Help Old Stylers! Is This A Good Kenwood??? UPDATED problem with kenwood

divadee

This is my first dip in the food mixer market :eek: and i want a kenwood.

Is this a good one at argos?

It seems a brilliant price for what you get, but dont want to waste my money

Thanks in advance.

Pink.

Hi divadee,

There are some opinions on the kenwood prospero that might help on this thread:

Kenwood Chef Prospero

I'll add your thread to to that one later to keep the replies together.

Pink

Penelope_Penguin

divadee wrote: »

This is my first dip in the food mixer market :eek: and i want a kenwood.

Is this a good one at argos?

It seems a brilliant price for what you get, but dont want to waste my money

Thanks in advance.

The price is good, but at only 650W, I might save up for a more powerful model That said, I use mine several times a week, and have had it over 15 years, so it's been a brilliant investment :T

Penny. x

divadee

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

The price is good, but at only 650W, I might save up for a more powerful model That said, I use mine several times a week, and have had it over 15 years, so it's been a brilliant investment :T

Penny. x

i am only using it for basic cakes/meringues and soups, do you still think i will need a more powerful wattage??

i cant really afford the higher wattage ones

EDITED to say, the hand mixer i have now is only 180w so i think i would notice a big difference anyway wouldnt i?

Penelope_Penguin

divadee wrote: »

EDITED to say, the hand mixer i have now is only 180w so i think i would notice a big difference anyway wouldnt i?

Go on then - you know you want to :j

Will you report back - there are bound to be other people who like the look of this

Penny. x

divadee

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Go on then - you know you want to :j

Will you report back - there are bound to be other people who like the look of this

Penny. x

i am going to get it tomorrow :j i am excited how sad is that. I will report back with all the pros and cons of the machine.

guess whats for pudding tomorrow?? yep meringues:D

divadee

well i actually got my machine yesterday (to excited couldnt wait) and it is great. I have made 2 x victoria sponge and a pavlova so far. BUT....

there is a big problem and i will have to take it back.

The mixing bowl was perfect when i bought it. I have used it 3 times so far and hand washed twice and dishwashed once.

This morning I went to use it, and i noticed some small rust spots in a perfect circle round the bowl about 1 inch from the bottom. I thought oh maybe i didnt wash it properly, so i put it in the dishwasher. It has come out and nope they are definately rust spots. I think it has been caused by the mixing blade touching the sides and causing this rust, as it is in a perfect circle, they could of not been done by me at all as i have only used plastic flexitools in it not anything metal.

Has this happened to anyone else? I was so shocked, you hear how good and perfect kenwood are and how they last years, but i have had it less than 24 hours and it is rusty:eek:

lizzyb1812

I bought one of these just before reading about the marks on the bowl referred to above, so I've had it about a week and have used it most days. I've done bread 3 times, a cake, scone dough, Twink's "hob-nobs", soup and smoothies in the liquidiser and grated cheese and chopped onion in the processor. The bowl is showing no signs of rust or any type of marks at all. The bowl is stainless steel so I wasn't really expecting rust to be a problem anyway.

The mixer head nods up and down when it is mixing dough but the accompanying leaflet tells you to expect this and in fact it's quite endearing :rolleyes:

The unit is quite compact - for a Kenwood - which is one of the reasons I went for it. The whole thing is heavy and seems sturdy although I would have preferred the bowl to have a more rounded rim. It looks modern and clean - also important to me as it is kept out all the time and my kitchen is fairly new/modern looking. It won't do big batches of bread dough but there are only 2 of us so I don't cook more than one loaf at a time so that limitation is not relevant to me.

So far I've been very pleased with it. My main uses will be for bread, smoothies and soup and it has done fine on all of those. If you want to mix big batches of dough I would go for a bigger Chef/Major but otherwise I think it's a good Kenwood starter machine.

HTH

Lizzyb1812