When researching the purchase of a stand mixer two years ago, I was moderately amused by the comments of some previous purchasers of the VonShef Stand Mixer.
That is, repeatedly customers stated they “found it inconvenient” that the mixer “failed to go all the way to the bottom of the mixing bowl,” and they were also required to “scrape ingredients off the sides” while mixing. Laughable. My son has a high quality KitchenAid 300w, and my business partner (gourmet chef) has a CuisinArt SM50 and both of them have to “scrape the bowl” to fold in ingredients and the mixer doesn’t go all the way to the bottom of their bowl.
I am temporarily relocated in Europe and needed a high quality stand mixer with the cost of my CuisinArt back home. This VonShef is a delight to use, easy to set up and clean and gives consistently good results as a home level preparation device. I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to invest in a more elaborate or expensive unit…plus I love the red color.

For the price this is a ok mixer, not used the dough hook yet.
The negatives;
mixers (blade and whisk) don’t go to base of the bowl, therefore requires a lot of scraping down and mixing the bottom
the arm of the mixer doesn’t lift high enough above the bowl, this makes it awkward to add ingredients and mix the bottom (see point above)
the plastic shield pushes onto the mixer but falls off and not very snug fitting
The blade part isn’t metal so not sure how long this will hold up, the whisk and the dough hook are
Good points;
lightweight but moves around a bit when on high speeds with a lot of ingredients
bowl easy to remove and clean
does the job for the prices but would recommend spending a bit more as the negatives really bother me!

Why did you choose this product over others?:
Because reviews were good and price was decent, needed one quickly.

This machine looks nice on the counter top and comes with some attachments. 

I am not a Baker my any means. In fact I am a £5 hand mixer kind of Baker with lack of patience for baking.

This machine slow setting to me isnt very slow at all and it doesn’t feel like the progression is ultra powerful beyond that. With a hand mixer you can feel the difference in speed progression, but this didn’t appear widely different between speeds, maybe it’s because I am not use to this type of machine?

Anyway this bowl doesn’t mix well at the bottom, not just a little bit of missed patches, a lot, especially when a dryer mix. 

I made a cheese cake mix in this and I had to take it out and use a hand mixer, it was 70% united as it was thick batter.

Cake mix, this was ok but still clumps of flower left at the bottom. 

Again whisking cream the middle thickend up but the edges stayed loose, it messed up the whipping as parts became over done whilst some not done enough.

I haven’t tried to make dough yet and I hope it fairs better for that function. I only used the balloon whisk so far.

It doesn’t lift high enough to take the bowl out without having to remove the balloon whisk which is annoying having to take it off every time you need to spatula the sides for missed mix, hands get covered and you have to remove the bowl completely as it’s very deep. 

I ended up basically going back to my £5 whisk that I’ve had for ages. 

Its not awful but it stressed me out which is totally the opposite of what I was hoping for, I hoped for easier cake making and instead I had to do double the work. 

Maybe it’s just me, because like I say, I’m no Baker. 

Power:
Mediocre, no gentle mix function, it doesn’t ease into a speed at all, it’s just suddenly on and throwing flour everywhere.

Wonderful mixer that mixed up my meat pie dough like a pro, giving me a fluffy, yummy crust. It also came with three mixer hooks and a lid for the mixer bowl. I can wait to start making more things. Thank you.