KitchenAid mixer...I'm a believer!

Aren't they great? Even though I really only use mine for holiday baking these days, I still love it. I can get so much prep/cleaning/putting away done while it's doing it's thing.

I love my KA stand mixer. It's worth every penny just to shred chicken.

To answer your question: I never thought I would spend so much on a vacuum cleaner. $400 was pushing it when we bought the Silver Surfer. When it needed replaced, DH insisted we go to the vacuum cleaner store. I wasn't paying that much for a vacuum cleaner. Almost $900 later, we walked out with a Miele C3. What sold me was the beater bar part attached to the handle. I loathed fighting my old vacuum cleaner on the stairs because of the wand/pipe thing. Often wondering why it wasn't made to attach to the handle. I love my Miele! She is light and easily maneuverable. The exhaust comes out the top of the machine, so no more hair balls flying across the floor when the vacuum is turned on. With 4 critters in the house, it is used every day. When the Fibromyalgia flares, the lightness and easy maneuverability enables me to keep after the animal fur.

I was going to mention something in the same vein. Not all of the same size mixers have the same watts so when you are going to spring for one make sure you get one that has some power. I think the Wal-Mart and Kohls one were on the low end. BB&B plus Williams Sonoma seem to have the more powertful wattages.

My brother's wife never wanted a KA mixer and she makes cookies all the time. I was able to help my brother get a great deal on one through my husband's work a few years ago. Do you know she left it in the box for 2 years and once she opened it she was so surprised, kicking herself for letting it sit. She was so cute as she told me how fast she made cookie batter. I love mine and enjoy some of the attachments.

I have an Artisan Design KA mixer - in metallic candy apple red. I may not use it much but it makes me happy just seeing it on the counter.
I wanted one for a long time, but couldn’t decide on the color; the Empire Red just wasn’t doing it for me. The minute I saw the metallic red of this one I knew that’s the one I wanted. And it looks good in our kitchen.

Interesting idea. Do you find it travels when you use it?

I don't use mine regularly but it gets a good workout during Christmas. I just used it this past weekend to make a huge batch of cookies. It's a great little work horse.

ETA: I've been using the meat grinder attachment more  and more. I wouldn't mind owning the ice cream attachment some day. My machine is Empire Red.

I'm a bit of a spoiled girl (but ok I DO bake for a living!!)

In my cake studio I own a black 4.5 qt tilt head, a black 5 qt pro lift bowl, and a tan 7 qt pro lift bowl. I also have a 20 qt Hobart that is older than dirt that sits on the floor.

Upstairs in my home kitchen I do have one very pretty aqua blue 6qt that matches my pretty kitchen.

Doesn't stop me from pausing in the store to look at them wistfully though! 

Mine is candy apple red...unimaginatively,I call her “ Candy”
I love her

My dad was an engineer who felt that a home computer was just an expensive toy, so we didn't have one. (We also didn't have cable TV, a VCR, an answering machine, or a cordless phone, if that gives you an idea of my parents' aversion to home technology.) My senior AP English teacher assigned multiple rewrites of our term papers based on her idea that certainly everyone could easily edit and re-print. Nope, not me. I re-typed those 12 pages at least half a dozen times, and other essays and shorter papers as well.

On the upside, when I left high school I could type like 150 WPM. 😂

I recently moved to a new town and a KitchenAid mixer was one of my first purchases. I did look around for a good deal and I think Macy’s had the best price. I know it is expensive for a mixer but I just love it. My daughter has my original one. I have already used it to make cookies and a plan to get it out probably again today sometime. I am definitely a believer.
Another item that I think is well worth the price are AirPods. I gave my pair to my daughter but I hope to get myself another set. They are pretty darn awesome.

I have tried numerous hand mixers before and they seem to burn up trying to get through the dough. I don’t make anything that unusual but for some reason, the handmixers just don’t seem to be able to handle it.

I am on my second KA, my first was a smaller white one that I just wore out from making bread. I have the lift head Imperial Grey (the bumpy texture one rather then shiny smooth) and I love it so much.
Make sure you get the best motor you can afford, you will amaze yourself with how much you use it and you are going to want it to last!

My thing I never thought I would really use, but I use all the time are my cast iron skillets. When we got married we got some really nice Caphalon pans but my husband had a few cast iron pans he would use. After I finally tried them I was hooked and we donated the wedding pans and we just have two nice sauce pans that are not cast iron, the rest are all cast iron, including our wok.

Are you pushing up and turning?  Or just turning?

I hardly ever bake but boy do I use my KA mixer for shredding chicken!