Appliance Reviews

This item is absolutely wonderful and no kitchen should be without it. For delicate meringues, this appliance takes all the work out of an otherwise laborious task.

The wire whisk is a perfect example of how kitchen aid should make all their attachments. It is made of stainless steel and works perfectly for making the fluffiest meringue. It does not have that nasty white paint coating like other attahments, therefore it does not chip off into your food. This is a must have attachment to your kitchen aid!

Whether you want to make chocolate mousse, or whipped cream for cakes, cream puffs or to top a pie, the Wire Whip attachment for the KitchenAid Stand Mixer gets the highest marks. Egg whites are easily whipped into meringue or to be folded into waffles, souffles or cakes. Consistent results with ease. If you like to bake or make desserts, I highly recommend it.

I am still so impressed with this machine! After years of using a hand mixer, I doubted a stand mixer would be useful for anything but freeing up my hands to start tidying up while it went through timed mixing (you know - when a recipe says beat on medium until your arm goes numb haha), but this whips up meringue a LOT faster than my hand mixer did and seems to put out a better product too. It's easy to clean and I think mine looks so impressive I leave it out on the counter to give my kitchen a more professional look. I am looking forward to getting the other attachments and trying them out!

I got this mixer this past christmas as a gift and it's been working great! very reliable, very efficient, and quickly mixes ingredients very well. easy to clean, this mixer is very sturdy and will do it's job. if you're looking to get a mixer, look no further. this is it!!

I am now replacing my KitchenAid Mixer. Why you ask? My mixer was actually a wedding gift for my Mother, over 35 years ago. I have happily used it, after she passed it to me, for about seven years of that time. Both my mother and I use a heavy duty mixer at least once a week. It has finally passed on to mixer heaven, but I have never used a product of such fine quality and workmanship before. I am definately replacing it with another Kitchen Aid.

I own an extra bowl for my 5-Quart KitchenAid Stand Mixer and it's great. When you are busy preparing a large family / Holiday meal it can be a life saver.

What a convenience to have an additional mixing bowl. When I make baked goods, invariably I need to use more than one bowl for a recipe. It sure speeds up the process by having another bowl on hand whenever you need one. The quality of this product is unparalleled. KitchenAid makes the best mixers on the market that are built to last for years. Our mixer is the favorite kitchen appliance my wife and I own! If you don't have a KitchenAid mixer, get one and an additional bowl too! You won't be disappointed.

As I do a lot of baking during the Christmas season, my KitchenAid 5 quart mixer really cuts the time and energy it takes to make a lot of cookies, and other such Christmas treats. The only thing that would be better, I thought, was an extra bowl, so I could expidite the process. My husband bought me this bowl as an early Christmas present, and I love it!!! I got through the Christmas season of baking in no time at all. I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves to bake, and does a lot of it.

This is a nice bowl to have on hand for small jobs. It nests nicely inside the 4.5 quart bowl that comes standard with the mixer.
Pros: space saving, an extra bowl is always worth having, it's KitchenAid, what more can I say?
Cons: no handle (the Amazon review was copied from the 4.5 quart bowl review), too small to do everything without spillage.
For me: not worth it. For extra you can have an extra 4.5 quart bowl. The handle is essential and this bowl doesn't have one. But if you're short on space and would like a bowl for small jobs, this would be a good buy.

Kitchen Aid make the best products, and this 3 quart bowl for the essential stand mixer is another great product. It makes a super addition to your mixer. I could not live without my Kitchen Aid stand mixer. It is my #1 favorite small appliance. I have given one to both my mother, and my mother in law. This Christmas I am adding on to my mom's collection with the 3 qt. bowl. She will love it as much as I do. I also have the meat grinder attachment and love it. Anyone who cooks at all needs the mixer, and anyone who cooks a lot would love this bowl.

If you do any baking requiring whipped egg whites, this bowl is the perfect companion to the 4.5 quart bowl that comes with the mixer. Beyond that, it's just nice to have if the big bows is tied up and there's something left to mix.

Straight up, I am able to say this is the best mixer you can get. If you are experienced in cooking or not, the three attachments offer options for your mixing. I am looking into buying one of these mixers for my family, my boyfriend's parents, etc. In my culinary arts class these are the only mixers we have, and they do the job for anything you'd need.

A comment to the person that complained about the banging when the dough was mixing on high: This is because you don't leave the dough on high once it is near finished; you should take it out and knead it for a few extra minutes. It's hard on your KitchenAid Mixer!

Just a note to the previous poster: There are 2 series for the 5 quart capacity bowl-lift mixer. Sounds like you have one from the Heavy Duty Series which is 325 watts. The Professional 5 Series is 350 watts.

I bought this mixer and just received it yesterday. I have to say that this mixer is great, but there are a few minor things. First of all, it is not 350 watts, rather 325 watts. Also, there is no reset button to prevent overheating, contrary to what the reviews may say, but I'm not complaining too much since I got it for a great price!
I did mix a batch of dough yesterday as soon as I received the mixer. (I ran out to greet the UPS man!) I was so excited! It mixes very well! The only thing is that it does start to make a banging sound when the dough is fully mixed on high, so I had to switch to low to finish it up.
I would definitely recommend this mixer to anyone in the market for one. You will not regret your decision.

