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Cuisinart SM-70BC 7-Quart 12-Speed Stand Mixer, Brushed Chrome | 
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| Brand: Cuisinart
Buy New: $449.00
Rating:  14 reviews
Color: Brushed Chrome
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 26
Dimensions (in): 15.5 x 11 x 14.5
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MPN: SM-70BC
Model: SM-70BC
UPC: 086279013996
EAN: 0086279013996
ASIN: B000ON65XO
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| Features:
| • | 1,000-watt stand mixer housed in durable die-cast metal | | • | 12 speeds; 7-quart stainless-steel bowl; slow-start and gentle-fold functions | | • | 15-minute countdown timer; 3 power outlets; auto shutoff; tilt-back head | | • | Chef's whisk, flat mixing paddle, dough hook, and splashguard included | | • | Measures 15-1/2 by 11 by 14-1/2 inches; 3-year warranty; 5-year motor warranty |
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Product Description
Take charge of your baking and start mixing bigger batches with professional power and an assortment of helpful attachments to handle any task. A die-cast metal body is built for durability while the polished stainless steel bowl has the capacity for even the biggest baking jobs. Three-year limited product warranty. Five-year motor warranty.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Beats the KitchenAid Professional 600 April 2, 2008
Jeffrey H. Hight (Winston-Salem, NC)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have owned and loved and hated several KitchenAid mixers over the years. My most recent was the KitchenAid Professional 600 - the one I hate. It has some fantastic features, and one very bad one: the plastic gear housing. It allowed all the gears to fall out of place and strip. Not so this Cuisinart! My recipe for a crusty, country loaf of bread (the KitchenAid Professional 600 killer) was processed by the Cuisinart with flying colors! I have also had a chance to use the optional meat grinder attachment for this mixer and it is a winner. The extra tall mixing bowl, fantastic integrated splash guard, timer, and tilt-back head make this mixer a pleasure to use and a benchmark for KitchenAid to address!
Beats the KitchenAid Professional 600 April 2, 2008
Jeffrey H. Hight (Winston-Salem, NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have owned and loved and hated several KitchenAid mixers over the years. My most recent was the KitchenAid Professional 600 - the one I hate. It has some fantastic features, and one very bad one: the plastic gear housing. It allowed all the gears to fall out of place and strip. Not so this Cuisinart! My recipe for a crusty, country loaf of bread (the KitchenAid Professional 600 killer) was processed by the Cuisinart with flying colors! I have also had a chance to use the optional meat grinder attachment for this mixer and it is a winner. The extra tall mixing bowl, fantastic integrated splash guard, timer, and tilt-back head make this mixer a pleasure to use and a benchmark for KitchenAid to address!
 Not quite the perfect mixer... April 1, 2008
Cynthia Ferebee
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was supposed to be an upgrade to my prior mixer: a 5 quart bowl lift kitchenaid mixer. I think if kitchenaid comes out with a design where the mixer lifts instead of the bowl, in at least 7 quarts, I would happily switch.
Things to like about this:
The shape of the bowl works well and I don't need to stop mixing and scrape down the bowl as frequently as I did with the kitchenaid. It doesn't have the ring-shaped well that the kitchenaid has, that I could never get the beaters to cover adequately, regardless of how I tweaked the height of the bowl as per the instructions. I like the bowl anchored at the bottom, because with the bowl suspended on two hinges like in the bowl lift designs, I found myself having to hold on to the bowl a lot--otherwise the bowl would slip out of its place and the beater would jam up.
And the size is great: with the 7 quart capacity I can make enough batter for two cakes or a large batch of cookies, now that I am baking on a semi-professional basis.
HOWEVER, the motor is less powerful than the kitchenaid motor. It seems to be strained when fluffing butter that, as per the recipe's instructions, is "softened but still cool."
The whisk is less sturdy than the kitchenaid whisk. Two wires broke off during the first week of use, and I'm not trying to fluff frozen butter or do anything that I didn't use my kitchenaid for two years to do without a single problem.
The whisk is also shaped rather unfortunately in that there is a plastic part at the top that has a cup shape where some of the ingredients you are trying to add mid-stream will collect. I think this may have contributed to my current frustration with the machine where THE WHISK WILL NOT COME OFF THE MACHINE. I've tried and tried, running water over the joint to dissolve any sugar, wrapped steaming hot towels around the joint, sprayed lubricant in there... The thing will not come off and the part where the machine interlocks with the attachment is hidden, unlike on the kitchenaid, where it is exposed, so you can't get at it and fix whatever the problem is. I could send it back for warranty, but what a hassle. If someone knows how to fix this, let me know.
