Right decision time - Kenwood Prospero or Magimix

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Help me decide! I have the day off tomorrow and want to order my new mixer today.
Kenwood pros - small enough to keep out, has food mixer bowl for bread/meringue/cakes etc, citrus press, cheaper
cons - not powerful enough? less pretty!

Magimix 4200xl in red - strong motor, guarantee, big processor for chopping/slicing veg, nice colour
cons - more expensive, will need to buy a separate mixer eventually (kitchen aid - is that actually a bad thing )

So which is it to be?

I go for 'strong motor' every time because that's mostly the bit that fails. Have a Magimix for the serious processing and a K-Mix hand-mixer for cakes.

I have magimix and kitchenaid, so I'd say go for those.

Depends what you want it for really though, one is a small stand mixer, the other is a food processor.

Fwiw, I have the smaller magimix, and have never found it too small, but I do now sometimes wish my kitchenaid was bigger, as it struggles a bit with a full bag of flour - all comes spilling out! I def couldn't bake with a prospero, i tnk they are quite small?

My prospero has a motor the same as the chef titatinium. It's the bollocks. Much less faff than a magimix.

honeydragon is that the 900W one?

I want to mix cakes/focaccia as those are the main things I bake, and would love to be able to make huge meringues as well, but also need a decent food processor as whenever we invite people round I end up chopping 15-20 onions (Indian food) so would definitely make things easier! Not sure if the Prospero food processor would cope as it seems a bit small.

Tough one. The bowl on the processor has a smaller capacity, but it is very effective.

Meringues thus far have been excellent as have breads.

Thing is with onions I prefer to do them by hand anyway

my mum said that too - do onions not turn out well if sliced by food processor? the chopping and slicing is the main advantage for me so if it doesn't do that well it wouldn't be much good..

I had an old magimix and then the prospero. By the time you peeled the onions and chopped them enough to go in the processor, you may as well have sliced them, imo.

thanks - i was thinking of getting the XL version of the magimix because it has a larger feeding tube so presumably onions can go in halved.

I'm quite tempted by the prospero now though! But it will make me fat

I'm not sure about chopping onions with the magimix. If you wanted them finely chopped it would be fine, but if you want slices, then I think you would end up with quite a bit of waste from the bits it misses, due to the gap between the end of the chute and the blade - pieces end up whizzing round instead of going through the blade, iykwim?

I do potato slices in it, but I know I'm going to end up either binning bits, or finishing them up by hand.

Also, by the time you do prep, and then wash the whole thing up after, it isn't really worth the hassle. I tend to use the magimix mainly for stuff I can't do by hand - purées, finely chopped, sometimes for grating huge amounts for coleslaw, parathas, etc.

argh still can't decide! ordered prospero once and cancelled as mistakenly did 'first class' instead of 'express delivery' on Amazon. Problem is I want both a stand mixer AND a processor. I do in fact have a secret fund so could buy both a Magimix and a Kitchen aid but DH would have an absolute fit!

I do use my kitchenaid a lot more than my magimix, if I had to choose I would by the kitchenaid first and the magimix later. I use the kitchenaid nearly every day - cakes, bread, batter, mash potato, omelettes, merringues, erc.

Since I got it I even make my own naan, wraps, pitta, and chapatis!

Thanks for your help I desperately want a kitchen aid but have gone for the prospero as can't afford at the moment! Am hoping to upgrade in a couple of years

Ooh it came! Am pleased, seems to be a decent all in one and bowl is an ok size and it's not too monstrous looking on the worktop. Am trying to resist chopping every carrot in the house