I have fallen i love with Kitchen aid mixers.....where is the cheapest place to buy?

[nobodysfool]

I have recently started up a very small cake making business (friends and family). The majority of my orders use frosting/buttercream and i have burnt out 3 electric mixers and have seen the kitchen aid in action and have fallen deeply in love.
I take it they are man enough for the job and have saved up my birthday and Christmas money so i'm in the market for one!!

Bear in mind that the regular KitchenAid Mixer is 350 watts of power and costs about £350-450 depending on colour/type of bowl etc. They are totally gorgeous, but if you spent £200 on a Kenwood K-mix (their sexiest equivalent to the KitchenAid) you get 1000 watts of power for your money...

I've just bought a Kmix in cream for Christmas and it is brilliant - it has all the sexiness of a KitchenAid, plus all the practicalities, but the motor is designed for more robust cooking/use and if you're planning to use it regularly, you don't want it conking out on you! Plus I've heard that KitchenAid is now manufactured in China (whereas it was USA apparently) and the parts used are not such good quality so repair is more complicatedetc etc - this is purely hearsay, but I have to say that my research on both models showed a hugely loyal Kenwood following, often coming from generations of families buying a Kenwood Chef (the less sexy mixer version of the K-Mix) when the next lot got married, moved away etc. To me, that speaks volumes...

However, sometimes a girl's just got to have something pretty and purely for pleasure - so if that's your priority, go for it! You'll be using it often enough to justify the extra £ ;)

HOpe this helps :) x

Forgot to say, beware the cheap ones on ebay - you'll get taxed at a later date for the shipping/import duty, so in the end it works out the same as buying more or less full price online somewhere reputable...