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So, after a bit of searching around and advice from my daughter on the colour she would prefer, I found this:
It was the only beige/cream 4.8L one I could find anywhere before Christmas. All the big suppliers, John Lewis, KitchenAid website etc. were sold out of most colours.
Found this from a fairly obscure online retailer but it was reduced from £400 to £340 so happy days. She opened it on her birthday yesterday and is proper chuffed. Thanks for the advice all.
Don't know about the size of bowl.... but deffinitly get the glass bowl we have both glass and steel.
Steel has never been used.
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Nice one. The funky colours look appealing at first glance but realistically I think the classic white/black/silver options are best.
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Don’t know about the size of bowl…. but deffinitly get the glass bowl we have both glass and steel.
Steel has never been used.
Having just bought it with a steel bowl, and browsed the accessories online, I'm not in a hurry to fork out another £80 for a glass bowl. Eighty quid!!
Not to say we wouldn't consider it in future, but I'd need some convincing about why a glass bowl was that much better.
AvE took one of these apart a while ago on his YouTube channel. Well worth a watch if you're into that kind of thing:
"Got me a bad case of the Kitchen Aids"
Having contributed to this thread about 7 months ago, I'm informed that the ancient Kenwood Chef has started playing up and needs to be replaced.
Before we bite the bullet and get a KitchenAid (and no, I'm not going to be influenced by AvE, he seems to make sure his results match his prejudices) are they still robust and reliable enough to withstand weekly cake and bread making? Or are the internals weaker than they used to be?
Having contributed to this thread about 7 months ago, I’m informed that the ancient Kenwood Chef has started playing up and needs to be replaced.
They are very very easy to repair?
My dad has even re built the cicuit board in my mums for about 8 quid for a set of components to suit.
Whats actually wrong with it?
There's a lot of play in the mixer head - I noticed when making a pizza dough the other week that all I got was a ball on the dough hook spinning around but not getting kneaded. Maybe that's why I had indigestion for 24 hours. Mrs BigJohn says the K beater keeps falling out too.
And I've done the £8 circuit board repair too. Stopped the burning smell.
If the kenwood has seen so many years of faultless service, why not just buy another one? Or am I missing the point.
Are kenwoods not the one to have because tv chefs aren’t paid to use them?
I think we probably will get a Kenwood, and yes, I'd thought the Bake-Off exposure was puffing up a mediocre product but it seems that KitchenAid is quite a robust product. We're looking at an outlay of £600 or more in either case.
Whoaaaa
Holy thread resurection Batman...
Holy thread resurection Batman…
This is a non-obvious sister thread to the perennial “should I buy an ooni” thread. The only reason us lot are buying these are to make pizza dough. Then we discover cakes and bread…
I have suffered this affliction.
I’ve just bought myself a kenwood kmix kmx760.
Two useful things to add:
1) yes, it is all metal gearing. I know because I have dismantled it.
2) I got it for £100 spares or repair on eBay. The issue with this one was the head wouldn’t lift. I took a risk, figuring a latch locking pin needed filing down. I was right. Took quite a bit of dismantling but it’s good as new now. Literally good as new, it appears unused. I can only assume it was sold faulty, warranty returned, made it into eBay somehow. The seller has lots with various issues. Maybe grab yourself a bargain (and reuse something) if you’re mechanically skilled, can take a risk.
There’s a lot of play in the mixer head
Just read this again. I don’t know if this comes as bad news, but it doesn’t sound like you need a new mixer. It sounds like the head needs adjusting. If it’s the same as the Kmix I have, you raise the head, look for an Allen headed screw near the hinge that’s revealed when the head is up. This is the stop that prevent the head lifting when latched down. Adjust as necessary to stop the head bouncing up when latched down. I might be wrong.
There are companies who will fully refurbish an old Kenwood chef.
Ahem Thermomix. Most used bit of (very spendy) kit in my kitchen. Does everything very well. Very very spendy but worth every penny in my book. Oh and one more thing - it's very spendy and very good.