What do you use your kitchen aid for?

[AtticusF1nch]

Think of getting one as my husband makes dough every week for his pizza oven.

But ... it seems an extravagant purchase for a once a week dough making ritual. I'm not a massive baker either tbh - I do make meals from scratch though sometimes and I'm happy to be inspired!

So, if you have one, please tell me why you love it and what you do with it

No-one has one!

Pretty much exclusively baking. I do use it to make bread dough, but also cakes, cookies, and other bakes. It’s a good machine but unless you have other attachments (pasta maker, mincer, which I don’t) then it’s really a baking thing.

Cakes
Meringue
Dough of any kind
Shortbread mix
Mashed potato
Mostly cakes

Pizza dough..... that's it

Pastry
Bread
Pizza dough
Cakes (a lot)
Mashed potato
Whisking cream

Expensive but lovely 😊

Everything! I love my kitchenaid, it’s brilliant. I’m a keen baker, so make loads of bread, cake etc etc

Cakes
Biscuits
General doughy stuff

Mashed potato, what a great idea! I've mainly used mine for cakes and biscuits but also got a free ice cream maker attachment and have used that (once).
Do you use the whisk for mash?

Thanks guys!

So really I need a mincer and a pasta maker attachment then to make it totally worth while?

If you only need it for dough then argos sell a hand mixer with a dough attachment (just mentioning it as an option)
But the kitchen aid is beautiful. I am saving for one. Mainly baking

I think harts of stur have it cheapest at the moment - I'd quite like the ice cream bowl!

I've got one and I love it but my daughter and I vake alit so its mainly used for cakes and cookies. I also make bread with it. I make alot of Turkish food and use it for kofte which is meatballs and pancake and yorkshire pudding batter. Meringues etc

Ooh how do you do the mashed potato?
Use mine for cakes, cookies etc and meringue and whipped cream.

I mean, I want it to look all nice in my kitchen mainly of course

Candy apple red colour is calling to me

I just tip in the potatoes, use the normal beater and add whatever you usually would. Our current favourite being horseradish

I love mine! Mayonnaise is much easier, also make cakes, pastry and bread dough

@AtticusF1nch

I think harts of stur have it cheapest at the moment - I'd quite like the ice cream bowl!

I got an ice cream bowl as a freebie... it's still in the box

I only use it for bread dough and christmas cakes, I prefer a hand mixer for cakes and mashed potato only takes a quick beat with a hand whisk, it isn't worth washing the kitchenaid afterwards for it. It looks pretty though, but it didn't revolutionise my baking!

In the last few weeks, pizza dough, chocolate brownies, whipped cream, marshmallows, pasta.

I have the ice cream bowl but it’s actually really impractical as it only fits in the freezer if it can have a drawer to itself, and I don’t think the ice-cream was brilliant to be honest.

No need for attachments. I use mine most days. As pp have said, mash, dough, batter, cakes, icing, meringues, whipping cream and aquafaba, dips. I used it this evening to make bread crumbs.
I probably only make a cake a fortnight but dough for pitta/ pizza/ dough balls a couple of times a week, mash a couple then various random usages such as breadcrumbs or meringues. It’s beautiful so unlike a processor it stays out and doesn’t have to be lugged in and out of a cupboard each time.

Mine must be about 15 years old now, in a dark blue colour. I use for bread dough, cakes and batter. Looks very nice on the worktop next to my old sweetshop scales.

For mash I steam my potatoes (they don't go all sludgy if you oversteam compared to boiling) then i just chicken in the kitchen aid with butter, a splash of milk or cream if I have it and I'm feeling indulgent and some salt. I tend to use the white mixing paddle rather than the whisk. So smooth.

I use the attachments more than the mixer if I'm honest.

I have ones for pasta, the mincer, strainer (for juices/purée) and graters/slicers.

The big advantage as a pp said is that as it's an attractive piece of kit it stays on the counter so it's always accessible.

The only other piece of kit I use is my Bamix blender (mainly for soups/whisking small amounts of cream and grinding spices with the grinder bowl).

I like that because it's small and takes up hardly any space.

I also have the Kitchen Aid Food Processer but found with KA mixer/attachments and Bamix it never gets used (think I last used it 3 years ago) so I'm thinking of selling it or seeing if my mum wants it.

Buy it! I use mine about twice a month so way less then you would. We use it for pizza dough and baking I love it. May give mash a go in it!

Pizza dough
Bread
Rolls
Cakes
Biscuits
Meringues
Shredded chicken

I use it most days.