My KitchenAid stand mixer has always been my favourite appliance. I upgraded to the KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer a few years ago and I love it, but over the past year I’ve found myself doubling batches of cookie dough and bread dough so the 5-quart bowl isn’t big enough. Now that I’ve tested out the KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer, I know what my next upgrade is going to be. Not only is this stand mixer a lot bigger than my 5 quart mixer, but it’s ultra-quiet, has a new fold speed that slowly starts the mixer to fold in ingredients, and comes in so many great new colours.
I also tried making my own pasta with the KitchenAid pasta roller and cutter attachments, and it’s so easy I can’t imagine going back to storebought. Here’s a look at my experience using the bowl-lift mixer and pasta attachments.
KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer features
Unlike the traditional tilt head of smaller KitchenAid mixers, the KitchenAid Professional uses a lift system for the 7-quart bowl (there is also a 5.5 Qt. version available). You attach the bowl to the mixer and a handle lifts it up so the beater, whisk, or dough hook fits in the bottom of the bowl.
- 11-speed stand mixer including 1/2 speed for folding ingredients
- 500 watts of power to take on big batches of dough
- 6.62-litre (7-quart) brushed stainless steel bowl
- 2x the power in the bowl than the tilt-head stand mixer
- Double flex edge beater that scrapes the sides of the bowl with two flexible edges
- Includes coated double flex-edge beater, coated beater, wire whisk, dough hook, and pouring shield
Available in a variety of colours
The KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer is available in 12 colours—Blue Velvet, Empire Red, White, Milkshake, Cast Iron Black, Matte Dried Rose, Pistachio, Mineral Water Blue, Medallion Silver, Feather Pink, and Contour Silver.
I love the brushed metallic finish on these mixers and I’m a huge fan of the new colours. There is such a variety including traditional fire engine red or the beautiful soft Blue Velvet. I also like the new design of the beaters and dough hook. They are double-coated and have a grey finish, and I think they are a great upgrade on the standard white.
KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer vs. KitchenAid tilt-head mixer
If you’re like me and you’re a longtime owner of KitchenAid stand mixers, you may be wondering what the most important differences are between the new KitchenAid Professional and KitchenAid Artisan stand mixers. The most notable difference between the two is that the KitchenAid Professional uses a bowl-lift system that lifts the bowl up to the beaters. The tilt-head mixers lock the bowl onto the base and the head tilts down into the bowl. After using it for a while I think bowl-lift is a great feature for a stand mixer that can hold as much as the KitchenAid Professional can. Double batches can be pretty heavy, so it’s nice to just lock the bowl on and lift it up.
The bowl-lift design also gives the mixer more room to mix, and that helps prevent dough from wrapping its way around the base where you attach the beater, whisk, or dough hook. I’ve found this usually happens when I’m mixing bread dough in my KitchenAid Artisan 5 quart bowl. The dough will work its way up the beater and wrap its way around the connector. It can be a bit hard to clean, so I love how that’s no longer an issue with the 7 quart bowl.
Using the KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer
11 speeds and ultra-quiet motor
I had a friend who owned the first generation KitchenAid Professional stand mixer and her one issue with it was how loud the motor was. Understandably, a 500 watt motor will be a little louder than the standard 350 watt motor on tilt-head mixers as it’s quite a bit more powerful. I’m happy to say that, even though the new KitchenAid Professional runs a bigger motor, it’s also very quiet. It’s no louder than my KitchenAid Artisan, and I think it might actually be a bit quieter.
With a motor this powerful, this mixer can handle massive batches of dough. KitchenAid has said the 6.62-litre (7-quart) bowl has 40% more capacity than tilt-head mixers and can take on 8.5 lbs of bread dough or mash 7.5 lbs of potatoes at one time. I made a double batch of bread dough and still had room to spare. I couldn’t believe the space the mixing bowl had, and the motor had no trouble blasting through thick dough.
This stand mixer has 11 distinct speeds. 10 is the most powerful speed, and KitchenAid has added a 1/2 speed for slow start up. Half speed is for folding, so you can use it for ingredients like egg whites. I like to use it when I add everything to the bowl at once because the slow start prevents flour from flying out of a full bowl. With my own mixer I’ll turn the power on to level 1 and have flour everywhere, even with the pour shield on. With the slow start on the KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift mixer, everything stays in the bowl where it belongs.
