good for both sandwiches and toast. It slices well, even for the thin slices my husband prefers for toast. What surprised me, though, was the fact that the mixer seems to struggle to mix the dough once you have all of the flour added and it is in the kneading stage. It keeps going, but the top wants to pop up…the first batch I made it actually DID pop up and down enough times that it wiggled the down lever right out of the locked position! I’ve learned that I need to stand there with my hand resting on the top to keep it from doing that…and this is with one of KitchenAids recipes, which you would think would be developed specifically for their mixer. The dough, once it gets to the kneading stage, also builds up on the dough hook to the point that it climbs over the top of it and creates a ball of dough. The first time I used it for bread dough, I kept stopping the mixer and scraping the dough back down, but then I came across a tip that said to coat the dough hook with olive oil or something similar to help prevent that. It worked pretty well, but toward the end of the kneading stage it started to do it again anyway, so the oil must have gotten incorporated into the dough by then. I’ve also made pie crust, which came out beautifully. No concerns there. With the slicer/shredder attachment, I’ve tried it on numerous cheeses, a number of veggies, and a stick of pepperoni so far. With the cheeses…it works great, particularly on the firmer cheese. Softer cheese, like American and mozzarella using the larger-holed grater, it grated the cheese nicely, but it does build up inside the slicing chamber and creates tubes of softer cheese between the grated blade and the white housing that you find when you take the grating cylinder out. They’re usable and fine, just unexpected. I’ve learned that if you are grating multiple types of cheese for a recipe, do the firmer cheese first and end with the softer cheeses as they leave behind a bit of a mess inside the attachments. The same approach applies to grating veggies…firmer veggies work better than softer veggies. Onions through the grater ended up being onion slurry. Onions through the slicer were OK, but still a bit mangled. Carrots through the grater, by contrast, were much better. After the onions, I didn’t even attempt celery through the grater, but it went through the slicer ok…although there were some interesting celery strings wound around the slicing tool when I got done. Potatoes sliced well…I haven’t tried grating them yet since I haven’t needed grated potatoes for anything so far. Overall opinion on the slicer/shredder is that it works nicely on firmer things, hit and miss on softer things….and nothing I’ve put through it so far in terms of veggies are a nice, consistent slice like I get with my mandoline slicer. If you’re not worried about a consistent “look” to the results, then it does save lots of time…if you’re making a fancy dish for company or an event and want nice, clean, consistent slices….this is not your tool. Overall I’m very pleased with the mixer and happy with my purchase. I haven’t had it long enough to test out every dish I might use a mixer for, but so far so good. I’m concerned about how much it labors doing bread doughs, since that was the primary reason I purchased it, but time will tell.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I am in love!! At the age of 55 I finally asked for a Kitchen Aid and wish I had years ago!! I love to bake and have caught the sourdough bread habit. My kitchenaid , I named her Georgia, has helped so much!! She works quickly and quietly and is so efficient!