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Best stand mixer?

  • 21-07-2020 9:03pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭


    I see Lidl are doing the Kenwood prospero for €150 on Thursday. has anyone any experience with it? Is it any good?

    I was looking at the Kenwood Kmix [the one with the metal bowl only] and the Kitchenaid before I saw the Lidl ad.

    Does anyone have any experience of using any of these or any recommendations please? I would be using it mostly for baking.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭jlm29


    I see Lidl are doing the Kenwood prospero for €150 on Thursday. has anyone any experience with it? Is it any good?

    I was looking at the Kenwood Kmix [the one with the metal bowl only] and the Kitchenaid before I saw the Lidl ad.

    Does anyone have any experience of using any of these or any recommendations please? I would be using it mostly for baking.

    I have a kmix. It must be 9 years old I’d say, and I still love it. It’s not overworked these days, I don’t bake as much as I used to, but it’s used fairly regularly.
    I know you can get extra attachments (I don’t have any though), but not as many for the kmix as you can for the chef


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,954 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    I see Lidl are doing the Kenwood prospero for €150 on Thursday. has anyone any experience with it? Is it any good?

    I was looking at the Kenwood Kmix [the one with the metal bowl only] and the Kitchenaid before I saw the Lidl ad.

    Does anyone have any experience of using any of these or any recommendations please? I would be using it mostly for baking.

    You piqued my interest with the Prospero so I looked it up. For the smaller kitchen it says, perfect I thought but looking at the specifications, it only has capacity for 500g dough. That's not very much (2 pizzas or a small loaf). :(

    https://www.kenwoodworld.com/en-int/products/kitchen-machines/prospero/prospero-km242-0wkm242002?TabSegment=specifications#specifications


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,996 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    I don't reckon you can go past a regular Kenwood chef .. there is a major if you want to go bigger again ..
    Only thing is ..would it be too big for your needs , sometimes the smaller mixer and bowl suits the size of vatches you're making better...
    And for the record I've killed 2 kitchen aids ( in a commercial kitchen ,( we went back to our ancient Kenwood and it worked perfectly ) ,and I also killed a 70s Kenwood ( well stuffed a gear ) by trying to put far too much down a mixer attachment ...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭IrishPhoenix


    I managed to get a look at the more current Prospero model [1000w] in a store today. Full plastic body. Extremely lightweight. Lightweight in that it kinda rocks when I was testing lifting the mixing head. Compared to the Kmix on the stand beside it with a full metal body it felt very flimsy. But the kmix is €150 euro more. Very undecided.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,770 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    I've a kmix, i love it. If i had to buy again i might go for a chef just for the range of attachments.
    I have the pasta extruder for the kmix and it gets used when i have a glut of eggs :) And i got fancy brass dies for it from pastidea.it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    You can't go wrong with kitchenaid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭omri


    Can't go wrong with ankarsrum


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