Flex edge beater and pour shield
I’m a huge fan of the KitchenAid pour shield. I’ve used it on my own mixer and it does help reduce splatter, but it works even better on the KitchenAid Professional stand mixer. I could turn the mixer on with a full bowl of flour and have no issue with flying flour or splatter at all. I also think the included double flex edge beater helps in that regard. It scrapes the sides of the bowl so nothing is left unmixed, and it mixes everything up much faster than the standard beater.
Features of KitchenAid stand mixer pasta attachments
While testing out the KitchenAid Professional I also tested out the KitchenAid Pasta Roller and Cutter attachments. Just add the attachment to your stand mixer and you can easily whip up tons of fresh pasta.
- Includes a pasta roller, a fettuccine cutter, and a spaghetti cutter
- Easily attaches to your KitchenAid stand mixer hub
- All-metal housing will stand up to years of use
Testing KitchenAid pasta roller and cutter attachments
One of my favourite things about having a KitchenAid stand mixer is how many great attachments you can fit onto the hub. You just unscrew the small cap on the front of the mixer and add one of the many different attachments.
The KitchenAid pasta attachment set comes with a pasta roller, spaghetti cutter, and fettuccini cutter. They are all made of durable stainless steel and they easily attach to the front of the stand mixer. I made a batch of pasta dough and popped it on the pasta roller. It has a dial you can adjust for thickness, but to make it thin enough to feed through I shaped the dough into a ball and pressed it down into a disk. The disk was still pretty thick when I first started to drop it through the pasta roller, but the roller grabbed onto the dough and pulled it through.
The pasta roller had absolutely no problem at all with thicker dough, and I tested out the different thickness levels by pulling the dough through over and over again. I found if you started too thin the dough would tear a bit, so I recommend you push the dough through on level 2 a few times before trying a thinner level. Level 8 is the thinnest, and it’s the best level for angel hair pasta. Level 4 is great for spaghetti.
Make your own spaghetti or fettuccini
Once you’ve pressed your dough and it’s as thin as you’d like it, you can decide how you’d like to use it. I have a lasagna pan that’s 9 x 11 so I cut some pasta sheets and let them dry as lasagna noodles. I also used the spaghetti and fettuccini attachments. The thin dough is fed through the attachment and strings of spaghetti or fettuccini are pushed out. It’s so fun to make pasta like this, and a single batch of dough gave me so much pasta I was looking all over my kitchen for places to hang it or lay it down. Christine, editor of Home & Lifestyle here at the blog, recommended using a pasta drying rack to dry all of the pasta you whip up with this attachment. I am definitely going to pick one up so I can make big batches and let them dry.
There are so many great KitchenAid stand mixer attachments including ice cream makers, meat grinders, and ice shavers. I’d love to try them all, and the Pasta Roller & Cutter is definitely one I’ll be adding to my kitchen. It’s so fun to use, and I think the Pasta Roller would be a great tool to use to thin out my pizza dough too.
Should you choose the KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer?
For me, there are quite a few reasons to love the KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer. It has a quiet, powerful motor, a much bigger bowl, and the flex edge beater does a great job of scraping the sides of the bowl so you don’t need to stop and use a scraper. The pour shield is also a great addition to the mixer as it prevents splatter when you’re mixing at high speeds. The 1/2 speed soft start-up prevents flour from flying everywhere and lets me use the mixer for tasks like folding eggs or light stirring.
I love all of the attachments you can add to KitchenAid stand mixers, and the Pasta Roller & Cutter is definitely my top choice. It takes a few simple ingredients and turns them into delicious pasta. Just a word of warning—having this attachment will ruin you for store bought pasta. Fresh pasta is so good I can’t imagine buying grocery store pasta anymore.
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Table of Contents
- KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer features
- KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer vs. KitchenAid tilt-head mixer
- Using the KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer
- Features of KitchenAid stand mixer pasta attachments
- Testing KitchenAid pasta roller and cutter attachments
- Should you choose the KitchenAid Professional bowl-lift stand mixer?
I would love to try the pasta attachment. We already have the bread one, but no others yet. Thanks for the chance to win!
Honestly I would love to try them all for the attachments.
The ice shaver attachment( remindes me of gola) you basically shave ice compact them together for them to hold and add some different syrup combinations and luck that amazing thing.
