Bowl liters, motor watts, and thirty years of attachments · review
The 5-quart Artisan tilt-head mixer in four bullets: metal construction, 59 touchpoints, a handled bowl rated 9 dozen cookies, a locking tilt-head and ten speeds.
The net of it Four bullets for the same KSM150PS its siblings describe in five and in one, at $499.00, where the Blue Velvet twin is $399.96. It is the heaviest machine on this shelf at eleven kilos, and the only one of the five Artisan listings that neither mentions the twenty-color range nor lists what is in the box.
The five KSM150PS listings on this shelf, priced from $399.96 to $499.95:
Contour Silver, $499.00 — one bullet, which is the only one anywhere here to give a cord length: “10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir. Cord length : 36 Inches” Almond Cream, $499.00 — four bullets, this one Pistachio, $499.95 — five bullets, adding “Match your style with over 20 colors available” Black Matte, $492.06 — five bullets, adding the same color line Blue Velvet, $399.96 — five bullets, the fifth being a contents list that includes a Pouring Shield
Same model number, a hundred dollars apart, between one and five bullets — and the cheapest is the only one that lists a pouring shield.
What this listing omits that its twins publish:
The color range — three of five publish “over 20 colors available” The contents list — one of five publishes it, and it is the only place on this shelf a KitchenAid pouring shield appears The cord length — one of five publishes it
What it publishes, in common with three of the four: metal construction and 59 touchpoints · a 5 quart stainless bowl with comfortable handle, 9 dozen cookies* at 28 g of dough each, dishwasher safe · the tilt-head design with the head locking in place while mixing · and 10 speeds from the stir speed to whipping cream at speed 8.
The catalog weights confirm identity as far as weights can. 24.3 lb here · 22.8 lb for Black Matte and Blue Velvet · 22 lb for Contour Silver and Pistachio — a kilogram of spread across one model, which is catalog noise rather than a difference in the machine.
So the practical advice is to read all five listings as one page.
The specification is the four bullets here. The cord is three feet, from the Contour Silver listing. The color range is over twenty, from three of the five. And whether a pouring shield is in the box is a question only the Blue Velvet listing answers, in the affirmative.
Which is worth stating plainly: the same machine either ships a shield or does not, depending on which color you are reading — and the contents lists for the Classic at $322.99 and the bowl-lift do not include one.
“the durable and built-to-last metal construction”
The shelf, by catalog weight:
24.3 lb — this 22.8 lb — Black Matte and Blue Velvet, the same model 22 lb — Contour Silver and Pistachio, the same model 22 lb — the KitchenAid Classic at $322.99 11 lb — the VIVOHOME at $149.99 10.2 lb — the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 9 lb — the Martha Stewart at $149.99 7.1 lb — the OLIXIS (currently unavailable) Not published — the KitchenAid bowl-lift, the Hamilton Beach Classic at $62.95
The heaviest machine here is 3.4 times the lightest.
What mass actually does. A dough hook in a stiff dough does not spin freely; it meets resistance, and the reaction pushes the machine — slowly, across the countertop, towards the edge.
An eleven-kilogram cast base absorbs it. A three-kilogram one does not.
Which is why the light machines on this shelf publish a feature for it and the heavy ones publish a material.
VIVOHOME, 11 lb — “Strong suction cups help keep the dough mixer stable during mixing” Martha Stewart, 9 lb — “HEAVY-DUTY BASE: Sturdy construction enhances stability and minimizes movement for smoother, more controlled operation” KitchenAid, 22 lb and up — “durable and built-to-last metal construction”
Which is the stability feature, stated as what the machine is made of rather than as something added to it. The more durable version of the two: a casting does not come unstuck.
And the second thing metal buys is the thing no page on this shelf discusses: the gearbox. A mixer’s drive is a worm gear and a set of spur gears, and in a metal-bodied machine they run in grease inside a casting rather than in a plastic housing.
No item here publishes a gear material, which is the actual durability question — because the gear that fails on a mixer is usually a sacrificial one, designed to break before the motor does.
The cost of eleven kilos is that you will not move it. Which makes the cord length the companion figure, and only the Contour Silver listing of this same model publishes it: 36 inches. Three feet reaches across a countertop; two feet does not reach round a corner.
“59 touchpoints around the mixer bowl for great mixing results”
The phrase appears on six of KitchenAid’s seven pages here — this one, three of its four Artisan twins, and the Classic at $322.99. The bowl-lift does not use it.
What it is counting: the positions at which the beater passes close to the bowl wall during one full cycle of the planetary arm.
