Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

When I was a kid many moons ago in the early 90s, my mother got a kitchenaid mixer as a Christmas gift. It had a shield that would snap onto the bowl so you could easily pour ingredients into the bowl without shutting the mixer down or risking having your measuring cup sucked into the bowl if you flew too close to the sun. Flash forward to 2018, I now have a kitchenaid mixer of my own and find some baking is just not working so well without an easy way to pour things into the bowl. So I go to Amazon and find the shield that fits my mixing bowl. Lo and behold, the shield does not snap on so much as sits on the bowl using nothing but gravity to keep it in place. So you have to pour your ingredients onto the shield without bumping said shield lest the whole thing get off balance and fall into the bowl most likely shattering once the mixer flings it around once or twice while you hurry to turn the unit off. I never even used this thing. I didn't need to. As soon as I realized it wouldn't securely lock in place I returned it. The whole point of having a pouring shield is so I can easily pour things without worry. I can't do that when I have to worry that the slightest bump will move the shield out of place on the bowl into the batter I'm mixing. I don't recommend this and it's true what they say, they don't make things like they used to. I spent a lot of time trying to find one that locks on but this crappy version that just sits on the bowl is all I could find. Basically someday in the hopefully distant future when my mother passes away there is going to be a brawl between my sisters and I over who gets the pouring shield to her mixer because it actually locks in place like you'd assume something like this would. Just kidding, there won't be a brawl because I already told my mother I want it and to put it in her will. My sisters can have everything else, just leave me the pouring shield that actually locks onto the mixing bowl. My Italian buttercream recipe thanks her in advance.