Bowl liters, motor watts, and thirty years of attachments · review
The 5-quart Artisan tilt-head mixer, published here in a single bullet giving a 10-speed slide control and a 36-inch cord.
The net of it One bullet. The same KSM150PS Artisan as four other listings on this shelf at the identical $399.96 to $499.95 publishes a single line here — and that line contains the only cord length on the whole shelf, thirty-six inches. Everything else about this machine has to be read off its siblings.
That is the whole of it. One sentence and one figure.
The five KSM150PS listings on this shelf, priced from $399.96 to $499.95:
Contour Silver, $499.00 — one bullet (this one) Almond Cream, $499.00 — four bullets Pistachio, $499.95 — five bullets Black Matte, $492.06 — five bullets Blue Velvet, $399.96 — five bullets
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 the four- and five-bullet siblings publish that this does not:
“Built to take it all on with the durable and built-to-last metal construction, and 59 touchpoints around the mixer bowl for great mixing results” “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” “Easily add ingredients with the tilt-head design, because you will have better access to the bowl - lock the head in place while mixing” “10 speeds for nearly any task or recipe, from mixing ingredients together on the stir speed, to whipping cream at speed 8” And on three of them: “Match your style with over 20 colors available” And on Blue Velvet alone: a contents list including (1) Pouring Shield
So this page omits the bowl size, the capacity claim, the construction, the touchpoint count, the head lock, the dishwasher statement and the contents.
And it publishes one thing none of them does.
The catalog weights confirm it is the same machine as far as a weight can. 22 lb here · 22 lb for 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.
The honest conclusion: buy this listing if the color suits you, and read the Pistachio or Black Matte listing for the specification.
“Cord length : 36 Inches”
At least eleven of the sixteen items on this shelf publish nothing about the cord.
Not the four other listings of this same model. Not the Classic at $322.99 or the bowl-lift. Not the Martha Stewart at $149.99, the VIVOHOME at $149.99, the OLIXIS or either Hamilton Beach.
Why it matters on this appliance in particular.
A stand mixer is heavy and it stays where you put it. The five Artisan listings catalog between 10000 and 24.3 lb, and the Classic at $322.99 at 22 lb — these are not machines you carry to the socket.
So the cord has to reach from wherever the machine lives to wherever the socket is, and three feet reaches across a countertop while two feet does not reach round a corner.
The second reason is the one nobody states: a short cord is a safety feature on a heavy appliance.
A long cord on a 22-pound machine is a loop to catch, and a machine pulled off a countertop is a serious accident. Three feet is the sensible compromise, and it is why so many kitchen appliances use roughly that length.
What it tells you about siting. The machine wants to be within a meter of a socket, on a countertop deep enough for a 363 × 236 mm footprint, with vertical clearance above it to tilt the head back.
That last figure is the one nothing on this shelf publishes. Not one of the eleven tilt-head machines here gives a tilt-back height, which is what 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” — and gives no number.
The one machine on this shelf for which the question does not arise is the bowl-lift, where the head is fixed to a column and nothing goes up. Which is the quiet argument for a bowl-lift in a kitchen with cupboards, and no page here makes it.
“10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir”
This is the most useful sentence on the page, because it names both ends of the range and the ends are what matter.
What a mixer’s slowest speed decides. A mixer whose speed 1 is too fast throws flour out of the bowl, and there is no setting below it to retreat to.
“A very slow stir” is the claim that addresses it, and the four siblings put the same thing differently: “from mixing ingredients together on the stir speed, to whipping cream at speed 8.”
Two things in that phrasing.
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.
Three pages on this shelf address the slow end.
This, and the four other KitchenAid tilt-head listings with the stir-speed phrasing, plus the Classic at $322.99 The Martha Stewart at $149.99 — “Precision control lets you gently fold, thoroughly mix, or power through thick doughs” And the KitchenAid bowl-lift, which is the only machine on this shelf 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”
Nine pages say nothing about the slow end at all.
What a slide control adds mechanically: nothing you can feel in the mixing, and something in the setting.
A slide moves a lever against a speed-control mechanism; a detented dial clicks into fixed positions. The practical difference is repeatability — a click is the same place every time, a slide is where you put it — and the ten marked speeds here are printed on the slide, so the positions are repeatable.
What no page on this shelf says is whether the speed is regulated.
One does, and it is not a KitchenAid. The Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95: “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.
