Kenwood Titanium Chef Patissier XL Stand Mixer for Baking- Powerful Food Mixer, With K-Beater, Dough Hook, Whisk, and 2 Bowls 5L and 7L, KWL90.004SI, 1400W, Silver

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Many premium stand mixers have clever features that are designed to not only help deliver the best results, but to make your life that much easier- speeding certain processes up or taking out some of the guesswork so that you can focus on other tasks. Generous capacity – With a sleek, brushed stainless steel finish, the deep 7 litre stainless steel bowl is bigger than most, so it can take on the biggest baking prep tasks. Just like those seen in professional kitchens, the Kenwood Chef Titanium has the capacity – and power – to prepare enough dough to make several loaves of bread in one go. You can mix a huge 4.55kg of cake ingredients, up to 910g of pastry, 2.5kg dough at a time or fluff up to 16 egg whites at once – that’s certainly a lot of tasty home baking; your oven will never have worked so hard! And, of course, there’s also a smaller bowl for times when you don’t need to mix up quite so much in one go. litre stainless steel bowl – a huge stainless steel mixing bowl with room inside to blend up to 5 kilos of enriched yeasted dough at a time (2.6kg flour) – working capacity 5.5 litre. In-bowl weighing – Weighing in metric or imperial to suit your recipes, this makes it easy to add ingredients straight into your mixer (and save on washing up). The weighing function can be used with the mixer head up or down, and you can zero the figure to add your next ingredient.In-bowl warming – With nine different heat settings it’s so helpful when you’re baking – from gently softening butter or proving bread dough, to melting chocolate or warming a delicate sabayon mixture. Equipped with a warming function, countdown timer and with Quiet Mark certification, this quiet kitchen helper will even allow you to chat to a friend while it gets on with the hard work.

Please note: the slow speed outlet is compatible with Kenwood accessories with a KAX prefix to their model number. Bar Connection attachments can be used with an adaptor – available from Kenwood. Versatility: stand mixers can work hard with the right attachments, which include everything from pasta rollers to sausage makers. Study the number of bolt-on accessories available if you want to use your machine frequently for lots of kitchen tasks. Powerful 1400W motor – With the power to mix the heaviest pastry or bread dough with ease, the hard-working motor can also power an impressive variety of slow, medium and high-speed Kenwood attachments when they’re fixed to the outlet hubs – making your stand mixer into a multi-talented, all-in-one machine. Value for money: there’s no point splashing out on a gadget-y machine with various accessories if you’re only going to use it to occasionally make basic cakes. Recipe App – Inspiration at your fingertips, with step-by-step recipes to suit any meal or occasion.Results of functions: We looked for machines that efficiently and evenly mixed ingredients. Our meringue needed to be glossy and evenly whisked, our dough well-risen with a light and airy crumb when baked, and our cake also needed to be light with evenly distributed zest. Shatterproof splash guard with feed chute – so ingredients stay in the bowl rather than being spattered across your kitchen. Stainless steel balloon whisk – A super-sturdy balloon-shaped, wire whisk for beating eggs, cream and soufflés into light-as-air mixtures.

Ask any serious home baker what’s on their kit wish list, and it’s a safe bet they’ll mention a Kenwood Chef. Built to stand the test of time and instantly recognisable with its iconic styling, the all-metal body has a titanium-coloured finish, ensuring it will make a statement on any kitchen worktop. Touchscreen control – A simple-to-use, full colour touchscreen with one-touch preset functions to take care of all sorts of tasks – just swipe to find the function you need. Overall quality of materials: Well-made stand mixers with quality components should last. We looked for those that were robust. Stainless steel dough hook – for yeasted bread doughs, it kneads dough efficiently, taking all the hard work out of making bread, doughnuts and bagels. Intuitive features to look out for include a soft-start speed control and splash guard to prevent splatters and spills, delicate fold function to ensure a light and even mix and integrated in-bowl illumination so you can see exactly what’s happening in the bowl. Models like the Titanium Chef Patissier XL, Cooking Chef XL and the Titanium Chef Baker have built-in weighing scales so you can measure ingredients directly into the mixing bowl as you go for minimal mess and washing up. Then there’s models that can gently warm ingredients ( Titanium Chef Patissier XL) so you can also use them to temper chocolate or prove dough, or even cook a meal from scratch, like the Cooking Chef XL. Some of our models offer touchscreen functionality, with a range of easy to use preset functions making tasks such as meringue making or dough kneading available at just the tap of your finger, and you can even send step by step recipe instructions direct to the Cooking Chef XL via the Kenwood World app.

Some incredible features at fair price but this mixer falls down in one key area

Results of functions: A machine that efficiently mixed all the ingredients at the same time was a staple requirement. We looked for pavlova mixes that were glossy and well-whisked, cake mixes that were light with evenly distributed zest and finally, well-risen dough that was soft and light when baked. If you’d rather not set these levels manually, though, there are a number of automatic presets that can be accessed via the mixer’s touchscreen. These offer generic timings and warmth settings for a variety of tasks. Kenwood Titanium Chef Patissier XL review: What could be better? Overall quality of materials: Stand mixers that are sturdy and built to stand the tests of time were ones that scored highly. We also looked for robust and well made attachments and bowls.