"notbob" > wrote in message
...
> On 2009-05-18, Terry > wrote:
>
>> 15-20 yrs old). Finally decided on a Cuisinart SM70 and thought you
>> might want to know a little about it.
>
> As Sheldon once pointed out, these power ratings (1000W) are misleading.
> Your mixer looks suspiciously like a newer version Kenwood. These mixers
> have 2 sets of right angle gears as opposed to only one set in the KA.
> Right angle gears are horribly inefficient and waste lots of power. I'm
> not
> saying your mixer is bad, just the power rating being not that big a deal.
>
> I have a Kenwood with the 3 speed take-offs and I love it. Great
> machines.
> I just wish I could find more attachments. I know that Kenwood had, at
> one
> time, as many as 21 attachments, but where to find them.
>
> I wonder if the Cuisinart attachments would fit my Kenwood:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/o6645r
>
> nb

I agree, some of the parts, like the dough hook, look suspiciously like the
Kenwood. However, it's made in (Surprise! Surprise!) China.
DeLonghi took over Kenwood.
AIUI the old Kenwood factory makes the Viking mixer
http://www.chefsresource.com/vistmi7li3co.html

Kenwood brought out a new model in the 80s (I think) and I thought of
upgrading but the power take-offs had changed so that none of my accessories
would have fitted.

I have an old Kenwood (40+ years old) with several attachments including a
cream maker! I think that the speed control is faulty as the slow speeds
seem a little high but it is otherwise still going strong.

A recent Cook's Illustrated spoke *very* highly of the Cuisinart.

The latest Consumer Reports reckons that KA mixers are still the best but
judging by comments on various newsgroups, one wonders what they could have
been smoking (perhaps the KA motors burning out).