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Sunday 11-5 CST | |  | Serving Dishes, Trays & Platters | Home » » » » » » Viking Professional 5 -quart Stand Mixer, Bright Red | | | | | | | Description: | | With 800 watts of power, the Viking professional stand mixers provides enough brawn to knead any dough into submission. But they do have a tender side, with a range of settings delicate enough for even the most sensitive meringue. Designed to meet the needs of a pro, it offers a rugged, all-metal gear transmission. This 5-quart mixer comes with exclusive V-style stainless steel beater, stainless steel whip, stainless steel dough hook, and stainless steel mixing bowl with ergonomic cast-stainless bowl handle. Viking's exclusive easy glide rear wheels make it easy for maneuverability of the entire unit on your countertop. Choose from primary, low and high speeds to mix, blend, whip and knead. With the planetary mixing action in operation, it ensures thorough results. The pop-up head lift locks in both the up and down positions. Exclusive large, easy to control power/speed selector knob. There are numerous attachments available for this unit to increase its multi-tasking capabilities. Fits under standard cabinets. | | | Features: | |
• Includes brushed stainless steel mixing bowl with handle, exclusive V beater, stainless steel whip, and stainless steel dough hook
• Powerful 800-watt motor with metal gear transmission. 3 multi-function power outlets for wide range of attachments; primary, low and high-speed
• Tilt-back head locks in up and down position
• Viking exclusive, patented pending Easy-Glide rear wheels for easy maneuverability around the countertop.
• 12 Speeds plus Stirring and Max
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 17.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 14.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 9.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 21.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 19.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 13.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 26.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 15 reviews |
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47 of 48 found the following review helpful:
 baker in AtlantaDec 08, 2008
By Aleea Major
"knowledge seeker"
I love this mixer!! I began researching the countertop mixers after reading the poor reviews on the KitchenAid. This mixer works wonderfully! I use spouted whole grain flour to make everything from cookies to bread; it is a very heavy and dense flour to work with, but no problem for this mixer at all. I even made sprouted whole grain oatmeal raisin chip cookies and it mixed all the ingreidents very quickly and perfectly. This receipe used to bog down my old hand mixer and I would end up mixing by hand...forever. This is a wonderful machine and I am so glad I bought it. FYI, it is heavy, but has wheels in the base that allow you to roll it accross the counter.
60 of 64 found the following review helpful:
Worth every penny!Jul 20, 2009
By bakerash
In my serach for a mixer that would make homemade marshmallows, I narrowed it down between the Viking and the Kitchen Aid. The Viking mixer was fairly new at the time but the reviews were great. The long standing Kitchen reviews had gone from good to terrible. From what I read, Kitchen Aid replaced some of its metal machine/motor parts with plastic parts and the mixers were breaking inside. For the same price the Viking is built better and is industrial strength. I can make multiple batches of marshmallows back-to-back without any strain on my Viking mixer's motor. It actually makes the marshmallows in half the time as my mom's Kitchen Aid, which is half the time the recipe calls for. I am very pleased with my purchase and would tell all my friends and family to get a Viking if they were looking to purchase a mixer. I am even looking to purchase their brand in other kitchen appliances. As a baker, you cannot go wrong with this one!
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Poor quality, short life, and the world's worst customer serviceDec 10, 2011
By Mark S. R. Williams
We purchased our first Viking 5 QT stand mixer a couple of years ago. Right out of the box, the mixer made a metal on metal grating sound when it was used and emitted a heavy ozone odor. We returned it to the retailer for replacement.
The replacement Viking mixer worked fine for the first year, in which it was only used for cake batters and fruit sauces. However, the first time we attempted to make a single loaf of whole wheat bread, which is well below the stated capacity of the mixer, the machine started making the same metal on metal grating sound and emitting the same heavy ozone odor, and then failed completely.
Viking seems to be one of those rare companies that simply doesn't want to hear from its end users. We tried to call their headquarters to discuss this problem with a design engineer, and the number doesn't even go through--the call is automatically forwarded to a third party repair operation in Detroit. After a lot of effort, we eventually got through to Viking itself. No one was available to speak to us about any product specifics at all. The same was true when we called the repair vendor in Detroit. Also, the cost of repairing this mixer when either the motor or the gearbox fails is almost the same cost as replacing the mixer.
We have a Viking range and the design, material and build quality are all outstanding. But Viking's countertop mixers are, in our experience, overpriced junk that simply aren't capable of handling the workload of breadmaking, even when only using 2-3 cups of flour.
Further, Viking mixers used to be made in Italy, and are now being made in China--the manufacturing cost surely dropped, but the retail price remains as high as ever. Which I suppose is a credible data point that Viking cares only about profit, and no longer about product quality or customer service.
All in all, we would never buy another Viking product, given our poor experience with this mixer, and with Viking's extraordinarily bad customer service.
For bread making, the Electrolux Assistant mixer from Sweden seems to be everything that we had hoped the Viking Mixer would be. It can handle large capacity, it has a reputation for reliability, and its manufacturers stand behind it.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Awesome kitchen "shop tool"Oct 05, 2011
By Syzygies
I'm a guy used to good shop tools, and I bought this primarily to assist in making bread. I'm spoiled from my shop tools, and I roll my eyes and wince at the electric smell of an underpowered kitchen appliance. I concluded correctly that for a stand mixer, Viking was my only choice.
I researched Viking, KitchenAid, Cuisinart, and a few other brands. The stainless steel attachments can go in the dishwasher. There are no hidden plastic parts to fail. (Read all the reviews on competing products very carefully....) This mixer really, really isn't that heavy. (Try moving a drill press.) The 800 watts can handle bread dough without blinking. The design is simplicity itself, a tool one can be so proud of, one ends up playing with it every night. (Bread is like that.)
Go read half a dozen current bread books. They're rife with this concern that home stand mixers (cough! KitchenAid. cough!) can't handle bread without time outs. So why doesn't everyone buy a Viking? It costs $100 more, and there isn't an ice cream attachment. Priorities, priorities, I wouldn't spend a $100 less on something than can't do the job, I'd work by hand.
23 of 29 found the following review helpful:
Viking VSM500Aug 31, 2008
By Mountainview
Viking VSM500 Professional Stand Mixer is a perfect example of superior quality and workmanship all too uncommon in today's market. Elegant in appearance, great attention has been given to every detail and design funtions second to none. Heart of this brute is 800 watts of pure power that will mix anything you desire, from thick cake or cookie batter to the toughest bread dough without ever thinking about bogging, while the wide range of speeds and attachments makes it delicate enough for even the most sensitive meringues. Rock solid with a precision locking pop-up head that is so convenient when accessing or removing the beautifully crafted stainless steel bowl with handle. Can't help but wonder why other brands haven't followed Viking's sensible example. The unit comes with beater, whip and dough hook, all three feature the same quality construction exhibited elsewhere in the mixer. Attachments are easy to attach and remove, and flawlessly built from heavy duty stainless steel so you'll never worry about corrosion or flaking and peeling like the competitors. Purchased to replace an Osterizer that served faithfully for the last twenty years, couldn't be more pleased with this great appliance. While it is more expensive than Oster or KitchenAid, in a side-by-side comparison the Viking wins hands down. Thankfully this reputable company continues to prove some things built in the USA are still the best!
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