Kitchen Aid Artisan Mixer

The Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer is one of the best selling models available.  With an impressive 325 watt motor and tilt head, the Artisan can handle even the heaviest mixtures easily. The Artisan seems to be the perfect balance of power, performance and functionality that make it a best seller world wide. The Artisan is manufactured in the USA.

The Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer has ten speeds from a slow stir to a very fast whip. It includes a five quart bowl finishes in polished stainless steel with the unique ergonomic handle allowing you to easy pick up the bowl even when filled with heavy mixtures.

Kitchen Aid has created a Flour Power rating for all its mixers and the Artisan is rated as 9 cups. It can make the following with one mixture: four and half bread loaves, seven pounds of mashed potato and nine dozen cookies.

Included are some very versatile accessories including the dough hook, flat beater and the professional wire whip. The attachments are very solid in their construction and attach and de-attach from the mixer easily. The dough hook saves both time and effort by replicating hand kneading. The flat beater is ideal for mixing batters ranging form normal to heavy. The wire whip uses the maximum amount of air to whip up mixtures for angel food cakes and fluffier whipped cream. A pouring shield is also included for convenience.

There are many optional attachments that can be used with the Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer from ice cream makers to pasta makers. Please see out attachment page for a more thorough page.

The Artisan has ten different speed settings. Here is a breakdown of some of the various speeds:

Stir            Used for stirring                           

2               Slow mixing

4               Mixing, Beating

6               Beating, Creaming

8               Fast Beating, Whipping

10             Fast Whipping

What people also love about this mixer it has the most diverse color set. Here are the colors available on the Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer:
Almond cream, buttercup, imperial black, bayleaf, cobalt blue, blue willow, boysenberry, cornflower blue, caviar, empire red, French blue, green apple, gloss cinnamon, grey, ice, metallic chrome, majestic yellow, onyx black, pear, persimmon, pistachio, silver metallic, tangerine, and white.

The Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer is very easy to clean. The bowl along with the included flat beater and dough hook are dishwasher safe. The wire whip is hand wash only. Also because of the tilt back, there is easy access to the bowl and beaters.

The Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer weighs 27 pounds and has the following dimensions: 14 1/8 inches depth, 13 15/16 inches, and 8 ¾ wide. The frequency for the mixer is 60 hz and the voltage is 120 V. The mixer comes with Kitchen Aids famous one year hassle free replacement warranty. This warranty is handled directly through Kitchen Aid.

With the features and versatility and the numerous colors to choose from it is no wonder that the Artisan is a favorite of many home bakers.