People who love spending time in the kitchen consider the stand mixer an essential, even indispensable, tool for both baking and cooking. When you ask bakers and cooks about stand mixers, the first brand that comes to mind is KitchenAid, for good reason. The company has been selling stand mixers for home use since its founding in 1919. One of its most popular mixers, the KitchenAid Classic, is a tried and true small appliance offering 10 speeds that tackle just about every recipe, a tilt head that makes it easy to add ingredients to the bowl, 59-point beater action for thorough mixing, and a power hub that expands cooking and creating options with more than 15 available attachments.

The KitchenAid Classic stand mixer includes a 4.5-quart stainless steel bowl that's large enough to make six dozen cookies, a batch of biscuits, your family's favorite pasta recipe or six pounds of mashed potatoes. It's larger than the 3.5-quart bowl that comes with the powerful, but lighter, KitchenAid Artisan mini mixer. But it's smaller than the 5-quart bowl that is included with the more powerful KitchenAid Artisan mixer. If you use your KitchenAid Classic regularly, consider buying an additional KitchenAid classic mixer bowl to use when you're making complex or multiple dishes and don't want to interrupt your flow by washing and drying your original bowl.