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Cuisinart SM-70 7-Quart Stand Mixers Reviews

5 reviews of the Cuisinart SM-70 7-Quart Stand Mixers
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This is my first heavy-duty stand mixer. I did a lot of research, reading everything I found on Kitchen-Aids (600), Vikings, and Cuisinart. I originally considered the KAs, but some things about them bothered me, such as the fact that they are no longer manufactured by Hobart, the plastic casing, and so on. After six months living with the Cuisinart, I’m generally happy. I like the sleek compact look, the powerful motor, the timer, the slow start, and the overall quality. The only thing that bothers me is that at some speeds the lid starts vibrating, producing this annoying noise. But I can live with that. Regarding sturdiness, we’ll see how it performs down the road. Right now, I would buy it again.

2、First tried this out on my secret mushroom bread recipe.
The ingredients make this bread very difficult to mix and knead into a consistent dough and hand mixing usually yields on or two batches that have the consistency of cardboard. What a pleasant surprise using the Cuisinart, the dough was perfect and rose higher and faster than any batch previously made.
I have now tried the Chocolate Swirl Cheese Cake and Tiramisu recipes from the included recipe booklet. They were great.
My wife makes another secret recipe called Food For the Gods and is totally machine averse (technically challenged) her first batch using the Cuisinart blew her away and the outcome was the best FFTG that she ever made.
I do not understand the complaints regarding power and capacity.
I just dumped in about 7 lbs of mixed ground meats, herbs and bread crumbs for a batch of sausages.
Set the machine on speed 1 to blend everything together and it is just powering through the job. I do agree that with heavy loads at higher speed the machine does “throw it’s weight around” but not to the extent that it would walk off the kitchen counter.
I am seriously considering the meat grinder/sausage stuffer attachment, my current grinder does a great job at grinding but stuffing sausage is it’s weak point and having read one reviewers comments it is probably going to do a much better job.
I have also made New York bagels and got such good results that my local Noah’s will not be seeing me in the future.
Next and final “test” for the machine is sour dough French bread (made from real sour dough starter that I have been nurturing for 10 years). If the machine passes the test I will give it all star status in my range of kitchen appliances.
The only downside is that the Cuisinart does not come with a treadmill attachment, I will need one to counter the weight gain from all the great foods I will be making.
To all those that complain about the machine – if you follow directions then you should get the results, simple as that.

3、After about 1 1/2 weeks of intensive research on the internet, in the restaurant supply district of NYC, I purchased this mixer. A litany
of evidence made this a practical obvious conclusion. A 7- Quart mixer,
under $400, easy to pick up and carry. Did I mention free shipping? Limitless possibilities with the pasta attachment (will order eventually), as well as the meat grinder. Affordable home-based creativity.

My other option was to drive out to NJ and pay about $750-$800 (+tax) for
an Omicron 10 quart….only about 200 lbs, an $8 toll, gas, 3 hours of my day, and oh yeah a friend and a dolly. The Waring and Hamilton Beach caught my eye at first. Guess what though? They are only 5 Quart mixers, they cost an extra $100-$150 and still do not have the Cuisinart parts & motor guarantee.
I dig it.

4、This was my first stand mixer, and it was purchased after a lot of research. I purchased the 5 qt and the listed capacity of 12 cups of flour is nonsense. With a double loaf (6 cups) the dough flies right up into the turning mechanism. It hardly handles a double batch of oatmeal cookies – I agree with the other poster that the problem probably is the narrow shaped bowl.

The timer is handy, but hey, I’ve got timers! It’s pretty and for small jobs is fine – but so is my hand mixer that cost much less and stores easily. Actually, in my opinion, I don’t think it does the crucial creaming of fat and sugar step in cookies as well as my hand mixer does.

If you’re looking to do a single loaf of bread on occasion and a batch of cookies now and then, this will do fine. If you want to crank out some serious goodies, though, keep looking. I don’t know what my next step will be – but the search continues.

5、I was at first a little hesitant to purchase this as I have always been partial to Kitchen Aid. But I really needed a 7 quart mixer and decided to give this a shot. So far, I have been happy with it. This is an upgrade from my 5 quart K.A. Heavy Duty mixer which is great in itself but it is too small to accomodate my growing baking needs. With this mixer I have been able to do double batch buttercream as well as cake. I am sure I would be able to do 1 1/2 batches. This has been a savior for me because before I would have to do everything batch by batch. The “Fold” button is wonderful! I no longer have arm pain from hand folding because I just fold the batch in the mixer itself. I still use my K.A. Mixer because sometimes I must multi-task. While I honestly would have loved a Hobart, they are way too costly and much to large for my micro sized kitchen.

