BoschSerie 4 MUM59340GB 3.9 Litre 1000W Stand Mixer - Anthracite

I have a very small kitchen, literally too small to swing a cat. I love baking and cooking and was looking for a new stand mixer, I have a Kenwood Chef which is about 15 years old and still works perfectly but it lives in the garage as it is much too big and heavy for my kitchen, and being an OAP I can’t be lugging it in and out of the garage everytime I want to bake, so consequently I have done very little baking over the last four or five years.I did lots of research and found the Bosch Mum5 with a 1000w motor which is strong enough to do what I want and compact enough to sit permanently on my counter top (where it will get used!!) The mixer is a stylish anthrocite and silver colour and comes with a stainless steel 3.9lt bowl. There is a zipper bag which contains a whisk, a dough hook and a beater for cake batter. It also comes with a plastic splatter lid, which is a bonus as it stops the flour or icing sugar from flying everywhere. There is a citrus juicer, a mincer, a grater attachment with 3 different blades and a liquidiser. I was lucky enough to get it during the Black Friday week and it was quite a bit cheaper than it is currently being sold for which was a bonus.I bought an additional white plastic bowl as I find it is sometimes handy to have a second bowl on hand, especially if you are making more than 1 cake at a time. I also bought the accessory set for chopping nuts, herbs etc which I have found to be really good.I have used my mixer to make various biscuits and cakes in the month I have had it and found that it is a good solid machine. It iappears to be well made and looks really good, taking up very little space on the counter top. I have not had my mixer for long, but I am very pleased with the performance so far and it appears to be a good quality machine which I will hopefully be using for years to come. I have just ordered the dust cover to protect my mixer when not in use, not that it is going to spend too much time covered up :)I will update my review in a couple of months after I have had more use out of it, but so far I am very happy with my mixer and the attachments I bought.

Bought this to make my favourite veggie dishes and cake whilst I have an arm in a sling. Only really use a few of the items that come with it and they are top quality. The size I have is suitable for 1-2 person household.

Excellent productGreat price

Where do I start, the machine look amazing, it's so quite and yet powerful, you get many different bits and bobs you don't even know how or where to use those but maybe once you will find out kind of. I tried to cut slice vegetables for salad and stew and others and straight found out the first issue for me. It have a safety switch at the bottom so only working when you have the Bosch bowl underneath, I have like 8 different bowls and now they are useless in a way so this took a star away in my eyes straight specially when you spend lot to get a machine like this. Next one you can slice grated grind but one missing the chopping which also one of the most important part to own a machine like this to be able to use for chopping. Well the machine have available accessories for only 100 pounds you can get that half liter capacity chopping add on with blade and 3 other disc what by the way you got with the big box. Don't know it's a good or bad thing and were thinking to take one more star off cause of this but no at least you have option but when you pick this machine make sure you buy the correct bundle for your needs as different colours they have different things in the box. So overall it's a nice versatile and quite machine not taking up much place and thanks for the suction cup at the bottom it's stable. If you go for this machine I recommend to search straight for the plastic bowl what you can buy for the machine as 1 bowl certainty not enough and get ready to spend more for those bits and bobs you might gonna need to get the maximum out of your machine.

The dough kneading ability is 1st class it is beyond my expectations,I bought the machine after catching a video on u tube about a bread recipe .The chap was making bread and the machine looked interesting I traced it and bought it,the best thing I ever did it kneads dough, whisks batters and mixes pastry with ease. I have baked by hand for over 40 years no problem, I have used various stand mixers but this one beats the rest hands down ,low noise ease of changing tools and cleaning down all done in a jiffy .I may be enthusing a lot but I definitely would not change this mixer ,if heaven forbid it broke down I would buy it again at the drop of a hat no problem.

The media could not be loaded. It's basically kitchen decoration.Positives:- I've managed to make ice-cream and it didn't struggle.- The slicing and grinding function is pretty good.- I haven't tried mincing meat.That's all the positives I'm afraid.Negatives:Pretty much everything else.The bowl is too small for any recipe of significance.The kneading function works but check out the video. It's a gamble when it's just going to break or explode into some cartoonish kitchen accident.So bread, cake etc NOThe juicer is not good, if you press down on it, you will eventually break the mixer, what a joke!The thing is, I bought this to eliminate the juicer that broke, now I bought another juicer.And last but not least, way too expensive for what it is. Next time, I'll buy something much cheaper. Chinese brands are beginning to surpass European ones, just like Japan a few dacades ago, and they have better attitudes toward their customers than German companies who basically offer no warranty or service.