Bowl liters, motor watts, and thirty years of attachments · review
A 4-quart stand mixer whose head detaches as a hand mixer, with six speeds, QuickBurst, five attachments and a lever that moves the bowl by hand.
The net of it Not a planetary mixer at all: a hand mixer that unlocks from a stand, with a lever you push to move the bowl yourself. Which is why it is the only machine here with five attachments and no flat beater — and the only one that is two appliances.
“2 PRODUCTS IN 1… The stand mixer is perfect for thick mixtures like cookie and bread dough and the hand mixer easily unlocks from the base for quick mixing jobs.”
That is the whole design, and it explains every other oddity on this page.
At least eleven of the sixteen items on this shelf are planetary mixers. The beater spins on its own axis while that axis orbits the bowl, so it sweeps the whole wall without you touching anything.
The only page here that explains the mechanism is the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95, from this same maker: “each stand mixer attachment rotates around the entire bowl as it spins at your selected speed. This planetary mixing action ensures that ingredients are mixed thoroughly and provides complete bowl coverage.”
The VIVOHOME at $149.99 names it without explaining it. And KitchenAid counts it rather than describing it — “59 touchpoints around the mixer bowl for great mixing results” appears on six of its seven pages here, which is the same claim expressed as a number of contact positions.
This machine does none of that. Bullet four: “the Shift and Stir lever lets you move the bowl from side-to-side.”
So the beaters go straight down into the bowl, the way they would in your hand, and the lever substitutes for the wrist movement you would make.
It is the oldest arrangement in the category and it works. What it costs you is unattended mixing.
A planetary machine kneads bread for eight minutes while you do something else. This one wants a hand on the lever, or the mixture stays where the beaters are.
Which is why the bullet pairs the lever with “thorough mixing”: it is honest about needing the help.
And the Bowl Rest in the product name is the companion detail — somewhere to park the head so the beaters do not drip on the countertop when you lift them, which is a hand-mixer problem rather than a stand-mixer one.
“Set includes 2 traditional beaters, 2 dough hooks and whisk”
Every other mixer on this shelf ships three attachments: a flat beater, a dough hook and a wire whip.
KitchenAid Classic K45SS, $322.99 — “(1) Coated Flat Beater, (1) Coated Dough Hook, (1) 6-Wire Whip” KitchenAid bowl-lift KSM55SXXX — the same three KitchenAid Artisan KSM150PS, $399.96 to $499.95 — the same three, plus a Pouring Shield in the one listing of five that publishes its contents Martha Stewart, $149.99 — “a stainless steel whisk, dough hook, and flat beater with silicone edge” Hamilton Beach 63390, $126.95 — “DOUGH HOOK, WHISK AND FLAT BEATER INCLUDED” OLIXIS — “a dough hook, wire whisk, and flat beater” VIVOHOME, $149.99 — four: “stainless whisk, aluminum hook, beater, and egg separator”
This one has five pieces and none of them is a flat beater.
Why that follows. A flat beater is a single paddle that sweeps a bowl wall on a planetary arm. Beaters come in pairs because they are hand-mixer beaters: two attachments turning against each other in the middle of the bowl.
So the pair of beaters is the flat beater’s replacement, and the pair of dough hooks is the single hook’s.
What you gain. A pair of beaters in the middle of a bowl aerates better than a paddle. Meringue, whipped cream and cake batter are exactly what bullet three names, and that is a hand mixer’s strength.
What you lose. The creaming and the folding a flat paddle does. Creaming butter and sugar against a bowl wall, and folding something delicate in without beating it, are paddle jobs.
Which is why the KitchenAid bowl-lift is the only machine on this shelf with a setting for it: “Designed for folding, 1/2 speed gently adds delicate ingredients, like blueberries and egg whites, into recipes without overbeating.”
And the thing nothing at this end of the shelf has is a beater that touches the bowl. Two items address it, and both cost $149.99.
