Reading through reviews of the Cuisinart 7-qt mixer, I stumbled upon a reference to the Bosch Universal Plus Mixer. I’ve searched through several review threads and I’m now extremely intrigued by it. I’ve even watched a video of someone making whole wheat bread that had at least 8 cups of wheat flour. Impressive! Even more so, the specs claim it can handle 15 pounds of bread dough. I’d never try that on the KitchenAid. Even when it wasn’t broken, because that would break it.
My only issue is it seems to be an online purchase. I haven’t found a brick and mortar that has it so I can look at it. The main knocks against it are that it’s not a great general purpose tool. I’ve seen comments that it isn’t effective at creaming sugar and so forth because of the bowl/ mixer design. Of course, in my case the thing will be used for bread dough 90% of the time so that might not matter to me.
The search continues.
One reply on “The Great Kitchen Mixer Search”
Lots of PRO/CON reviews as the mixer wars escalate … in the end, you might either want to talk to a bakery or restaurant supply store and see if they have any insight … OR, contact the American Culinary Institute in either Hartford or Providence … and see if they have a recommendation. It seems like the Bosch would be a dedicated piece of equipment that would realize it’s full functionality as a bread maker … not a multi-tasking tool.