The KitchenAid Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer is a robust kitchen appliance designed for a wide range of mixing, kneading, and whipping tasks. Its bowl-lift design provides stability and support for heavy mixtures, making it suitable for both everyday cooking and more demanding culinary projects.
Function Description:
The primary function of the KitchenAid Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer is to automate and simplify various food preparation processes that involve mixing ingredients. It achieves this through a powerful motor that drives interchangeable accessories, such as beaters, whips, and dough hooks, within a stationary mixing bowl. The bowl-lift mechanism allows the user to raise and lower the bowl into position, ensuring secure attachment and optimal clearance for the accessories. The mixer features a speed control dial, offering a range of speeds from "Stir" to "10," including a "Soft Start" feature that gradually increases speed to prevent splashing and flour puff. This precise speed control allows for delicate stirring, slow mixing, vigorous beating, and fast whipping, accommodating different ingredient consistencies and recipe requirements. Beyond its core mixing capabilities, the stand mixer is highly versatile due, in part, to its attachment hub. This hub allows for the connection of various optional KitchenAid attachments, transforming the stand mixer into a multi-functional kitchen tool capable of tasks like spiralizing, pasta making, and food grinding.
Important Technical Specifications:
- Voltage: 120 V
- Frequency: 60 Hz
- Bowl Capacity: The manual references multiple bowl capacities, including 5-5.5 Quart, 6-6.5 Quart, and 7-7.5 Quart, indicating that the mixer is available in various sizes to suit different needs. The specific model shown on the cover is a 7 QT (7-quart) mixer.
- Power Rating: The power rating for the Stand Mixer is printed on the serial plate, and it's important to note that the maximum rating is based on the attachment that draws the greatest load. Other recommended attachments may draw significantly less power.
- Electrical Safety: The mixer requires plugging into a grounded 3-prong outlet. Users are explicitly warned against removing the ground prong, using adapters, or using extension cords, as failure to follow these instructions can result in death, fire, or electrical shock.
- Motor: Equipped with an electric motor, it's normal for the Stand Mixer to warm up during heavy loads and emit a pungent odor during initial use.
Usage Features:
- Bowl-Lift Design: The bowl-lift lever allows for easy raising and lowering of the mixing bowl. The bowl must always be in the raised position when mixing to ensure stability and proper operation.
- Accessory Attachment: Accessories (flat beater, flex edge beater, spiral dough hook, wire whip, 11-wire elliptical whip) are designed to slip onto the beater shaft and hook over a pin for secure attachment.
- Beater-to-Bowl Clearance Adjustment: An optional adjustment screw allows users to fine-tune the clearance between the beater and the bowl. This ensures the beater just clears the surface of the bowl without striking it, preventing wear on the accessory coating or wires.
- Speed Control: The speed control dial ranges from "Stir" to "10."
- Stir: For slow stirring, combining, mashing, and starting all mixing procedures; adding flour and dry ingredients to batter; adding liquids to dry ingredients. Not recommended for mixing or kneading yeast doughs.
- Speed 2: For slow mixing, mashing, and faster stirring; mixing and kneading yeast doughs, heavy batters, and candies; mashing potatoes or other vegetables; cutting shortening into flour; mixing thin or splashy batters. This speed is specifically recommended for mixing or kneading yeast doughs, with a warning that other speeds can lead to mixer failure.
- Speed 4: For mixing semi-heavy batters (e.g., cookies); combining sugar and shortening; adding sugar to egg whites for meringues; medium speed for cake mixes. Also used with food grinder, rotor slicer/shredder, pasta roller, and fruit/vegetable strainer attachments.
- Speed 6: For medium-fast beating (creaming) or whipping; finishing mixing cake, doughnut, and other batters; high speed for cake mixes.
- Speed 8-10: For whipping cream, egg whites, and boiled frostings; whipping small amounts of cream, egg whites, or for final whipping of mashed potatoes.
- Capacity Chart: Provides guidance on the number of cookies (in dozens) that can be made based on bowl capacity: 9-10 dozen for 5-5.5 Quart, 13 dozen for 6-6.5 Quart, and 14 dozen for 7-7.5 Quart.
- Pouring Shield (Optional): An accessory that slides over the bowl to prevent splashing and facilitate easy pouring of ingredients into the bowl during mixing.
- Optional Attachments: The attachment hub allows for a wide range of optional KitchenAid attachments (e.g., Spiralizer, Pasta Cutters, Food Grinder) to be connected, significantly expanding the mixer's functionality. These attachments are inserted into the hub, and an attachment knob is tightened clockwise to secure them.
Maintenance Features:
- Cleaning the Mixer Body: The Stand Mixer body should be wiped with a soft, damp cloth. It is crucial not to immerse the Stand Mixer body in water or other liquids to prevent damage and electrical hazards.
- Dishwasher-Safe Parts (Top Rack Only): The following parts are dishwasher-safe (top rack only): Bowl, Flat beater, Flex edge beater, Spiral dough hook, 11-wire elliptical whip, and Pouring shield.
- Hand-Wash Only Parts: The Wire whip should be hand-washed only, using warm, soapy water, and thoroughly dried.
- Troubleshooting: The manual includes a troubleshooting guide for common issues such as the mixer warming up, emitting odors, the beater hitting the bowl, or the speed control lever not moving smoothly. It also advises on what to check if the mixer fails to operate (e.g., power connection, circuit breaker).
- Online Resources: Users are directed to www.kitchenaid.com/quickstart for additional instructions, videos, recipes, and tips on using and cleaning the Stand Mixer and its accessories.
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