VIVOHOME — “Flex edge beater scrapes sides and bottom as it mixes; No more stopping to scrape for smoother batters with no wasted ingredients” Martha Stewart — a “flat beater with silicone edge for efficient, thorough mixing”
Which is the real everyday annoyance of the whole category: a planetary beater does not touch the wall, so batter builds there and you stop the machine to scrape. None of the seven KitchenAid machines here addresses it; the flex edge beater is sold separately.
“Go from slowly folding ingredients all the way up to whipping at top speed… 6 speeds… and a Quick Burst button for an extra burst of power at any speed.”
The shelf, by speed count:
12 — the Martha Stewart at $149.99 (“12 OPTIMIZED SPEED SETTINGS: Precision control lets you gently fold, thoroughly mix, or power through thick doughs”) 11 distinct, plus a 1/2 speed — the KitchenAid bowl-lift 10 — the five KitchenAid Artisans at $399.96 to $499.95, the Classic at $322.99, the OLIXIS (currently unavailable) 10 plus pulse — the VIVOHOME at $149.99 7 — the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 6 plus QuickBurst — this
Why the count tells you less than it looks. What decides whether a mixer is pleasant is the slowest speed, not how many steps there are.
A mixer whose speed 1 is too fast throws flour out of the bowl, and there is no setting below it.
KitchenAid’s phrasing addresses this: “from mixing ingredients together on the stir speed, to whipping cream at speed 8” — a stir speed below the useful mixing range. And its bowl-lift is the only machine on this shelf with a half step and the only one that says what it is for.
This page claims “slowly folding ingredients” at speed 1 and gives no more detail. Twelve steps on the Martha Stewart and six here is not twice the control; it is twice the number of positions across the same range.
The QuickBurst is the feature worth having and it has one counterpart on this shelf. The VIVOHOME at $149.99 has a pulse.
Both are the same idea: a momentary burst above the set speed, released by hand. Which is what you want for a stiff dough that has stalled, or for a single quick incorporation without changing the dial.
And on the lowest-powered machine here it earns its keep more than anywhere else.
“The 290 watt peak power motor”
The shelf, on power:
660 W copper motor — the VIVOHOME at $149.99, the highest figure here 300 W — the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95, which adds the better claim: “maintains constant speed” however thick the mixture 300 W — the OLIXIS (currently unavailable) 290 W peak — this Nothing at all — all seven KitchenAid machines, from $322.99 to $499.95
So the seven most expensive items on this shelf publish no wattage.
Why “peak” is the weaker word. A motor has a continuous rating — what it holds all day without overheating — and a peak or stall figure, which is what it draws for a moment under maximum load.
The peak number is always the larger of the two, so a maker quoting peak is quoting the flattering figure.
The Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 quotes 300 W without the word, and then makes the claim that matters: “No matter how thick or heavy your ingredients are, the powerful 300 watt motor of this kitchen stand mixer maintains constant speed.”
Which is the thing you actually feel. A mixer that bogs down in stiff dough is not short of watts; it is short of torque at the beater — and that is a question of gearing as much as of the motor.
Which is why KitchenAid speaks a different language entirely. Its bowl-lift publishes “2x the power in the bowl than Tilt-head stand mixer”, footnoted “Compared to KSM150 when measuring peak HP in the bowl; above speed 2.”
Power in the bowl is the right grandeur, and KitchenAid gives no absolute figure for it. So this shelf offers watts without torque on five machines and torque without numbers on seven.
For what this machine is asked to do, 290 W is enough: beaters and a whisk in a 4-quart bowl. Where it will struggle is the dough hooks in a stiff bread dough, which is the one job bullet one claims and bullet three repeats.
The shelf, by bowl size:
6.3 qt — the OLIXIS (currently unavailable), the largest bowl here on the cheapest machine 6 qt — the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — “holds 3 bread loaves or 2.2 lbs flour” 5.5 qt — the KitchenAid bowl-lift — “11 dozen cookies per batch*, knead over 7 lbs of bread, or mash 6 lbs of potatoes” 5.3 qt — the Martha Stewart at $149.99 — “up to 9 dozen cookies” 5 qt — the five KitchenAid Artisans at $399.96 to $499.95 — “9 dozen cookies* in a single batch” 4.5 qt — the KitchenAid Classic at $322.99 — “8 dozen cookies in a single batch” 4 qt — the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95, and this
This page’s version is “large enough to accommodate your favorite recipes”, which is not a figure.
