I am thinking about a kitchen aid

[Halex]

Do I really need one?

What does everyone use them for?

Thank you sooo much.

HHW

[Wonder]

Probably not but do you want one??

I still use mine to make some cakes as I prefer the texture to the TMX, eggwhites for meringue and our pasta maker is a kitchen aid attachment. I don't use it a lot these days but I don't make many cakes or sweets.

[Jamberie]

I just got one for Christmas
Don't really neeeeed one but they are so pretty
And meringues are easier

[Chocolatte]

I love my Kitchenaid. It's perfect for eggwhite, but I also like to see the mixture as it processes for the cakes and biscuits that I bake.

Plus it looks so pretty on the bench.

[droverjess]

Well I have a kenwood chef

Soonge Cakes, meringues, pavlova, it has a processor attachment on top so I slice veggies for salads, potato bakes, onions for onion marmalade to keep the slices, apples for tarts. Larger batches of bread.

[obbie]

buy one. I have one for big cakes, I made the pudding last week in it.
Meringues too.

[stacelee]

I have a Kenwood Chef (actually the cooking one) which I use for bread doughs because I find the hook easier than getting dough out from under the blades and for whisking egg whites.  I also use it to cook when my thermomix is busy doing other things.  I did have a bowl lift commercial Kitchen Aid but it and I never got along.  I got frustrated with the beater pattern of it and sick of constantly scraping it down.  There is now a scraper beater that you can get which I believe has solved a lot of those problems.

[CreamPuff63]

I bought a KA recently Halex and have used it a few times. To be honest I'm so flat out at work and being an empty nester most of the time  that I haven't used it as much as I want to. I will in time though, and I bought all the attachments and the cookbook so I'm set. I made pasta the other day and it was so easy, and I've made a few cakes as well which have worked out a treat. I still use the TM more tho 

PS: I thought the icecream attachment was hopeless as I'm used to my compressor machine

[trudy]

Wouldn't be without mine Halex. 

[past94x]

I have a Kenwood Chef and wouldn't change it for the world. So reliable and it produces the most beautifully light sponges. I have just had to replace mine - the first one was bought in 1977 and stopped working last year - 35 years old. What more could I ask?

[kt2]

I love my kitchen aid and would not even think about getting rid of it. I love to use my kitchen aid for cakes and also use it for making biscotti. And of course it's pink and pretty!! 

[kezza]

I also love my KA.  Use it for cakes, meringues and the pasta attachment is great.

[Kimmyh]

I have a kenwood chef and use it for sponges, buttercream and meringue. Thermie does the rest, but I wouldn't be without my kenwood. Great to have both.

[cookie1]

I have a Kenwood too, but more often than not use my small Sunbeam hand held beater.

[consumerate]

I have a kitchen aid. It's currently in storage but I really miss it for pasta, ice cream, meringue and banana cake.