Equipped with a warming function, countdown timer and with Quiet Mark certification, this quiet kitchen helper will even allow you to chat to a friend while it gets on with the hard work.

Touchscreen control – A simple-to-use, full colour touchscreen with one-touch preset functions to take care of all sorts of tasks – just swipe to find the function you need. Shatterproof splash guard with feed chute – so ingredients stay in the bowl rather than being spattered across your kitchen. Please note: the slow speed outlet is compatible with Kenwood accessories with a KAX prefix to their model number. Bar Connection attachments can be used with an adaptor – available from Kenwood.Versatility: stand mixers can work hard with the right attachments, which include everything from pasta rollers to sausage makers. Study the number of bolt-on accessories available if you want to use your machine frequently for lots of kitchen tasks. Creaming beater – with a removable flexible blade each side, it creams ingredients and scrapes the side of the bowl as it works, so not a grain of sugar or flour can escape the mix. Ease of use and cleaning: Modern stand mixers can offer sophisticated features but being easy to use is incredibly important. Washing your stand mixer’s attachments by hand can also be a pain, so we looked for dishwasher-safe accessories to make cleaning less of a headache.

Stainless steel dough hook – for yeasted bread doughs, it kneads dough efficiently, taking all the hard work out of making bread, doughnuts and bagels. Overall quality of materials: Stand mixers that are sturdy and built to stand the tests of time were ones that scored highly. We also looked for robust and well made attachments and bowls. Generous capacity – With a sleek, brushed stainless steel finish, the deep 7 litre stainless steel bowl is bigger than most, so it can take on the biggest baking prep tasks. Just like those seen in professional kitchens, the Kenwood Chef Titanium has the capacity – and power – to prepare enough dough to make several loaves of bread in one go. You can mix a huge 4.55kg of cake ingredients, up to 910g of pastry, 2.5kg dough at a time or fluff up to 16 egg whites at once – that’s certainly a lot of tasty home baking; your oven will never have worked so hard! And, of course, there’s also a smaller bowl for times when you don’t need to mix up quite so much in one go. Processor versatility: Stand mixers should take on key kitchen tasks that make life a lot easier. Whisking, beating and kneading attachments are key to this and we awarded extra points to machines that offer more integrated features, like weighing scales, timers and extra attachments. If you are tight on storage space you might want to consider buying a more compact model. The Titanium Chef Baker or Chef series models are also available in standard as well as XL sizes, while the Prospero+ may be our smallest stand mixer, but its generous 4.3L bowl (big enough to make a batch of 36 cupcakes) and powerful 1000W motor means it is still more than up to rising to any baking challenge you throw at it.Results of functions: A machine that efficiently mixed all the ingredients at the same time was a staple requirement. We looked for pavlova mixes that were glossy and well-whisked, cake mixes that were light with evenly distributed zest and finally, well-risen dough that was soft and light when baked. Stainless steel balloon whisk – A super-sturdy balloon-shaped, wire whisk for beating eggs, cream and soufflés into light-as-air mixtures. K-Beater – Perhaps Kenwood’s most famous mixing tool, it’s precision engineered from sturdy stainless steel to reach every part of the bowl while making mixes for cakes, biscuits, pastry and icing, and can even be used for making silky-smooth mashed potato, or combining fish cake mixes.