Bought this for my mum few months ago and she’s had no problems. It’s huge though when it’s out of the box. She loves it. No more messing with a hand mixer. Everything in and done. Looks good too. Cream colour blends in nicely with the kitchen. Fantastic mixer.

My first use and because it is a huge bowl, I decided to make two cakes in it using a Victoria sandwich cake mix. Everything seemed to be going well as I beat the sugar into the butter, added the eggs and then the flour; the mix seemed well creamed and I doled it out into the three tins – first on the pineapple upside-down cake, then divided the rest between two sandwich tins. However, because the mixture seemed to be perfectly creamed (it’s a glass bowl so you could see it), I had not stopped to scrape the bowl sides and bottom halfway through the mix with the spatula. I will next time because if you don’t, the cake in the middle in the picture – the one that had the scoop of mixture from the bottom of the mixing bowl – is what you get; I can only describe it as ‘crunchy’, or maybe ‘biscuity’. That’s because the sugar has not mixed through and this particular cake is almost all unmixed crunchy sugar.
So, the cake beater does not, despite the planetary action of the thing, scoop up all the ingredients for a good old mix; you have to intervene with the spatula halfway through. If you’re feeling flush, you could go on and pay an extortionate 30 for a beater with a silicone spatula attached, but I won’t be getting one at that price.
On the plus side, the pineapple upside-down cake was delicious, as was the other half of the sandwich cake. I told everyone it was intentional and called it crispy cake. They fell for it.

Although I sent it back , I do recommend this machine for a younger mom with family, I have used Kenwood
for over 50 years, and they have never let me down, this machine was too heavy for me and too big as I am now on my own, Have just bought a new Kenwood shredder slicer which I am happy with I love KENWOOD
products very disappointed I had to send the mixer back it is a beautiful machine.

Good weight so it doesn’t move alot when mixing although if you make 1kg of dough then expect it to move somewhat.

I’ve had no issue with the plastic part on the bottom of the bowl yet, but it seems solid and not likely to snap anytime.

Great power options

I didn’t get exactly what was described on “warehouse” deals. There are missing parts.

Took a gamble and went for the refurbed option. Box was damaged and the mixer had a couple of small marks on it, but other than that it was immaculate. Very pleased with the product and the price.
Been using it to make bread dough and it does a great job. No complaints from me.

I have bought a few cheaper mixers over several years and often on the basis that a 1500 watt motor should adequately deal with my few-times-a-week bread making (I don’t like supermarket bread). Often these necessitated frequently stopping the mixer in order to scrape the dough from the sides into the middle of the mixer bowl but I assumed (in my ignorance) that this was normal. My initial concern with buying the Kenwood was that it is only a 1000 watt motor and possibly weaker than those mixers I’ve previously owned but how wrong I was! The Kenwood is a significantly different machine. It mixes effortlessly and in a shorter time than my previous machines. I noted too that the machine head does not rock up and down noisily like all of the cheap versions I have previously owned.
With reference to the complaints I have seen in other reviews about the glass bowl locking into place, I used a little smear of vegetable oil on the base and resisted twisting the bowl into its locked position. I have had no difficulties in that regard at all.

Because I make my own bread ,this is a boon when it comes to kneading the dough. Have not tried it on cake mixes yet, but I do not see any problems with that.

Very much like the price i paid, good offer. Very good looking , easy to use and reasonably easy to clean.

Great buy.would highly recommended . Easy and quick to use. Very simple installatio