Since nobody answered you yet, and being the "Curious type", what has attracted you to the Viking Mixer---IE---what does it offer that a "More readily available" mixer doesn't?

I doubt it's price is any lower than the more common branded ones?

We have a Kitcheaid, quite a few years old, It is mounted on
a hideaway shelf, which makes it very handy for us, and alto we seldom use it, It works great when we do.

Here's hoping some of the "Viking Crowd"
(an endangered Species) here in GW will answer your call!!!

Gary

They have Viking mixers at HSN if you want to check them out.

Amazon...

Cooking.com has them. That site is wonderful and customer service is superb for everything cooking.

Just wondering why you want Viking over KAid. KA makes a great product. Expensive, but I wonder why Viking is worth an even higher price.

I have two KA 600 Pro's and love them......DH does a lot of bread and these boys (or girls) are workhorses....

Got great deals on both of them at Amazon (also no state tax) - one with a $100 rebate and one with a free ice cream attachment rebate.

M

Ad in Saveur mag for lowest pricing on Viking...

www.metrokitchen.com

I've used one of the Viking stand mixers and found it to be of very shoddy build quality. It feels cheap in comparison to the KA mixer. Which I ended up buying instead. Just because it has a fancy name on it doesn't make it better, just saying.

I love my Kitchenaid. I don't know much about the Viking ones but one reason I'd probably go for Kitchenaid over Viking is the amount of attachments. I'm pretty sure KA has more so over time you may find you want to expand what you do with it and KA will allow more flexibility.

The Viking stand mixers are actually almost identical to the British Kenwood stand mixers, except they have a nicer finish and some cool wheels so you can tilt the mixer then wheel it down the counter, without having to pick it up. Kenwood is now owned by DeLonghi, and the units are made in Italy, but it is a brand with a long history and quite good reputation. I am pretty sure the Viking mixers are made in the same factory; the Viking is stamped made in Italy on the bottom, just like modern Kenwoods.

They are very solidly constructed, and *in the UK* they have a ton of accessories available, as many or more than kitchenaid. Of course, for us they are a little more difficult to get ahold of unless you frequently visit the UK and/or have friends/relatives there. The Kenwood accessories *should* work on the Vikings.

For what its worth, the King Arthur flour people like and push/sell the Viking mixers; they are actually pretty well regarded in the heavy baking community. They are also hated by some...as are Kitchenaid. Stand mixers seem to bring out *really* strong opinions from people.

Based on all of this, I bought one myself...but I am being stubborn and refusing to use it until our new kitchen is finished and I can use it there, so I can't really give any first hand feedback.

The full msrp is kind of obnoxious, but they are sometimes available on big sale. The metrokitchen price is good, same price is on Nieman Marcus's website...the NM website is a weird place to buy a mixer, but sometimes they have really great sales. Last time these were on sale, I bought a 7 qt one of them for $285...the secret was they had a sale where if you bought 2 clearance items you got an extra "bonus" discount...so I found another clearance item that was $5, and saved a bundle. if you aren't in a rush, something similar *might* happen again.

I have a Viking stand mixer. Purchased it after our house fire six years ago to replace my Kitchenaid that was destroyed. Did like my Kitchenaid, but there is no comparison. This mixer is much more powerful than my old mixer and is indestructible.

Just my opinion.

I purchased my mixer at a Viking store in St. Louis.

At the time I was trying to decide between the Viking and the Cuisinart if I remember correctly.