Comments on: KitchenAid Professional 600 Stand Mixer Review

By: melissa56

melissa56 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:09:31 +0000

We have had our KA 600 for a few years now, its the all metal gear version and its a definite let down compared to older KA models. We use it to make bread and had a good recipe that my mother in law uses in her Bosch mixer with no problems. First time we tried that recipe the KA overheated and shut down before it was fully kneaded. I had to install a cooling fan in the base to force air through the motor, speed 2 that you have to use while mixing does not spin the motor fast enough for the built in fan to move enough air to cool the motor, bad design. Now the motor doesnt overheat all the time but we still cant use the original bread recipe, about 8 cups flour. Now have to limit it to 4 cups or less. We have the noodle maker attachement that we do like but the first time we used it the gears on the mixer broke the teeth off of them. Ordered replacements, they are cheap zinc gears not steel. used the mixer again for a few months, gears broke again, ordered new gears, again, now a few months later its ready for another new set of gears. I cannot recommend this mixer to anyone that wants to use it to make bread or pasta. Its suited to runny cake mixes only. PLus its terribly noisy. The bosch is a much better machine.

By: Brad2

Brad2 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:37:10 +0000

Have the KA PRO 600 with the 6-quart bowl. The bowl has been mis-manufactured so the flat mixer blade hits on the back of the bowl but has clearance at the front. In fact, the mixer blade raises up at least an 1/8th inch and there’s lots of noise whenever it works at the back part of the bowl. The blade cannot be removed when the unit is off and the stand is lowered (of course), when by chance (a 50/50) the blade stops at the back. No, this is NOT because I don’t have the bowl clipped in all the way. Please..duh. You can see the two 90 degree brackets that are spot welded to the bowl were welded slightly tilted forward, it is very obvious. The bowl then sits tilted forward. At first, we thought this was the way it was designed…but after a few minutes use you can see it is a manufacturing mistake. The tilt will not allow proper blade to bowl adjustment clearance. I’ll have to head back down to Macy’s to get a new bowl.

By: Lizette

Lizette — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:56:53 +0000

A friend gifted me a KA, I think 4.5 quarts in 1998. This past Christmas my husband got me the KA Professional 600. My sister made bagels using my old mixer with no problems so we were excited to make bagels using the Porofessional one! Well, when we started to knead smoke started coming out of the machine and it shut down so the next day I took it to Bed Bath to replace it. My husbank wanted me to make another batch to prove that it was just a lemon! Well needless to say we are going back to the store for a refund! I think I’m going with the Viking Stand mixer or might have to take my old KA from my sister. The new KA’s are not made the same as the old ones … oh well.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:19:27 +0000

If your serious about small mixers, don’t fool around with the Kitchen Aids. Get a Globe: planetary gears, good power, tough and durable. Yes, they are more money, but if you replace your kitchen aid, you will have spend more that the cost of a Globe 5 qt. The globe can be had for about $575 if you shop and the gears won’t fail on you. They also come with a spiral dough hook that works great. If you’re serious about making bread the spiral hook is what you need. There is another post talking about the Globe, it is absolutely accurate. These are tough mixers, what Kitchen Aid was when Hobart built them.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:03:51 +0000

Now there is a website with recipes for KitchenAid Mixer

Go to http://www.gotmixer.com

Great and easy recipes using your stand mixer with pics, videos and hints.

Good luck and lets get baking!!!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:32:38 +0000

I bought a Pro 600 and had it sent to me in Ghana. My problem is that our voltage level here is 220V and since it’s from the US, it’s 110v. I was trying to find a step down adopter but recently read on the mixer that it should not be connected to any adopter. I need some help because i cannot wait to use my mixer.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:27:20 +0000

I own, for now, a Pro 600 mixer. I purchased it because it was the best I could get without shelling out 2k for a Hobart. First mistake. Didn’t know about the 100% incapability but mine broke on a 20% Fanny F. dough (I only had one cup of whole wheat left). Broke the bowl mounts clean off. I thought it was the new weak lift arms which look as though they are going to fold every time I use it, sorry used it. Which totals 5 times, making a total of 8 loaves of bread and one sad cake. It barely had enough power for a 2 loaf recipe bogging down to a dead stop at one point after the second time stopping it to make sure that the dough was getting kneaded. I think they misspelled their marketing it should be flower power not flour power. Called Whirlpool for help and they suggested I buy a new bowl. I will one up them I am selling the machine

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:04:55 +0000

I bought one of the 600 Pro mixers this year and absolutely love it. Just this morning I made 4 loaves of french bread using the recipe in the book which works great. The 600 has amazing power.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:57:12 +0000

Well, I have read all these comments and came away with the feeling that as long as we’re not making loaves of bread like they’re going out of style or for a small army then we should really love the KA Pro600. My mom has one and she does what I would refer to as casual baking. We have a wedding gift gift card that we are going to put towards the KA Pro or the KA Artisan. We are leaning towards the Pro. My TV has a volume control so I don’t really care about the nose it makes. Thank you so much for the great blog post/review of the KA Pro600! Also, thanks for the reviews and comments, both + and -.

By: ES

ES — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:47:12 +0000

Purchased the Pro 600 3.5 years ago. It just died. We were disappointed in the short life of this thing especially after reading/hearing about people that had these mixers for 20+ years. We spent extra and bought the heaviest duty one we could afford because we planned to use it a lot. I guess they don’t make them like they used to.

Here is my problem- I called customer service to see what, if anything could be done. To my surprise they said
1. You shouldn’t kneed bread dough more than 2 min. Really??
2. Professional series doesn’t mean anything, Um OK. Why put it on there then?

In short, this will be the last KitchenAid product we buy.