Originally Posted by sewingpup

My mother was a wonderful baker and she plain and simple kept wearing out standmixers. I would buy what I figured was a pretty good one and a year later, it would be toast. So, I finally bit the bullet and bought a kitchenaide. Yep cost about 2-3 times more than the ones I had been buying. Well, I think that must have been about 20 years ago. My dear mom passed about 12 years ago but that mixer is still going strong. Mom used it for a ton of cookies, I used it for bread dough during my bread stage and we both used it for the grinding of the pork and ham for hamballs (usually 8 pounds) I do leave it out on my scare countertop space just because it is heavy to move. But it has saved me dollars as I no longer have to buy a new mixer