I got this cover for my new Kitchen Aid and was pleased with it the first few weeks. Until, that is, I got it a little dirty and needed to run some cold water on a small portion of it to remove a tomatoe sauce splatter. The dark dye started running *immediately* onto the white and I was madly trying to stop it before it got too bad. I fixed it as best as I could but about an inch all around one side on the trim is a light blue from the dye. I now have to remove it whenever I cook anything that may get on it and it's very impractical. Being in a kitchen, this cover is extremely likely to need washing from time to time and I found it just ridiculous that this is basically impossible to do without ruining it.

Being a bachelor, I know I needed a little look of the home comfort, and this quilted cover gives the kitchen a warm cozy feel. I like the idea of preventing splashes of food not being able to get on the mixer. I like to give the mixing bowl and utensils a quick rinse before I use them. What the cover prevents is the need to do a prolonged soak and scrub to get dried food off of it. The cover fits well. I haven't really bothered to put a cookbook in the pocket. I like the look with the pocket the way it comes.
I like the fact that I know my stand mixer will remain scratch free, and keep that new look for a lot of years because of the cover.

This is no cover up , it is a lovely addition to ones counter. It keeps your mixer clean, has a nice pocket on one side to store your mixer book and is made of a nice quilted fabric.
At first I thought it was a bit pricey but it is well made and will last forever!!

This is an excellent accessory, but should come with one other inexpensive item in the box: a simple diagram about how to install it.

My wife was so excited when this item arrived, but then almost sent it back because she was convinced that it was not suitable for our mixer, a 325 watt 5 quart version. Firstly, our model was not listed as supported on the jacket box and secondly she didn't notice that the two mounting handles are not QUITE opposite each other, so the bowl only fits on the stand one way round. (For us, that was with the mounting hooks facing outwards, not in as you might expect).

A solid, well made accessory otherwise.

The Water Jacket for the Kitchen Aid mixer was something I though was overkill until I bought one. Once you have it you will find more and more uses to make cooking and baking great.

I first used it to help cream butter and sugar for pastry dough and was amazed at how quickly it did the job. My next task was whipping cream for desserts and to fold into pudding. Last and certainly not least was keeping yeast warm and of course the dough. I am convinced that I saved twenty to thirty minutes of rise time when I made my famous kuchen (German cake).

This product is well worth the money if you love to cook and bake like I do.

Kitchen-Aid quality is matched by no other company. I am convinced that with care, my mixer and the accessories will outlast me and be able to be handed down to my children (they will probably fight over it). My oldest son is taking an interest in baking now !!

Thanks to Kithcen Aid for wonderful products

Surrogate review for my mom (who's not computer comfortable).

"They're lids," she tells us. "They fit on the bowls pretty well."

So this item apparently does what lids are supposed to do. They cover the bowls. And they fit "pretty well."

Well, they work, and will keep food fresh while being stored in the refrigerator, and keep the bowls clean while in storage. One note, they seem to be overpriced for what you get.

I didn't buy these for food storage - I bought them so I could keep my attachments inside the mixer bowl on the counter, without them getting covered with grease and coffee grounds. For that purpose, these lids are perfect.

The center well looks odd, but it's just the right depth to clear the mixer shaft when the lid is on the bowl on the mixer, and almost the right width to allow two covered bowls to be stacked and stay stable (the base of the top bowl goes into the well in the bottom bowl's lid - the fit is a little tight, but still works).

The lids lost a star because I washed one of them in hot water in the dishwasher (on the bottom rack), and it shrunk slightly. It still goes on the bowl, but it strains to fit. I believe the instructions say "top rack" dishwasher safe, so you could chalk this up to user error, not necessarily to bad design.

I have a Kitchenaid model K5SSWH Heavy Duty Mixer and they do not fit over my 5 qt bowl. I regrettably only read the editorial review and bought these covers thinking I can snap them on. I use them to loosely cover my attachments now, but I could have used anything for that.

I see that other reviewers had the same problem I did with the lids not fitting. The problem is that you ordered the right part number but amazon sent the wrong part number. The bag the lids come in is used for 2 different part numbers (KBC5N and KBC90N).
I had ordered the KBC5N but the bag was marked with and X for the KBC90N. I returned it and the replacement was the same way.
I bet the warehouse has the wrong part in the wrong bin.

I think when the right lid is used they will be nice.

I have a white Kitchenaid Heavy Duty 5 quart mixer with an extra bowl and attachments. The covers fit exactly as designed, nice and secure. These covers are extra convenient when letting yeast rise. They are very handy in covering your attachments keeping dust and other particles out during storage. I recently ordered a new Kitchenaid 6 quart Empire Red mixer that I am surely in process of ordering bowl covers for this fine machine, also!