it's great if you use all it's applications regularly if not a good hand mixer works just fine. i have one its very heavy. i use it about 4 or 5 times a year

I don't really need one because I don't bake, but I've seen them displayed in friends' kitchens. They make good conversation starters, like one time when I told my friend that the mixer looked like Snoopy.

I have a 1960ish stand mixer I bought found in an antique store. Works good enough for me when I need to whip up mashed potatoes or make cheese cake. Cakes, breads and cookies are all by hand.

If you bake - you have to have one!

i love these old polls that pop to the top.

stand mixer? of course! and why stop at one?

I love my mixer, it is used almost everyday for last 14yrs.!

If a client has an aversion to having on the counter, (and has the room to do it), I usually suggest including a mixer shelf in a base cabinet. I find most people don't want to use up the space, and don't mind it on the counter. Too heavy to lift all the time...I have mine on the counter as I use it all the time. It looks great, there are so many colors to choose from.

As soon as my kitchen is done I'm buying one. I salivate when I see them in the store. I miss mine like a lost limb. It was Gran's maybe forty years old. It died it did.

Have one, wanna get rid of it because it is HUGE and we can do everything it does with other tools/appliances.

A Kitchen Aid stand mixer is a must, especially for making cakes and icing! I know how to decorate cakes and I learned in my classes that the only mixer for beating the icing is a Kitchen Aid and I totally agree!

Yes. I am on my second one. Kitchen aide may or may not be the best. But they are everywhere & both of my stand mixers have been Kitchenaide. I switched to stand mixers after burning out motors on numerous portable mixers. But you can burn out the motor on a stand mixer too, if the batter is too heavy or if the amount of thick batter is too much for the machine. When I bake I often make double batches for work. My next mixer, if I ever get that far, might be a tilt up; just because I think it might be easier to use as I get older.

I have one and I like it. It sits at the end of the counter out of sight (mostly) but when I redo my big laundry room and add shelves it will go in there.

We are getting one as soon as our new kitchen is sorted. Our new daughter in law is a professional pastry chef and we thought it would be in our best interest to have a mixer for when she comes to visit....

Definitely yes. Always, especially for my mother who loves baking all kinds of desserts. I use mine mainly for making whipped cream so, I don't own a really expensive stand mixer. I add some strawberries to the whipped cream to pretend that it's healthy.