Refurbished KitchenAid Mixers?

Also have had great experience with a refurbished KA. Just "baby" it a little bit when making bread.

Gina

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Anyone have experience to report about factory refurbished items from KitchenAid.? I've been
looking at KitchenAid 6Qt Professional Mixer

(550w).

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I see on the KA site they have refurbished models for sale. It has a 6 month vice the 1-year
warranty for brand new one. But the price sure seems right. I've purchased refurbished items from
other manufacturers (Epson, Phillips, Sony) and been very pleased. What do you think about a

refurbished

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KA mixer?

J.V.

i have one, and have had no problems with it. i love my kitchenaid! 🙂

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Anyone have experience to report about factory refurbished items from KitchenAid.? I've been
looking at KitchenAid 6Qt Professional Mixer

(550w).

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I see on the KA site they have refurbished models for sale. It has a 6 month vice the 1-year
warranty for brand new one. But the price sure seems right. I've purchased refurbished items from
other manufacturers (Epson, Phillips, Sony) and been very pleased. What do you think about a

refurbished

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KA mixer?

J.V.

J.V. said:

Anyone have experience to report about factory refurbished items from KitchenAid.? I've been
looking at KitchenAid 6Qt Professional Mixer (550w). I see on the KA site they have refurbished
models for sale. It has a 6 month vice the 1-year warranty for brand new one. But the price sure
seems right. I've purchased refurbished items from other manufacturers (Epson, Phillips, Sony) and
been very pleased. What do you think about a refurbished KA mixer?

J.V.

I've had one for about a year with no problems, but I recently went through an Atkins phase, so it
was put out to pasture for a while. Before and since, I've only used it about once every 2 weeks, so
I am hardly stressing it, but I have no complaints.

To provide the full story, I originally bought a Hobart era SS5 on eBay (thinking myself to be quite
the Knower of Kitchen Witchery), which turned out to be not quite the item advertised, as it had
several non-standard "features". I called KitchenAid and they provided free shipping for repair of
the Hobart unit; called back to say it wasn't repairable; offered a price on a refurbished mixer
that brought my total expenditure to only ~$20 more than buying the refurb in the first place would
have been; and shipped both mixers back free of charge. Win-win, as the Hobart has provided my
boyfriend with the 95%-certain-failure restoration project for which he had been casting about, and
I can make bread.

Current era KitchenAid doesn't seem to have many friends on this group, but my sole experience with
them has been very positive - I dithered for ~4 months as to whether I'd buy the refurb after they
pronounced the Hobart, and my coyness seemed to have no affect on them - they called every month to
see if they should just throw out the Hobart (and didn't! Their repair facility must be the size of
Iowa) but seemed excited when I finally called to say I'd buy the mixer. The experience was nothing
but positive for me, and the mixer is great for my purposes.

- Betsy

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Anyone have experience to report about factory refurbished items from KitchenAid.? I've been
looking at KitchenAid 6Qt Professional Mixer (550w). I see on the KA site they have refurbished
models for sale. It has a 6 month vice the 1-year warranty for brand new one. But the price sure
seems right....

Yes, I've purchased two refurbished Kitchenaid mixers. The first was a 530 Pro that I saved over
$200 on, but I did not like it for merely my own use. It has the bowl that hooks on so that just the
bowl raises or lowers to and from the beater. I had not paid close enough attention to that part of
it's operation to know that the motor did not tilt back, and the entire thing was simply too heavy
for me to be moving to and from the counter corner where my limited space requires it's storage. It
did and does work wonderfully for my daughter and teenage grands for almost daily use, though.

The second one I bought, that suits me much better, is a 350 that I saved almost as much on by
buying refurbished. I have a friend that has used her refurbished Kitchenaid mixer for several years
now, and she reports that the company stands behind their refurbished models just as well as the
originals, and service has al;ways been without question, and speedy.

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Anyone have experience to report about factory refurbished items from KitchenAid.? I've been
looking at KitchenAid 6Qt Professional Mixer

(550w).

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I see on the KA site they have refurbished models for sale. It has a 6 month vice the 1-year
warranty for brand new one. But the price sure seems right. I've purchased refurbished items from
other manufacturers (Epson, Phillips, Sony) and been very pleased. What do you think about a

refurbished

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KA mixer?

J.V.

I've been looking at buying a new stand mixer. Any reason the "bowl lifter" feature would be
preferable to a tilt-head? Last time I looked, Sam's Club has a good deal on the Artisan model and
it includes the grinder attachment.

D.Currie said:

I've been looking at buying a new stand mixer. Any reason the "bowl lifter" feature would be
preferable to a tilt-head? Last time I looked, Sam's Club has a good deal on the Artisan model and
it includes the grinder attachment.

Here's a big advantage: when you're mixing bread and the dough climbs up the spindle you can drop
the bowl and force it back down, all without turning off the machine. It's why I use a KA, certainly
not for it's durability. If it's durability you want get a Kenwood, or better yet a Hobart.

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D.Currie said:

I've been looking at buying a new stand mixer. Any reason the "bowl

lifter"

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feature would be preferable to a tilt-head? Last time I looked, Sam's

Club

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has a good deal on the Artisan model and it includes the grinder

attachment.

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Here's a big advantage: when you're mixing bread and the dough climbs up the spindle you can
drop the bowl and force it back down, all without turning off the machine. It's why I use a
KA, certainly not for it's durability. If it's durability you want get a Kenwood, or better
yet a Hobart.

Thanks.

Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does more?

