Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m very happy with my 5 qt artisan, but I’m really posting to tell you that once you treat yourself to a stand mixer, it’s another fun thing to decorate it with vinyl decals. Mine looks like BB-8 from Star Wars, but there are tons of options on Etsy to give it some personality! (I’m not an Etsy seller, these just make me smile.)

No, thank you, not all of us want to decorate our appliances like a middle schooler’s laptop.

I’m so sorry you lost all frivolity.

Anonymous wrote:I’m very happy with my 5 qt artisan, but I’m really posting to tell you that once you treat yourself to a stand mixer, it’s another fun thing to decorate it with vinyl decals. Mine looks like BB-8 from Star Wars, but there are tons of options on Etsy to give it some personality! (I’m not an Etsy seller, these just make me smile.)

No, thank you, not all of us want to decorate our appliances like a middle schooler’s laptop.

I’m very happy with my 5 qt artisan, but I’m really posting to tell you that once you treat yourself to a stand mixer, it’s another fun thing to decorate it with vinyl decals. Mine looks like BB-8 from Star Wars, but there are tons of options on Etsy to give it some personality! (I’m not an Etsy seller, these just make me smile.)

If you are going to make bread, get the bowl lift version, not the tilt head.

Do not not get the smaller one. Smaller one cannot do double batches of cookies, gets too filled up when make pizza doughs or bread and the beater it comes with not as good. If waited this long, get the regular size and not small one- I still like what I got, but regret not getting larger and I am too cheap to now spend more $ so I make do. Get at least normal size so you don’t regret.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not necessary and another big thing to store and clean. Pass.

Clean? What’s to clean. You wash the beaters and bowl after use and wipe down the machine.

I love my Kitchen-Aid.

Anonymous wrote:I have the artisan, and scored it for $35 on a work list serve. It was 12 years old then, and I’ve had it for 6 or 7 - still going strong with no maintenance! It’s just me and my husband, and my teenage son is with us sometimes. I absolutely love it, and it’s going to hurt when I have to replace it.

I looked again, and I might have one size down from the artisan. It’s a good size, and I don’t need a bigger one for my little family.