KitchenAid Universal Nesting Plastic Mixing Bowls

$21.71

Kitchenaid’s light, ergonomic stacking mixing bowls, with a solid non-skid foot, pour spout, and handle remain the best-in-class for me. Which is why they continue to receive my five-diamond Choicestuff™ award.

– Brian Ross, The Jazz Chef

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Product Description

The Cook’s Tour

Meet your first “sexy” mixing bowl set. 

You would think that there is nothing particularly interesting, or “sexy” about a mixing bowl set. 

Especially in the Empire Red, these are the Formula One-class of mixing bowls.

Perfect Design.

I really believe that some of the people who design ESSENTIAL role-playing equipment in the kitchen either go overboard on the form, to try to look cool, or so traditional-practical, with the cheap, wobbly-bashy steel or cheaply formed plastic bowls that tip, slide and fall. 

They’ve been around, for years, for a reason. They ROCK.

 

These KitchenAid Universal Plastic Nesting Mixing Bowls are the perfect balance of form, and function.

If the people who designed these want to contact me, I will make them a spectacular dinner, using them!

For five years, we’ve banged out hundreds and hundreds of meals, snacks, and other recipes for The Jazz Chef with them.

The only problem, that we’ve ever had, is that one of them, in the dishwasher, warped a bit.  (More on that later).

WHAT THEY DO

A mixing bowl would seem to be pretty self explanatory.  Surprise! There’s cool things about these stacking bowls that allow you to do a lot more, with a lot more control. They’re balanced well. The handle is always a nice grab point, and the spout, unlike many mixing bowls with one, is channeled well enough to work reliably every time. The sizes are perfect for mixing or defrosting or pretty much any basic application where you need a mixing bowl.

FEATURES

  • NON-SLIP BASE: Improved stability, while mixing, is certainly a plus. These bowls are great. That you can remove the ring, and clean it, is even better.
  • ERGONOMICS: There is a pour spout, and a handle tab, opposite it, on each bowl. This helps control transferring liquids from the work bowl to their next destination.
  • SPOUT – Some bowls have no spout, or a very weak spout form. This one has a very defined one. That’s great not only for pouring mixes out of it. It’s also a gift when you’re using the water method to gently defrost foods. As the water runs from tap into the bowl, it reliably pours wherever you direct it.
  • NON-REACTIVE: Food-grade plastics, these bowls do not interact with foods the way that steel bowls can. Works well wherever recipes suggest using a glass mixing bowl. 
  • STACKING SAVES SPACE: These bowls nest together when not in use for easy storage
  • NOT DISHWASHER SAFE: The manufacturer makes this claim. We’ve found, if they’re put in a dishwasher with a heated drying element, they can and do warp. The “hassle-free” 1-year replacement is more hassle than cleaning these otherwise excellent bowls in the sink. 

SPECIFICATIONS

  • 3 BOWL SET: It includes:
    • 1  2.5 quart bowl
    • 1  3.5 quart bowl
    • 1  4.5 quart bowl

WARRANTY

These well constructed, rugged bowls have been made for years.  As long as you keep them out of a dishwasher, they are pretty indestructible.  The warranty itself, based on our attempts to use it, when one of our test sets had a bowl that warped in the dishwasher, was not a good one. We don’t think, though that this is something that should steer you away from buying them.

  • 1 Year Replacement
  • Limited Lifetime Warranty

MY TAKE

After using these daily, for more than five years, I can say that these mixing bowls are both my favorites, and my best go-to work bowls, in my kitchen. I use bigger ones, smaller ones, and a few large metal ones that I curse out when they move in directions that I don’t need, or want. 
 
Honestly, I would love to see this particular set expanded to a larger range of KitchenAid bowls. The non-skid design has held up, for years.
 
The only reason that they get a four-diamond is because KitchenAid is far more worried about taking good care of its mixer, and small appliance customers, to be bothered with living up to the warranty, when something isn’t as advertised.
 
This would appear to be a “licensed” product. Maybe KitchenAid would be better served making sure that the people who use their highly respected name are delivering the quality, and reliability, that made the brand special. 
 
They get my Four Diamond nod, for a great product, that doesn’t really need backup, but hey, you promised it… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

 

Jazz Chef Choicestuff 4 Diamond

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