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

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$250

$330

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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.
isuzudiesel
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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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Nov 24, 2020
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VityaAK
Nov 24, 2020
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Can somebody explain why Costco's regular price is $329 compare to other places $499. I know Costco is always have better prices, but it's huge difference , almost 35%
Nov 24, 2020
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FHRITP
Nov 24, 2020
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Can you make cookies with this?
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wbs3333
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Quote from Pmkool1 :
I was referring to the material of the beater blade itself. The scraper part is a hard silicone type material whereas the beater blade structure is a hard plastic. The scraper part never broke on us, it was the plastic beater blade structure that always broke, most often at the point where the thinner frame connects to the thick base (the part that connects to the mixer). That joint gets so much stress on it when mixing that it will eventually break if you mix super thick batter. I would imagine it would break after a few weeks of trying to use it to knead bread dough (I would never recommend doing that), so only use the beater blade for cakes, cookies, brownies, whipping cream, etc and use the provided dough hook or metal beater blade for super thick material such as bread dough.

Hope that makes sense!

It does makes sense. Thanks Smilie
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wbs3333
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Quote from FHRITP :
Can you make cookies with this?

Yep, that is what I bought it for mainly. Take a look at this recipe:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyuec0PPz68
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VityaAK
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It's still available in store

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Nov 26, 2020
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gamster
Nov 26, 2020
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Still available in Oklahoma, they had lots of the red ones available still
Nov 26, 2020
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dukeymo
Nov 26, 2020
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Got ours delivered early. It's missing the dough hook. What a bummer
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wbs3333
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Quote from dukeymo :
Got ours delivered early. It's missing the dough hook. What a bummer
Call Costco or KitchenAid, they will send you the missing accessory.
Nov 27, 2020
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bobloblaw12
Nov 27, 2020
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I ordered last Sunday (11/22) I got a cancelation today. Anyone else?

A cancelation almost a week after the fact shutting me out of any chance at a different color is not what I expect from Costco. If they had communicated in a timely manner I could have ordered a different color. Customer service was completely unhelpful. Extremely disappointing.
Nov 28, 2020
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Tuskedwolf
Nov 28, 2020
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was in stock at the store!!
Nov 30, 2020
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VityaAK
Nov 30, 2020
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Just wondering, how's Costco version of this mixer with all extra stuff you'll get comes at $180 cheaper not including sale price compare to Msrp?
Dec 1, 2020
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CalvinFan
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Picked a silver one at the sunnyvale store today with the same promotional price

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dukeymo
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Quote from wbs3333 :
Call Costco or KitchenAid, they will send you the missing accessory.
Yeah we did call KitchenAid. The sent us the wrong hook the first time then the correct one later. So now we have two hooks.

I know this was months ago but I figured I'd update anyway.

We love the machine, just made a bunch of sub/hoagie rolls this past weekend. Yum.

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