All About Mixers

Hold it or leave it

Whether the kitchen mixer from your childhood was a handheld or stand model, today both models of mixers are available.

KitchenAid mixers are some of the most recognizable kitchen mixers available today, from their retro design to their vast array of colors to their functional, durable features.

The story of KitchenAid mixers

In Troy, Ohio, in 1908, an engineer named Herbert Johnson conceived the idea of a machine that would save labor and time by mixing up bread dough. This first mixer held 80 quarts!

This invention took seven years for professional bakers to begin to seriously use kitchen mixers for their larger volumes of production.

In 1919, a decade and a year after Johnson's invention, the KitchenAid brand was created in Troy, with its first electric mixer for the home.

The 1920s capitalized on campaigning for the many qualities and types of mixing available in kitchen mixers. KitchenAid also decreased the size of their mixers as kitchens of this period became smaller.

Finally the 1930s introduced the KitchenAid mixer to acclaimed engineer Egmont Arens and also to common sense and budgets.

Arens has been called a "humaneer" on account of his considering the needs of people in the design of products, even in kitchen mixers. He is accountable for designing three models of kitchen mixers for the company in 1937 with interchangeable parts, which have remained virtually the same design as those currently manufactured.

The 1950s brought color to the mixer, and this kitchen appliance was never the same.

A design not only functional but museum worthy

Today, although there are other brands of stand mixers, there is only one KitchenAid stand mixer. Even the Smithsonian thinks so. It has named Arens' design an "American Icon," and an example of his mixer has been placed in the museum.

Purchase a KitchenAid mixer, and put a bit of history as well as memory in your kitchen.

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