A planetary mixer’s beater spins on its own axis while that axis orbits the bowl, and because the two rotations are not in a simple ratio, the beater traces a path that gradually covers the whole wall rather than retracing the same line.
59 is the number of those positions.
The only page on this shelf that explains the mechanism instead of counting it is the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95: “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 and stops: “Planetary mixing delivers smooth, lump-free results.”
And one machine on this shelf genuinely does not do it. The Hamilton Beach Classic at $62.95: “the Shift and Stir lever lets you move the bowl from side-to-side” — a hand mixer in a cradle, and the page says so: “2 PRODUCTS IN 1… the hand mixer easily unlocks from the base.”
What 59 touchpoints does not mean: that the beater touches the bowl. It does not.
A planetary beater sweeps close to the wall and leaves a film, which is why you stop the machine and scrape — and this machine ships a coated flat beater, not a flex-edge one.
Two items on this shelf scrape as they mix, and both cost $149.99. The VIVOHOME: “Flex edge beater scrapes sides and bottom as it mixes; No more stopping to scrape for smoother batters with no wasted ingredients.” The Martha Stewart: a “flat beater with silicone edge.”
KitchenAid sells a flex edge beater separately — which is exactly what the attachment ecosystem is for, and no Artisan listing on this shelf mentions that ecosystem at all.
“5 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl with comfortable handle for small or large batches, to mix up 9 dozen cookies in a single batch. Dishwasher safe. **Using the flat beater; 28g dough each.”
9 × 12 × 28 g is 6.7 lb of dough.
Which makes the claim checkable rather than impressive, and that is the point of publishing the method.
The shelf, by bowl size and claim:
6.3 qt — the OLIXIS (currently unavailable), no claim at all on the largest bowl here 6 qt — the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — “3 bread loaves or 2.2 lbs flour”, the only claim stated in 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”, with no method stated 5 qt — this, 9 dozen 4.5 qt — the KitchenAid Classic at $322.99 — “8 dozen cookies*” 4 qt — both Hamilton Beach machines, no figure
So Martha Stewart claims the same 9 dozen on a larger bowl — consistent with KitchenAid’s basis and undeclared, which is conservative rather than inflated, to its credit. And the largest bowl on this shelf publishes nothing at all.
The caution that matters more than the count: a bowl is not a capacity.
A stand mixer’s real limit is the drive, not the volume — and no KitchenAid page on this shelf publishes a wattage or a horsepower.
The one exception is comparative, and it uses this machine as its baseline. The bowl-lift: “2x the power in the bowl than Tilt-head stand mixer*; *Compared to KSM150 when measuring peak HP in the bowl; above speed 2.”
The KSM150 in that footnote is this model.
So the only quantified power statement on this shelf concludes that a different KitchenAid, the bowl-lift, has twice the torque at the beater, above speed 2. Which matters on bread and mash — the two jobs that page names in weights — and matters not at all on a cake batter.
Why “in the bowl” is the right grandeur. Watts at the wall is what the motor draws. Between the motor and the beater sits a reduction gear, which trades speed for torque — so a 300 W motor through a deep reduction can deliver more at the beater than a 660 W one through a shallow one. Which means the five watt figures on this shelf are not comparable to each other either.
The bowl handle in this bullet is the small real thing. The Classic at $322.99 does not publish one, and the only other handled bowl on this shelf is the Martha Stewart’s at $149.99 — “EASY-GRIP HANDLE: Ergonomically designed bowl handle provides a secure, comfortable grip for steady pouring and reduced spills.”
On a five-quart bowl full of dough, that is a real convenience and part of what the extra $176 over the Classic buys.
“10 speeds for nearly any task or recipe, from mixing ingredients together on the stir speed, to whipping cream at speed 8, you will get thorough ingredient incorporation every time.”
Two things in that phrasing, and both are more useful than the count.
A stir speed below the useful mixing range — so the bottom of the dial is slower than speed 1 implies. And whipping cream at speed 8 of 10 — so the top two steps are headroom rather than working settings.
The shelf, by count:
12 — the Martha Stewart at $149.99 11 distinct, plus a 1/2 speed — the KitchenAid bowl-lift 10 — this, its four twins, 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 — the Hamilton Beach Classic at $62.95
Why the count tells you less than the ends. A mixer whose speed 1 is too fast throws flour out of the bowl, and there is no setting below it to retreat to.
Three pages on this shelf address the slow end. This formula, on six of KitchenAid’s seven listings. The Martha Stewart at $149.99 — “Precision control lets you gently fold”. And the bowl-lift, the only machine here with a step below one and the only one that says what it is for: “Designed for folding, 1/2 speed gently adds delicate ingredients, like blueberries and egg whites, into recipes without overbeating.”
