11-Wire Whip Accessory for Select KitchenAid Bowl-Lift Stand Mixers

I have a new kitchenaid. it is a bowl lift, 5.5 quart. The whip that came with it is perfectly satisfactory and works well. I actually bought this whip for a friend and it didn't fit her mixer, so I tried it on mine. it is AMAZING. It is so much superior to the original that I can't believe it. The original, I would only for whipping eggs, eggs whites or cream, as kitchenaid says. This one does those jobs slightly faster, but why it is so superior is that it can easily whip other things. I creamed butter and sugar today for a cake and when I put the egg in to make the batter, i changed to this attachment. It handled the eggs in the creamed butter and sugar with ease. I honestly feel I could keep on making the cake with this one, instead of the flat beater. It is very strong and is a nice addtion for your kitchenaid.

This kitchen aid head works much better than the standard whip that came with my lift bowl kitchen aid. It helps to dramatically reduce whipping time

Oh. My. Gosh. I did not know how badly I needed this in my life. I make a lot of marshmallows so I was curious how the 11-wire whisk would affect the amount of time it takes to whip the marshmallows because they have a very stiff and sticky consistency. It seriously is a game changer. Not only did it whip up the marshmallows less than half the time, it whipped them into a much, much better texture. I expected some improvement, but I did not expect that *much* of an improvement. I’ve already got meringue cookies in my immediate baking plans and I’m looking for other things I can do with the 11-wire whisk.

Make sure you have the correct Kitchenaid model for this whisk. This is NOT for the 5 quart model. Now this whisk is made of stainless steel which ALL Kitchenaid mixer attachments should be made of, but of course that's not true. The quality of this SS whisk is excellent, when I compare this to the included whisk of the 6 quart model, I just want to throw the aluminum away. The aluminum attachments drive me nut. I have to wash them by hand ASAP and not soak them, and then hand wipe them after the wash, otherwise oxidation comes to play and the yucky black stuff will cover the aluminum attachments. Now this whisk with so many wires and so tight in between, I can't dry the inside by hand easily, but then this is SS, so I don't care drying it by hand. I just let it air dry. I love this whisk. I just wish there are SS dough hook and beater available for my mixer. One word of caution, the whisk looked very strong and I am very temped to use it as a beater. I have to keep telling myself don't do that, cause breaking the wire in a heavy mix will be very sad. So, don't use it for anything heavy.

Best whip for meringue and whipped cream!

To be pretty clear here- I never actually used this whisk to MAKE anything. Unfortunately, my model is a Professional 5-series KitchenAid, but it was apparently a different kind than the other 5 and 6-pro models. So this whisk was way too big and I had to return it. However I briefly considered, and tried to convince my husband to replace our KA mixer with a newer model because "it doesn't fit the whisk." This is made out of a great quality material and looks like it will hold up for a very long time. It will definitely make whisking a total snap, and it is MUCH better than the standard whisk that ships with the KA mixers. I wish I could have used it on mine!!

This is a perfect replacement for the original wire whip that came with my 2003 KitchenAid Model # RKP2671X. This model number seems to be unusual, as it wouldn't come up in the dropdown list. This is a 6 Quart model that does NOT have a tilting head. This replacement wire whip has the exact same attachment design/mechanism as the original wire Whip. This wire whip, however, seems better than the original because it is made of heavier duty metal and has more wires than the original. Maybe since 2003 KitchenAid has actually beefed up their design, perhaps I"m not the only person who broke a wire on the old/original whip. This new one looks more difficult to break, it is sturdier metal.

Everything in the world has trade-offs; more about that in a minute. I bought this item after I saw on a Cook's Illustrated TV show on PBS mentioned that the Kitchen Aid mixers have 6-wire whisk attachments, and 11-wire whisk attachments. The 6-wire whisk was included with my Kitchen Aid mixer, and it did a good job, but I could never figure out why anything I tried to whip took longer than my recipes - especially the Cook's Illustrated recipes - said it should take. When I saw on the TV show that there was this 11-wire whisk and they said it speeded up whipping tasks of all kinds, the penny dropped. This new whisk did exactly what was described - dramatically speeded up the time to whip things. For my first use, I made an Italian meringue for a lemon meringue pie. This whisk made short work of whipping the egg whites with hot sugar syrup, yielding meringue that piled up into a white glossy mountain on top of the pie filling. That trade-off thing I mentioned up front? Although the meringue whipped up fast (and I do mean FAST,) most of the meringue was inside the whisk attachment when I took it off the machine. So, I did have to spend part of the time I saved with a jar scraper getting my mounds of meringue out of the whisk and into the bowl. Even so, this item is a net winner and performs exactly as advertised.