Bowl liters, motor watts, and thirty years of attachments · review
The 5-quart Artisan tilt-head mixer in pistachio, with ten speeds, 59 touchpoints, a handled bowl rated 9 dozen cookies and over twenty colors in the range.
The net of it One of three Artisan listings here that publish the twenty-color palette, and at $499.95 the dearest of the five. Everything mechanical on this page is identical to its twins — the Blue Velvet costs a hundred dollars less — so the color is the only decision you are paying for.
“Match your style with over 20 colors available. Choose from a full palette of color options to best match your style and personality.”
The five KSM150PS listings on this shelf, priced from $399.96 to $499.95:
Contour Silver, $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” Almond Cream, $499.00 — four bullets, with no color line and no contents list Pistachio, $499.95 — five bullets, this one Black Matte, $492.06 — five bullets, the same five Blue Velvet, $399.96 — five bullets, the fifth being a contents list that includes a Pouring Shield
So four of the five share the same four mechanical bullets, and the fifth is either the color range or the box contents.
What the four shared bullets say: 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. 22 lb here and for Contour Silver · 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.
So read all five listings as one page.
The specification is the four shared 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 color you are reading.
And the color choice is not nothing on this particular object.
A twenty-two-pound cast machine that cannot sensibly be put away lives on the countertop permanently — which makes it a piece of furniture as much as an appliance, and the one thing you cannot change later.
The practical note on color the page does not give: a painted cast body shows what it is next to. A machine that will sit for a decade beside a kettle and a toaster is a machine whose color has to agree with them, and the “full palette” is KitchenAid acknowledging exactly that.
“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 — Black Matte and Blue Velvet, the same model 22 lb — this, and Contour Silver 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 twenty-two-pound cast base absorbs it. A seven-pound 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 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.
“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. KitchenAid is the only maker on this shelf that does.
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 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 states 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 is the small real thing in this bullet. 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 $177 over the Classic buys.
“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 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. Nine pages do not mention it at all.
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.” 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 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 what the attachment ecosystem is for — and no Artisan listing on this shelf mentions that ecosystem at all.
“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 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, 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 and the Hamilton Beach Classic’s QuickBurst, “an extra burst of power at any speed” — which is 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: “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” 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. That machine is also the only one here for which the cupboard-clearance question does not arise, because nothing goes up.
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. The contents lists for the Classic at $322.99 and the bowl-lift do not include one.
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 — the strongest argument for buying any KitchenAid, published by the two cheaper ones and by none of the five Artisan listings.
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, with “SLIM & SPACE-SAVING: Built to fit comfortably in smaller kitchens and tight spaces”, and gives no figure.
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: $499.95 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.
| Color range | Over 20 colors — published on three of the five Artisan listings here |
|---|---|
| Published bullets | Five, where a twin at $499.00 publishes one |
| 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 |
| Weight | 22 lb (10 kg) |
| Reference | KSM150PSPT · 14.3 × 9.3 × 14 in (363 × 236 × 356 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 | B0000635XA |
| EAN | 0050946889849 |
On the published evidence, yes — and this is one of three listings that says so outright. Bullet five: "Match your style with over 20 colors available. Choose from a full palette of color options to best match your style and personality." The five KSM150PS listings on this shelf, priced from $399.96 to $499.95: Contour Silver, $499.00 — one bullet, and it is 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" · Almond Cream, $499.00 — four bullets, with no color line and no contents list · Pistachio, $499.95 — five bullets, this one · Black Matte, $492.06 — five bullets, the same five · Blue Velvet, $399.96 — five bullets, the fifth being a contents list that includes a Pouring Shield. So four of the five share the same four mechanical bullets, and the fifth bullet is either the color range or the box contents. What the four shared bullets say: 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: 22 lb here and for Contour Silver · 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. So the practical advice is to read all five listings as one page. The specification is the four shared 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 color you are reading. And the color choice is not nothing on this particular object. A twenty-two-pound cast machine that cannot sensibly be put away lives on the countertop permanently — which makes it a piece of furniture as much as an appliance, and the one thing you cannot change later.
They are KitchenAid’s count of the thing one other page on this shelf explains. Bullet one: "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." 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." Nine pages do not mention it at all. 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." 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’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". 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.
Not according to any of the five Artisan listings on this shelf, which is the oddest omission in the set. Two items here publish a hub, and both are the cheaper KitchenAids. The Classic at $322.99: "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 bowl-lift: "Over 10 stand mixer attachments available*, to make everything from fresh pasta to burgers, veggie noodles, ice cream and more, ***sold separately." And not one of the five KSM150PS listings at $399.96 to $499.95 mentions it — not this one, not Contour Silver, Almond Cream, Black Matte or Blue Velvet. Why the hub is the strongest argument for buying any KitchenAid. A power take-off on the front of the head turns a mixer into a different machine. A meat grinder. A pasta roller and cutter. A spiralizer. An ice cream churn. A food processor attachment. A juicer. None of the other five items on this shelf has one — not the two Hamilton Beach machines, not the Martha Stewart at $149.99, the VIVOHOME at $149.99 or the OLIXIS. They mix, and that is the whole of what they do. Which is also the lock-in, and it works in your favor over time: an attachment bought for this machine fits the next KitchenAid you buy, and the hub has been physically unchanged across the line for a very long time. "Sold separately" is doing real work in those two bullets. The attachments are not cheap, and a grinder or a pasta set can cost a meaningful fraction of this machine. So the honest way to weigh it: if you will buy one attachment, the hub pays for itself against a $149.99 mixer. If you will never buy one, you are paying $350 over a $149.99 mixer for twenty-two pounds of metal, a stainless bowl, a declared capacity method and a color. Which are real things, and not the same thing the ecosystem is. And the practical consequence of the omission: read the Classic’s listing at $322.99 to find out what this machine can be fitted with. It is the same hub.
Details checked on October 17, 2026.
Anyone for whom the color is the point and the mechanism is settled
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.
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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.