What this page does not have at the other end is a burst. Two machines here do: the VIVOHOME’s pulse at $149.99 and the Hamilton Beach Classic’s QuickBurst at $62.95, “an extra burst of power at any speed” — which is what a stalled dough wants.
And nothing on this page says what happens to the speed under load. The Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 is the only item on this shelf to claim it: “No matter how thick or heavy your ingredients are, the powerful 300 watt motor… maintains constant speed.”
A motor without regulation slows when the dough fights back, and the speed you set is not the speed you get. Its Contour Silver twin at least describes the control itself: “10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir.”
“Lock the head in place while mixing” in bullet three is the small structural detail that matters more than it sounds. An unlocked tilt-head rides up under load in a stiff dough, and the beater rises away from the bowl floor — which is the structural argument for the one bowl-lift on this shelf, with its “3-point locking bowl for stability” and a head that does not move at all.
No color range, as above — unlike three of its four twins.
No contents list, as above — which leaves the pouring shield question unanswerable from this page.
No cord length, as above — which its Contour Silver twin supplies, and which at least eleven of the sixteen items on this shelf do not publish.
No power, as above. All seven KitchenAid machines on this shelf publish no wattage. Five items do: 660 W on the VIVOHOME at $149.99, 300 W on the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 and the OLIXIS, 290 W peak on the Hamilton Beach Classic at $62.95.
No load behavior, as above.
No attachment hub. Two items on this shelf publish one, and both are the cheaper KitchenAids: “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).
Not one of the five Artisan listings mentions it — and it is the strongest argument for buying any KitchenAid. A power take-off on the front of the head turns a mixer into a grinder, a pasta roller, a spiralizer and an ice cream churn, and none of the other five items on this shelf has one.
No flex-edge beater, as above.
No noise figure. One page on this shelf mentions noise at all: the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — “Low-noise operation” — with no number.
No gear material, as above, which no item on this shelf publishes.
No tilt-back height, which nothing here publishes — the figure that decides whether the head will open under a wall cupboard, on a machine whose whole access design is a tilting head. 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” — and gives no figure. The one machine on this shelf for which the question does not arise is the bowl-lift.
No warranty. Not at least one of the sixteen items on this shelf publishes a term — and “built-to-last” in bullet one is the phrase that would most want one behind it.
Read on the day this page was built: $499.00 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.
| Weight | 24.3 lb — the heaviest machine on this shelf |
|---|---|
| Published bullets | Four, where the same model publishes one to five, at $399.96 to $499.95 |
| Bowl | 5 quarts, stainless, with a comfortable handle, dishwasher safe |
| Capacity claim | 9 dozen cookies, footnoted at 28 g (1 oz) of dough each |
| Construction | Durable, built-to-last metal |
| Touchpoints | 59 around the bowl |
| Speeds | Ten, from the stir speed to whipping cream at speed 8 |
| Head lock | The head locks in place while mixing |
| Reference | KSM150PSAC · 236 × 363 × 356 mm (9.29 × 14.3 × 14 in) |
| Color range | Not mentioned, unlike three of its four twins |
| Contents list | Not published, unlike its Blue Velvet twin |
| Cord length | Not published; its Contour Silver twin gives 36 inches |
| Power | Not published |
| Warranty | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B00007G309 |
| EAN | 0050946872926 |
No. It is the same KSM150PS, described in a different number of sentences — and priced from $399.96 to $499.95 depending on the color. The five KSM150PS listings on this shelf, priced from $399.96 to $499.95: Contour Silver, $499.00 — one bullet, which is the only one anywhere here to give a cord length: "10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir. Cord length : 36 Inches" · Almond Cream, $499.00 — four bullets, this one · Pistachio, $499.95 — five bullets, adding "Match your style with over 20 colors available" · Black Matte, $492.06 — five bullets, adding the same color line · Blue Velvet, $399.96 — five bullets, the fifth being a contents list that includes a Pouring Shield. Same model number, a hundred dollars apart, between one and five bullets — and the cheapest is the only one that lists a pouring shield. What this listing omits that its twins publish: the color range (three of five publish "over 20 colors") · the contents list (one of five publishes it, and it is the only place a pouring shield appears) · and the cord length (one of five publishes it). What it publishes, in common with three of the four: metal construction and 59 touchpoints · a 5 quart stainless bowl with comfortable handle, 9 dozen cookies* at 28 g (1 oz) of dough each, dishwasher safe · the tilt-head design with the head locking in place while mixing · and 10 speeds from the stir speed to whipping cream at speed 8. The catalog weights confirm identity as far as weights can: 24.3 lb here · 22.8 lb for Black Matte and Blue Velvet · 22 lb for Contour Silver and Pistachio — a kilogram of spread across one model, which is catalog noise rather than a difference in the machine. So the practical advice is to read all five listings as one page. The specification is the four bullets here; the cord is three feet, from the Contour Silver listing; the color range is over twenty, from three of the five; and whether a pouring shield is in the box is a question only the Blue Velvet listing answers, in the affirmative. Which is worth stating because the same machine either ships a shield or does not, depending on which color you are reading — and the contents lists for the Classic at $322.99 and the bowl-lift do not include one.
