Watt’s the Story with Those Power Ratings?
Different groups of people care about different things when they’re shopping for a stand mixer. Is power important to you? You might want to read this.
Category: Tech Tips
Whirlpool Cost Reductions II: Rear Bearings
What is a rear bearing bracket, and why is it important to your mixer?
Whirlpool Cost Reductions I: Pinion Drive Bearings
In the decades since Whirlpool first acquired the KitchenAid mixer product line from Hobart, they’ve made a few cost reductions. Here is one: the pinion shaft bearing, which transmits energy from the motor shaft to the main gears. Of note …
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“When Was My Mixer Made?”
Here’s a page that you can use to decode your mixer’s date-coded serial number.
Troubleshooting: Mixer Won’t Turn On
Introduction Most of the advice here applies to tilt-head K45-type models (Classic, Artisan, Ultra Power, etc but not the Artisan Mini or Accolade) and K5-type bowl-lift models (K5SS, KSM5, KSM50 and their relatives). These models are distinguished by plastic motor …
Care for Tilt-Head Models
Here are some tips to help keep your tilt-head KitchenAid mixer in dependable working order. Keep it Clean After each use, unplug the mixer. Then clean it thoroughly using only a soft damp (not wet) cloth and very light pressure. …
Compatible Bowls and Accessories
Here are lists of compatible bowls and accessories (beater/dough hook/whip), grouped by model type. Model number designations refer to the label underneath the base of the mixer. These lists are formatted as tables; the left column is the item number, …
“Pro” Series Clean and Re-grease parts
This applies to all “Professional” and UK “Pro Line” bowl-lift mixers (“Professional 5 HD”, “Professional 5 Plus”, “Professional 6”, and “Professional 600” in the US, “Pro Line” and “Artisan” in the UK) and the Accolade 400. The series model numbers for these …
K45/K5 Clean and Re-grease Parts
This applies to all tilt-head machines (original K45, “Classic”, “Artisan”, “Ultra Power”) except the Accolade and Artisan Mini, as well as the older bowl-lift machines in the K5 series: K5A, K4SS, K5SS, KSM5, KSM50, KSMC50S, KSM450, KSM500 (and similar). Any full-sized mixer with a …
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 …