I’ve hated my mixer because of how it scraped the bottom. Your video is fantastic! I followed your instructions to the letter. It took a lot of screw movement to get the dime to move as yours. Never knew about this adjustment! Best tip, ever!!!
MY GOD!!!!!!! THIS IS OUTSTANDING advice!! I love my kitchen aid, which I've owned for over 20 years. But my biggest gripe has ALWAYS been that the beater has a large gap fron the base of the bowl! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this tip!!❤❤❤
That guy that restores KitchenAids sells a rubber bushing that goes on that screw which prevents the bouncing and makes it nice and tight while keeping the blade off the bottom. Nice little upgrade anyone can do!
Unbelievable. I’m 42. I’m just learning this. I’m so mad at the time I’ve lost scraping down the bowl for what I thought was an inherent design flaw. What a fool. Thank you for this!!! Folks, read your manual.
The other side of that is making sure it doesn’t spin the dime around crazily! (Raise it if so) And, for ProLine mixers whose bowls lift up, the screw will be exposed when the bowl is down. Thanks! (Learned all this years ago at Sur La Table ❤)
I own a Kitchen Aid mixer, my Mother had a Kitchen Aid mixer and my Grandmother had a Kitchen Aid mixer and this is the first I have heard of this adjustment.
Thank you! My mother was going to get rid of her KitchenAid and get a different brand because she can't take the horrible gap anymore. Now I can fix it for her.
Very useful! Now if only I could get the latch to stay closed when mixing up dough... I always have to hold it back or the latch will undo itself with the vibration.
Thank you. This is nice to know. I still haven't forgiven KitchenAid for building my "professional grade" 6 quart mixer with plastic gear housing though, so no telling if I will ever own one again.
My "Professional" Kitchenaid sits in my basement. [My Viking still makes bread with VERY high-gluten flour with ease.] I replaced/repaired the Kitchenaid many times before giving up. As I recall, the first went back because the soft-start circuit smoked; the second had the threads strip off of a gear that meets the worm gear. By then, I started replacing parts; there were a couple of instances of the worm gear that had bushings instead of bearings; they got chewed up regularly. I went to a Kitchenaid forum and found lots of complaints about the Pro models. KItchen just posted boilerplate. ["Your satiscfaction is important to us."] They clearly spent a lot more on product placement than design. I don't know if they could possibly fix all the problems - because the chassis is the same size as smaller/weaker models, so they couldn't give gears more contact area. Titanium?
Thats why I love my Bosch mixer... hated all the heavy maneuvering of the stand on Kitchenaid when you inevitably have to scrape. Would never go back to a stand mixer.
If I had a dime for every time I'd seen this tip, I'd have ... a dime! Thanks for this, I have a bowl lift, and there is also an equivalent adjustment screw.
On the Kenwood the adjustment is on the beater itself. There's a threaded drive shaft with a nut on it. Loosen the nut, wind the drive shaft in (to raise beater) or out (to lower the beater). You have to tighten the locknut and try it. It takes a minute or two to get it right, but it's a better method as it means you get to adjust the height optimally for each type of beater and don't have to adjust the machine when you swap them over.
Thank you!! You have just totally changed my life! Another issue: What do I do about the "clicking noise" my 6 qt Kitchenaid Pro has made since it was new, especially with heavier loads?
I used to have the lift head type, and I used to have to adjust the height all the time. I upgraded to the lift bowl type and haven't had to adjust it once.
You should do a vid about why it might not stay locked. Happened to me & every vid was about the adjustment. Turned out the bar that moves the lock was bent. I was able to straighten it but it only lasted until the new part arrived.
