Bowl liters, motor watts, and thirty years of attachments · review
The 5-quart Artisan tilt-head mixer in black matte, with ten speeds, 59 touchpoints, a handled bowl rated 9 dozen cookies and over twenty colors in the range.
The net of it The same five bullets as the Pistachio listing, and the same 22.8 lb as the Blue Velvet one. What distinguishes it is three letters at the end of a model code — and on a machine that will sit on a countertop for a decade, that is a real decision and not a mechanical one.
The five KSM150PS references on this shelf, priced from $399.96 to $499.95:
KSM150PSCU — Contour Silver, $499.00, $499.00, one bullet, and the only page 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” KSM150PSAC — Almond Cream, $499.00, $499.00, four bullets KSM150PSPT — Pistachio, $499.95, $499.95, five bullets KSM150PSBM — Black Matte, $492.06, $492.06, five bullets, this one KSM150PSVB — Blue Velvet, $399.96, $399.96, five bullets, the fifth being a contents list that includes a Pouring Shield
Same stem, five suffixes — and a hundred dollars between the cheapest and the dearest, the cheapest being the only one that lists a pouring shield.
And the catalog weights group in a way that suggests nothing mechanical. 22 lb for Contour Silver and Pistachio · 22.8 lb for Black Matte and Blue Velvet · 24.3 lb for Almond Cream — a two-pound spread across one model, which is catalog noise rather than a difference in the machine.
This listing and the Blue Velvet one share 22.8 lb exactly, which is what you would expect of one casting in two finishes.
What the five share, word for word where they publish it: 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.
So read all five listings as one page.
The specification is those four bullets. The cord is three feet, from Contour Silver. The color range is over twenty, from here and two others. And whether a pouring shield is in the box is a question only Blue Velvet answers, in the affirmative — which is worth stating plainly, because the same machine either ships a shield or does not, depending on which suffix you are reading.
And a word on what a finish choice actually commits you to.
A twenty-two-pound cast machine that cannot sensibly be put away lives on the countertop permanently — so it is a piece of furniture as much as an appliance, and the color is the only part of this decision you cannot change later.
A matte finish is the one that shows fingerprints least and scratches most visibly; a gloss is the reverse. The page says nothing either way — “Match your style with over 20 colors available” is the whole of bullet five, and it is about the palette rather than the surface.
“Easily add ingredients with the tilt-head design, because you will have better access to the bowl - lock the head in place while mixing.”
What the design gives, and it is real. Tipping the head back is faster than dropping a bowl out of a mount, and it lets you add an egg, scrape the sides or swap an attachment in one movement.
At least eleven of the sixteen items on this shelf are tilt-head machines, which tells you the trade is usually judged worth it.
What it costs, in three parts, and no page here states any of them.
Clearance. A tilt-head needs room above it to open, and not one of the eleven tilt-head machines on this shelf publishes a tilt-back height — 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 number.
Rigidity. A hinge is a joint, and a joint under load can rise — which is precisely why the bullet ends with “lock the head in place while mixing”, a phrase six of KitchenAid’s seven pages here publish. An unlocked head rides up in a stiff dough and the beater lifts away from the bowl floor.
And headroom in the bowl. A tilt-head puts the motor directly over the bowl, so the beater hangs from above and there is no column beside it — which is the reason the design is pleasant to reach into.
The alternative is the one bowl-lift on this shelf.
The KSM55SXXX publishes “a 3-point locking bowl for stability” and a head fixed to a column — so nothing goes up, the cupboard question does not arise, and the bowl is clamped at three points rather than the head latched at one.
Which is the structural half of its “2x the power in the bowl” claim: more torque needs more rigidity to use it.
So the honest summary: a tilt-head for cake and access, a bowl-lift for bread and clearance — and the published evidence on this shelf supports both readings, with the bowl-lift out of stock when this page was revised.
“the durable and built-to-last metal construction”
The shelf, by catalog weight:
24.3 lb — the Artisan in Almond Cream at $499.00 22.8 lb — this, 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, and the five KitchenAids that publish a weight are the five heaviest.
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.
A ten-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” 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. 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 ten 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.
“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 KitchenAid is the only maker on this shelf that publishes 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. 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 model 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.”
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 states in weights, and not at all on a cake batter.
Why “in the bowl” is the right grandeur. Watts at the wall is what the motor draws, and between the motor and the beater sits a reduction gear that trades speed for torque. 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 is the small real thing in this bullet. The Classic at $322.99 does not publish one, and the only other handled bowl here is the Martha Stewart’s at $149.99.
“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. Because the beater’s own rotation and its orbit are not in a simple ratio, it traces a path that gradually covers the whole wall rather than retracing the same line.
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. Nine pages do not mention it at all.
And one machine here 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. Which is why it ships five attachments and no flat beater: “2 traditional beaters, 2 dough hooks and whisk.”
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.” The Martha Stewart: a “flat beater with silicone edge.”
KitchenAid sells a flex edge beater separately, which is what the attachment ecosystem is for — and no Artisan listing on this shelf mentions that ecosystem at all. Two items do, and both are the cheaper KitchenAids: “10 plus attachments” (the Classic at $322.99) and “Over 10 stand mixer attachments available*” (the bowl-lift), “to make everything from fresh pasta to burgers, veggie noodles, ice cream and more, sold separately”.
