GM800 7-Quart 10 Speed 700w All-Metal Stand Mixer

We've been looking for "serious, XL capacity stand mixer to handle the needs of our family/extended family for quite a while, but we kept getting put off by either price or performanceHeard about this through a friend who was helping me with the hunt...did my due diligence...placed the order on Friday took delivery yesterday (as in Tuesday..thanks Prime!), fired this baby up last nite to put it through its paces--an important "audition" as we have family coming and I wanted to be sure I could count on this to do what I needed it to...so anyway after a few hours of mixing I'm convinced--and as the saying goes "by golly i think we've got it!".First off (and as I've learned the hard way)...you can spend twice or thrice the price on a 7qt stand mixer and still end up with one that falls short in the bread-type dough/seriously denser batter department...yeah i know some of them look like they can mix cement...and cost about as much as a cement mixer...but when it comes to making the dough...no matter how much dough you spend...you're usually out of luck...or you get lucky like me and hear about this gourmet grade product and take the plunge saving both money and sanity...first off, from the moment you see the box you get a sense of a sophisticated quality product...a sense that continues when you take it out of the box and its heft & feel tell you this isn't some wannabe product. You know almost instantly this is a serious "kitchen tool"--firm, solid, stable...not at all flimsy (which is probably why they came up with the name Gourmet Grade). Its exterior is stainless steel...not stainless steel-looking plastic. As the controls are simple and intelligently placed you need no learning curve to get going (which is great for me because I hate manuals)... I dont have any way to verify if its motor is 700w 698w or 704w...but the sound is in its own way "powerful"--meaning it sounds like a serious appliance, not a wind up racing car. More than sound we're also talking substance here. We whipped up the base for a meringue followed by my famous chocolate coconut mousse filling and it went through both so fast I didn't even have time to finish responding to an email from my son. As I was curious and looking at a number of guests for the weekend...I used it to create my crepe batter which uses powdered pancake mix as a base (what I add to that is my secret) and first I took it slow...because its not much different than flour but this product had no problem with it...the batter came out syrupy smooth with all the ingredients well mixed no lumps or clumps... while the manual says it has a thermal cutoff to prevent overheating... i didnt get the sense it was working anywhere near hard enough to worry about that...and the batter it delivered was a thing of beauty..I also liked the fact you didnt open the box only to find out accessories are extra..it comes with a whisk, pastry/crust hook and flat beater---both of which seem designed exclusively for this product as they deliver real "planetary" action--so there was no unmixed areas around the edges of the bowl (which upset mu kids who live for licking the bowl)...Speaking of bowls & accessories, I'm already thinking I'll be needing a second/spare bowl...the downside of being anti manual is missing the literature that tells you that and how to order it...But even without the manual changing beaters is easy and intuitive the head lifts up with the ease & smoothness of a high end car door and clicks into place in a way that you know "means business"...I could probably go on about this...but suffice it to say I'm impressed both by its design and feel and the results it produces...and besides I got work to do. If you're needing an affordable family sized solution with the power and thinking to handle pretty much everything...I cant think of--or find a better choice. Will start paying more attention to Gourmet Grade products. As an aside, one of the first things that impressed me about this product was the fact they are upfront with things...do your homework most "7qt" stand mixers are in fact between 6.5 and 6.whatever...they get away with seven using the same creative accounting that lets car companies get away with mileage that we never see unless the cars in neutral being towed...seeing the Gourmet Grade folks list 6.7 tells me they're confident enough in their product...not to have to try and mislead their consumers (though my slightly obsessive daughter says its capacity is actually closer to 6.85).

I am a pretty decent cook. Many of my recipes win awards in competitions. So i recently joined the culinary school to get myself a better foundation. So at school we use sone high end brand name mixers which are very impressive in their results. I started thinking about getting myself a mixer too to save me a lot of labor during bread/desert making. After a few weeks of research i came across this Guy or Gal... LOL. It caught my eye immediately. But i didnt ordered it at once. I went back to school and compared the features of this one with the models at school. I was surprised to see that this guy have more powerfull motor, more capacity and way better/modern design than the ones we have at school. The attachments looked like cheaper plastic but in acuality they are heavy duty metal (seller might wanna indicate it in description). Now i looked up the prices and find that 400-600W motor with 4-5 Q bowl were available from $350-$450. This guy is 700W powerful motor with almost 7Q bowl at less than half the price. So I am like there got to be a catch. I showed it to my senior instructors and everyone said hey from specs it sounds to be a solid machine.Delivery was fast. I used the free delivery method (did i tell you I am a student), it came in in 5 business days. Pretty fast for FREE.I have been using it regularly now for three weeks since i havce gotten it and i am loving it. This is definitely a better machine than the machines we have at school. They did not label this as commerccial grade but i find it more powerfull than the small commercial machines at school from the big brand name. If you need it at home for regular use, or if you have a small operation with small bread/pastrty needs this is fabulous and perfect.And the price as a student is such an attractive feature. I am really blown away with both performance and price. I took it to class one day (its heavy) and all our groups used it that day and we all found it to be really way better than our school machines. My pastry/bread class instructor called this machine a steal for this price. She said "you got double the power at half the price, you cant beat that!"Ten speed and ramp up movement makes it a great machine for all applications from just mixing to whipping...So yeah so far in three weeks its Five Star for me and definitely a recommend. Two thumbs up.

This mixer sounds like a train going thru your house. It's so loud and sounds like it grinding metal on metal. I'm going to call and see if it can't be exchanged.