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Wholeheartedly agree. I fix shit, and I’m apparently rough on kitchen shit

I have 2 kitchenaid stand mixers in my house rn. One is my personal one. I have rebuilt the transmission 8x. This is because the teeth on the gearing have sheared away. This happens because I am mixing somewhat small batches of dense dough: bread dough, pasta dough. Roughly 1-2lbs. Once because I was using the extruder attachment.

The second mixer in my house is from a family friend. They were doing something similar (bread dough) and it exhibited similar behavior (audibly spinning but hook not moving) so they dropped it off here.

It’s a simple fix thankfully albeit a bit costly. Take off the top, take off the transmission cover, remove the captive bolt (worst part), slide off old gears, remove old grease thoroughly to ensure you get all metal shavings (second worst part), put on new gears, regrease, reassemble. There are videos showing this process, it’s not hard. There’s a proper tool for the captive nut that I refuse to buy. I instead use needle nose pliers and struggle and curse every time instead of spending an extra $15 to make my life much easier for a tool I will never use outside of this task

You need replacement gears (check which one first, not always the same one breaks), gasket, and grease. It’s like $50

It is as you’ve said, they’re not built for serious kitchen use. I am furious I got this. I have the 7qt “professional” model. I make bread, pasta, tortilla, ramen, etc dough all the time. I have had this for years tbf but I have also rebuilt it eight fucking times. At $50 a pop I have doubled the cost of the mixer. I wish I spent a bit more and just got a Hobart. A lot of my kitchen is shit from restaurant auctions and I should’ve got the stand mixer there as well. But my partner wanted me to reign it in so our house wouldn’t look like inside of a food truck and I acquiesced, and now my baked goods are fucked

I would sell it the next time I refurbish it but I would feel guilty cursing someone with this