Hamilton Beach 6 Speed Electric Stand Mixer with Stainless Steel 3.5 Quart Bowl, Planetary Mixing, Tilt-Up Head, 300W Motor, Black (63325)

I mainly bought this for bread and pizza dough and didn't want to blow $300 on a kitchen aid because I just started baking and didn't know how frequently I would be baking. I also kept reading KA classic reviews that they aren't the best with bread and aren't made as well the last couple of years. The KA pro with 500 W vs. 300 W probably blows both away and the reviews recommend that for bread if going with KA (there seem to be a couple other brands that are better if doing strictly bread), but I am not going to spend $300-$500 on a new hobby that I may stop within a month or two. This is great for someone that is starting out, doesn't bake enough to justify the extra expense, or is buying this for a teenager that bakes, or someone that does not have the money for a KA but wants a reliable mixer. Since buying this in May I have made 1-2 1lbs loafs of bread weekly, a number of pizza dough batches, homemade pitas every couple weeks, muffins weekly, chocolate chip cookies, and even mixed ground beef with seasoning for beef jerky sticks. The bread will also come out much better than kneading by hand and it will save a lot of time mixing which I think is arguably true for most stand mixers because it will mix more in 5 minutes than you by hand in 10-20 minutes. More specifically, for bread, it starts to strain a bit on 1, so I start with that so flour doesn't fly all over and then kick it up to 2 once the flour is mixed in with generally has no problem although it will sound like it bogs down here and there if it hits a dense patch. It will still power through 6 cup double batches and I have even done 8 cup pizza dough batches to make 4 large pizzas which starts to hit its limits. The KA classic reviews seem to say it is similar for bread or the plastic gear breaks so I figure I'd rather burn out an $80 mixer than a $300 classic if it burnt out quickly.... Again, the KA pro reviews seem to say that can power through dough much better, so if I continue to bake this much that may be my likely replacement down the line. Outside of bread/pizza dough it has had no issues with muffin and mixing ground beef (the batter attachment), and my sister has liked it for cakes and icing. Yes, you may have to scrape up some flour on the very bottom with batters once to ensure everything is mixed, but it is not worth $200-300 to me to avoid 15 seconds of manual mixing especially if I were only baking once a week or less. You just swirl a spoon around the bottom a couple times, turn the mixer on for 10-20 seconds and it is fully mixed. Last, I have personally not used the whisking attachment. In summary, is this the best mixer on the market? No, but for $80 it is a great option for an infrequent baker, someone just dabbling their feet into baking, or buying a mixer for a responsible teenager that bakes, or for someone that doesn't have $300-500 to throw down on a mixer. Using cars as an analogy, this is not the BMW/Mercedes of mixers. This is the Honda Civic/Accord, Toyota Corolla, Ford Focus,... of mixers. It is not the flashiest, not the prettiest, not a status symbol, and not the most powerful on the market, but it will reliably take you where you need to go for a reasonable price.

