Went to Costco today to buy Kitchen Aid Deluxe Mixer at Costco but saw Heavy Duty Mixer right next to it. So I decided price check. Turns out to be $699 as well. Btw there were no price tag on Heavy Duty.
Kitchen Aid Heavy Duty KPM5 $699
Kitchen Aid Deluxe K5 $699
About 7-12 left for Heavy Duty
2 left for Deluxe
I will upload receipt tonight.
I don't know much, it was a present to my mom but Heavy Duty have bigger mixing bowl 4.83L, Deluxe bowl is around 2.4L
and heavy duty is stronger.
Heavy duty has a stronger motor and has an up/down bowl lift mechanism rather than the tilt head of the other model
The standard is for cake mixes, pancake batter etc.
The heavy duty is for resin, concrete etc
Great price - I've got the heavy duty and recommend it
Thats a bargain for that model. Love my K5. Only bad thing i had happen was the bowl locator snapped just after one year of everyday use (one week out of warranty). Customer care is crap. Lucky i have a friend who re-welded it for me. Still an awesome mixer tho. I have no regrets. Deff get the bowl lift rather than tilt head.
we've had a k5 for many years now, it's OK, but i much prefer the Kenwood my mum had, that mixed much more thoroughly and evenly…
jv, mind giving me a hand in choosing between the two brands? :)
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/56653
done…
I'm sad that they have the 'Professional' model in Costco in the US for $300 :( wanted to buy one while we were there but it was too heavy…
Good price for it here though, RRP on their website is $895 for the Heavy Duty one
ahh I want one now, what colours did they have at Costco?
"wanted to buy one while we were there but it was too heavy…"
wouldn't have worked here anyway, they are 110v there and use a different frequency too…
not a good idea to buy anything with mains electric motors from the US
I was reading on whirlpool. You can use some sort of voltage transformer. People said it works fine
yes, but they are not cheap and don't look too good on your kitchen bench…
http://www.tortech.com.au/stepdown.html
it probably won't convert the frequency though so the motor will have different speeds than it would in the US
Yeah I got the cheap kitchenaid from the US $160 i think and I bought a massive US stepdown transformer weighs 15kgs or so like the ones in the link below. I got it from Radio Parts in Melbourne. You have to look at the Output watts to match up the transformer. I got a bigger one because I had a few american appliances with different watt ratings…. anything with a heating element uses high watts. Yes the frequency is different in OZ 60 vs 50. Out kitchenaid still works fine and have been using it for over a year I havent noticed the speed varying. However we had an orange juicer which would work very erratically as it operated…ended up buying a cheapo that works fine.
Is it a KPM50 for $699?
The Heavy Duty I bought was KPM5 for $699
For home use, the Artisan range is better. The KPM5 takes too much unnecessary space.
I cant upload receipt. but here is the link http://upload.ozbargain.com/2011/11/08/7123_20111108_104901.…
what is the difference?