Stand mixer

I have Kenwood chef xl titanium, bought last year on amazon.de while I was in Germany, and also bought a few additions.

Machine work very nice with pizza, bread and pastries dough. Also for making own pasta, and that dough isn't the easy one on the machine.

Although, it definitely wants bigger amounts, it's not for whisking one egg. I think 3-4 are the minimum? We're not doing cookies/cakes.

I found some youtube video in German comparing that one to kitchenaid and bosch, and kenwood 'won' me with how smooth the dough was, if I remember the reason correctly. Before the video we were inclined towards kitchenaid with 'being open to possibilities'.

Also, we use its glass bowl blender for blending soups and smoothies.

Heavy machine, and if I remember correctly, heavier than kitchenaid I've bought for a friend, but I forgot which model they wanted (artisan or regular, I think it was regular, with tilted move).

I like that kenwood has distinct dial on which speed you're on. And the light in the bowl really can be helpful

It has top hole for blender and other speed stuff, and front hole for very slow additions, like meat grinder or pasta roller.

However, I think the most important thing is that you have a space for it and that you'll use it. Even if it breaks down in 5 years of daily usage, you'll be happy you had a machine you could rely onto, it doesn't have to endure 30 year to be worth its price

Ideally, you could test it if some friend has it, to see how they work for your recipes and purposes. Everything else is basically buying blindly, but if you manage to find a youtube video where they do the recipe you want, that might be informative enough?

Kitchenaid is the best IMO, the Classic model works great for smaller jobs, I have the largest Artisan purchased second hand (lightly used) because I tend to bake a lot and in big batches. The classics go on sale usually around the holidays. One will last you forever.

I have the Bosch MUM 5. I haven't had it long enough to fully review it, but have made bread with 500g wheat flour twice and it kneaded beautifully. That said though, if you don't need the food processer and other parts, it might not be the best purchase.

I had a classic Kitchen Aid in the States -- it was fine as well for my purposes (four person household, used it for cookies and cake, but not bread). It is over ten years old and still running - my mother has it now.

I have a Kenwood cooking chef titanium, I think. I sold my kitchen aid artisan mixer and giant food processor. I like the Kenwood because it has a smaller footprint and can use all these attachments, plus it has an induction heating element. Makes a decent risotto. I’ve had it three years and I’m very happy with how it handles dough, cakes and chopping.

I ended up buying the Bosch Compact Mixer (MUM4426) at a special price. It doesn't look like much, but it's surprisingly powerful. See review here .

So far I have used only to knead dough, for pizza , bread and Liège waffles .

The offer I got ended but now they have another model from the same series on sale at Fust, with a more powerful motor:

https://www.fust.ch/fr/p/cuisine/rob...4-8498397.html

Offer of the day at Qoqa/Qooking:

Titanium Chef Baker XL stand mixer with 1200W power and integrated scales, for 399 CHF

https://qooking.qoqa.ch/fr