Sunvivi 5.2QT Electric Dough Maker with Ferment Function

Love this Dough Maker! I make a lot of Sourdough and my KitchenAid mixer isn’t powerful enough to deal with 1000 grams of dough. The Sunivi handles the chore with ease and it’s lightweight … much easier to pick up and move around my kitchen. Saves my arthritic hands from all of the dough-kneading and the “stretch and folds.” I would certainly buy it again!

recently started milling my own flour and making bread weekly. This is a game changer. A bit loud but most appliances are so its no big deal to me. Can easily handle 10+ cups of flour and other ingredients mixing.

Absolutely love it! I have arthritis and recently injured my wrist, so kneading is not possible at the moment. I decided to give the mixer a try and it is taking all the work out of me! It is sturdy and mixes very well without overheating. After the dough is done, you can simply switch to the fermentation function and the bowl will slightly warm up to a consistent temperature, helping the dough to rise. The mixer is a little noisy, as other reviewers said, but nothing crazy in my opinion. The one I received seemed to have an issue and the customer service has been outstanding. They answered quickly and kept helping me until the problem was resolved. Very happy with that too! Overall very satisfied customer!

I bought this dough maker to replace my bread machine as I am trying to get away from nonstick coatings as much as possible. I always baked the bread in my oven anyway. I like the adjustable mixing time, and the ease of adding ingredients through the hole in the lid. I do have to scrape down the sides as it mixes, but I had to do that in my bread machine as well. The weigh function does not work well. I compared my kitchen scale to the mixer and it was consistently off on the weights of ingredients. The weight reading will go up and down just sitting there, without me adding anything. So I can't recommend relying on that for ingredient weights. I have only hand washed the bowl and mixing arm so far, but it does look like the mixing arm is painted and this could chip eventually. I wish it was just made out of stainless steel like the bowl. Also, my mixer came without a manual. I was able to email the company and they promptly sent me a pdf of the manual but I found it odd that it was not included. Overall though, I would say this mixer is worth it. I prefer the dough it produces to what my bread machine did with the presets.

Absolutely love this dough maker! It’s not only incredibly beautiful and stylish, but it also works amazingly well. I’ve been using it to make pizza dough, and it makes the entire process so much easier and cleaner. It kneads the dough perfectly, so I don’t have to spend time doing it by hand. I can simply prepare the dough, let it ferment, and move on to other things. It saves so much time and keeps the kitchen much cleaner. Overall, this is a fantastic product and definitely a 5-star purchase. I highly recommend it!

I was really hoping this would be a keeper. Unfortunately I returned it as it leaked from bottom of the bowl onto the base as it mixed dough. After kneading the dough and first rise, I washed the bowl to see if it was the base or the bowl that leaked. It was the bowl. The buttons were strange. I had to swipe at them to turn them on and they were difficult to adjust. Left dough kind of dry and dense as some yeasty water leaked out.

Have used it for 6 loaves of bread as of now and, so far, it has performed very well. The ferment function is very nice, especially when your kitchen is too cold. It mixes and kneads the dough very well also. The only thing is the button to pause or cancel the cycle needs to be pressed a little below where the circle is (at least on the one I got), but that isn't a deal breaker. The only thing I need to do is find the perfect whole wheat bread recipe that produces a loaf that isn't too dense and has a soft crust and crumb. Getting there, and this mixer certainly helps. It also helps to save my hands, that get very tired and sore with only a few minutes of hand kneading. I was happy to see that I got the paddles that were not painted or coated, as I had read that those started peeling after a while. I only hand wash the bowl and paddle, so that may help those with the painted paddles.

The machine works good but the operating buttons difficult to read and operate for many people. I think the manufacturer should pay attention to these common sense issues. . I was thinking of returning it but decided to keep it.

Does not work. The paddle continues to come off during the mixing period, leaving black stuff all over my dough. I need to find out how to return this device.