Assistent Assistant Food Mixer, 800 Watt, Pearl Pink

Excellent machine... Worth the money if you bake often... Very sturdy. Easy to use and great for making dough.

Absolutely the best

Its bigIts pinkIts in my kitchenwill add more when i have used it more

I totally agree with the other review (lady from Wales), all i'm going to say is if you like to bake your own bread you need one of these machines.. i have been using mine for about 9 months weekly as i do NOT buy store bought bread anymore, i have just made 4 x 780gm wholemeal loafs in one batch.. forget the Kenwood mixers ( i sold my Kenwood chef to buy this) and the Kitchen Aids, you will eventually burn them out, my Kenwood went back 2 times in 10 months for repair, the Assistant mixer is built like a tank, so go on treat yourself you will not regret this purchase.

Top notch materials, workman ship and design This mixer retro design looks all the better because high end materials have been used without compromise. It can mix larger batches of dough than any other domestic mixer on the market. Couldn't be more pleased with it.

Amazing machine.

This review is exclusively about the use of the machine for kneading bread dough with the dough hook. The Ankarsrum can do several other things; it comes with a dough roller (for lower-gluten, softer doughs) and a whisks mechanism for batters etc., plus there are several optional accessories such as a blender and a mincer/grinder, but I am basically interested in using it for regular bread.Unlike previous machines I've used for bread making, this seems able to deliver its power in a more supple/resilient way -- no flexing or straining as used to happen with my Kenwood Chef Major before it burned out, and no horrible noise and heat from an over-geared motor as happens with the Cuisinart I've been using more recently (finally I can listen to the radio uninterrupted while making bread). Plus, the Ankarsrum can knead MUCH more dough at one time than its competitors, so it's ideal if you like to make large batches of dough for freezing. I also considered a Kitchen Aid, but after a lot of review-reading on baking forums, decided that for the specific purpose of dough-kneading, it would not match up to the Ankarsrum.The Ankarsrum's suitability for dough-kneading comes, in my view, from three features that set it apart. Firstly, it's fitted with a belt drive which seems to be more efficient and certainly quieter than the gears used in a typical stand mixer. Secondly, the "rotating bowl" design means that the belt drive delivers power right to where it's needed -- at the bowl's rotational axis -- so there's no flexing or shifting as can happen when machine-kneading strong doughs. Finally, the 800W motor is beefy enough to do the job; the motors on some of the competing machines, even big-name ones with a reputation for quality, are surprisingly wimpy.The rotating bowl does take some getting used to, mainly because it's best to start by placing your liquid in the bowl and then adding the flour and other dry ingredients. That means that where you might have previously started with a known quantity of flour and then added sufficient water to reach the desired consistency, you now need to start with a known quantity of water and then add flour. You can still fine-tune by adding small amounts of water at the end, but it is a different way of looking at the quantities. Also, I've found that you can't just add the ingredients and walk away, you need to add the flour a cup at a time to give time for the dough to form, and initially you need to use the scraper/spatula to keep the dough together and turning in the bowl. It doesn't take long for the dough to start becoming elastic enough to be worked without intervention, though. You can find several videos online, showing the machine in action. The package includes a manual and an instructional DVD but it's not very informative to be honest, I reckon you're better off looking online.After a few sessions I've found the machine to be easy to use, in fact it's a pleasure to use. And because it can so clearly handle the task, I'm 100% comfortable in leaving it to knead on the machine's timer (with the other machines I could tell that I was really asking too much of them, and this tended to make me cut short the kneading process). I am sure this explains why I am making, with the Ankarsrum, the best bread I have ever made -- and indeed some of the best bread I have ever tasted.Of course, at the price it *ought* to make great bread! I looked at several potential savings routes, including importing from another EU country ... but was told by Ankarsrum that warranty support is delivered via the local distributor of the country where your model was bought, so it might be better to buy from an official local distributor/dealer even if it's not the cheapest option. Even with that constraint in mind, it's well-worth doing some (ahem) pre-purchase research.

Bowl used for cake mix and whipping cream etc bowl, and whisks comes with mixer.