On power, nothing — and it is in good company. 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 KitchenAid’s own alternative grandeur is the better one, published once on this shelf and only comparatively. 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 machine. So the one quantified power statement anywhere on this shelf uses this model as its baseline and concludes against it — and it concludes in favor of a different KitchenAid, the bowl-lift.
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 watt figures on this shelf are not comparable to each other.
On capacity, nothing. The siblings claim “9 dozen cookies” on 5 quarts, footnoted “Using the flat beater; 28g dough each” — which is 6.7 lb of dough, and makes the claim arithmetic rather than a measurement. KitchenAid is the only maker here that declares the method.
The shelf: 6.3 qt on the OLIXIS (currently unavailable) with no claim at all · 6 qt on the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — “3 bread loaves or 2.2 lbs flour” · 5.5 qt on the bowl-lift — 11 dozen, 7 lbs of bread, 6 lbs of potatoes · 5.3 qt on the Martha Stewart at $149.99 — 9 dozen, undeclared · 5 qt here · 4.5 qt on the Classic at $322.99 — 8 dozen · 4 qt on both Hamilton Beach machines.
On the attachment hub, nothing — and no Artisan listing on this shelf mentions it. 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”.
Which is the strongest argument for buying any KitchenAid, and the five most expensive KitchenAid listings here leave it out. 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.
On the contents, nothing. The Blue Velvet listing of this same model publishes “(1) 5 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl, (1) Coated Flat Beater, (1) Coated Dough Hook, (1) 6-Wire Whip, (1) Pouring Shield” — and it is the only one of the five to list a pouring shield. The Classic’s contents list and the bowl-lift’s do not include one.
So the same machine either ships a pouring shield or does not, depending on which color’s listing you read.
On the beater, nothing. The siblings ship a “Coated Flat Beater” and the coating is never named on any of the seven KitchenAid pages here. Two items on this shelf scrape as they mix, and both cost $149.99: the VIVOHOME’s “Flex edge beater scrapes sides and bottom as it mixes; No more stopping to scrape” and the Martha Stewart’s “flat beater with silicone edge”. Which is the real everyday annoyance of a planetary mixer — the beater does not touch the wall, so batter builds there and you stop and scrape — and the $399.96 to $499.95 machine does not address it out of the box.
On weight, nothing — and the catalog gives 22 lb, which puts this among the five heaviest items on this shelf. 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”, the Martha Stewart’s “HEAVY-DUTY BASE… minimizes movement” — and the heavy KitchenAids publish a material: “durable and built-to-last metal construction.”
On noise, nothing, which is the shelf standard. One page here mentions it at all: the VIVOHOME at $149.99 — “Low-noise operation” — with no figure.
On gears, nothing, which no item on this shelf publishes — and it 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.
On a warranty, nothing. Not at least one of the sixteen items on this shelf publishes a term.
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.
| Published bullets | One — the fewest on this shelf by three |
|---|---|
| Cord length | 36 inches — the only cord figure on this shelf |
| Speed control | A 10-speed slide, from a very fast whip to a very slow stir |
| Model | KSM150PS — the same machine as four other listings here at $399.96 to $499.95 |
| Bowl | 5 quarts, from its siblings’ pages |
| Weight | 22 lb |
| Reference | KSM150PSCU · 363 × 236 × 356 mm (14.3 × 9.29 × 14 in) |
| Capacity claim | Not published here; its siblings claim 9 dozen cookies |
| Construction | Not published here; its siblings say metal |
| Touchpoints | Not published here; its siblings say 59 |
| Tilt-head lock | Not published here; its siblings publish it |
| Contents list | Not published here |
| Attachment hub | Not mentioned on any Artisan listing here |
| Warranty | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B004GUVD6K |
| EAN | 0883049215655 |
There is no way to know from the page, and it is worth stating plainly that the machine is the same as four others on this shelf. The whole of what this listing publishes: "10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir. Cord length : 36 Inches." One sentence and one figure. The five KSM150PS listings on this shelf, priced from $399.96 to $499.95: Contour Silver, $499.00 — one bullet (this one) · Almond Cream, $499.00 — four bullets · Pistachio, $499.95 — five bullets · Black Matte, $492.06 — five bullets · Blue Velvet, $399.96 — five bullets. 