Bosch Universal Plus Stand Mixer 500 Watt, 6.5 Quarts with Wire Whips, Dough Hook & NutriMill Dough Hook Extender Bundle

This mixer is amazing. I have lived more kitchen aid for more than 10 years and swore by it. I started milling my own flour and needed a stronger mixer. Works great for my bread. Mixes my cookie dough in minutes. It is wonderful!!

This is a great mixer! I love it. It mixes cookie dough quickly and easily, and without a lot of noise. It makes less noise than my blender. It has a large bowl, and is easy to add the ingredients to. I've already ordered 3 more attachments for it, and can't wait to try them out. I can now get rid of my bread maker, which I bought for the dough mixing function.

Love, love, love my Bosch Universal Mixer! I bake 4-6 loaves of bread at a time. I love the fact that I don't have to knead it! My bread always comes out beautiful! Also, It's good to use quality ingredients!

I’m amazed at the ease with which this mixer handled my first triple batch of sourdough. I might have to start adding people to my ‘breaking bread together’ list.

Its a work horse, Beats both my Kitchen aids hands down. It is great for low hydration dough like bagels, My kitchen aid mixers struggle to make a 8 serving batch the bosh has no problem making 20 at a time, it also is much easier to add inclusions with the top load feature, clean up is easy. I love this machine.

You will not regret buying this bread mixer my wife loves it said we should of bought it a long time ago works great

I ordered this to compare to my vintage Bosch (the original version of this mixer) from the 70s. This is pretty similar to that old Bosch with the following improvements:-suction cup feet so the mixer doesn't walk around (or off) the counter while kneading dough-a bowl with a lip to surround the lid ring (this prevents the lid from popping off on large batches)-the bowl edge is turned down like a little umbrella which gives improved gripping for transportThe motor of both the old and new is of similar power. I find it to bog down more than I prefer with large batches (above 7 lbs) of dough. I've made up to 5200g (11.2 lbs) of dough in this mixer and it will do it but it's a strain on the motor.One other drawback (or advantage depending on how you prefer to proof your dough) is that this mixer really heats up the dough. It'll go from 65 or 70F up to 110F in 7 minutes of kneading. I personally prefer to keep the dough at room temp. A work around is to add ice to the water to knock the temp down before hand. So, although I don't like the heating, it's something that can be dealt with.I will be returning the mixer and instead ordering a stainless bowl for my old Bosch mixer. I believe it may help with this heating issue. Additionally, it does away with the center column for a little more space for dough (about 200 additional grams). I ordered this mainly to compare and see if it was worth upgrading. I think the refinements are probably worth the price difference. But I instead am going to put that cost difference toward a stainless bowl and the drive/dough hook to match ($350 new just for this bowl and accessories!).I'd used a 1981 Kitchenaid by Hobart for years and although an excellent mixer, the Bosch is also good product with a proven long lifespan. The Bosch can make 2x the amount of dough and the lid system is a lot cleaner than the open bown of the Kitchenaid.I highly recommend ANY Bosch Universal Mixer!

I bought this mixer because Bosch is supposed to be quality but this is absolute junk. I was sick for over 4 weeks so I didn't use it until yesterday. Now I'm not eligible for a return. I would warn everyone do NOT buy this mixer. It is not your like the one your mother or grandmother had. It had a smell to the motor but I thought it might be factory grease and would fade. Nope. I mixed a batch of bread and it seemed weak but it was a smaller batch so I decided to test a larger batch to make sure. That's when there was black junk in my dough. It came from the shaft and blade area. I thought perhaps, even though I hand washed everything and dried it first, maybe some grease or something was missed. I hand washed and dried it again. I made a medium batch of cookies hoping the dough would not come in contact with that area and have to be thrown out like my bread dough. Ingredients aren't cheap. While I didn't see black in my dough and it didn't reach that part of the shaft, it again had black stuff all over the top of the shaft and blade area. All I can think is it's caused by friction of the shaft and blade rubbing and this is metal. Everything was washed and dried well twice. I decided this is completely unsafe and defective and started to put everything away. When I moved the mixer base I found black soot on my counter from the motor. What the heck? Because I was sick and didn't get to use it quickly, I am not eligible for a return and can't contact the seller about it. I tried. Went to their website and it says I would have to pay to ship it to them. This is a large heavy mixer. I'm out over 400 dollars and don't want to waste more. I don't want it replaced I want a refund. Who would want to prepare food in something that is made with metal that can end up in your food. Toxic. Shame on Nutrimill and Bosch. A VERY unhappy customer who is going to tell the whole internet if they don't make it right.