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Costco Members: KitchenAid Professional Series 6-Quart Bowl Lift Stand Mixer

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Costco Wholesale has for its Members: KitchenAid Professional Series 6-Quart Bowl Lift Stand Mixer w/ Flex Edge on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free. Thanks toddwz

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The 6-Quart Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer is perfect for heavy, dense mixtures. Burnished metal flat beater, PowerKnead spiral dough hook and professional-style wire whip will help you mix, knead and whip ingredients into culinary masterpieces quickly and easily. -slickdewmaster

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Costco Wholesale has for its Members: KitchenAid Professional Series 6-Quart Bowl Lift Stand Mixer w/ Flex Edge on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free. Thanks toddwz

Note, must be an active Costco Member and logged into your account to view sale pricing

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Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
The 6-Quart Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer is perfect for heavy, dense mixtures. Burnished metal flat beater, PowerKnead spiral dough hook and professional-style wire whip will help you mix, knead and whip ingredients into culinary masterpieces quickly and easily. -slickdewmaster

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PedroDaGr8
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Nope, that hasn't been true for about 4-5 years now.

You are thinking of the old Costco model. That model was a Professional 6000HD (not to be confused with the similarly named Professional 600) and had a 1.0HP DC motor. The current Costco model is a disguised Professional 610 and has a 590W AC motor, making it the most powerful model (by 15W) in the Professional 600 lineup.

As for attachments, the Professional 6000HD (the old Costco model) used a modified 5QT bowl with flared sides to make it a 6qt bowl. As such, most 6qt bowl related attachments won't fit it but a few 5qt ones will. All other non-bowl related attachments are fully interchangeable with that model. The current one uses a standard 6qt bowl, so it can use any attachment any other Professional 600 models use.
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I did some quick math to help alleviate this concern. As a disclaimer I have this mixer in red and it is amazing. If you add up all the 1,2 and 3 star reviews you get 418 reviews. Now add up the 4 and 5 star reviews and you get 4177. If you look at this as a percentage it is almost exactly 10%. It's safe to say that more than 10% of the general public are not good equipment reviewers or users for that matter. I meet people that honestly can't tell me how to get to their house, they have no idea what roads they take they just drive them. If 90% of the reviews are 4 and 5 star, that's a bet I'll take, I can promise you that. This is a solid mixer, it'll sell out at this price. I got it for $219 about 4 years ago and it's still running strong and 0 complaints here.
PedroDaGr8
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Despite the name, both of these models are targeted at home users. You don't really start seeing the true professional features and power until you hit the DC motor models, which (confusingly) start at the Professional 6000HD or 6500Design and up. For true professional use though , you are looking at the Commercial 8qt model which has all of the necessary commercial features, NSF approval, and a commercial warranty.



The difference in power is only notable when you are doing larger volumes or more difficult doughs like pasta or bagel dough. This Costco model is the most powerful of the AC motor models. To get something better from KA, you would need to step up to a DC motor model which though looking the same are entirely different beasts.



The plastic gearbox housings had a tendency to crack. Kitchenaid has stopped using those in all bowl-lift models other than certain ultra-budget models for things like BF specials. Additionally it was a single sacrificial plastic gear designed to shred itself if the motor is over taxed. This is IMHO a good thing, not a bad thing.

As for the removal of the microcontroller, I have seen that on more than just this Costco model. It likely means that motor overload protection is gone (unless they accomplished it with discrete components). Alternately, the microcontroller could be integrated into the hall effect sensor. I have seen a few uC's integrated into hall effect sensors.




It is not. Costco used to sell a DC motor model around five-ish years ago but no longer do.

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VityaAK
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this or target 199 deal ?
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Quote from wbs3333 :
You have to wait for sales for the attachments. I have found that Macy's is one of the places that sales those attachments at super good prices but you have to wait for them to put them on sale or one of those Macy's coupons. At regular price I agree that most of those attachments are marked at an insane high price.
Could you please indicate the cost for the attachments when on sale? I am trying to get a sense of what price I should look for before jumping on it.

