My (new) Favorite Mixer!
OK, I will be completely honest, I am not an excellent cook. I am a good one. But I am an excellent baker. I take it extremely seriously and have been baking for a very long time. Like any baker, novice or highly skilled, I take pride in what I bake and how it is done. And sometimes there is frustration with a mixer and you just forgo it and attack it with good old arm strength to get the last bit of work into something, like a dough. So when this stand mixer arrived I wondered would it stand up to my KitchenAid 600 or would I be left doing more work than I normally would. Thankfully, I can answer that the Brevile 5 quart mixer handles extremely well!
I made two things to test it out: mashed potatoes and cheesecake, don't judge me, that covers most of the food groups. The flat beater handled the potatoes fine. And the added bonus was that the Breville didn't shift across the table on a higher setting, there was a slight vibration. The second test was with the cheesecake. A...
Almost perfect
I spent a few weeks researching mixers online before purchasing this one; after reading all kinds of things about the latest Cuisinart and KitchenAid mixers, I decided to give Breville a try even though I had never heard of their company before. So far I have used it to make 2 loaves of bread, a batch of cupcakes, Swiss meringue buttercream frosting, and some espresso meringues. I had never made bread before, but the mixer made it much easier and less frightening than I was expecting. Even though I frakked up the recipe on the first load (accidentally leaving out the milk!), the bread still came out quite fluffy and well mixed. The cupcakes were perfect, fluffier than they'd ever been when I've mixed them by hand or with my hand-held mixer. The frosting was also perfect - this recipe usually takes me 15-20 minutes when using my hand mixer, but the Breville cut it down to about 4:30. My mind was blown. It did such a good job whipping the egg whites for the frosting that I decided...
Good, but not for bread
I will start by saying I really liked this mixer. It worked great for cookies, cakes and such. My trouble is I bought this to make bread. I chose this over KitchenAid because of the reviews. I had one of the old 5 qt. Pro's and could do anything with it, but was scared of the new units after Whirlpool became it's parent and all of the poor reviews subsequently. The Breville looks great, the locking bowl and all the attatchments worked well. I make one to two loaves of bread a week, and only make one loaf at a time. At six weeks I made two 1 1/2lb. loaves at the same time and it started smoking, after that when I went back to one loaf at a time, it still smoked. The auto shut off never worked, so I would stop it and knead by hand( not what I bought it for and for $250 it should work as advertised). At two months I contacted Amazon to return it. No problem, but since I bought it from one of their outside stores it has to go back and I will see a refund in maybe a month. OK, sent it back...
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