Is A $1000 Stand Mixer Really Worth It? | Epicurious

Product design engineer Vincent Valderrama returns to Epicurious to pit a $49 Nurxiovo stand mixer against an upscale $1,000 model from Wolf Gourmet in a series of common tasks. From combining pizza dough and whipping meringue to making frosting and grinding meat, Vincent breaks down which tasks the high-priced model outperforms the budget option on, and which ones it doesn’t.

Supervising Producer: Jeffrey Kornberg
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: JC Scruggs
Editor: Boris Khaykin
Talent: Vincent Valderrama

Sr. Culinary Director: Kelly Janke
Producer: Michael Cascio
Culinary Producer: Mallary Santucci
Culinary Associate Producer: Matt Migliore
Line Producer: Jennifer McGinity
Associate Producer: Tim Colao
Associate Producer: Sam Ghee
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes

Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Camera Operator: Jack Belisle
Audio: Rebecca O’Neil

Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin
Graphics, Animation, VFX: Léa Kichler

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0:00 Mix It Real Good
0:22 Pizza Dough
2:23 Meringue
3:58 Frosting
6:55 Ground Pork
8:44 Extras


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[landmarkleather]

would have been great to see the standard kitchenaid workhorse compared to these two, especially since it's always about $400

[cremebrulee]

That was so interesting. Thank you. The $49 mixer performed much better than I expected it to.

[JB-xljc]

Very enjoyable series. Would've liked to see both stacked up against a middle contender (I have a Kitchenaid Pro 600 which is practically famous for being best in bracket) that's somewhere between as a third option. But this was interesting to see how an engineer's thought process worked when approaching evaluating both of these extreme ends of the spectrum.

[HinaomiAkiyama]

Really missed this series, please do more!

[markalancirino]

The best accessory I ever bought for my KitchenAid was the smaller bowl. It's amazing the difference it makes for certain tasks.

[FutureCommentary]

I like that you were fair to the low-end mixer. Where it did where you said so and told us why.

[carlidowns]

Loved the video! I would love to see kitchen aid vs Bosch mixers.

[charterinsider]

Can’t believe they just skipped Kitchenaid

[DeckDogsLife]

Between those two, I'd take my chances with the $50 machine.

Though I personally have a Kitchen Aid mixer and would probably recommend that. Decent price medium between the two and will likely last me until I die.

[hisbigal]

I'll stick with my Kitchen-Aid stand mixer. It has yet to disappoint me in the ten years I've had it.

[TheJohn]

The Wolf seems vastly overpriced. I'd be concerned about the other's durability, but given it's 5% the price and includes a grinder, the choice seems obvious. You could buy 20 of the Walmart special. Is the Wolf going to last 20x as long? Probably not.

[HunterKiss]

We need more of this kind of videos!
Really informative.

[emilyhunter]

There's one thing that still bothers me about these stand mixers, and many others just like them. While the meat grinder is running, the spindle underneath is also whirling around, creating a potential hazard. Why haven't the manufacturers either figured out a system to disengage the spindle or some kind of clip on guard to cover the area to minimise the risks. I've seen it happen in a commercial setting, I shudder to think of something like that happening in the home.

[MissMarilynDarling]

I prefer a good ol standard Kitchenaid their expensive but their totally worth it I even have a hand held mixer for doing hand held options because of the stir function its way slower than a standard hand held mixer :)

[jerihurd]

For everyone claiming "I never heard of Wolf"; it's a "No name brand." Wolf is the newish line of countertop appliances from Sub-Zero, hardly a "no name" brand. And Consumer Reports rated Wolf their top choice, over top-of-the-line KitchenAid, which came in fourth. Take that for whatever it's worth.

[cecacademicadvisor]

Excellent video! Great job! Very informative and straight forward. Very educational! Loved it.

[harveybrownstoneinterviews]

I would have liked to see a Kitchenaid compared with a Cuisinart and the Wolf.

[AdrianC]

Wolf did embarrassingly bad.

Would like to see Bosch vs Kitchenaid vs Ankarsrum.

[thMandalorian]

The price difference of $951 is enough for me to always choose the budget option

[dbears]

Can the dough hooks be switched? It would be interesting to see if a replacement hook for the Wolf and put it on the cheaper unit to save money and still improve the quality of the product.