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I have bought a lot of Sage/Breville appliances, starting from a juice fountain, which still works exceedingly well, to an Oracle coffee machine (also excellent), a tea make, a waffle maker and other sundry, and bought this mainly because of my excellent experience with the other kit.
This one looks solid and is well made, however, seems to be coated with an enamel paint and doesn't have the classy brushed metal finish Sage usually uses for their applainces.
I had read several reviews on the lower watted mixers and they were not generally good. I viewed a few yourtube bake offs between the older scraper mixer and the Kitchennaids and the Kitchenaids won. Why, then, did I buy this? well mainly the good experience I'd had thus far, and the user friendlness, and- yes- the kitchen aids looked so boring, so 1980s, as my teenager put it..
I love the solidity of the mixer, the sheer heft of the hooks, the whisk and the silcone coated K beater, that should really help in mixing icing. The gears are supposed to be all metal, and I expect it to knead dough for bread without much wobble. The LED lighting is a sexy touch and looks better than a plain knob and the use of baking terminology from knead to whisk, should help someone new to baking , but makes no real difference.
I like the underhead light and the cord storage, however, I will update review with information from each task, so right now, this machine gets 4 stars, I like it, lets see if I will love it or hate it
Update#1:
I thought I would start with the toughest test: bread kneading.
I've noticed that my initial stand mixer , a Kenwood,
struggled with bread dough. The sheer density of the mix, compared to cake mix, buttercream, eggs or cream makes even my 900W Plastic kenwood shake and struggle and after I started making rolls, buns and bread in that, I realised why people bought the expensive stand mixers- you need a a solid, heavy,preferably all metal mixer to be able to take the load for such dough.
I'm very happy to note that the bakery boss handled dough with effortless aplomb- there was no noise, no shaking, not even a vibration and it made quick work of the dinner roll dough, and it mixed it perfectly. The see through jar was a blessing to see the progress, the over head light a thoughtful addition, that increased visibility and hence I did not even have to switch on the pantry light. The automatic digital timer told me that it takes 9 minutes to get the results I want (useful bit of info, as next time, i can just set it for 9 mins an maybe leave the counter?)
It is exactly what I wanted for this sort of kneading, strong, effortless and almost noise free-who would have thought!
So , though I normally don't do this, as the Bakery boss just breezed through the toughest mixing task I do, I'm upgrading to the full five star level. The mixer is well made, has all the required bells and whistles and doesn't budge when mixing heavy batters( unlike the BEM 820 model, which had some poor youtube reviews), I'm thoroughly impressed- so far!
I'll update this review when I mix a cake next!
Update #2:
Made waffles and whipped egg whites. I was also answering a question here and wanted to see if the BB could whisk one white
Bad news: it can't- it can't whisk two also. The whisk does not reach the bottom of the bowl for such a small quantity. This is using the smaller (an quite beautiful, if I may add) SS bowl, that is supposed to work for such tasks.
The good news is, once I raised the bowl , manually, so that the whisk could reach the whites, the whisking was the best I ever have seen. stiff peaks manifested in minutes...So, though I wanted to dock half a star here, I couldn't. I still love how it performs
The see through glass bowl is my favorite and I used the scraper beater for the waffle mix, it cleaned up pretty good also, however, there was a little left on the very bottom, If I get any more such small hiccups, I might dock a star after all.
AddedVideo: My voice sounds blurred.. if that is possible. I added a video to show how stable the machine is while kneading dough, not a wobble, not a vibration. I'm basically saying, " The under head light with the glass bowl makes seeing what's going on easy"
It's been seven years, since I bought this, and I'm happy to say, the Bakery boss is as good as new and still performing like a boss. I expect this to last decades. Highly recommended!