Stability, and it is the specification nobody on this shelf sells and that decides most of how a mixer behaves. Bullet one calls it a material rather than a feature: "Built to take it all on with the durable and built-to-last metal construction." The shelf, by catalog weight: 24.3 lb — this, the heaviest here · 22.8 lb — Black Matte and Blue Velvet, the same model · 22 lb — Contour Silver and Pistachio, the same model · 22 lb — the KitchenAid Classic at $322.99 · 11 lb — the VIVOHOME at $149.99 · 10.2 lb — the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 · 9 lb — the Martha Stewart at $149.99 · 7.1 lb — the OLIXIS (currently unavailable) · and not published — the KitchenAid bowl-lift and the Hamilton Beach Classic at $62.95. The heaviest machine here is 3.4 times the lightest. What mass actually does. A dough hook in a stiff dough does not spin freely; it meets resistance, and the reaction pushes the machine — slowly, across the countertop, towards the edge. An eleven-kilogram cast base absorbs it. A three-kilogram one does not. Which is why the light machines on this shelf publish a feature for it and the heavy ones publish a material. VIVOHOME, 11 lb: "Strong suction cups help keep the dough mixer stable during mixing." Martha Stewart, 9 lb: "HEAVY-DUTY BASE: Sturdy construction enhances stability and minimizes movement for smoother, more controlled operation." KitchenAid, 22 lb and up: "durable and built-to-last metal construction" — which is the stability feature, stated as what the machine is made of rather than as something added to it. The more durable version of the two: a casting does not come unstuck. And the second thing metal buys is the thing no page on this shelf discusses: the gearbox. A mixer’s drive is a worm gear and a set of spur gears, and in a metal-bodied machine they run in grease inside a casting rather than in a plastic housing. No item here publishes a gear material, which is the actual durability question — because the gear that fails on a mixer is usually a sacrificial one, designed to break before the motor does. The cost of eleven kilos is that you will not move it. Which makes the cord length the companion figure, and only the Contour Silver listing of this same model publishes it: 36 inches.
A weight of dough divided by the size of a biscuit, and KitchenAid is the only maker on this shelf that tells you so. Bullet two: "5 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl with comfortable handle for small or large batches, to mix up 9 dozen cookies* in a single batch. Dishwasher safe. ***Using the flat beater; 28g (1 oz) dough each." Do the arithmetic: 9 × 12 × 28 g (1 oz) is 6.7 lb of dough. Which makes the claim checkable rather than impressive, and that is the point of publishing the method. The shelf, by bowl size and claim: 6.3 qt — the OLIXIS (currently unavailable), no claim at all on the largest bowl here · 6 qt — the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — "3 bread loaves or 2.2 lbs flour", the only claim stated in 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", with no method stated · 5 qt — this, 9 dozen · 4.5 qt — the KitchenAid Classic at $322.99 — "8 dozen cookies*" · 4 qt — both Hamilton Beach machines, no figure. So Martha Stewart claims the same 9 dozen on a larger bowl, consistent with KitchenAid’s basis and undeclared — which is conservative rather than inflated, to its credit. And the largest bowl on this shelf publishes nothing at all. The caution that matters more than the count: a bowl is not a capacity. A stand mixer’s real limit is the drive, not the volume — and no KitchenAid page on this shelf publishes a wattage or a horsepower. The one exception is comparative, and it uses this machine as its baseline. **The bowl-lift: "2x the power in the bowl than Tilt-head stand mixer*; *Compared to KSM150 when measuring peak HP in the bowl; above speed 2." The KSM150 in that footnote is this model — so the only quantified power statement on this shelf concludes that a different KitchenAid, the bowl-lift, has twice the torque at the beater, above speed 2. Which matters on bread and mash and not at all on a cake batter. The bowl handle in this bullet is the small real thing: the Classic at $322.99 does not publish one, and only the Martha Stewart at $149.99 does besides these Artisans.**
Details checked on October 17, 2026.
The Artisan in this color, bought on the badge and the bowl handle
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 1,000.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for kitchen appliances and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
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.
