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 Excellent product, great price- less than at discount stores. May 30, 2008
This dough hook is the genuine KitchenAid product priced less than at the KitchenAid web site and also less than at the big discounts stores. You will not be disappointed.
GREAT FOR MIXING May 22, 2008
GREAT FOR MIXING IN NUTS, CRANBERRIES, CHOCOLATE CHIPS, ETC.. WONDERFUL, NECESSARY TOOL WHEN BAKING.
 Okay April 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love, love, love our Kitchenaid mixer, but I'm not thrilled with the quality of the dough hooks - I'm about to order our 3rd in less than 12 months. The enamel cracks on the end of the hook, and I'm afraid that using it risks chips of enamel ending up in the finished dough. Granted - they're only $15 to replace, but I don't feel like I should need to replace it so frequently... I'd happily pay quite a bit for a stainless steel one.
Improved product January 7, 2008
Because I lost my Kitchen Aid dough hook which came with my 30 year old mixer, I purchased a new one and am very glad I did, because the hook has been much improved. It does not take as long to knead dough using this latest hook vs. the old dough hook, maybe cutting down on half the kneading time.
 Great new design, but Kitchenaid's cheapened the material July 15, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I own two Kitchenaid KSM90 mixers and have used them heavily over twenty years. The newer dough hook design (one of my mixers dates to 1989, the other to around 1995) is MUCH improved over the old one--if you own an older machine, you may want to consider replacing the hook. I use my machines side by side and the newer hook takes about half as long as the old one to mix and knead the dough.
BUT (and this is a big, inexcusable but) somewhere along the line, Kitchenaid started using aluminum as the base metal in the hook, and if it's put through the dishwasher, it will eventually corrode, bubble up, crack the nylon coating, and make it impossible to slide onto the mixer shaft. I simply do not know why they'd have made such a decision, unless to save a few dollars and make more when we all have to buy replacement after replacement (who's going to bother handwashing, anymore?).
I really wish they'd offer these in stainless steel, as they do for the higher-end mixers.
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