KitchenAid 4.5 Quart Polished Stainless Steel Mixer Bowl with Handle - K45SB: Dishwasher Safe, Silver, 8.75" Diameter

The mixer is handy for making homemade pasta and other dough. On our 5th use, the bowl could no longer be fixed in place on its base and almost went out of control when mixing. Had to strongly hold it in place to complete the job, quite dangerous.

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Works well for a dough hook, but the paint chips easily and then gets into your dough. They should NEVER have made a painted attachment!

Excellent bowl for baking! A second bowl your mixer is a must. Planning to buy third soon. Used for buttercreams, gum paste, royal icing without any issues. Can pour hot sugar syrup egg yolks with ease.

Food safety concerns as the coasting chips into the food. Very disappointed with Kitchenaid.

I am on my third C-Dough hook , no matter how careful one is it will eventually chip! Why doesn't Kitchen Aid Designers wake-up to this reality and do something about it, instead of flooding the market with a bad part that impacts the reputation and quality of an excellent mixer, or are they enjoying the sales of replacements! It seams their only function is to maintain an excellent design of a mixer executed in the past and sleep over it!

The dough hook works well, however, it chipped while mixing dough. I had to throw away an entire batch of dough and can no longer use the dough hook without risking additional chips breaking off. This is a safety risk. Based on the reviews this happens often and should have been resolved.

I just opened this brand new 4.5 qt replacement stainless steel bowl and am so disappointed. It doesn’t lock in place.

Adding to the chorus of chipping dough hooks. Not even sure how mine chipped as it flaked off when hand washing it.

I have had my mixer about 6 months and used the dough hook probably 30 times, as stated by others the grey paint/enamel is chipping of in big chuncks

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] KitchenAid has long been the gold standard for stand mixers. Now that I'm in my 60s I'm able to spend more time preparing food, so I purchased this great piece of kitchen hardware. I love it.

This hook had worn out at the top so much that while my husband was making bread, the hook slipped down far into the bowl and rubbed against the bottom of the bowl and caused the machine to shake and quiver so much that he had to stop and see what was going on. We found out that the pin had slipped out, and we spent at least an hour trying to figure out what had happened and watching the Kitchen Aid You Tubes to fix it. The You Tubes were great, and we finally figured out that the hook was the cause because it was scraping against the bottom of the bowl. Granted, we have had our Kitchen Aid mixer for a while (I cannot find the original purchase slip) and feel it should not have broken at all and created such problems. My husband is now swearing, "This is the hardest bread I've ever made."

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Wrong item my bowl doesn't have a handle. Was it suppose to?

Purchased as an xtra bowl for my small mixer. Worked swell the first two times and then it wouldn’t fit properly on the base and wobbles back & forth as it mixes. I can’t use it. Not a quality product as the original kitchen aide.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Love the Stainless Steel Bowls, easier to hold and manage

Very disappointed. So much chipping in such after only a couple of uses. Not something I can trust to use making food for my family.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I love my kitchenaid anything I mash my potatoes make bread cakes alsorts

I had the original bowl to my KSM90 Ultra Power stand mixer (made in the USA) for years and years. The solder holding the handle on the mixer finally gave out and I replaced the bowl with this recommended model. It didn't fit well from the start and now doesn't lock in place at all. I can only use the mixer if there is someone else here to add ingredients while I physically hold the bowl in place. And we're talking batter only -- too precarious and dangerous to try bread. I see a disaster coming with this method. KitchenAid, what happened to the quality this company has been famous for? What private equity firm bought and stripped it of any remnants of its reputation or legacy? I have to invest in a new stand mixer now, but it won't be a KitchenAid. I am so sad and disappointed. Another legacy company swallowed whole by a morbidly greedy mega-corporation. I am more than sad, I am angry.

The white chipping is wearing off, and I haven’t even used it that much. I am afraid that it will get in the food. It is so expensive, so it is really not acceptable. I would never buy it again.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Bought this about a month ago as needed an additional bowl for my mixer. Good size and perfect for what I need