I waited to write a review until I had used this mixer for several months. Six months of use later, making bread weekly, I give it a "thumbs up." I purchased this, and use this, only to bake bread -- french style baguettes. When I purchased it, it was unclear from prior reviews how well this worked for bread making. My usual recipe is for three baguettes, and it uses 510 grams of bread flour. This mixer has no problem with that amount. It could clearly do more, if I needed. It works great, and it takes me only about 10 minutes from "get it out of the cabinet and ready" to "dough done," to make my bread. The rest is just dough rising time. I did not want a huge Kitchen-aid mixer, nor need one. This does the job, and seems like it will keep doing the job for many years. It is reasonably light in weight, easy to store in the cabinet, and easy to set up; it stays stable on the counter while in use. In summary, it is extremely easy to use. I like simple and easy. Some reviewers have had problems with the dough hook "corroding in the dishwasher." I have not -- but I never put it in the dishwasher. Be reasonable! It takes all of a minute to rinse the dough hook (and the bowl) in the sink, and then put the mixer, hook and bowl away for next week. The hook works well for making bread dough, and shows no corrosion, and no wear of any kind after six months of frequent use. Okay, it is not the counter-top display beauty that the Kitchen-aid mixer might be . But it works just fine for me, just making bread dough. Addendum: Four years later, after many weekly uses making bread and pasta, it still works perfectly. Highly recommended Another Addendum: I was asked for my baguette recipe. This one is really good. Here it is: For three 8 oz Baguettes: 550 gr. flour (King Arthur Bread Flour). 385 ml warm water (use a kitchen scale to measure flour and water); 1 TBS of salt. 1 TBS of yeast (SAF brand instant yeast -- using this great yeast doe make a difference). 1/2 TBS or less of sugar (optional, it speeds the rise, but the dough rise will rise well without it, just take a few min longer or so). Put dry ingredients in mixer bowel and stir with mixer. Add warm water (water should be about 120 F, like warm bath water; use a finger or a thermometer if your finger does not work normally) , mix on speed setting 2 for about 5 minutes. Remove dough and place dough in an oiled bowel, turn it over so it is coated with oil on all sides. Cover with wrap and let rise for an hour or more, until over twice the original volume. Place risen dough onto an oiled counter top. Smash it down, and fold it over. Divide the dough into three equal portions. Take each portion and press it flat onto the oiled counter top, press it into a square or rectangular shape, about 6 by 8 inch in size. Roll the flattened square of dough up, like a a scroll. Pick the roll up, and work the roll (a big "dough dong") out to about 12 inches -- just squeeze and hang it in your hands to stretch it out. Place the elongated 12 inch or more dough roll, with the seam side down, l onto a baguette pan, or onto parchment paper. Do all the three pieces the same. Cover lightly with wrap, and let rise for an hour or more -- it should rise to over 2 times the original size. Start pre-heating oven while the the dough baguettes rises. Place the dough baguettes into a well pre-heated oven at about 490 to 520 degree (depending on your oven and altitude). I use a pizza/bread stone, and put the bread on top of the stone. But any big baking sheet will work. Before placing in oven, spray the bread with a heavy mist of water. Spray more water into the hot oven as you place the bread in -- this gives the steam to help the bread rise a bit in the oven without crusting immediately in the hot oven. (Traditional French ovens are steam injected.) After ten minutes, turn the oven down to 475. Cook about 25 min, until nice and browned. Every friend I have shared this recipe with loves the results -- and they ask for the recipe after tasting my bread. Good luck. It takes about three tries to get the feel, and get it "just right." It takes me 10 minutes to make the dough, from the time I pull out the mixer, to the time I put it away. After the baguettes have cooled a bit, I cut them in half and put them in a zip lock bag, and freeze them. When needed, they defrost in about 20 minutes; I then reheat them in the oven for ten minutes or so. Reheated, they taste like crispy baguettes fresh from the French oven!

I don't like to review things until we've owned them for a decent amount of time. We purchased this mid 2019 as a gift that ended up being duplicated. We already own a KitchenAid so I held on to it thinking it would make a good Christmas gift, but got curious a few weeks later and opened it up. The KitchenAid is a fantastic beast of a stand mixer, but after using this, I tell people that if you need a KitchenAid, you already know it, and if you don't know that you need one, I'd purchase one of these. First off all, it's smaller, easier to store, and a bit quieter, probably due to being smaller. It has the same mixing motion/action of a KitchenAid. It costs less. It has easily handled the stickiest of batters and the stiffest of doughs without breaking a sweat. Compared to a KitchenAid, the bowl is more tall/narrow, which means you have to stop the mixer and tilt up the head to scrape down the sides of the bowl, but this is only mildly annoying The paddle mixer for the KitchenAid is metal while this one is plastic, but so far, this hasn't presented any problems. Likewise, the KitchenAid dough hook seems more substantial, but again, I've had no trouble making dough in the Hamilton Beach. It also doesn't support attachments. So that has become the differentiator for me - if I just need to mix something, 90% of the time, I'm getting out the Hamilton Beach mixer and not the KitchenAid. For basic mixing duty, the KitchenAid offers no advantages that I can see. If I need to grind meat or use the spiralizer attachment, I'll pull out the KitchenAid. If I want to make pasta, I prefer the Hamilton Beach and a Marcato Atlas 150. The reason I compare it to KitchenAid is because that seems to be the standard people compare stand mixers to, but If you're just mixing cakes, cookies, bread, etc, give this model a serious look, it's been great so far.

