Help pls with different kenwood chef models

Nanzilela_Obejane

Hi, My wife has a Kenwood Chef Excel purchased in the 1980's that has given up the ghost after many cakes, sausages, chips etc. We will replace it with a new model but we have all the old attachments.

Will the old attachments fit the new machines? I've looked at Kenwood Chef Premier KMC510 as a replacement.

Konya

Hi all,

I have a Kenwood Chef A701A and I purchased a Potato Peeler from Ebay a while ago, on the box it says that it will fit my Chef and only my model Chef. However, it doesn't fit at all. The metal bowl is a tiny fraction too big to sit in my base. I am guessing that at some stage the wrong peeler was perhaps put into the wrong box?

My question to you is, which model do you think my peeler will fit? I need to know so that I can re-sell it on Ebay and buy a peeler that will fit my A701A.

Thanks so much in advance of any help you can give.

.

Little_John

Has anyone any experiance of the KM023?

My sister currently has a chef 400/410 (according to the side) and she wants a new machine as it just seems to struggle with the mix for large fruit cakes she has to spilt the mixture in 2 then manually mix the 2 mixes together. Im not sure if this is lack of power or the size of the bowl is the limit. She has decided to go for the KM023 due to the 1500W motor and 6.7L bowl and it comes with a load of accessories hat she will use, she has planned to buy them for the current machine but always had the thought that she would buy the new machine so held off.

So is the big machine up to the job or is she wasteing money going for it compared to the 400/410 she currently has?
I have found the best price so far of about £460 compared to the £700 RRP isnt too bad. Has anyone found anywhere cheaper?

Addiscomber

Little_John wrote: »

Has anyone any experiance of the KM023?

My sister currently has a chef 400/410 (according to the side) and she wants a new machine as it just seems to struggle with the mix for large fruit cakes she has to spilt the mixture in 2 then manually mix the 2 mixes together. Im not sure if this is lack of power or the size of the bowl is the limit. She has decided to go for the KM023 due to the 1500W motor and 6.7L bowl and it comes with a load of accessories hat she will use, she has planned to buy them for the current machine but always had the thought that she would buy the new machine so held off.

So is the big machine up to the job or is she wasteing money going for it compared to the 400/410 she currently has?
I have found the best price so far of about £460 compared to the £700 RRP isnt too bad. Has anyone found anywhere cheaper?

I am not familiar with the 400/401, and have not been able to find anything other than instructions in Greek. It would help if you could tell us the wattage and bowl size of it. It also depends on quite how large these fruit cakes are?

This page http://www.kenwoodworld.com/en/Products/Kitchen-Machines/Chef-and-Major/KM023/ gives the mixing capacity as

• Capacity - Cake: 4.6kg
• Capacity - Dough: 2.4kg
• Capacity - Egg Whites: 16 Maximum
• Capacity - Flour for Pastry: 910g

I have had an A901 for over 20 years but did find that it struggled with the full amount of bread dough when I started to bake bread regularly, so I bought a second hand 700 series Major via eBay, and the difference in ability to cope is quite noticeable.

£460 is a heck of a lot to pay for a mixer unless your sister making wedding cakes or similar as a business? These people seem to have good prices for catering size models. You do not have to be a business to buy from them.

allIcouldwishfor

Having now had a Major and a Chef for 2 years (I'd bid on the Chef on ebay and later the same day I found a Major on a house clearance stall on the market), I've decided to put my 700 series Major on ebay as he is only getting used for Christmas cakes and has to live the rest of the time in the shed because he is too big for the worktop. I'll miss him but i just can't justify keeping both of them. My 900 series chef is big enough for most of the things I need him to do, I'll just have to either make smaller Christmas cakes or do Christmas cakes in two parts from now on!

If you regularly make large quantities of fruitcake though, the Major's fab.

Little_John

Addiscomber wrote: »

I am not familiar with the 400/401, and have not been able to find anything other than instructions in Greek. It would help if you could tell us the wattage and bowl size of it. It also depends on quite how large these fruit cakes are?

This page http://www.kenwoodworld.com/en/Products/Kitchen-Machines/Chef-and-Major/KM023/ gives the mixing capacity as

• Capacity - Cake: 4.6kg
• Capacity - Dough: 2.4kg
• Capacity - Egg Whites: 16 Maximum
• Capacity - Flour for Pastry: 910g

I have had an A901 for over 20 years but did find that it struggled with the full amount of bread dough when I started to bake bread regularly, so I bought a second hand 700 series Major via eBay, and the difference in ability to cope is quite noticeable.

£460 is a heck of a lot to pay for a mixer unless your sister making wedding cakes or similar as a business? These people seem to have good prices for catering size models. You do not have to be a business to buy from them.

The 400/410 I believe is 750w and a 4.6l bowl, She bought it 4-5 years a go as she started studying cake decorateing and has been doing it since as a hobby for freinds and family but the freinds cakes are becoming more regular and she has been asked a few times now for 12" fruit cakes so she needs a bigger machine.

Its too late now anyway the KM023 arrived this morning £470+ £10 next day delivery and it was here by 11am and wasnt ordered till 3:30pm yesterday so great service from paysan. 23kg in weight and a huge box.

She wants to know where can she get sausage skins from?

AlexUk_2

Nanzilela_Obejane wrote: »

Hi, My wife has a Kenwood Chef Excel purchased in the 1980's that has given up the ghost after many cakes, sausages, chips etc. We will replace it with a new model but we have all the old attachments.

Will the old attachments fit the new machines? I've looked at Kenwood Chef Premier KMC510 as a replacement.

Hello there,

The attachments of your Kenwood Excel fil well in model KMC510 ( except the citrus press )

remember all attachments from models A900 fit right in models KM

AlexUk_2

Konya wrote: »

Hi all,

I have a Kenwood Chef A701A and I purchased a Potato Peeler from Ebay a while ago, on the box it says that it will fit my Chef and only my model Chef. However, it doesn't fit at all. The metal bowl is a tiny fraction too big to sit in my base. I am guessing that at some stage the wrong peeler was perhaps put into the wrong box?

My question to you is, which model do you think my peeler will fit? I need to know so that I can re-sell it on Ebay and buy a peeler that will fit my A701A.

Thanks so much in advance of any help you can give.

.

Hello,
about your description, the potato peeler you get is the model A700 , NO A701/A
many people confuse when someone say fit in models A700 where include the A701/A as well.

Remember: all attachments fit in front and citrus press of models A700 also fit in models A701/A
liquidiser of A700D also fit in A701/A
Tools : Whisk, hook dough and K beater for A700 ONLY IN A700
BOwl and potato peeler for A700 only in A700 thye have the groove in reverse and the base is little more big.

Is not same A701 to A701A in A701 the tools fit different, A701A tools and bowl are same in models A901 and KM

the front attachments , and liquidiser of A701/A NOT fit in models A900 and KM

Best Regards
Alex

sweetcarer

Little_John wrote: »

She wants to know where can she get sausage skins from?

Try here

http://www.designasausage.com/pages/prodsnosub.asp?catid=11

sweetcarer

PS Very intresting thread - I am getting my MIL old one at weekend - not sure of model or what there is for it as I am doing alot of baking these days and she had two and said I could have one. Appartently it goes a wee bit fast a flour does spit out from time to time.

Little_John

Just to let everyone know we found a source for sausage skins, a butcher the other side of Bolton who makes his own has been very helpfull, some sucess and some failures. The failures have been in the high meat content sausages, the whole hope of making more healthy sausages cutting out all the junk doesn't actually work.