If I didn’t already own a KA Artisan (and have my mother’s old one as a backup) I would absolutely buy an Ankarsrum. But I don’t imagine I will be able to wreck two KA’s any time soon.
Maybe I should start doing weekly bagel batches to see how tough they really are.
I didn’t realize how heavy all the better stand mixers are.
I don’t have space to keep it on a counter, and I have a weight restriction. I’m not supposed to lift more than 30 lbs. Lifting 28 or 29 lbs frequently is not advisable for me, either. Most of the standing mixers I was considering weigh 28 lbs to 38 lbs. I decided not to purchase a standing mixer at this time.
The Ankarsum is usually listed at 28 lbs
I did decide to buy a new hand mixer! I am waiting for that to come in!
You might consider something like this if you have the cabinet space.
This is just an example. There are a number of options.
While a hand mixer won’t help you at all with any kneaded breads, it should be perfectly fine for most anything else!
Thankfully, there are a variety of yeasted breads out there that are no- or lo-knead where a mixer would be superfluous anyway.
Thanks for the idea. I admire kitchens with space for that type of storage. (I also admire kitchens with counter space, and kitchens with islands)
Unfortunately, I don’t have the cabinet space. It’s an old kitchen. I have around a 12 inch by 12 inch space on the counter where I usually do my baking prep, that has access to an outlet.
I already store my braiser, ceramic tagine , empty jars, and other larger pots and pans in other rooms, outside the kitchen. The only place I would have room for a standing mixer would involve me carrying the 28 lb mixer up and down a flight of stairs which isn’t going to work.
I have been making due until now using a 1970 hand mixer, a 1997 hand mixer, my own hands, or a Danish dough whisk.
That is like something I have for my mixer but its from Lee Valley. My DH installed it about 20 years ago.
We got our KA mixer secondhand from someone in our neighborhood who only used it a few times and then decided she wasn’t going to be doing much baking after all. We lived in NYC at the time and didn’t own a car, and rideshares didn’t exist then. We ended up shlepping it in our granny cart all the way up and down several flights of (elevated) subway stairs. Thank goodness we lived in an elevator building.
I don’t know why we didn’t call a car service, but we were younger and more fit then.
I hear you. I remember carrying all my linens and a lamp from Macy’s to my apartment on E44th, as well as a braided rug from ABC, and a computer chair 20 blocks from somewhere else. I think I also carried my small filing cabinet 10 blocks or so. My cutlery, toaster, mixer, blender, and sauce pan would have been carried from the Bed Bath and Beyond in Chelsea
I still have tendency to schlep things rather than take a taxi or get things delivered. LOL I just keep it to under 25 lbs now.
I love having counter space but the one item I do keep there is my Kitchenaid Mixer.
If you absolutely can’t keep it on the counter, could you possibly move it in two trips? Bowl + beater, then the mixer, locked position?
My jugs of litter from Costco weigh 35 lbs and it takes ALL I’ve got to lift them. If they ever go bigger I’ll have to switch brands.
I will ask next time I’m at a kitchen shop.
I technically can lift 30 lbs. I’m not supposed to lift 25 to 30 lbs plus, because it could lead to a bad health outcome for me.
I had been lifting 30 and 40 lb bags of compost and soil regularly, for the past 20 years (I’m only 52), before finding out I had a medical issue last summer.
I prefer tilt head and I think it weighs less that lift model.
It was an extremely rare occasion for me to hire a car for most of the years I lived in New York -it wasn’t a thing. I schlepped everything and so did everybody else.
I’ve seen videos of people moving sofas on the subway.
And if you’ve seen a video of someone taking a Christmas tree home on the bus, it might be me!
I keep my Anskarsrum stand mixer on top of my fridge.
But it does still take a bit of power to lift it down from there.
You can remove the inner bowl and that makes it a little bit lighter. I think mine doesn’t weigh more than 10 kg/22 lbs by itself without the inner bowl and the handle extension (or whatever you call it, don’t even know the word for it in Danish 
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I don’t use my stand mixer that often, perhaps once or twice a month.
I prefer no-knead bread dough and when I make pasta dough I prefer to do it by hand since I get a far better feeling for the dough texture, when kneading it by hand.
If you make desserts often you might want to keep the stand mixer in a guest room, and do the mixing there if your kitchen counter isn’t large enough to have it there permanently.
We usually schlepped the xmas tree home on foot, but we didn’t usually have a huge trek. The sellers tend to be pretty attuned to Manhattan reality, and pack them up so they can be balanced okay.
I have lately entered my “pay for delivery” years, but I could probably still schlep if I had to.
My answer to many storage and lifting problems – carts on wheels. You can find many sizes and styles, then just steer and scoot to get to a steady surface. One short lift.
We have a doggy gate we have to pass to get into our tiny kitchen, so carts don’t work in our tiny kitchen and hallway. We also don’t have anywhere to store the cart.
An interesting paradox is that my cousins and friends with the biggest open concept kitchens and storage space for carts don’t like to cook and don’t bake. LOL.
Lots of room on the counter for their pizza boxes and Chinese take-out.
Yes… I was between a rock and a hard place for about a year and was living in this very small apartment. I couldn’t put my microwave on the countertop, so I picked up one of those carts with wheels on one end (from IKEA).
*** Note *** For IKEA it was quite sturdy.
It was the perfect solution for that tiny apartment, wheel the microwave to an outlet to use it, then back to the dining area for storage.
I did that with a printer.