This is a great mixer! I've had it about 30 days now. I bake bread almost weekly and mix the dough with absolutely no problems. We mix cookies...mash potatoes...with absolutely no hesitation. Now, to address the "elephant in the room". The advertising for the Hamilton Beach 6-speed Stand Mixer has an interesting piece of fluff that might be misleading: "Same mixing action as KitchenAid stand mixers." Taken in the most literal reading, this is absolutely true--it does, indeed, mix with the same action as a KitchenAid. However, judging from other reviews for the Hamilton Beach 6-speed stand mixer it appears that people interpret that statement to mean something like, "A good cheaper alternative to a KitchenAid stand mixer that will do everything I need it to do." That would be in the realm of fantasy and not reality. Right out of the box this mixer comes prepared for action. It comes complete with a dough hook, mixing paddle, and wire whisk. I've used all three and they work reasonably well. There is no provision for KitchenAid type accessories like pasta roller, meat grinder, etc. The 300 watt motor just wouldn't handle that kind of load. Included is the stainless steel mixing bowl that fits into the base and locks in place. The 3.5 quart mixing bowl works well, and, while it is not as sturdy as a KitchenAid mixing bowl, it is well suited for the Hamilton Beach 6-speed stand mixer. One of the things I like about this stand mixer is it's small counter footprint. We live in an apartment with a "pullman kitchen" (i.e. tiny...almost microscopic). This fits nicely on our counter top without weight and size of a KitchenAid. Easy to move around as needed, and the suction cup feet anchor it firmly in place. The controls are well placed on the side of the mixer, and easy to use. One large knob for setting any of six mixing speeds. Above the mixing speed selection knob is a handy speed guide for typical mixer uses--from dough to whipped cream. To the left and just above the speed selection knob is the release button for raising and lowering the mixing head. Care should be exercised in raising and lowering the mixing head as the area just above the release button is a pinched finger hazard area. Using common sense to inform you about raising and lowering the mixing head should be enough to prevent a problem. The 300 watt motor is powerful enough for most of your mixing chores. Remember, this isn't a KitchenAid--which is really more of like a commercial unit. I mix dough for 2 pound bread loaves about once a week. I start with wet ingredients, sugar, and yeast. Adding my first cup of flour I mix using the paddle mixer from speed 1 to 3 until those ingredients are well mixed. Stop the mixer at that point and take off the paddle and install the dough hook. I then add half of my remaining flour and mix again using speeds 1 to 3 until the ingredients are well mixed. Finally, I add the rest of the flour and mix again starting with speed ONE and stepping it up slowly to speed THREE or even FOUR. Using this method I don't find the motor slowing down or any of the burning motor or grinding nylon gear noises noted by other reviewers. We use this mixer several times each week and it works very nicely for us.

I am pretty handy in the kitchen, but what I find keeps me from doing more in the kitchen is the long amounts of time spent in preparation. This is what prompted my purchase of the Hamilton Beach stand mixer. As the description states, it uses the same mixing action as KitchenAid mixers, meaning the mixing arm rotates around the inside of the bowl while the mixing attachment spins in the opposite direction, creating a perfect mixing pattern, and also has a 300W motor, which is equivalent to the less expensive models that still cost about twice as much as this mixer. I haven't had the chance to make much with it yet, but so far I'm quite impressed with the construction, the performance of the motor, and of course, the results. The bowl sits in a recessed area and is easy to take in and out due to the tilting action of the mixer. The bowl itself locks into place with a slight clockwise turn to keep it from wobbling, and the base has suction cups on the feet which should work fine with any smooth counter surface, and if they don't grip tightly enough, a hand atop the mixer should be more than sufficient for steadying it when working with weightier projects like bread dough. It has a very small profile, and I found I was able to give it a permanent place on my counter without losing almost any of my preparation space, and still had plenty of clearance to lift the tilting head up to its full, locked position without hitting the wall or cupboards. All this being said, I've seen KitchenAid mixers demonstrated at Costco before, and they are wonderful appliances, but you will pay significantly more for that kind of quality. I'm not suggesting they aren't worth the investment if you do a lot of cooking at home, but for those just starting out, this Hamilton Beach mixer may do everything you need, as it has the same attachments as a KitchenAid and the bowl is large enough to handle most projects on a single pass, and it's powerful enough to do multiple batches when necessary (as reported by other reviewers). The price on Amazon for this mixer varies widely, but I wouldn't hesitate if you found it for $100 or less.

