56 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Mixzilla,
December 24, 2002 By A Customer
This review is from: DeLonghi DSM800 Cucina Stand Mixer with Blender (Kitchen)
My 325 watt stand mixer has served me well for years and will continue to do so for many more...but my desire to do more, make more and mix more sent me shopping for a 6 quart plus mixer.
This 800watt unit leaves much to be desired in decor but nothing to be desired in power. No more bogging down with large batches of bread dough! Capacity to mix up more cookies! If I ever give up cooking, I'm sure I could use it as a small cement mixer.
It's ability to multitask is great but I have yet to maximize its potential.
If you have CBD (compulsive baking disorder) and need a mixer at least three times a week, have a properly wired kitchen, and don't worry too much about your electrical bill, then this is the mixer for you. Any more power and you would need helmet.Only drawback thus far? It's big and sort of ugly, just like an English Mastiff. Both scare away my cats, but the mixer is drool free and alot easier to clean up after.
32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
This One Beats Them All,
January 10, 2003 By A Customer
This review is from: DeLonghi DSM800 Cucina Stand Mixer with Blender (Kitchen)
I threw out my old stand mixer some years ago, swearing never to get another one if it couldn't mix the 7-cup French and Italian bread doughs which I make every week. Behold! Santa Claus deposited this on my kitchen counter two weeks before Christmas, and I am in love. It is a real work-horse, does an excellent job of mixing and initial kneading of any bread dough. You still have to finish kneading by hand - which won't upset any home-baker - but the DeLonghi reliably does the grunt work without whining or groaning. Its dough-hook action means there is no heap of flour at the bottom of the bowl, nor does the dough mass crawl up the hook arm... The resulting bread texture is finer and more even than when I was doing it by hand. The machine handled stollen, babka, a big pound cake and produced excellent genoise sponge with higher and more tender layers than I normally achieve. I believe that this mixer is the result of DeLonghi buying out British Kenmore, whose mixers were also...Read more