JoanneS

Kitchen Aid - 38 years.

Debra Mc

Got my new baby today. Can't wait to use it.

GailG

I have a Kitchen Aid on a stand. I've made wedding cakes and the frosting with it since 1986. Yes, I said 1986.

pinecone

I guess I'm in the minority. A Sunbeam gal here ~ 36 years worth of cakes, frostings, cookies... At the lake is my grandmother's c1950's Subeam and still mixes fine.

piney

b.zang

This has been a great topic. Being a Kitchen Aid owner, I never thought about other brands! I've learned things by reading through here.
I love my Kitchen Aid because it makes cookies so easy when my GDs are here. We just turn it on low and let it run while they measure and add.
I also have the meat grinder and use it a lot. I like to mix large batches for meatballs, then run the mix through the grinder for a finer texture and a thorough mixing. Then I cook them up and freeze them for those fast-food meals (we have no restaurants handy).
We also make our own sausage and have the sausage stuffer attachment for the Kitchen Aid, too.
I have the pasta maker but haven't tried it yet.

Mossie

Well, I guess I'm just strange but I really dislike my Kitchen Aid. I had an Oster Kitchen Center for almost 30 years which I absolutely loved, even for kneading bread and grinding meat. My kids got me the Kitchen Aid a few years ago and it frustrates me no end. I wish they could redesign it. With the Oster as well as my old Sunbeam, the two beaters were off center along the rim of the bowl so you could easily add ingredients without dumping some of them on the counter and you could scrape the entire bowl including the bottom while it was still running. I mostly use a hand mixer now.

Clothfiend

I have a Kitchen Aide Professional that hubby bought me several years ago after watching one of those on-line infomercials. Unfortunately, he decided bigger is better and I've got the biggest piece of mixing equipment imaginable. It takes up so much room (weighs a ton)I have to keep it on a moveable cart. However, you could probably mix cement with the thing since I've made all manner of breads, cakes, etc. with it and it never even groans. It's a marvelous piece of machinery but my suggestion is get the 4 quart size instead of this monster I have.