The only cons I found in this machine is that it doesnt feel as sturdy as the K.A. (my K.A. is 10 years old)most of the housing is plastic. It is quite loud but so is the K.A. Also, I keep it on my counter which has cabinets above it (like any normal kitchen)but I cant lift back the top of the mixer all the way. I have to actually bring it forward, almost to the edge of the counter so that I have room to lift back and insert the paddle or whisk. I guess it would fit best in a place where it doesnt have anything directly over it.

Cuisinart HSM-70 Power Advantage 7-Speed Handheld/Stand Mixer reviews

Five reviews of the Cuisinart HSM-70 Power Advantage 7-Speed Handheld/Stand Mixer

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The only thing the “stand” feature of this model is good for is holding your mixer for you in between mixing. The bowl DOES NOT spin with the action of the beaters, so you have to turn it yourself.

Also, I’ve read the Cooks Illustrated review praising this model, but I spent 6 minutes whipping egg whites to soft peaks today, when the recipe said it would take about 1 minute. Getting them to hard peaks while adding sugar took similarly a much longer time than expected.

In short; it’s a good little hand mixer, but it won’t replace a stand mixer, which is what I was hoping it would do when my last one’s motor burnt up.

UPDATE: I feel a little sheepish about this, but last night I figured out that if I loosened the screw on the bottom of the rotating part of the stand, the bowl WOULD, in fact, turn with the mixing action. I changed my review from 3 starts to 4 for this reason. I was making a batch of cookie dough, and this really worked the motor hard, and I had to keep pushing the dough out of the center and off of the sides of the bowl manually, but that would probably be the case with any mixer that doesn’t have a paddle attachment. I’m now happier that I bought the stand instead of just the hand mixer.

2、I have been baking for over 35+ years and I had been eyeing the real pricey mixers but I didn’t want to sink alot of money into a good mixer if I didn’t have to. I make bread in my breadmaker so I haven’t used the bread hooks at this time, but I had read the other reviews and wasn’t sure what to expect. So when it arrived I started out by making a batch of cookies and I was concerned from the other reviews how it would mix in the middle of the bowl. Well DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS about not mixing as it worked perfectly and mixes so fast and spins around on its own that the middle of the bowl mixes without any help what so ever. There are all types of people who purchase these items and you can’t please a good number of them. If you are a person that loves to bake and want a mixer that spins on its own this will work perfectly. Just by chance you do happen to get a dud Cuisinart is a wonderful company and will either exchange or fix whatever problem arises with it. But I think you will be very happy with your purchase like I am. It is a very high quality mixer with great power and a bigger than you think bowl that comes with it. I also love the fact that it is compact and I can put it in my appliance garage or keep it out on the counter. It is a great looking machine. I love it.

3、In most cases you get what you pay for. I didn’t want to pay $300-400 for a pretty Artisan stand mixer that would sit there and be used once a month or less. My main purpose for a mixer was to be able to cream butter and sugar, whip egg whites, and at times make some dough.

The dough hooks on this mixer are anemic and look like a child’s toy. The bowl does rotate, but all it does is spread out the materials being mixed onto the sides of the bowl and it requires constant attention, scraping, and monitoring.

Whipping egg whites does work, but to have faster and more even results means you should remove the mixer and use it at as hand mixer.

The lowest speed setting is too fast, but the variation between the lowest and highest setting doesn’t vary as much as you would expect, which is very annoying. It would be far better if low really was low and slow and the increments increased gradually.

4、We have used this for several different small jobs now. The slowest speed is still a bit faster than we like, but not so fast that we don’t use it. The unit has plenty of power but I wouldn’t want to hold it for too long as it is not light. For the money and convience, I’d highly recommend this as a tool for quick, small jobs. It is also small enough to store in the pantry without taking up an entire wall. I also like the option that if the mixer burns out, $30 to replace. If the stand breaks, $30 to replace. If you need new beaters etc, easy to find and fairly inexpensive, unlike trying to fix or replace a stand mixer where the entire unit is involved. If you are looking to do Christmas cookies for a hundred, or those other large jobs, you will still need to put out the bucks to buy your heavy duty, industrial mixer, otherwise, this will fit the bill.

5、I have arthritis in my forearms and some mixers really hurt me. I’ve been using the Cuisinart HSM-70 for a while and its vibration and the way it forms its handle in relation to the alignment of its base is fantastic and allows me to use it for baking and such without dreading it as I have in the past. I do with it had a little more power at times but it’s fine for me and I can give up ultra-power to give up the pain I’ve experienced before.