Originally Posted by
wilson
Add me to the list of Kitchen Aid fans. My wife is an avid bread baker (has been since well before the lockdown), so our dough hooks have quite a lot of miles on them. We've also had a lot of fun with the pasta maker attachment, which I refer to as the "grownup Play Doh Fun Factory," and then my personal favorite is the meat grinder attachment, with which I've gotten pretty darned good at house-ground burgers.
They are indeed expensive, but as people have noted, there are frequent deals if you pay attention, and it's a very versatile and durable machine.