Not for the serious baker March 24, 2008
Nancy (Washington DC)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was my first stand mixer, and it was purchased after a lot of research. I purchased the 5 qt and the listed capacity of 12 cups of flour is nonsense. With a double loaf (6 cups) the dough flies right up into the turning mechanism. It hardly handles a double batch of oatmeal cookies - I agree with the other poster that the problem probably is the narrow shaped bowl.
The timer is handy, but hey, I've got timers! It's pretty and for small jobs is fine - but so is my hand mixer that cost much less and stores easily. Actually, in my opinion, I don't think it does the crucial creaming of fat and sugar step in cookies as well as my hand mixer does.
If you're looking to do a single loaf of bread on occasion and a batch of cookies now and then, this will do fine. If you want to crank out some serious goodies, though, keep looking. I don't know what my next step will be - but the search continues.
 A huge disappointment March 10, 2008
Glenn Carlson (Laramie, WY USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have had the 7 quart Cuisinart stand mixer for about five months now and initially had high hopes for it based on the marketing claims. However, the mixer has turned out to be a huge disappointment and a costly purchasing mistake. My main reasons for choosing to purchase this mixer were the 16 cup flour rating and the claims about the motor power. Both of these claims by the manufacturer are complete nonsense. For making doughs, the 7 quart Cuisinart mixer has a maximum capability of about 10 cups of flour, period. There are three reasons for this.
1) With any more than 10 cups of flour the dough quickly climbs up the hook and into the rotating planetary parts of the mixer. It makes a terrible mess and prevents the dough from being kneaded properly without repeatedly stopping the mixer and working the mess back down into the bowl. This happens every time no matter what I try and despite the presence of the guard on the dough hook and paddle.
2) The mixer base is too narrow and the mixer is not heavy enough to counter the mass of larger batches of dough. The mixer shakes and rocks violently and walks its way across the counter.
3) Most importantly, the motor overheats after about 3 to 4 minutes of kneading larger batches of dough and the mixer shuts off. That happens consistently even with the repeated stops necessary to get the dough back down in the bowl as described in #1 above. If the motor did not have the thermal protection shut-off, then I would have killed this mixer with my first use of it out of the box. The "powerful 1000 watt motor" is simply not up to the tasks that the manufacturer claims. I'm now sure that the reason the thermal shut-off is there in the first place is because their prototypes repeatedly went up in smoke when actually put to work.
To be fair, this mixer does have a few nice features for someone who would want to use it for light duties. The tall, narrow bowl means that small volumes still mix up nicely. Also, the head latching in the up position and the motor automatically slowly stepping up its speed when turned on are very practical features. Other than that, there is not much nice that I can say about the product. There are three accessory ports on the mixer, each geared to work at different speeds. But, I have not had much experience with the accessories. When I bought the mixer it came with a coupon for a free blender attachment. I sent that in and more than four months passed before the blender attachment arrived. Also, while it is nice that the splash guard is one piece and lifts away from the bowl with the mixer head the opening is so small and at such an angle that it is pretty much impossible to add in ingredients with the guard in place and the mixer running.
For someone who only wants to make two loaves of bread at a time or only has very light tasks to perform, then this mixer might be okay. It will mix up batters and small amounts of cookie dough just fine. However, I have found it to be completely useless for my heavier needs (that are well within what the manufacturer claims the mixer is supposed to handle). I have gone back to kneading bread dough by hand because that is far less trouble and effort than trying to deal with the Cuisinart mixer. The mixer is simply incapable of making four loaves worth of dough, and Cuisinart must have been aware of that fact before they made their false marketing claims about the mixer's power and capacity. I think that they were simply capitalizing on the fact that people were disillusioned with the pathetic performance of all other consumer-grade stand mixers that were already on the market. The only option for me and others who actually want to get some work done with a stand mixer seems to be opting for a larger and much more expensive truly commercial grade product (forget about the "commercial" claims of Kitchen Aid, Viking, Cuisinart, and all the others). I wish that I had put the $400+ that I wasted on this Cuisinart towards something that is actually suitable to its intended purpose. As it is, I got ripped off with this product.
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