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D.Currie said:

I've been looking at buying a new stand mixer. Any reason the "bowl

lifter"

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feature would be preferable to a tilt-head? Last time I looked, Sam's

Club

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has a good deal on the Artisan model and it includes the grinder

attachment.

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Here's a big advantage: when you're mixing bread and the dough climbs up the spindle you can
drop the bowl and force it back down, all without turning off the machine. It's why I use a KA,
certainly not for it's durability. If it's durability you want get a Kenwood, or better yet a
Hobart.

Thanks.

Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does more?

And while I'm asking, is that pouring shield a must-have item? The refurbs don't include them.

D.Currie said:

Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does more?

I have the food grinder (with pasta attachments), and the conical shredder. The food grinder is very
useful, the pasta attachment I no longer use - I get better results with a pasta roller. The
shredder got quite a bit of use before I bought a food processor.

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Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does more?

I use the meat grinder more frequently than any of the other attachments, and the sausage-stuffing
tools whenever I want to make links to finish in my smoker.

I also have the pasta attachments, but I don't use those as much as I thought I might when I bought
them. Still, I do like having those tools when I do make pasta because they are much easier on my
worn-out old hands than the Atlas manual machine was; I just make less of it that I used to, even
though we both prefer my pasta to any store-bought.

I think the attachments work very well, but I use my KA now mostly for bread, about two pounds
at a time.

David

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D.Currie wrote:

> I've been looking at buying a new stand mixer. Any reason the "bowl

lifter"

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> feature would be preferable to a tilt-head? Last time I looked,

Sam's

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Club

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> has a good deal on the Artisan model and it includes the grinder

attachment.

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Here's a big advantage: when you're mixing bread and the dough climbs

up

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the spindle you can drop the bowl and force it back down, all without turning off the machine.
It's why I use a KA, certainly not for it's durability. If it's durability you want get a
Kenwood, or better yet a Hobart.

Thanks.

Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does

more?

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And while I'm asking, is that pouring shield a must-have item?

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The refurbs

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don't include them.

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D.Currie said:

Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does

more?

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I have the food grinder (with pasta attachments), and the conical

shredder.

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The food grinder is very useful, the pasta attachment I no longer use - I get better results with
a pasta roller. The shredder got quite a bit of use before I bought a food processor.

Thanks for the advice! There's a model at Sam's that comes with the food grinder, and it's one that
I'm considering. I do have a stand-alone grinder, but it's not a very good one, and it's stashed in
the back of a cabinet where it's a pain to dig out. If I could just snap on an attachment, I might
find more uses for it.

I've been comparing models for some time now. My old mixer (not a very good one) died suddenly, and
I want to get one that's good enough to last and to do a good job, but there's a point where it's
overkill. I just don't want to buy one and end up thinking that I should have gotten a better model.

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Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does more?

The meat grinder is better than any $100 stand-alone grinder I've seen yet. I use it every time I
make chili, meat loaf, etc.

The conical grinder is better than a food processor for things like consistently shredding cheese,
as when making a huge batch of enchiladas. The flat-faced slicer/shredder, which doesn't seem to be
sold new any more, we found worthless.

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And while I'm asking, is that pouring shield a must-have item? The refurbs don't include them.

We've never used the shield. It just makes it more complicated to scrape down the sides of the bowl.

An extra bowl is fairly essential,, IMO.

-- Larry

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"bowl

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lifter"
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looked,

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Club
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grinder

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attachment.
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> Here's a big advantage: when you're mixing bread and the dough

climbs

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up

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> the spindle you can drop the bowl and force it back down, all

without

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> turning off the machine. It's why I use a KA, certainly not for

it's

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> durability. If it's durability you want get a Kenwood, or better

yet

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> a Hobart.
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front? Are

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they actually useful or just gimmicks that make it look like it

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more?

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And while I'm asking, is that pouring shield a must-have item?

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Definately.

I have one and never use it. sort of a PITA.

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"bowl

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> lifter"
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looked,

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Sam's

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grinder

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> attachment.
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climbs

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up

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> > the spindle you can drop the bowl and force it back down, all

without

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> > turning off the machine. It's why I use a KA, certainly not for

it's

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yet

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front? Are

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more?

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Definately.

I have one and never use it. sort of a PITA.

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You must be much neater than I. I can't seem to keep the ingredients in the bowl when I'm making
double batches (and with my family, that is most always).
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coops said:

Also have had great experience with a refurbished KA. Just "baby" it a little bit when
making bread.

Baby it... in other words you're saying it's a Kitchen Wuss.

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```````````` "Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

When I bought my first KA many, many years ago, I bought the pasta attachment and the sausage
attachment. Although many people like these attachments, I used the pasta attachment only a couple
of times and found that I actually prefer dry pasta.

I bought the sausage maker and made sausage once. I recall that even tho I lived in a county in CA
that is supposed to have "everything," I wasn't able to find sausage casings easily. It was not a
pleasant experience making these sausages, recalling all the butchering that went on in my childhood
on the farm. Yuk! Dee

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D.Currie said:

I've been looking at buying a new stand mixer. Any reason the "bowl

lifter"

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feature would be preferable to a tilt-head? Last time I looked, Sam's

Club

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has a good deal on the Artisan model and it includes the grinder

attachment.

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Here's a big advantage: when you're mixing bread and the dough climbs up the spindle you can
drop the bowl and force it back down, all without turning off the machine. It's why I use a KA,
certainly not for it's durability. If it's durability you want get a Kenwood, or better yet a
Hobart.

Thanks.

Any comments about the attachments that you can plug into the front? Are they actually useful or
just gimmicks that make it look like it does more?