baker in Atlanta
I love this mixer!! I began researching the countertop mixers after reading the poor reviews on the KitchenAid. This mixer works wonderfully! I use spouted whole grain flour to make everything from cookies to bread; it is a very heavy and dense flour to work with, but no problem for this mixer at all. I even made sprouted whole grain oatmeal raisin chip cookies and it mixed all the ingreidents very quickly and perfectly. This receipe used to bog down my old hand mixer and I would end up mixing by hand...forever. This is a wonderful machine and I am so glad I bought it. FYI, it is heavy, but has wheels in the base that allow you to roll it accross the counter.
Awesome kitchen "shop tool"
I'm a guy used to good shop tools, and I bought this primarily to assist in making bread. I'm spoiled from my shop tools, and I roll my eyes and wince at the electric smell of an underpowered kitchen appliance. I concluded correctly that for a stand mixer, Viking was my only choice.
I researched Viking, KitchenAid, Cuisinart, and a few other brands. The stainless steel attachments can go in the dishwasher. There are no hidden plastic parts to fail. (Read all the reviews on competing products very carefully....) This mixer really, really isn't that heavy. (Try moving a drill press.) The 800 watts can handle bread dough without blinking. The design is simplicity itself, a tool one can be so proud of, one ends up playing with it every night. (Bread is like that.)
Go read half a dozen current bread books. They're rife with this concern that home stand mixers (cough! KitchenAid. cough!) can't handle bread without time outs. So why doesn't everyone buy a Viking? It...
Great Mixer!!!
I received this mixer as a Christmas present. I have been wanting a heavy duty stand mixer for years and my husband finally got the hint this year. I had been looking at the Kitchenaid mixers because honestly, I didn't know there was another brand of good quality stand mixer on the market. My husband actually did the research on the Viking mixer and made the decision based on the reviews he read. I have made cake batter, whipped cream (love the whipping attachment) and cookie dough so far and I am just loving it. I have been using a little hand mixer and was starting to believe I had gotten carpel tunnel from all the mixing. Now I just sit back and watch the stand mixer do all the work. Here are some of the pros and cons I believe should be noted about the Viking stand mixer:
PROS: 1. I learned that the Viking "working" parts are metal where the Kitchenaid "working" parts are now plastic. That was a huge selling point for this mixer!
2. I also like the dial for the...
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