And the footnote on every KitchenAid cookie claim is worth reading, because it turns a performance claim into arithmetic: “***Using the flat beater; 28g dough each.”
9 dozen × 1 oz (28 g) is about 6.7 lb of dough. 11 dozen is about 8.1 lb. So the cookie count is a division of the bowl by the size of a biscuit, and KitchenAid is the only maker here that declares it.
Martha Stewart claims the same 9 dozen on 5.3 quarts with no footnote at all — consistent with KitchenAid’s figure, and undeclared.
And the largest bowl on this shelf publishes nothing. The OLIXIS offers 6.3 quarts and no capacity claim of any kind.
What four quarts means in practice. A single standard batch of almost anything — a two-loaf bread dough, a cake, a batch of cookies. What it will not do is a double batch, and what it is better at is a small one: a mixer whose bowl is too big for the job leaves the beater turning above the mixture.
On a machine with a pair of center-turning beaters rather than a planetary paddle, that is less of a problem than it would be elsewhere — because the beaters work in the middle of the bowl, where the food is.
The bowl is stainless steel and dishwasher safe, which is the shelf standard. At least ten of the sixteen items here publish a stainless bowl; the OLIXIS says only “safe, simple-to-clean materials”.
No weight. This and the KitchenAid bowl-lift are the only two items on this shelf with no catalog weight.
And weight is the specification nobody sells and that decides everything. 24.3 lb (the Artisan in Almond Cream) · 22.8 lb (Black Matte, Blue Velvet) · 22 lb (Contour Silver, Pistachio, and the Classic at $322.99) · 11 lb (VIVOHOME) · 10.2 lb (the Hamilton Beach 63390) · 9 lb (Martha Stewart) · 7.1 lb (OLIXIS).
The heaviest machine on this shelf is 3.4 times the lightest.
What mass does: it stops the machine walking across the countertop when the hook enters a stiff dough. The light machines publish a feature for it — the VIVOHOME’s “Strong suction cups help keep the dough mixer stable during mixing” and the Martha Stewart’s “HEAVY-DUTY BASE: Sturdy construction enhances stability and minimizes movement”. The heavy ones publish a material instead: “durable and built-to-last metal construction.”
This page publishes neither, on a machine whose head detaches — which means the stand is a cradle rather than a casting.
No splash guard. Four items on this shelf have one. Martha Stewart at $149.99 — a “REMOVABLE SPLASH SHIELD… allowing easy ingredient additions through the accessible pour chute” · the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — an “Upgraded splash guard lets you pour while running” · the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 — a “removable splatter shield that fits on top when needed” · and one of the five KitchenAid Artisan listings, the Blue Velvet at $399.96, whose contents list includes a Pouring Shield.
No attachment hub. Only KitchenAid has one on this shelf, and it is the category’s real moat: “10 plus attachments to make more with your mixer to make everything from fresh pasta to burgers, veggie noodles, ice cream and more, sold separately” (the Classic at $322.99), and “Over 10 stand mixer attachments available” (the bowl-lift). A hub turns a mixer into a grinder, a pasta roller, a spiralizer and an ice cream churn. Nothing on this page does anything but mix.
No noise figure. One page on this shelf mentions noise at all: the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — “Low-noise operation makes everyday baking more enjoyable” — with no number. And a hand mixer on a stand is the loudest arrangement here, because the motor is in the head rather than in a heavy base.
No cord length. One item on this shelf publishes one: the KitchenAid Artisan in Contour Silver at $499.00, whose single bullet gives “Cord length : 36 Inches”. Eleven publish nothing.
No gear material, which no item on this shelf publishes — and it is the actual durability question on a mixer, because the gear that fails is usually a sacrificial one, designed to break before the motor does.
