Kitchen appliances chat

I've had my Kenwood chef for 10 years now. Not as pretty but does the job.
Kenwood have been churning variants out for 70 years so pretty confident they fit for purpose.

I had three kitchenaid heavy duty mixers shred the worm gear on me. Each time I asked if I could upgrade to a professional. Twice they fixed it but third time they offered a direct replacement didn’t have my mixer in stock so gave me a credit note and I then got the professional with the ludicrous safety cage. It’s a beast but is quieter and way more powerful which is useful for when running attachments like the sausage maker, pasta roller and ice cream bowl.

The normal consumer units have a plastic safety worm gear that self destructs if the machine is jammed. Annoyingly mine shredded itself when milling flour, making sausages and pasta. The professional ones don’t have the safety plastic gear but instead are way more powerful with a direct drive motor. Most people shred the worm gear when trying to knead too much dough etc. However sometimes there is an internal alignment issue which causes unexpected failure which I think is what led to mine repeatedly failing. However their customer service was great, courier collected broken ones all under warranty.

Second vote for kenwood chef. They've been around for ages and can be found second hand too

Another vote for Kenwood Chef.

Way more steps on the speed on the dial, light over the bowl is useful - for everything else the kitchenaid and kenwood aren't really different, you'll find more Kenwoods in professional kitchens but that's as much to do with suppliers than pros and cons of one over the other. I prefer the aesthetics of the Kenwood as the thing is sat on the kitchen side and visible all the time.

Another vote for Kenwood Chef. I got a 1200W monster off FB Marketplace. Tons of examples on there if you can stomach the place.