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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up with the standard tilt-head model, we now have the bowl-lift. I still use a tilt-head at my mom's house (she got a new one about 5 years ago, so it's a relatively current model).

The bowl-lift has a more powerful motor, and is much sturdier.  The tilt-head rattles around a bit when I'm mixing something stiff, like kneading bread dough.  It handles it fine, I just need to keep a hand on it to keep the head from popping up or the whole mixer from moving around on the counter.  Sometimes it sounds like the motor is straining a little on a really stiff dough, but it always powers through.  The bowl-lift holds itself in place and the motor handles everything I've thrown in there with ease.

The flip side of that, of course, is the the bowl-lift is much heavier.  Every time I haul it out of the cupboard for a simple batch of whipped cream I kind of wish for the smaller model.  Something to keep in mind if you'll be moving it around a lot.  My kids have a hard time maneuvering the bowl-lift mixer out of the pantry.

I don't do a lot of meat grinding, but I think the tilt head would be fine.  Might just go a little slower than the bowl-lift model.  Dough is fine in either, although obviously the bigger version will handle bigger batches.[/quote]

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