My mother-in-law's KitchenAid mixer is a beast. It's from the 1970s and very solidly built. Turns out it was a true professional appliance, made by Hobart. Hobart sold off KitchenAid in the 80s and now only makes professional mixers, which start around $3500, and go up exponentially from there.guyfromontario wrote: ↑ We had Kitchen Aid 9 cup prior to this. After a month burning smell started coming out of it. Thanks to Canadian Tire return policy. We got store credit at least.
I bought a cheap KitchenAid and was very unimpressed. It wasn't very strong and it didn't feel like it was well made either. I gave that away and then bought their high end consumer model and have been much happier with that. It turns out that model was also sold as a professional model (small cafés and the like) but with different accessories and at a higher price with a longer warranty.
So, they don't make things like they used to, but it should also be noted that my mother-in-law's mixer was hella expensive by current standards too after factoring in inflation. I don't think many RFDers would be happy paying a few thousand bucks in 2021 for a stand mixer.
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