“10 speeds… from mixing ingredients together on the stir speed, to whipping cream at speed 8”
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 on the Martha Stewart at $149.99 · 11 distinct plus a 1/2 speed on the bowl-lift · 10 here, on its four twins, on the Classic at $322.99 and on the OLIXIS (currently unavailable) · 10 plus pulse on the VIVOHOME at $149.99 · 7 on the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 · 6 plus QuickBurst on 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 address the slow end. This formula. 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. The VIVOHOME’s pulse and the Hamilton Beach Classic’s QuickBurst — “an extra burst of power at any speed” — are what a stalled dough wants.
And nothing here 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: “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.
No contents list. One of the five Artisan listings publishes one — Blue Velvet — and it is the only place on this shelf a KitchenAid pouring shield appears. Four items here publish a shield: the Martha Stewart at $149.99 with “an accessible pour chute”, the VIVOHOME at $149.99 which lets you “pour while running”, the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 with a shield and no chute, and that one Artisan listing.
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. 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 — and peak is always the larger of the two numbers a motor has.
No load behavior, as above.
No attachment hub, as above.
No flex-edge beater, as above.
No finish detail, as above — “Black Matte” is a name and the page does not say what a matte finish does.
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, as above, which nothing here publishes.
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: $492.06 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.
| Model suffix | BM — the only thing distinguishing it from four twins priced from $399.96 to $499.95 |
|---|---|
| Color range | Over 20 colors, published on three of the five Artisan listings here |
| Weight | 22.8 lb — identical to the Blue Velvet listing |
| 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 | KSM150PSBM · 13.9 × 14.1 × 8.7 in (353 × 358 × 221 mm) |
| Contents list | Not published; its Blue Velvet twin lists a pouring shield |
| Cord length | Not published; its Contour Silver twin gives 36 inches |
| Power | Not published |
| Warranty | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B01H424IU4 |
| EAN | 0883049403885 |
Which color you are buying, and nothing else — and on this shelf that is worth knowing precisely because five listings differ by it alone. The five KSM150PS references here, priced from $399.96 to $499.95: KSM150PSCU — Contour Silver, $499.00, $499.00, one bullet, and the only page anywhere on this shelf to give a cord length · KSM150PSAC — Almond Cream, $499.00, $499.00, four bullets · KSM150PSPT — Pistachio, $499.95, $499.95, five bullets · KSM150PSBM — Black Matte, $492.06, $492.06, five bullets, this one · KSM150PSVB — Blue Velvet, $399.96, $399.96, five bullets, the fifth being a contents list that includes a Pouring Shield. Same stem, five suffixes — and a hundred dollars between the cheapest and the dearest, the cheapest being the only one that lists a pouring shield. And the catalog weights group in a way that suggests nothing mechanical: 22 lb for Contour Silver and Pistachio · 22.8 lb for Black Matte and Blue Velvet · 24.3 lb for Almond Cream — a two-pound spread across one model, which is catalog noise rather than a difference in the machine. This listing and the Blue Velvet one share 22.8 lb exactly, which is what you would expect of one casting in two finishes. What the five share, word for word where they publish it: 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. So the practical advice is to read all five listings as one page. The specification is those four bullets. The cord is three feet, from Contour Silver. The color range is over twenty, from here and two others. And whether a pouring shield is in the box is a question only Blue Velvet answers, in the affirmative — which is worth stating plainly, because the same machine either ships a shield or does not, depending on which suffix you are reading. And a word on what a finish choice actually commits you to. A twenty-two-pound cast machine that cannot sensibly be put away lives on the countertop permanently — so it is a piece of furniture as much as an appliance, and the color is the only part of this decision you cannot change later. A matte finish is the one that shows fingerprints least and scratches most visibly; a gloss is the reverse. The page says nothing either way.
It is arithmetic, and KitchenAid is the only maker on this shelf that tells you the sum. 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." 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 — conservative rather than inflated. 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 model 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." 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 states in weights, and not at all on a cake batter. Why "in the bowl" is the right grandeur: watts at the wall is what the motor draws, and between the motor and the beater sits a reduction gear that trades speed for torque. 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.**
Vertical clearance and a hinge, and no page on this shelf publishes the figure that matters. Bullet three: "Easily add ingredients with the tilt-head design, because you will have better access to the bowl - lock the head in place while mixing." What the design gives, and it is real. Tipping the head back is faster than dropping a bowl out of a mount, and it lets you add an egg, scrape the sides or swap an attachment in one movement. At least eleven of the sixteen items on this shelf are tilt-head machines, which tells you the trade is usually judged worth it. What it costs, in three parts, and no page here states any of them. Clearance. A tilt-head needs room above it to open, and not one of the eleven tilt-head machines on this shelf publishes a tilt-back height — which is 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 number. Rigidity. A hinge is a joint, and a joint under load can rise — which is precisely why the bullet ends with "lock the head in place while mixing", a phrase six of KitchenAid’s seven pages here publish. An unlocked head rides up in a stiff dough and the beater lifts away from the bowl floor. And headroom in the bowl. A tilt-head puts the motor directly over the bowl, so the beater hangs from above and there is no column beside it. The alternative is the one bowl-lift on this shelf. The KSM55SXXX publishes "a 3-point locking bowl for stability" and a head fixed to a column — so nothing goes up, the cupboard question does not arise, and the bowl is clamped at three points rather than the head latched at one. Which is the structural half of its "2x the power in the bowl" claim: more torque needs more rigidity to use it. So the honest summary: a tilt-head for cake and access, a bowl-lift for bread and clearance — and the published evidence on this shelf supports both readings, with the bowl-lift out of stock when this page was revised.
Details checked on October 17, 2026.
Anyone who has chosen the Artisan and is choosing the finish
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 600.
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.
