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“Which Mixer Should I Get?”

By Rich Siegel Posted on January 27, 2022 Posted in General, Q&A
“Which Mixer Should I Get?”

I get that question pretty often. The short answer is… well, there is no short answer. Mostly, the question that’s really being asked is: Tilt-Head or Bowl-Lift? The tilt-head KitchenAid mixers are excellent all-around machines. For most folks buying their …

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The Movie Star

By Rich Siegel Posted on September 25, 2021 Posted in General, Maintenance, Repair Stories
The Movie Star

You may have seen this mixer on TV, or in a video on the Internet.

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The Unusual Ones Get Names

By Rich Siegel Posted on August 15, 2021 Posted in General
The Unusual Ones Get Names

This is Flossie (she’s pink like candy floss), but nobody calls her that more than once. To all the folks at the diner she’s “Flo”. Flossie is an example of an extremely rare specimen: the Accolade 400. This is a …

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Pro Series Disaster Recovery

By Rich Siegel Posted on July 2, 2021 Posted in Repair Stories
Pro Series Disaster Recovery

The story begins the usual way: eBay listing of a mixer being sold “for parts or not working”, cheap. Had a bit of conversation with the seller, “it’s running a little rough”. No problem. I provide my usual packing advice …

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Family Heirloom

By Rich Siegel Posted on June 27, 2021 Posted in History, Repair Stories, Vintage
Family Heirloom

Every so often I encounter someone with a really old machine that needs repair, or even just long-overdue maintenance. The owner is very reluctant to let the machine out of their sight, because it was a treasured gift, or handed …

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“I’ve always wanted a blue mixer…”

By Rich Siegel Posted on June 27, 2021 Posted in General, Maintenance, Restoration
“I’ve always wanted a blue mixer…”

It’s easy enough to buy a cobalt-blue KitchenAid mixer these days, but the color is really hard to find in older models. The KSM90 “Ultra Power” tilt-head was the first of the cobalt-blue machines; it was made as an “exclusive” …

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The Cake Machine

By Rich Siegel Posted on June 27, 2021 Posted in General, Maintenance
The Cake Machine

This machine (1997 K45SS) was in excellent overall condition, requiring only routine maintenance. Unfortunately, the head lock lever was bent in transit (the mixer tipped over and landed on it), but that was easily resolved with a replacement latch mechanism …

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Plastic Mythology

By Rich Siegel Posted on March 11, 2021 Posted in History, Tech Tips
Plastic Mythology

There seems to be a trope going around that modern KitchenAid mixers are specifically inferior to vintage ones because their “gears are made of plastic” (or a similarly phrased complaint). This is categorically not true. All of the gears in …

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It’s Never The Motor Brushes

By Rich Siegel Posted on February 27, 2021 Posted in Repair Stories, Tech Tips

So, in “Hard Luck Cases“, I mentioned learning a valuable lesson. When I got the mixer on the bench, I didn’t even plug it in to see if it ran. Once I saw its overall condition, with the corroded power …

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Hard Luck Cases

By Rich Siegel Posted on February 21, 2021 Posted in Repair Stories, Restoration, Vintage
Hard Luck Cases

“Rusty” was another Goodwill find, a Hobart-era K5SS (bowl-lift, solid state speed control, 5qt bowl). This classic needed almost as much work as I’ve ever put into a mixer. Most of the time spent was just on getting through the …

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