Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I was in Lowe's this afternoon and saw a young woman struggling with a KitchenAid classic. I said "hope you have better luck with the Classic than me." She said she was exchanging her Christmas present...the one under the tree wouldn't turn on. I told her I bought one and exchanged it twice before returning it for good. All of them had gear problems. My ex-wire had one for 15 years without a hiccup. KitchenAid has changed hands and the bean counters figured a way to make more profit by issuing a dozen confusing models and stuffing them with plastic insides. Takes a real idiot to ruin a KitchenAid mixer. If you to [...] and compare the various mixers you'll see than only the Accolade and the professional mixers have metal gears. A good mixer should have hard, well-machined metal gears. Some of the kitchenaid mixers have metal gears but there are complaints all over the net saying the metal gears are cheaply made.