Thanks.
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SlickMagic
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Target deal $199 way better for $50 less price and more practical size of 5 quart (still huge though!!!)
I know because i have 5 quart size and got same for my mom:

https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/t/14587906
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YT video from costco of KitchenAid for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z2X5i6xVts
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Quote from SlickMagic :
Target deal $199 way better for $50 less price and more practical size of 5 quart (still huge though!!!)
I know because i have 5 quart size and got same for my mom:

https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/t/14587906
Any other differences between bigger bowl, bigger motor and extra attachments? Cant make a decision which one to get
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Any other differences between bigger bowl, bigger motor and extra attachments? Cant make a decision which one to get
Do your research. You have the whole INTERNET at you hand. Don't wait for people to spoon feed you.
I have the 5 quart and bought another 5 quart for my mother.
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Quote from SlickMagic :
Do your research. You have the whole INTERNET at you hand. Don't wait for people to spoon feed you.
I have the 5 quart and bought another 5 quart for my mother.
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RajA3
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Got last red one in the store. But looks like it still 329.99 in store. Will the 80 off show up in the checkout?
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GT_YellowJacket
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Does anyone know if the finish of the Costco black is matte or gloss? One photo on the Costco page shows gloss, and the other two appear to be the matte finish. Thanks!
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We've had the 6qt version for many years, but it came from Kohls and didn't include the extra accessories. We didn't like the original metal beater that was included because it was always leaving tons of batter on the sides of the bowl, even after adjusting the blade height.

We ended up buying a beater blade that could scrape the sides of the bowl. We started with this version: https://www.amazon.com/Original-B...B0015TMI28 and it broke after a few years after trying to use it on some really thick batter.
We then bought this version: https://www.amazon.com/Original-Restaurant-KitchenAid-KA-6L-PRO/dp/B002KAPN9Q [amazon.com] because it said "Pro Food Service and Restaurant Use" and it lasted a few years until it broke so we bought it again.

We never use the metal beater and only use the beater blade from Amazon, and they work really well. Just keep in mind they won't last forever because they are made from plastic. If you're going to buy one just make sure to buy one that fits your KA mixer model, as the ones I linked to are only for the 6qt model, but Amazon sells ones that work with the 5qt model.

I see that Costco includes a version of the beater blade but it only has a plastic scraper on 1 side, so I would imagine it doesn't work as well as the ones I linked to.
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For those disappointed with KitchenAid mixers being sold out everywhere, try "PC Richard and Sons" which has them in stock.
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Quote from RussianBytes :
For those disappointed with KitchenAid mixers being sold out everywhere, try "PC Richard and Sons" which has them in stock.
higher price indeed tho $280
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Does anyone know if the finish of the Costco black is matte or gloss? One photo on the Costco page shows gloss, and the other two appear to be the matte finish. Thanks!
Matte

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Quote from Pmkool1 :
We've had the 6qt version for many years, but it came from Kohls and didn't include the extra accessories. We didn't like the original metal beater that was included because it was always leaving tons of batter on the sides of the bowl, even after adjusting the blade height.

We ended up buying a beater blade that could scrape the sides of the bowl. We started with this version: https://www.amazon.com/Original-B...B0015TMI28 and it broke after a few years after trying to use it on some really thick batter.
We then bought this version: https://www.amazon.com/Original-Restaurant-KitchenAid-KA-6L-PRO/dp/B002KAPN9Q [amazon.com] because it said "Pro Food Service and Restaurant Use" and it lasted a few years until it broke so we bought it again.

We never use the metal beater and only use the beater blade from Amazon, and they work really well. Just keep in mind they won't last forever because they are made from plastic. If you're going to buy one just make sure to buy one that fits your KA mixer model, as the ones I linked to are only for the 6qt model, but Amazon sells ones that work with the 5qt model.

I see that Costco includes a version of the beater blade but it only has a plastic scraper on 1 side, so I would imagine it doesn't work as well as the ones I linked to.
Is not plastic, it is a flex material, like silicon or something similar. It definitely is not plastic, at least from what I can tell 🙂

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