Likes: Good size. We don’t have a lot of counter space. This is a good size and weight so as not to be too cumbersome to pull out of the pantry when I need it. Enough power for the size of the bowl. I’ve made several bread and pizza doughs. Some recipes were doubled. I haven’t had any issues with lack of power. This thing is quite the workhorse for the price. It has more power than an expensive entry level KitchenAid stand mixer. Attachments are easy to change out and clean. I hand wash mine because I’m afraid the dishwasher will eventually warp the rubber stopper thing that prevents dough from getting in the mechanisms. The top flips up at the press of a button. I don’t have other experience with stand mixers, but I don’t find this to be loud. This is my first stand mixer. I use it once or twice a week mainly to make pita bread and pizza dough. I hate baking and cooking, so I don’t need a high capacity, high power mixer. I just wanted something to make my life easier that would be easy to keep looking new. This has checked those boxes. I’m really glad I bought it. EDIT- May 23, 2023- I still highly recommend it. Even when making thick and sticky pizza dough, I’ve never had to turn the power past the lowest setting. It’s a real workhorse!

This was the replacement for a much higher quality mixer I used to have. It works ok, particularly for very light foods (e.g., whipped cream or meringue, or small batches of cookies). But the motor struggles with heavier or larger quantities of dough -- something that a higher-end mixer wouldn't have a problem with. The dials are easy enough to use, and the tools are easy to swap in/out. The standard mixer does indeed do a pretty good job of bowl coverage. But be careful when tipping the unit up or down -- it has pinched my fingers just about every time I've used it. The suction cups do a good job of holding the unit down, but make it awkward to take off the counter. Overall, this was an "ok" purchase and mostly does the job I need for a reasonable price. But it's not an amazing mixer.

I bought this mixer because my other heavy duty mixer was too large to sit on the counter, and SO heavy to lift; I wanted one that could sit on my counter and be available for daily use. This one works nicely. You do need to scrape down the sides, but it's easy to life up the mixing arm. The bowl removes easily, as do the mixers; it comes with a regular, a whipping, and a dough hook mixer. My only negatives are that the motor is pretty loud, and the bowl has slots in the bottom to fit it into the stand but the first time I washed it I noticed that water gets into the slots and there is no way to ensure it's completely dried out. I wash it by hand and try to avoid getting water into those holes, and so far have had no issues. It looks nice sitting on the counter, too! I am sure I will break out the heavy duty mixer for ice cream making and when I need a larger bowl for Christmas baking, but glad to have this one for every day use. It's hard to "scoot" it on the counter, but I'm doing to buy a slide-out stand to put it on.

Excelente esta batidora! Tiene todas las funciones de la Kitchen Aid y funciona igual. Tiene unas ventosas que la dejan súper fija a la superficie. Viene con los tres aditamentos diferentes según las necesidades, el gancho metálico para amasar, la varilla de metal para batir huevos y líquidos y la tradicional que es de plástico para mezclar e incorporar. Me preocupaba que por ser de plástico no fuera buena y no, está buenísima y es de muy buena calidad. El sistema giratorio que tiene logra que las mezclas se incorporen perfectamente, ya que gira sobre su propio eje además del girado alrededor del tazón. El amasado para panes, scones y demás funciona súper bien. No es totalmente silenciosa, pero el ruido que hace no es molesto. Es muy fácil de limpiar. Recomiendo esta batidora al 100, tiene la mejor relación precio calidad del mercado. Es muy fácil de usar y muy versátil, yo la he usado hasta para deshebrar pollo y queda perfecto! Si te fue útil mi reseña da click en me gusta para evaluar si vale la pena escribir otras reseñas

Excelente, recomendado si vas a emprender en preparación de postres

Don't buy. Worst product. I lose my money.

Muy buena batidora, yo la he utilizado para hacer masa para pizza y me realiza el trabajo de excelente forma.

Sus funciones son para cantidades grandes de producto, por ejemplo si quiero batir unas claras a punto de turrón no me funciona porqué el aspa de globo no llega alfondo del tazón y no bate bien, tendría que poner como 8 blanquillos o más, (lo que pudiera hacer con una batidora de mano sin problema con un par de blanquillos),en general si colocas una cantidad pequeña no hará bien sus funciones. Si ocupa un poco de espacio en la cocina. Lo positivo es sencillo de utilizar y de limpiar.