# I don't need a Kitchenaid stand mixer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970 "2008-11-29T20:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/1 "2008-11-29T20:22:03Z")
Seriously. Not even if there’s a factory-reconditioned 450-watt variety available in the right color for only $220. Because I don’t use one. (I don’t _have one_, therefore I don’t use one.) Because I don’t like bread. Or cookies. And that’s _all_ you can make with one. Seriously. Cookies and bread. _Nothing else._ Certainly not anything particularly tasty. Like cinnamon rolls. Nope. Don’t need one. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/2 "2008-11-29T20:26:33Z")
If you don’t get one you’ll save on counter space that every kitchen seems to me running out of. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/3 "2008-11-29T20:31:20Z")
Oh man, I _know_. I don’t want one either. Not at all and it doesn’t do me any good to point out that I’ve been able to find them as cheap as a 100 bucks on craigslist. 'Cause, yanno, I don’t want one. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/4 "2008-11-29T20:36:50Z")
Plus, sausages. Yep. It can’t make sausages either. Or grind meats. I can live without meat. And bread and cookies. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/5 "2008-11-29T20:42:56Z")
…or [ice cream](http://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KICA0WH-Cream-Maker-Attachment/dp/B0002IES80/ref=cm_lmf_tit_2_rsrsrs0). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/6 "2008-11-29T20:48:58Z")
I use mine all the time and make a lot of stuff I might not bother to make without it. Like gingerbread cookies. Fresh, soft gingerbread cookies. ---
**Author:** ![truthbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@truthbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthbot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/7 "2008-11-29T20:50:23Z")
Yep, that’s why I don’t have a KA Pro6 on my counter. In the hammered finish. With the grinder and pasta roller and pasta plates. I would spend waaay too much time baking bread, making fresh pasta and grinding burger and sausage. Waaay too much time. Nope, you don’t wanna go there. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/8 "2008-11-29T20:51:00Z")
Gingerbread cookies? La la la la la, I can’t hear you! 😃 I already have a separate ice cream maker, your frozen-desserty wiles will not work on me! …wait, there’s a pasta attachment? LA LA LA LA LA. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/9 "2008-11-29T20:51:01Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Oh man, I _know_. I don’t want one either. Not at all and it doesn’t do me any good to point out that I’ve been able to find them as cheap as a 100 bucks on craigslist. 'Cause, yanno, I don’t want one. > > Ever. Oh, hell no. Not ever. Not in any of those colors, or even the brushed aluminum or _gasp!_ copper I saw in Williams Sonoma. Don’t need it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/10 "2008-11-29T21:27:16Z")
Stupid piece of yuppie kitchen equipment that nobody kneads. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/11 "2008-11-29T22:21:38Z")
Just hope you don’t ever have to make up large batches of wallpaper paste. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/12 "2008-11-29T23:18:05Z")
I make bread from scratch at least twice a month, by hand. I don’t want to lose half a counter top, or worse, half a cabinet, to a stand mixer. It really is not difficult to make yeast breads by hand. However, I did enjoy SELLING KA mixers when I worked for a department store. I could make half my daily goal selling one of the delixe models 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/13 "2008-11-29T23:23:01Z")
I soooo almost got one back around '92. The black model! No, no, the green model! What am I doing? I don’t bake, and don’t need to start. I’d never figure out all the other stuff it does. Glad I didn’t get one, but don’t count on me neeeever getting one. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/14 "2008-11-29T23:30:08Z")
I would never use one (utilitarian white) to make award-winning ginger snaps and other cookie goodness. Just not my style. What has happened to all my counter space? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/15 "2008-11-29T23:32:09Z")
I don’t need one either. That’s why I didn’t pick up a 4.5 Quart, 300 watts, bowl lift mixer at Kohl’s for $159 at 4 in the morning on Black Friday. I ordered it online instead. It’ll arrive Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/16 "2008-11-29T23:36:22Z")
**Pepperlandgirl** , you’re not heeeelllping… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/17 "2008-11-29T23:36:36Z")
Don’t want one, don’t need one. Especially if it comes in pink. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/18 "2008-11-29T23:41:58Z")
I use my professional 600 for fudge, none of that waiting until it is 110 F to beat. Beat it about 150-160, and turn it out as soon as the gloss is off. It is still malleable and can be pressed flat on a buttered sheet and cut, in nice square pieces that don’t shatter, but I don’t _need_ it. I didn’t need it for the pumpkin pie filling, the dinner rolls, pumpkin bars, cream cheese icing, this week, but I used it. I did not need it for the muffins for the bake sale, the cookies, or the fruit cake that I make every year. Scratch that. There is no way I am doing the fruitcake by hand. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/19 "2008-11-29T23:50:28Z")
I never needed a cobalt blue model when I was overseas to make sausage and pasta and to grind my own burger, and I don’t need it still, even though it would be so tough it would have lasted for 16 years now without any problems. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/20 "2008-11-30T01:53:45Z")
No, I DON’T have one in the cabinet over the oven. Nope. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970.md?page=2)