No warranty. Not at least one of the sixteen items on this shelf publishes a term.
No tilt-back height, which nothing here publishes — the figure that decides whether the head will open under a wall cupboard. The Martha Stewart at $149.99 is the only page to raise the subject at all: “SLIM & SPACE-SAVING: Built to fit comfortably in smaller kitchens and tight spaces”, with no figure.
Read on the day this page was built: $62.95 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-17. The live price is at the top of the page.
Same shelf, nearest cost — where the same money else goes.
| Two appliances | The hand mixer unlocks from the base — unique on this shelf |
|---|---|
| Mixing action | A Shift and Stir lever you push; not planetary |
| Attachments | Five: two beaters, two dough hooks and a whisk — no flat beater |
| Speeds | Six, plus a QuickBurst button at any speed |
| Power | 290 watts peak — the lowest figure on this shelf |
| Bowl | 4 quarts, stainless steel, dishwasher safe |
| Bowl rest | Published in the product name |
| Reference | 64651 · 13.3 × 8.2 × 14.3 in (337 × 208 × 362 mm) |
| Weight | Not published |
| Capacity claim | None — "your favorite recipes" is the whole of it |
| Splash guard | Not published |
| Attachment hub | None |
| Cord length | Not published |
| Warranty | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B07VJSSDV9 |
| EAN | 0040094646517 |
Because the head does not travel round the bowl by itself, which is what separates this machine from the other eleven on this shelf. Bullet four: "BOWL MOVES SIDE-TO SIDE FOR THOROUGH MIXING. As you mix, the Shift and Stir lever lets you move the bowl from side-to-side to provide thorough mixing for all your ingredients." What the others do instead. Planetary mixing — the beater spins on its own axis while that axis orbits the bowl, so the beater sweeps the whole wall without you touching anything. The only page on this shelf that explains it is the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95, from the same maker: "each stand mixer attachment rotates around the entire bowl as it spins at your selected speed. This planetary mixing action ensures that ingredients are mixed thoroughly and provides complete bowl coverage." The VIVOHOME at $149.99 names it without explaining it: "Planetary mixing delivers smooth, lump-free results." And KitchenAid counts it rather than describing it — "59 touchpoints around the mixer bowl for great mixing results" appears on six of its seven pages here, which is the same claim expressed as a number of contact positions. What this arrangement actually is: a hand mixer in a cradle. Bullet one says so: "2 PRODUCTS IN 1... the hand mixer easily unlocks from the base for quick mixing jobs." So the beaters go straight down into the bowl, the way they would in your hand, and the lever substitutes for the wrist movement you would make. It is the oldest arrangement in the category and it works — what it costs you is unattended mixing. A planetary machine kneads bread for eight minutes while you do something else. This one wants a hand on the lever, or the mixture stays where the beaters are. Which is why the bullet pairs it with "thorough mixing": it is honest about needing the help. And the Bowl Rest in the product name is the companion detail — somewhere to park the head so the beaters do not drip on the countertop when you lift them, which is a hand-mixer problem rather than a stand-mixer one.