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 the four-and-five-bullet siblings publish that this does not: "Built to take it all on with the durable and built-to-last metal construction, and 59 touchpoints around the mixer bowl for great mixing results" · "5 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl with comfortable handle... to mix up 9 dozen cookies* in a single batch. Dishwasher safe. ***Using the flat beater; 28g (1 oz) dough each" · "Easily add ingredients with the tilt-head design... lock the head in place while mixing" · "10 speeds for nearly any task or recipe, from mixing ingredients together on the stir speed, to whipping cream at speed 8" · and on three of them, "over 20 colors available" · and on Blue Velvet alone, a contents list including a Pouring Shield. So this page omits the bowl size, the capacity claim, the construction, the touchpoint count, the head lock, the dishwasher statement and the contents. And it publishes one thing none of them does: the cord length. 36 inches, which is the only cord figure on this entire shelf of twelve items. Why that is not a trivial omission elsewhere. A stand mixer lives on a countertop and the socket is wherever it is. Three feet reaches across a countertop; two feet does not reach round a corner — and eleven of the twelve pages here leave you to find out. The honest conclusion: buy this listing if the color suits you, and read the Pistachio or Black Matte listing for the specification. It is the same machine, and the catalog weight confirms it as far as a weight can: 22 lb here, against 22 lb for Pistachio, 22.8 lb for Black Matte and Blue Velvet, and 24.3 lb for Almond Cream — a two-pound spread across one model, which is catalog noise rather than a difference in the machine.
A lever that moves continuously rather than a dial that clicks, and the way this bullet describes it is the most useful sentence on the page. "10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir." Which names both ends of the range, and the ends are what matter. What a mixer’s slowest speed decides. A mixer whose speed 1 is too fast throws flour out of the bowl, and there is no setting below it to retreat to. "A very slow stir" is the claim that addresses it, and the four siblings put the same thing differently: "from mixing ingredients together on the STIR SPEED, to whipping cream at SPEED 8." Two things in that phrasing. 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. Three pages on this shelf address the slow end. This, and the five other KitchenAid tilt-head listings with the stir-speed phrasing. The Martha Stewart at $149.99 — "Precision control lets you gently fold, thoroughly mix, or power through thick doughs". And the KitchenAid bowl-lift, which is the only machine on this shelf 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." Nine pages say nothing about the slow end at all. What a slide control adds mechanically: nothing you can feel in the mixing, and something in the setting. A slide moves a lever against a speed-control mechanism; a detented dial clicks into fixed positions. The practical difference is repeatability — a click is the same place every time, a slide is where you put it — and the ten marked speeds here are printed on the slide, so the positions are repeatable. What no page on this shelf says is whether the speed is REGULATED. One does, and it is not a KitchenAid: the Hamilton Beach 63390 at $126.95 — "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.
It is three feet, it is the only cord figure on this shelf, and three feet is the figure to know before you decide where the machine lives. "Cord length : 36 Inches." At least eleven of the sixteen items on this shelf publish nothing about the cord. Not the four other listings of this same model. Not the Classic at $322.99 or the bowl-lift. Not the Martha Stewart at $149.99, the VIVOHOME at $149.99, the OLIXIS or either Hamilton Beach. Why it matters on this appliance in particular. A stand mixer is heavy and it stays where you put it. The five Artisan listings catalog between 10,000 and 24.3 lb, and the Classic at $322.99 at 22 lb — these are not machines you carry to the socket. So the cord has to reach from wherever the machine lives to wherever the socket is, and three feet reaches across a countertop while two feet does not reach round a corner. The second reason is the one nobody states: a short cord is a safety feature on a heavy appliance. A long cord on a 22-pound machine is a loop to catch, and a machine that is pulled off a countertop is a serious accident. Three feet is the sensible compromise, and it is why so many kitchen appliances use roughly that length. What it tells you about siting. The machine wants to be within a meter of a socket, on a countertop deep enough for a 363 × 236 mm (14.3 × 9.29 in) footprint, with vertical clearance above it to tilt the head back. That last figure is the one nothing on this shelf publishes — not one of the eleven tilt-head machines here gives a tilt-back height, which is what 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" — and gives no number. The one machine on this shelf for which the question does not arise is the bowl-lift, where the head is fixed to a column and nothing goes up. Which is the quiet argument for a bowl-lift in a kitchen with cupboards, and no page here makes it.
Details checked on October 17, 2026.
Anyone buying the Artisan on reputation rather than on the page
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 700.
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.
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