Adjust bowl height kitchen aide pro - KitchenAid K5SS Heavy Duty Commercial Stand Mixer

SOURCE: How can I get the bowl off the stand?

The bowl has to be twisted either left or right.It locks on for safety

SOURCE: Beater is too low in mixing bowl.

The adjustment screw did work for me but I adjusted using the dough mixer instead of Flat Head mixer as specified (only-realized after reading the manual ;o).

After readjusting using the correct flat head, everything is happy again.

- manual, I don't need a stinking manual !!! ;o)

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i noticed my kitchen aide mixer is sounding like it is bogging down slightly while it is running it is not used very much and bought christmas 2007 others who own them have said theirs doesnt do that should i be concerned

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you should replace that part with new one

SOURCE: My Professional HD Kitchen Aid doesn't mix all of the ingriedienc

One thing many KitchenAid mixer owners complain about is that it's difficult to scrape the bowl while the mixer is running. Because the beater rotates around the inside of the bowl, and because the beater doesn't actually touch the bowl, you have to stop the mixer frequently to scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure all the ingredients are well incorporated.

Two companies have come up with fixes for that problem -- the BeaterBlade+ and the SideSwipe.

They are available for most KA mixers. Cook's Magazine tested both in January 2009 and liked the SideSwipe a tad more than the BeaterBlade because they thought it performed a little better on a particularly heavy cookie dough, but one reviewer on another forum commented that dough tends to bunch up on the SideSwipe's inner parts.

In any case, I have the BeaterBlade+, mainly because it was available from Amazon for $30, no tax, free shipping, and I didn't feel like driving around to find the other.

Both are made of very strong plastic and have silicone scrapers on the edges of the blades. The scrapers do touch the bowl and thus provide a constant scraping of the ingredients, assuring that everything gets mixed in. I've found that I rarely have to stop the mixer, except to make sure that the ingredients that cling to the beater itself are mixed in.