That the figure is a maximum draw rather than what the motor sustains, and it is the lowest number on this shelf. Bullet three: "POWERFUL MOTOR FOR ALL YOUR MIXING NEEDS. The 290 watt peak power motor lets you easily do everything from mixing batter and kneading thick dough to whipping fluffy meringue." The shelf, on power: 660 W copper motor — the VIVOHOME at $149.99, the highest figure here · 300 W — the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95, which adds the better claim: "maintains constant speed" however thick the mixture · 300 W — the OLIXIS (currently unavailable) · 290 W peak — this · and nothing at all — all seven KitchenAid machines, from $322.99 to $499.95. So the seven most expensive items on this shelf publish no wattage. Why "peak" is the weaker word. A motor has a continuous rating — what it can hold all day without overheating — and a peak or stall figure, which is what it draws for a moment under maximum load. The peak number is always the larger of the two, so a maker quoting peak is quoting the flattering figure. The Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 quotes 300 W without the word, and then makes the claim that matters: constant speed under load. Which is the thing you actually feel. A mixer that bogs down in stiff dough is not short of watts; it is short of torque at the beater, and that is a question of gearing as much as of the motor. Which is why KitchenAid speaks a different language entirely. **Its bowl-lift publishes "2x the power IN THE BOWL than Tilt-head stand mixer*", footnoted "*Compared to KSM150 when measuring PEAK HP IN THE BOWL; above speed 2." Power in the bowl is the right grandeur and KitchenAid gives no absolute number for it — so this shelf offers watts without torque on five machines and torque without numbers on seven. For what this machine is asked to do, 290 W is enough: beaters and a whisk in a 4-quart bowl. Where it will struggle is the dough hooks in a stiff bread dough, which is the one job bullet one claims and bullet three repeats.**
It is the clearest sign of what this machine is, and yes, for one kind of job. Bullet two: "5 ATTACHMENTS AND 4 QT. STAINLESS STEEL BOWL. Set includes 2 traditional beaters, 2 dough hooks and whisk, and the 4 qt. bowl is large enough to accommodate your favorite recipes. For easy cleanup, attachments and bowl are dishwasher safe." What every other mixer on this shelf ships: three attachments — a flat beater, a dough hook and a wire whip. The KitchenAid Classic K45SS at $322.99: "(1) Coated Flat Beater, (1) Coated Dough Hook, (1) 6-Wire Whip." The Martha Stewart at $149.99, the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 and the OLIXIS: the same three. The VIVOHOME at $149.99 adds a fourth, an egg separator. This one has five pieces and none of them is a flat beater. Why that follows from the design. A flat beater is a single paddle that sweeps a bowl wall on a planetary arm. Beaters come in pairs because they are hand-mixer beaters: two whisk-like wire or blade attachments turning against each other in the middle of the bowl. So the pair of beaters IS the flat beater’s replacement, and the pair of dough hooks is the single hook’s. What you gain: a pair of beaters in the middle of a bowl aerates better than a paddle. Meringue, whipped cream and cake batter are exactly what bullet three names, and that is a hand mixer’s strength. What you lose: the creaming and the folding a flat paddle does. Creaming butter and sugar against a bowl wall, and folding something delicate in without beating it, are paddle jobs — which is why the KitchenAid bowl-lift is the only machine here with a dedicated setting for one: "Designed for folding, 1/2 speed gently adds delicate ingredients, like blueberries and egg whites, into recipes without overbeating." And the thing no mixer at this end of the shelf has is a beater that touches the bowl. Two items address it, and both cost $149.99: the VIVOHOME’s "FLEX EDGE BEATER scrapes sides and bottom as it mixes" and the Martha Stewart’s "flat beater with silicone edge".
Details checked on October 17, 2026.
A small kitchen that needs one mixer rather than two
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1,500 W · 2 bowls, 4.5 + 5.5 L · planetary
The only stand mixer here supplied with two stainless bowls — 4.5 and 5.5 liters — behind a 1,500 W motor Arebos states is pure copper in an ABS housing. Planetary action, six speeds, a tilting head, and a set that includes beater, dough hook, whisk and splash guard.
Best for: Baking in sequence — meringue and batter in one session, without washing up in between.
1,000 W · metal body · stepless + pulse
The kMix: a 1,000 W motor in a metal housing, with stepless speed control and a pulse function rather than fixed steps. Kenwood states the range extends with over twenty dishwasher-safe attachments, and supplies a three-piece baking set — K-beater, whisk and dough hook — plus a splash guard.
Best for: A mixer bought once, for the attachment range it opens rather than for its motor.
1,800 or 2,000 W · 5 L · planetary, 8 directions
A 5-liter planetary mixer that Klarstein states moves the tool in eight directions, with six speeds and a dough hook and whisk supplied. Its power is published twice and differently: the listing title says 2,000 W, the specification text says an 1,800 W motor. We report both.
Best for: Bread and yeast doughs, from a maker that at least names what it is for.
