Was going to get Kitchen Aid from Amazon but based on feedback regarding 110v decided on this model instead.
Harvey Norman and Good Guys wouldn't price match but Bing Lee offered $399 with free icecream mixer rrp $100. David Jones ran out of the ice cream mixer so went with Bing Lee.
Bing Lee receipt:
http://upload.ozbargain.com/2011/12/27/7491_11.12.28_mixer_b…
[MOD] Edited URL with DJ's image and added link to Bing Lee receipt
Good point… Had it all typed out then lost it. Post updated.
Well done, that's a good price especially with the free ice cream bowl bonus.
I can't see anywhere that it is $384.95 at DJs. If it is a haggle price then you have to put up a receipt.
Good catch. The DJ's catalog says $479.95.
Didnt have to haggle, price tag says $384.95. Happy to post the pic if you can let me know how.
There you go. Good luck!
Photo@DJs
http://upload.ozbargain.com/2011/12/27/7490_img-20111228-000…
Receipt@Bing Lee
http://upload.ozbargain.com/2011/12/27/7491_11.12.28_mixer_b…
Thanks Annon123, I've edited the URL of the post with the DJ photo since your price refers to the DJ price. I'll put your Bing Lee receipt in the body of your post.
always choose kitchenaid… dont go for second or third best.. hehe
I agree with you completely.
KitchenAid FTW!
kitchenaid is better
@PissLUR and @timsmith, probably dangerous for me to mention this but KitchenAid is not the only good brand around. Think Kenwood kitchen machines :) (http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/56653)
Back to the Breville though, the KitchenAids and Kenwoods are more expensive ($600 onwards), so for the $280-$400 price range, the Breville BEM410 or BEM800 are pretty decent units and both get good reviews.
I concur. I bought the Breville BEM410 for $220 plus the bonus ice-cream bowl at Binglee just before Xmas. Made a cake, a batch of sorbet, and a batch of ice-cream so far so good. :)
The BEM410 seems to be $199 at Good Guys right now with free electronic scale.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/60679
Great price for this kit. I went to a Myer 'sale' 4 weeks ago, the best they could do was $499 (excluding ice cream bowl), so I bought it online that night from PowerBuys for $420 with icecream bowl included. The next cheapest price I could find online was $460 delivered, most were over $500.
Really happy with it so far, the ice cream bowl actually works really well. Scraper attachments are awesome. It was also my first time using a mixer to make my weekly pizza dough, can't believe how much easier it is, and the bowl practically comes out clean.
Obviously only time will tell if it's as solid as it looks. My other Breville appliances have lasted me well, so I'm not too worried.
My other Breville appliances have lasted me well, so I'm not too worried.
My experience with Breville has been the exact opposite, heh! My last three Breville apppliances died with electrical issues after just a few months, and I'm reluctant to buy the brand again. But maybe I just had bad luck… YMMV. :)
I've heard that some Breville appliances are picked by Breville straight from a CHinese manufacturers catalogue, without any major design changes - these are designs made by poorly paid Chinese workforce, specifically for a factory which doesn't have a brand to protect. Other appliances (like the Smart Grinder) are designed in house by Australian engineers to Australian spec. These are still produced in China but invariably the production standards are managed much better by the team that designed the thing, and you end up with a relatively decent appliance.
… that's what I heard anyway. Not sure how much truth there is to it, and even if it is true, not sure how you would find out where any given Breville appliance was designed.
I suspect that happens a lot with many appliances and electrical goods nowadays — brands such as Breville, Kenwood and Sunbeam all probably have such "rebadged" goods in their product line-ups. I've actually seen on a few occasions visually identical products being sold under different brands in different countries.
But yeah, it's pretty hard to determine which products are lemons from those brands, particularly when there aren't many reviews around for low-cost appliances. In general, nowadays I only buy things that are high-end and well-regarded (such as a Thermomix, which is Made in France), or as cheap as possible so that I'm not bothered by the replacement cost when something goes wrong (such as a cheap toaster from Aldi, after my significantly more expesnive Breville ikon toaster broke). :)
you can tell by looking at their product range someone's worked on it. I doubt this is true. Maybe for their $20-30 products.
AND please, its 2011. Almost everything in made in china. Like its a negative. :P
Kenwood chef at retravision for $409 with bonus mincer. Much better then breville mixer
For those buying a Kenwood, remember cashback offer that expires 8 Jan 2012:
http://www.kenwood-australia.com/media/pdfs/promotions/AU-Ke…
Im a pastry chef by trade. I suppose it really depends if you want to make bread doughs - they take a lot of torque to make more than one loaf worth of dough in the machine at a time. So if you just want a mixer for lighter doughs/cake mixes/whipping, the Breville is a good lower end mixer. If making bread, go for a Kenwood, Cuisinaurt or Kitchenaid without doubt. The Breville is more of a 'housewifes' mixer, and will not take punishment.
I went into the DJs in Melb CBD, they had the white at normal price but scanned at $384.95. They wouldn't do any other colour for that price. I had to pricematch the brushed steel colour to Bing Lee's $399.
They also had one last ice-cream attachment in stock as a freebie, but when speaking to a lady over the phone, she mentioned she could take my details and the next time they got a shipment, would give me a ring to pick it up.
would be useful if u put an actual description of what it is…
not many people know what a "BEM800" is!