Using past maker would be interesting
Also using the dough hook will give me all wild crazy ideas to make different batters for my parathas as I would like to knead some dough for Indian chapatis and make parathas out of it.
The ice cream maker attachment would be perfect for my family since we are all fans of ice cream, especially homemade!
I would love to try the pasta attachment. We already have the bread one, but no others yet. Thanks for the chance to win!
the ice cream maker attachment would probably be quite useful in the family since we all have a bit of an ice cream addiction and making our own would be fun and we can make the flavours we want!
The pour shield attachment would be awesome for my house because “mess”!!!
The meat grinders attachment would be the most useful for our family, as it transforms the stand mixer into a powerful tool for grinding meat, enhancing its versatility in meal preparation.
the pasta attachment seems very useful !
I absolutely love the shedder attachment. I use it all the time to shed cheese.
The Ice cream attachment sounds neat and would love to try it
The Fresh Prep Slicer/Shredder Stand Mixer Attachment would be the most useful, much less work and safer than the manual style.
Spaghetti cutter attachment; never had one before and could be a fun activity with the whole family!
We love the ice cream attachment! The pasta one too!!
I like the IDEA of making bread, but in practice, not so much. So I think the dough hook would speed me along the way to actually baking.
The pasta attachments definitely, it is so good at making egg noodles ourselves
Ice cream attachment for sure! Always wanted to get something to try out for the fam
Pasta roller equals amazing results!
The Ice Cream Maker Stand Mixer Attachment would be most useful for my family because we eat a lot of ice cream. It says you can make ice cream in 30 minutes with this attachment. That time is to my liking.
The pasta roller would be great for my family as we love trying new things.
The pasta roller as we would like to start making our noodles faster.
I think the ice-cream attachment would be a must-have for this mixer, and would get used the most by us….the girls love ice cream.
2x the power in the bowl than the tilt-head stand mixer because it will mix the ingredients really well
The pasta roller and cutter would be amazing! We’ve tried making pasta in our house without any tools, and they definitely did not hold up
I think the ice-cream attachment would be a must-have for this mixer, and would get used the most by us.
Spiralizer as it makes great spaghetti style noodles from squash, etc!
Pasta Roller & Cutter – homemade pasta!
I think the KitchenAid Pasta Roller & Cutter Stand Mixer Attachment would be most useful for my family because we have always wanted to try making pasta from scratch.
The pasta attachments. I borrow a stand alone one from my mother when I want to make past and love this is all in one.
The pasta roller and cutter would be amazing! We’ve tried making pasta in our house without any tools, and they definitely did not hold up
The pasta roller/cutter attachment would be great to try to make homemade artisanal pasta such as wild rice fettucini
The KitchenAid hink double flex edge beater & the KitchenAid pour shield as well.
I really want to make my own Pasta, so pasta roller for sure. Also Pizza dough is so much easier with a stand mixer, but my ex took it sadly.
The pasta roller as it can do so many things -including pizza dough. Love it.
The pasta roller, fettuccine and spaghetti cutters would be the most useful for us. I used to make my own pasta years ago, but it became too difficult to do by hand. These attachments would allow me to make my own pasta once ago, so yummy!
We’ve never tried to make our own pasta, so that would be an interesting attachment to try.
The pasta attachment would be the one I’d want. Always wanted to make my own pasta!
The spaghetti cutter is my favorite – so helpful!
the pasta roller we would like to start making our pasta
The KitchenAid stand mixer attachment that would be most useful for my family is the pasta roller & cutter because my kids love homemade tagliatelle!
I would like to make my own pasta so the Pasta Roller and Cutter would be an attachment I would use frequently.
Manga, Manga! The Pasta Roller set would be a wonderful thing as we eat Pasta! Hand cranking pasta all these years is what we have done. Yet the amazing Genius who has automated this and cranks the Pasta for you deserves a bowl of PASTA! Fresh is Best! 🙂
The Pasta Roller & Cutter stand mixer attachment would be very useful, I think.
pasta roller and cutter attachment
pasta roller and cutter attachment
pasta roller and cutter attachment
pasta roller and cutter attachment
I would love to try the pasta roller and cutter
2x the power in the bowl than the tilt-head stand mixer because it will mix the ingredients really well
The spaghetti cutter for sure would be most helpful to cut the spaghetti the right perfect length.
My family and I would give the pasta attachment a good workout – I’d love to try to make artisanal pasta like wild rice pasta
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